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Erie, CO, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

Boulder, Colorado, US

* Designed and implemented new dashboard to enable customers with better access to and understanding of their financial transactions and subscriptions

Denver, Colorado, US

• Led massive UI overhaul of the primary web app to better serve user and stakeholder needs and modernize UI practices
• Reworked key app to enable use among high school students, allowing the company to assist an entirely new demographic with meeting their mental health needs
• Planned and led implementation of a codebase-wide merge of divergent branches in the main app which were used for different clients, leading to a significantly easier rollout of new features to all end-users and.
• Architected and implemented complete rework of basic app architecture to use Next.js, leading to a planned reduction in Heroku dynos from almost one hundred to one and greatly improving overall user experience through.

Denver, Colorado, US

• Created new system using SQL triggers to keep soft-deleted rows in sync across tables, preventing the need to use heavier Laravel solutions and greatly simplifying/improving the existing code for that functionality
• Designed and implemented new ticket system including basic templates for bugs and clearer reporting standards, leading to decreased frustration for developers and greatly improved communication between the engineering.
• Led performance optimization sprint which cut a full two seconds off of the initial page load time for the flagship app and improved the Lighthouse score by over twenty points

Westminster, Colorado, US

• Expanded and improved web app deployment framework to use more AWS technologies such as CloudFormation and CodePipeline while also moving to CircleCI
• Refactored massive Notebooks codebase to use the new features of Create React App 2.0 and improve overall code architecture, leading to huge performance gains
• Designed and implemented new dashboard app used to monitor infrastructure usage throughout the company
• Created Redux data fetching/status standard used by all division web apps
• Led massive improvements, including usability refactor, of key app used to create machine learning datasets for use throughout the company

Westminster, Colorado, US

• Implemented extensive Jest unit testing framework for GBDX Notebooks app
• Added isomorphic rendering capability to Notebooks which enabled greater SEO implementation
• Fixed weak authentication framework and implemented better security practices
• Created new deployment framework using Jenkins, S3, and CloudFront which was adopted for use in all web apps in the division

Westminster, Colorado, US

• Led DigitalGlobe side of a partnership with 2016 TED Prize-winning archaeologist Sarah Parcak which aimed to document and preserve archaeological sites in Peru while also educating the public about the crisis
• Designed and implemented GraphQL backend which served over 17 million image tiles to almost 100,000 volunteers
• Created obfuscation system to prevent users from learning actual coordinates of viewed imagery and prevent more looting of important sites
• Implemented automated workflows to process and ingest imagery covering large chunks of Peru

Westminster, Colorado, US

• Refactored core Tomnod API to Nodejs and optimized/consolidated key queries
• Implemented key labeling UI to complement existing feature extraction capabilities
• Designed and built improved imagery ingest system that enabled easier crowdsourcing campaign creation, leading to a record high number of created campaigns in 2016

Westminster, Colorado, US

• Implemented qualification and monitoring system for paid crowdsourcing workforce that increased work quality and engagement as well as enabling better viewing and analytics of costs
• Integrated key algorithm into admin panel which enabled better analysis of both datasets and user quality

• Modified admin panel functionality to streamline and improve the user experience
• Created landing page at http://www.tomnod.com that was viewed by millions of users

• Reworked existing curriculum to more adequately meet the needs of modern students of English
• Shifted focus from rote memorization to conversation practice in order to prepare students to use their knowledge in real-world applications
• Prepared multimedia presentations used to promote the school and its system

• Built new school from the ground up, including creating a completely new curriculum and establishing a student base
• Used innovative teaching methods to motivate difficult students and encourage gifted ones
• Integrated computer training system with traditional conversational teaching methods to effectively instruct students

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English Language And Literature, General

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