Manage groups of 3 to 5 guides on experiential education trips for groups of up to 25 studentsCreate an environment that encourages prosocial behavior, healthy risk-taking, teamwork, and curiositySupervise students in data collection following established USGS protocols for studies involving, fish, sedimentation, bats, insects, and food web trackingFoster an environment of open communication between students and guides and within the guide teamExecute planning and coordination needed to facilitate safe passage along the San Juan, Green, and Colorado RiversCollaborate with teachers and scientists before and during trips to develop and achieve educational and scientific goalsVolunteer board member: Alumni Scholarship Fund. Fundraise and distribute annual scholarships and work to foster community through the network of program alumni

Lead front-end engineer supporting the public launch of a national hydrologic monitoring and forecasting app making terabytes of data rapidly available to users in an accessible, map-based web app.Planned and led the implementation of a user management system that allows for the application and management of high-granularity user permissions and low-touch user account validation and creation. This system provides seamless onboarding of customers and SSO support for a web-based mapping application and open-source modeling and data download software while protecting internal proprietary data.Designed and built a data warehouse system to aggregate and report on project metrics gathered from internal and third-party sources allowing for rapid, reliable reporting of project engagement and impact; reducing time to gather funding support metrics from days to minutes. Led team culture and best practices by developing and supporting an initiative to define and implement a project management system, team working agreements, definitions of done, and code review resulting in clearer communication of expectations and project statuses and more consistent, actionable feedback. Participated in a small team to implement CI/CD across the project’s repos resulting in consistent, reliable, deployments insulated from human error.

Acted as the team’s UX accessibility subject matter expert, facilitating knowledge transfer sessions on best practices and testing.Participated in on-call rotation, working swiftly with Splunk and New Relic logs to diagnose and resolve issues, ensuring minimal downtime. Designed and implemented a lightweight solution that reused in-place testing architecture to visualize iterations on a machine learning model, allowing for faster validation and verification of model results and a reduced time to implementation.Built proxy API consumers using Kong to allow individual client rate limiting and policies allowing for the safe onboarding of new email marketing partners driving 0.85 cents of revenue per email.Collaborated with designers and legal team using Figma to build a specialized React price component that allowed for guaranteed cross-site alignment of price rendering logic and display, paving the way for a seamless customer experience and reducing the risk of potential price liability.Implemented A/B testing and customer engagement tracking using Optimizely and Kafka for the rollout of several features including launching digital outfitting on www.nordstromrack.com. Testing and data tracking allowed for the detailed measurement of rollout success and assured no negative impacts on KPIs.

Led front-end development and testing framework migration. Documented and scoped work to migrate front-end components to Storybook and integrate Jest and Cypress testing to facilitate unit and integration testing. Work enhanced engineer confidence in feature integration and iteration by reducing time to visualize UI changes from 15 minutes to several seconds. Designed and implemented componentization of outfit recommendation UI which allows for fast, reliable extension with built-in business event logging throughout the customer journey.Led project to resolve critical ADA violations and act as the team’s accessibility subject matter expert, facilitating knowledge transfer sessions for team members on best practices and testing. Updates allow all customers to fully utilize the benefits of the stylist-driven outfit recommendation service. Implemented A/B testing and customer engagement tracking providing vital data into the customer journey and efficacy of features while ensuring no negative impacts on KPIs.Refactored a Python machine learning random forest algorithm into a method within a Javascript graphQL API, paving the road for deprecation of the Python API which reduced the team’s AWS spend.Implemented scaling of K8S and AWS services to ensure resilience for large events without over-provisioning resources. Tuned automated alarms to reduce false positives which improved on-call engineers’ experience while ensuring minimal customer impact from affected services.

PROJECTSBush Whacker - A mapping web app designed to alleviate logistics of planning multi-sport backcountry trips with multiple peopleIntegrated Leaflet mapping library into React to allow for robust interactive mapping experience enabling users to easily plot courses on mapDeveloped an interactive trip elevation profile graph utilizing the D3 library to give valuable information to users related to the elevation and gradient of trips.Incorporated user authentication and authorization with JSON web tokens and client side web storage, securing user data and permitting the persistence of user sessionsDesigned and implemented RESTful API for app data that also integrates map data from the MapQuest API to provide elevation data, to give users a more holistic view of their tripOnitama - A two player game similar to chess where piece moves are dictated by selected cardsDeveloped React user-interface that interacts with Action Cable backend to host two simultaneous users on different browser windowsImplemented cookies and local storage to persist user and game sessionsUtilized Bulma to style user-interface as well as vanilla CSS custom animations that occur simultaneously for each playerFoodPrint - A recipe app that tracks the greenhouse gas release, embedded water, & eutrophication of ingredients and recipesDesigned and implemented a Rails API backend with endpoints for recipes, recipe ingredients, and ingredientsIntegrated lifecycle climate data from peer reviewed publications to calculate climate data of ingredients Utilized Yummly API to seed recipe database Implemented a Javascript frontend with Bootstrap for stylingMagicTutoring -An app that connects students and tutors in a fictional magic based worldBuilt a scheduling feature in Rails allowing users to indicate available time slots and other users to schedule appointments in those slotsIntegrated validations and authorizations restricting endpoint availability to certain users

Acted as a member of a team of 2-7 guides to facilitate safe trips along the Colorado River Assisted in the development and implementation of company-wide training on respect and inclusion

• Coordinate and facilitate one on one calculus II and trigonometry tutoring sessions

Lead instructor for single- and multi-day backcountry youth trips focused on local ecology education, primitive skills, and positive youth developmentRecruited, trained, and helped integrate volunteersCultivated partnerships with local educators to plan and lead outdoor educational experiences in alignment with curricular standardsManaged budgets and coordinated logistics including menus, transportation, scheduling, and equipment for single and multi-day programs Conducted rigorous assessments of programs to inform future program development Co-managed social media accountsCreated and participated in community outreach and recruitment events targeted at students and teachersMaintained participant and partner databasesDeveloped operating and risk management procedures for lake and river educational programs with youthDesigned curriculum for a year-long inter-disciplinary field science course for a Tucson high school

Developed curriculum and taught 3 sections each of pre-algebra and algebra 2 classes to 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th grade students, totaling over 240 studentsConducted 6 hours of out-of-class tutoring and 1 hour of parent teacher conference meetings weeklyOrganized and ran weekly yoga club for 5th-8th graders

Constructed and acted as project manager for seismic monitoring sites in Northern BoliviaIdentified appropriate sites for, built, installed, and serviced broadband seismometers across the Altiplano