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New York, United States

• Architected 4 projects for multiple clients (small high-growth startup to an international luxury beauty brand) for 10,000s of users with React.Js• Responsible for setting frontend engineering best practices, setting up and managing cloud resources in AWS, and ensuring that security and performance considerations are addressed pre and post-launch for 4 engineering teams. • Mentored 8 frontend developers through PR reviews and regular feedback• Responsible for drafting dozens of detailed engineering diagrams (Lucid) for thorough technical specifications for engineering teams and clients. • Migrated an international luxury beauty brand from Wordpress to AWS for a major launch. Setup legacy URL redirects for 100s of URLs with AWS WAF and CloudFront functions. Ensured CloudFront caching and SSL was set up properly and that all of the legacy site functionality including new URL redirects worked across all environments (QA, Dev, Prod).• Architected and led a full stack team with implementing a custom passwordless auth flow with multiple stages for US, Canada and International markets in React.Js.• Migrated a client from a legacy location service provider (in less than 3 months) to another platform while developing new features and a custom UI in parallel for 15,000+ business locations

• Led an engineering team of 3 developers, 1 UI/UX designer and a QA that created the world’s first photo-realistic video and photography studio in a web browser with Unreal Engine 5 and Next.Js• Planned company technical objectives on the executive leadership team and was responsible for hiring, coding, goal setting, project planning, and execution • Architected and implemented the in browser video and photography studio in Next.Js, TypeScript, GraphQL and WebRTC• Created the video and photo encoding pipeline through our backend services (MongoDB, GraphQL and Node.Js) and Frame.io that ran off of webhooks and asynchronously updated our video and photo studio app once the encoding was complete (event driven architecture). This led to sub minute video encoding times from user uploads.• Setup the code pipeline including automated tests, PR hooks, deployments and preview builds for dev, qa and production environments• Ensured we had bug tracking, release management, performance testing, and secret management for both the front-end (Next.Js) and backend services (Node.Js, GraphQL)• Mentored 3 frontend developers by reviewing their code regularly and having weekly 1v1s• Taught a backend Unreal Engine 5 developer how to make an event driven API with WebRTC for our demo day launch

• Lead frontend developer on a Next.Js project that empowered the startup to sell NFTs• Wrote ~40% of the production code for NFT releases that netted the company over $1M+ dollars in net profit• Responsible for multiple web applications and backend services (GraphQL, Node.Js & TypeScript)• Planned and executed large code migrations for Auth0, Web 3.0 auth, and moving from React to Next.Js• Actively troubleshot and fixed production performance issues and bugs that enabled the company to continue to make revenue

• Lead front-end developer for the SaaS application using React and TypeScript• Implemented OAuth 2.0 flow for the login process with Auth0 hooks and custom pages• Standardized and refactored React routing and hooks for the SaaS product• Taught other developers front-end best practices for consistent and performant front-end code• Pioneered E2E testing with Docker, Cypress, and Xpra for automated testing• Created CI integrations for TestRail and the project planning platform ShortCut through a custom PHP plugin. This resulted in saving QA 30% of their time weekly on bug tracking and made ticket generation standardized across the development team.

Erlanger, Kentucky

• Architected and designed replacement web solutions in Vue.Js for legacy software that was slated to be deprecated in 4 months of hiring date• Led and trained 3 junior developers in front-end industry standards and how to create production ready Vue.Js apps• Configured and deployed AWS services for supporting applications and backend services (Fastify, Node.Js, TypeScript)• Implemented a custom OAuth 2.0 PKCE login flow for front-end applications

Cincinnati Area, Ky

•Presided over a committee that focused on creating well-designed reusable components for GE Aviation. • Lead the front-end development effort for a new notification service that is utilized throughout GE Aviation. • Helped lead an effort to create a new design system for GE Aviation with the head of UI/UX. • Redesigned a legacy front-end web application for a largely adopted service that is used to build, test and deploy code throughout GE Aviation. • Primarily built high- performing, modern web applications for large groups of users. Participated in 'big room' projectplanning for establishing features, tasks, and various priorities for Agile sprints. • Worked frequently with back-end engineers and UI/UX teams in an Agile environment to deliver excellent software that satisfied the given requirements. • Interviewed, hired, and trained several front-end developers

Newport, Kentucky

• Built and maintained web apps written with JS and React• Designed custom web UI components that supported both synchronous and asynchronous data• Used common build tools such as Webpack, Gulp, Create-React-App, and Flow for type checking• Used modern technologies such as Web Sockets and Kafka to facilitate near real-time data communication• Maintained a backend C# codebase

Cincinnati, Oh

• Team UI lead for a large package company• Designed an Angular2 front-end web application for our block-chain network• Built a customer facing conference app with Angular2 and Ionic (Atune2017)• Created Angular2 Dashboards that used RESTFul services (Nodejs, Express)• Used real-time database technologies (RethinkDB, Nodejs)• Created a block-chain decentralized application (Nodejs, Solidity, ERIS)• Made a conference app for Android that was RESTful driven (Springboot)

Ukcdar

• Maintained and updated existing PHP framework managed with the Yii platform.• Wrote PHP server housekeeping scripts for cleaning up survey data.• Rewrote existing project websites to be grid-based and mobile friendly.• Designed and implemented custom surveys with grid and mobile support in mind.• Wrote custom SQL queries for different projects and end users.• Managed SQL database users and permissions for projects.• Created documentation for testing and maintaining projects and other company resources.

World Port Hub - Louisville Kentucky

• Executed and documented test scripts using HP Quality Center.• Wrote automation scripts for automated testing.• Wrote test scripts for HP Quick Test Professional.• Participated in test flow meetings.• Learned how to establish and test functional requirements.• Went on-site to test our software at the World Port Hub.

• Maintained Bell Engineering's servers and active directory company wide.• Vetted vendor products, selected, procured and installed all electronics for office and field use (Dell precision laptops, desktops and tablets).• Configured and installed patch panels and ran CAT6 for a new location.• Hardware repair and refurbishment (laptops, desktops, servers, UPS's, etc.)