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Irvine, California, United States

Frontend Engineer on Capital Groups Marketplace Team.Marketplace is an Internal facing alpha-phase application built with React/Redux/Typescript on Frontend.Added the ability to easily edit/add Matadata and Hierarchy through drag-and-drop, input fields, type-ahead dropdown searches... Fixed some complex issues such as: OAuth login looping issue, Class Transformer Issues with how json response objects were being turned into ImmutableClasses, and Refactored/Added a lot of Typescript types such as 'any' being replaced by `EntityClass` and `EntityClass` etc.Worked closely with Backend Developers on API handshake so backend and frontend could be done in same Sprint.Worked in some pretty unusual circumstances like the Designer Changing 4 times in 6 months

Irvine, California, United States

On the A.I. Research and Development Team working closely with UI/UX Design ManagerDeveloped a custom 'Design System' compatible with both React and Vue3, precisely matching an evolving master Figma Mock file, including Figma variables for color and spacing, to ensure designer-developer alignment across all UNIS brands.Co-developed and self-managed the 'Item Ship' project (Vue3) with a team of three front-end engineers, starting from an empty code repository and facing a one-month deadline. Effectively coordinated roles and responsibilities, ensuring project success in the absence of formal project management.Tackled project hurdles by reverse-engineering solutions to address communication gaps, misleading mocks, and incomplete APIs, driving forward progress, and quickly identifying showstoppers.Collaborated within a multinational team (using WeChat, Postman Collections, Email, etc.), bridging US designers and China-based developers was a large part of my job as the first US based Front-End.

Irvine, California, United States

On the Migration Team and Ordering Team to migrate and enhance Taco Bell’s customer facing website.Front-end Built using React Functional Programming, Next.js routing, Contentful CMS, with thorough code review process.Update Payment API’s to make use of Taco Bell’s parent company’s new payment API, and also worked on migrating existing API’s to Serverless AWS Lambdas.Responsible for enhancing and refactoring the primary pages a user hits: ( from picking a store location, to selecting items from the menu, to going to cart and checkout to place order, as well as error modals ).Dev-compete is on the 6th day of every sprint, so very challenging timelines, and also typically needing to collaborate with designers and others to fill in the missing User Story details.

California, United States

The 7th Employee on a FinTech Startup Team Building a Mortgage Loan Origination System.Built out new pages written in Typescript using React Functional Programming and styled with Tailwind, to match Figma Mocks.Solved some of the more challenging menu, layout, animation, and z-index issues.Getting Merge Requests approved was often the most difficult part due to the rigorous code review process.

Brea, California, United States

On the Cross-Project Front-End Team, transformed and enhanced the Mercury Customer Portal (Website Customers Log into) & Mercury AgentCenter (Website Insurance Agents Log into)Technology Stack: Angular 6, JavaScript, SCSSTools: Git/GitLab, Jenkins, JIRA Customer Portal Highlights: Single-handedly re-skinned the entire Application ( 6 projects ) in an intensely limited timeframe, so to align with the ‘new look’ of the Mobile App being launched.Quickly learned the ins-and-outs of accessibility/ permissions/ error-messages. Gutted and revamped several tens of thousands of lines of CSS. Added new features like a new managing autopay Angular Component.AgentCenter Highlights: Instrumental in upgrading the insurance platform that AgentCenter’s codebase is based on from Guidewire version 8 to 10, as well as adding new types of insurance coverage to AgentCenter.Wrote all new SCSS and Javascript for the Homeowners Line of Business, and quickly resolved many platform version upgrade bug fixes in time for version 10’s release.Added the requested ability for the user to scale font-size and spacing separately.

Tustin, California

On the Marketing Development Team, I became the designated Front-End Dev for the Director of Analytics. In this role I completely overhauled everything about Marketing’s Lead Generation Forms:- Technology Stack: ASP.NET with Umbraco Content Management System- Type of code files worked on: .cshtml 15% .scss 35% .js 45% .cs 5%- Tools: Visual Studios (IDE), GIT (Versioning), SSMS (DB), GA/ GTM/ SearchConsole (Analytics)- Biggest Achievement: Fully built out the highest converting forms: which could be heavily tweaked easily by the Analytics Team using customizations I exposed in our CMS for A/B testing, which gave the Analytics Team total visibility into lead funnel tracking using lead sourcing and GA events & GA page views, which loaded fast on mobile, which were highly reliable with fall-back API calls and error event logging, and which were backed by an entire suite of test cases I created/maintained to validate that all 100+ forms are working.- Main Responsibility #1: Enhancing/Maintaining the main website www.newamericanfunding.com which included: Adding the “SELECT YOUR LOAN TYPE >” form on the Homepage, redoing all “above the fold” content on the Home Page, creating the “Manage My Loan” Page, redoing the global header with side menu to be sticky and accordion style, and added user tracking to all pages.- Main Responsibility #2: Ensuring the reliability of our Lead Generation Forms, which included: Being the first person to investigate any Lead issue such as an exception getting thrown in the Lead Processing Code, investigating site wide issues like occasional / intermittent site down time, and figuring out what proactive steps should be taken to avoid potential future issues such as centralizing configurations that were becoming impossible to manage.- Some Side Projects like: Built the Front-End portion of a “Property Profile” site that, similar to Zillow, gave information to prospective buyers about a specific property address.

Manhattan Beach, Ca

The UI Developer for Dealer.com's CRM: A Car Dealership Customer Relationship Management Web Application built with Grails (a Full Stack MVC Web Application Framework):- Greatly increase how much data is imported in when a dealerships switches from a competitors CRM to our CRM- Investigated why customers were getting early session timeouts (Sticky Sessions, SSO), determined that increasing the JWT and Session Creation Threshold helped reduce the issue, as well as upgrading the Load Balancer.- Added ability to include in Emails Mobile / Work / Home Phone #’s, which required creating a script to add a phone ‘Type’ to all existing phone #’s (JavaScript, Groovy, Mongo).Added ability to configure car Service Routing Rules for multi-location dealerships (JavaScript, YUI, GSP’s)- Reduced the response time of the ‘create task’ HttpRequest from over 30 sec to under 4 sec by replacing multiple location level queries with a single tenant level query in the CRUD layer.- Example Bug Fixes: patch XSS vulnerabilities, troubleshoot why Quartz scheduled events were not triggering on time, fix users not getting all the options they should be, fix incorrect default values in drop-downs.- Everyone on the team participated in Deployments: We took turns performing and documenting each CRM Deployment, and for each deployment we all helped with the manual part of the Pre/Post Deployment testing.

El Segundo, Ca

One of the two Dev’s on a brand new project called ‘DIRECTV Residential Experience’, which is designed for Hotel Room Set-Top Box’s (displaying a customizable Homepage - allowing the drop-in of 3rd party applications):- All code under version control using VM’s running SVN, and bug tracking using JIRA.Created JavaScript library classes, compiled with Google Closure Compiler ‘Advanced Optimizations’ - which minifies and compacts code for DIRECTV’s low memory STB’s distributed over satellite.- Wrote single and multipage customizable apps written in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Swig (Node.js templating).- Wrote unit test cases using Google’s jsunit, verified DOM objects displayed and behaved correctly.- Wrote JSON test config files and bash build scripts, to test templated apps during development.- Smoothed out the transition between screens/applications to be as fast and seamless as possible.

El Segundo, Ca

Software Release Coordinator for Interactive Services Department (ISD): - Kept Scrum Teams up to date on fluid timelines (Operations, Change Control Board, Managers, Dev and QA)- Streamlined the software approval process for all of ISD’s software updates (change requests) in DBOSS (a BMC ‘Remedy’ Action Request System), Running Advanced Queries and attending all Scrum/CCB meetings.- Performed and corrected installation instructions, wrote release notes, made VM and firewall requests.

El Segundo, Ca

Java Software Developer and Sensor Computer Admin for the Image Spectroscopy Department (ISD):- Created a Java (AWT/Swing) real-time multi-image display Desktop Application, which ran on all ISD sensor computers, providing an interface for side-by-side analyzing of large collections of images.- Computer Admin for all ISD’s Lab and Flight computers (PC’s and Mac’s) - managed internally created software version control, licenses, all the dept.’s property using Sunflower database, documented installation and trouble-shooting procedures, responded to customer reach-back requests, rapidly repopulated/updated computers for redeployment, performed regression validation, and troubleshoot sensor/computer communication issues.

El Segundo, Ca

Implemented, in C, a wait and cancel function for a satellite emulation tool, using a thread pool, conditional variables, and hash table. Also helped implement a graphics file format converter for the Satellite Orbit Analysis Program (SOAP).

Tutored in all C++ Computer Science classes.