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New York, Ny, Us

• Organized a Tools Strategy Session, with 21 teams across 3 business units participating. Successfully broke down the walls between the business units, driving collaboration and expanding our automated testing pipeline from studio to app. • Architected and built a Test Harness Dashboard to improve scalability and functionality. Expanded use of this dashboard to teams outside of playback engineering, making it the number one used test harness for stream quality/playback testing. Test Harness dashboard supports video player receivers running on web, browser based devices, iOS, Android, Roku, Xbox, Playstation, and Broadcom boxes. Expanded users from 3 to over 100. •Architected and built automated testing infrastructure that automates playback tests and runs them on multiple platforms the player runs on. Automated testing dashboard generates test reports that can be currently filtered by device or user. Expanded use to teams outside of playback engineering, making it the number one choice for automated and multi device testing. •Broke down barriers between siloed teams, integrating other teams systems into the tools, which expanded our user base and use cases. •Organized a successful Tooling Strategy Session, bringing together multiple teams across different orgs to work together to expand my testing pipeline. •Created user guides and led tools training sessions for the tools, reducing onboarding time for new hires•Created a monthly newsletter to keep our users informed of changes in the tools•Organized monthly tools demos, where we present the new features in the tools and answer user questions. This reaches a wider audience than the standard biweekly sprint demo and has more attendees.•Architected a log analysis feature to analyze the logs from the automated test runs, looking for things that can’t be easily detected in our current automated tests•Oversaw the development of multiple receivers across multiple platforms

New York, Ny, Us

Implemented triage process to diagnose and fix reported issues with tools, using dedicated Slack channel and Slack workflow. Simplified intake process using dedicated Slack channel and Slack workflow. Implemented mock ad service system. This system sped up player development time resulting in Disney+ Ad Tier deadlines being met.Lead Accessibility project, making sure all tools met accessibility standards. Served on Summit Committee. Committee was responsible for planning weeklong team conference in NYC.

New York, Ny, Us

•Wrote proposal to rewrite dashboard app with new architecture. Old architecture was not scalable, and was causing development to be slower than it should have been. Plan was approved.•Architected and built new dashboard using Vue 3. •Improved UX from old app •Improved code readability •CSS architecture makes it easy for non front end engineers to add features•Improved the layout/usability of the Page Of Tools•Added support for new communications protocol to dashboard•Got damn good at React and Vue•Implemented Star+ login on dashboard•Continually updating SDK version on dashboard, which involves working with SDK team to understand SDK & work out issues with upgrades•Implemented automated build system on new projects•Learned the automated build system •Implemented build system in multiple projects •Taught build system to other engineers•Wrote and started implementing automated test plan•Refactored code base to use new api calls for Disney+ and Star+ content•Added FAQ page to dashboard help new users•Maintain documentation for Tooling Test Suite

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Standardized video player implementation on multiple brands.Implemented and released video player features that increased views by 50%. Upgraded video player implementation on one site to use video feeds from multiple sources, which increased views by 75%. Created and maintain documentation for how video players, video ads, and tracking work on each brand.Mentor other engineers in video player best practices. Participate in discussions with the Central Video team on how we use the video player in Media Brands, the features we use the most, what we would like to see in the future. Work with the site specific teams to understand their video needs, and give them the best experience possible, while maintaining browser standards/compliance. Co-organizer of the Louisville chapter of the This Is Now and Women's Networking Group ERGs.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I started at CBS Interactive as a software engineer, working on download.com and tvguide.com. My work on both sites included improving performance and usability, improving visual aspects, url redirection, video performance and ad calls. In my first four months, I worked on several money saving features, including the elimination of a video api call that saved over 100K a year on each site. I quickly became part of the release team for both sites, working with Product Managers and QA to ensure the weekly releases went out as scheduled. As part of that team, I performed code reviews, and was responsible for merging new code into the production code and building the release. When the company transitioned to an Agile environment, I moved from supporting Download and TvGuide to the Advanced Platforms team. On this team, I support video across all media brands (download.com, tvguide.com, tv.com, chowhound.com, metacritic.com, and metrolyric.com), and contribute to the mobile apps for TVGuide. My biggest accomplishments in the few months since taking this new role include converting old video players to our new UVP player, and fixing players that weren’t implemented correctly(increasing tracking and revenue).I built a new feature on top of the video player on TvGuide, known as the nudge preview, that increased impressions from 200-300k daily to 500K+. For an example, please see the large video player (it's in the middle of the page) on http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/game-of-thrones/305628/. The nudge preview pops up in the last 15 seconds of the video.

Louisville, Ky, Us

As a member of the Wifi Connected Appliances team, I have updated web applications to be in compliance with new branding standards, and added "show password" and "copy" buttons to improve user experience. I developed the Window AC Channel for ifttt.com, completing the appliance suite of channels for IFTTT, make GE Appliances, a Haier Company, the first company to have a full suite of appliances on IFTTT. Using DynamoDb, I built a portal on an internal application to aid in the white listing of third party technicians. On this same application, I utilized DynamoDb to update the display of appliance information, and updated ElasticSearch queries that are used to display appliance information so that the application could be migrated to a new ElasticSearch cluster in AWS. I participated in the testing of the Geneva Skill for Amazon's Alexa, and built a usability skill for the testing of Geneva responses. I also diagnosed and fixed a bug with the layout of a "terms & conditions" screen that no one else was able to reproduce. Accessibility mode in older model phones can alter the layouts.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

While at Keyes Architects, I redesigned the company website and marketing materials, focusing on showcasing past projects, and bringing cohesiveness between the digital and printed materials. The redesign for the website focused on mobile responsiveness, improved navigation, and meaningful content. The navigation was simplified, and emphasis was put on showcasing completed projects. Project information was simplified, and images of completed projects were added. I completed all of the work on the website, from editing images to the coding. For the marketing materials, I built Power Point presentations that mirrored the website. Categories on the website became individual Power Point presentations, with similar images being used. For the printed materials, I updated the images to newer projects, and edited the images (mostly improving the coloring and taking out distracting time stamps). The material was then arranged to match the flow of the website.

Computer Games And Programming Skills

Certificate Of Completion, Front End Web Development, Java, Android Development, Php, Mysql, C#, Asp.Net

Front End Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering

Computer Graphic Design

Full Stack Engineering, Computer Software Engineering

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