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Virginia Beach, Va, Us

Virginia Beach, Va, Us

I work on the Gravity Forms product team and am responsible for modernizing and scaling the product's codebase; planning, architecting, and implementing new features; and providing the best experience we can on behalf of our users. I work across the full stack of component driven HTML/CSS, JavaScript/React, and PHP in an agile and collaborative environment. I'm helping drive the adoption and implementation of design systems, developer tools, systems, and frameworks to help us work faster, more efficiently, and with greater confidence in our output as we begin to tackle an exciting and challenging feature roadmap.

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Fringe is a web development studio I began in 2010. What started out as a way to teach myself how to design, code, and have a better understanding of technology to then further pursue my love of the startup world blossomed into a passion and career.Over the years I have built a varied array of solutions for a wide variety of clients across different markets. Fringe has always been my vehicle for learning and exploration and that continues to be true even today.Technologies used and solutions built range from simple to the complex with WordPress (enterprise level multisite networks, headless, hybridized ReactJS apps, custom social media integrations, etc.), highly customized ecommerce experiences using WooCommerce, as well as PWA's and web apps.

Lansing, Michigan, Us

Lansing, Michigan, Us

As a Delivery Manager, my role is focused on building and growing four multi-faceted, high-performing teams, driving the overall execution of work across numerous agency projects, and ensuring we continue to produce our best work. This includes managing project allocation and resourcing; customer satisfaction; team, individual, and project well-being; the quality and value of the work being executed; and monitoring budgets.Handle day-to-day project operations and ensure that work is aligned with the greater agency goals. Actively handle issues and conflicts across teams, projects, and people, while identifying and mitigating risks. Keep leadership informed on the status of projects across the agency.Collaborate with teams, using my experience spanning engineering, design, strategy, and project management, as required to ensure team and project success. Mentor and coach teams and team members, fostering an environment of camaraderie and continuous improvement, where we all strive to do our best work on behalf of one another and our clients. Model and reinforce company values, culture, and consistency of workflows and process across teams.Support sales, marketing, recruiting, and hiring efforts. Define and execute on initiatives with and for leadership and support leadership in adjusting and refining agency metrics and performance to align with business goals.

Lansing, Michigan, Us

As an Engineering Manager, I was responsible for building and growing the frontend engineering team, cultivating a healthy, collaborative culture that was in line with the values of Modern Tribe. Supported my team through coaching, mentorship, and feedback, and oversaw their professional growth and development. I supported recruiting efforts and was the hiring manager for the team, helping it grow by 3.5x over the last 2 years, working to develop and instill a culture of quality and continuous improvement with a talented group of individuals.Worked alongside leadership to successfully establish a new team within the products business unit, which led to increased sales; supported various organizational restructuring as we evolved and grew; and oversaw and helped execute the successful launch of numerous high-profile, high-traffic agency projects, as well as a major update to our core product line.Partnered and coordinated cross-functional team efforts to ensure the frontend team effectively supported the needs of the company and their projects, handling the resourcing and allocation of the team across the company. Oversaw and contributed to the continued growth and evolution of the company's internal frameworks, systems, and tooling.Supported sales and marketing efforts, collaborating with both teams to build internal and public facing tools and sites. Worked closely with sales to provide technical analysis and was directly involved in securing new projects, helping grow company revenue by 2x.Responsible for the strategic planning and vision for the frontend engineering discipline in order to drive it forward, while supporting our wider company goals. Worked alongside our leadership to collaboratively define team strategy and roadmaps that ultimately helped our teams execute on our plans, while balancing both short-term and long-term goals. Worked with teams to empower our people to perform at their fullest potential and execute award winning work.

Lansing, Michigan, Us

As a Lead Frontend Engineer, I partnered with and led an amazing group of team members and stakeholders in the crafting and delivery of high quality systems, apps, and sites for the many clients of Modern Tribe in a fast-paced environment. Architected, engineered, and oversaw the execution of performant, accessible, maintainable, and scalable code on projects that ranged from simple to complex enterprise environments. Our work was driven by asking ourselves, “Does what we’re building provide the best value to and delight our clients and their users?”Oversaw the technical vision, strategy, and execution of projects, partnering with my cross-functional team to collaboratively define team strategy and roadmaps based on feature requirements, while making technical decisions that balanced both short-term and long-term goals.Actively drove cross-functional team communication and identified gaps and roadblocks, bringing them to the attention of the team so we could solve them with the most optimal solution before they turned into major issues. Partnered with producers and strategists to drive work that prioritized fast iteration without compromising quality, while maintaining the utmost attention to detail.Mentored and helped grow and develop peers through code reviews, pair programming, and sharing technical insight. Enabled and empowered my team to perform and execute at a high level, helping promote and build both team and company culture. Instrumental in establishing the foundation for the frontend team standards and best practices, while working with the design team to build a close working partnership.Supported leadership in hiring, as well as the definition and execution of company and discipline level initiatives, helping establish workflows and processes during a period of intense growth.Took the initiative, as part of a small team, to define, build, and grow many of the currently existing tools, frameworks, and systems still used today.

Lansing, Michigan, Us

As a Frontend Developer, I collaborated with fellow team members and clients to craft and deliver robust, beautiful, and thoughtful interfaces for users of our products and the many high profile clients of Modern Tribe. I worked on both business units at the company (products and agency), building and shipping high quality products, web apps, and large scale websites (from the simple to complex) on behalf of our agency clients.Created performant, accessible, and responsive code with a particular passion for attention to detail in particular when it came to the UI/UX and ultimately provided our users with the most thoughtful experience I could.

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M.S., Economics

Certificate In Financial Modeling And Valuation

B.S., Economics And Business