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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

* Elevated search term relevancy on the Food Network Canada website by creating an autosuggestion feature using Machine Learning text extraction to locate terms on the website and by leveraging ElasticSearch on WordPress VIP. * Explored multiple Machine Learning models using Jupyter Notebooks, spaCy, HuggingFace Transformers, and Sentence Transformers (SBERT). * Insured DX by creating the Machine Learning project as a self-contained modern Python Poetry project, complete with Confluence documentation and diagrams.* Collaborated in an Agile Scrum team to maintain the Food Network Canada and HGTV Canada websites, refining and elevating editor and visitor UX, accessibility, code quality, performance, SEO, and ad optimization. * Developed and enhanced custom WordPress plugins to share functionality across websites, including for analytics and ad optimization. * Fixed high-priority user-facing issues with fast turn-around, maintaining close communication with project manager and stakeholders. * Provided actionable performance audits using Webpack Bundle Analyzer and Google Lighthouse. * Spearheaded investigation of various tools to improve developer UX, summarizing findings in Confluence. * Developed reusable code facilitating easy, uniform distribution to RSS and MSN.* Collaborated in an Agile Scrum team on redesigning the corporate website, ensuring AODA compliance, providing an ergonomic and flexible UX for the editors, and providing an extensible foundation for future development. * Saved Corus Digital maintenance effort while providing editors an improved UX with a new page builder system. * Improved onboarding and collaboration with an extensive user manual that doubles as a BDD-like specification for developers. * Reduced size of bundled CSS by about 50% using PurgeCSS.

Dothan, Alabama, United States

Please note this was a seasonal summer job I had covering Summer 2015 (May 2015 - July 2015) and Summer 2016 (May 2016 - July 2016).* Ensured compliance with company policy and government requirements by scanning CSV files from the item DB for invalid fields with a Java 8 applet that outputs the results as RTF. * Facilitated UX with a simple JavaFX GUI featuring drag-and-drop.* Reduced burden on HR by organizing, scanning, and backing up data relating to insurance claims.* Assisted CTO (my father) with setting up an Ethernet network at a new grocery store by custom-sizing Cat6 RJ45 cables.* Reduced burden on CTO by setting up Intel NUC computers for deployment to stores.

Incomplete Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Arts And Technology

Completed 98 credits towards a B.A. in Arts and Technology. Highlights: Game Design, Level Design, Scripting for Games, Game Engineering.

High School Diploma