Lucid is the only visual collaboration suite that helps teams see and build the future from idea to reality. Its products, Lucidchart and Lucidspark, provide users with an end-to-end experience that helps teams truly see and build the future, by enabling collaboration and clear communication. Lucidspark is a virtual whiteboard application for freeform ideation, group brainstorming and real-time collaboration across teams. Lucidchart is an intelligent diagramming application for understanding the people, processes and systems that drive business forward. Lucid products are utilized in over 180 countries by more than 30 million users, including customers like Google, GE, NBC Universal and Johnson & Johnson and ninety-nine percent of the Fortune 500. Lucid's partners include industry leaders such as Google, Atlassian, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce and Microsoft. Since the Utah-based company's founding in 2010, it has received numerous awards for its product, business and workplace culture. For more information, visit lucid.co.

Part of working at a small company is wearing a lot of hats and learning to be an expert in various areas. At iSparks, I took on a myriad of tasks, including designing and building the core of our customer support and internal tools, migrating legacy sites to more modern, supported frameworks, building out customer control panels for managing spam filters, creating internal spam verification tools, building virtual environments with Linux and docker containers, managing virtual and physical servers, and even managing a successful automated trading algorithm and internal platform for employees to invest in.

At USU, I worked as a teacher's assistant for Web Development, Discrete Mathematics, and Statistics. These roles allowed me to more fully explore the foundations of web development and the mathematical foundations of computer science while helping (and sometimes lecturing, when the professor was out) groups of 15-100+ students.While working as a teacher's assistant, I also found an opportunity to develop software that would benefit students. I suggested to the statistics professor that we build out all the statistical functionality that students used their calculators for as a website, and she took me up on the offer. I then designed the system from the bottom up in raw HTML and JavaScript, taking feedback from the professor on what functionality should be added or how the user interface should be adjusted. The site included visual graphs of the statistical tests and integrals alongside the computations of the various tests. Coding the computations required an understanding of statistics and calculus as well as the ability to put the computations into code with sufficient accuracy. The end product has been used by hundreds of students over the years, allowing them to take the course without purchasing a calculator.