Contributing to a new team that builds Generative AI experiences to empower our enterprise partners.

As a software engineer on the Customer Experience Platform (CXP) team, I maintain and improve our open-source Lucid UI React library and other building components. I write code that improves the lives of our product engineers because it is production-ready and easy to understand and maintain.Day in and out, I use modern JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Jest, Enzyme and Storybook to build and improve the UI components our software developers depend on to make our SaaS application hum.

Developed production-ready JavaScript code for a scalable SaaS productCreated new features and functionality Improved the user experience and interface for Talkoot's customersDebugged and testedTalkoot is the world’s first industrial-strength product content authoring tool for the new digital workforce. Product copy isn’t written by writers anymore. It’s written by teams of people spread across departments and around the world. Talkoot brings all your content creators’ dark art ninja skills together in one bright, sunny, crazily useful place. It plugs them all into a single, easy-to-use web-based workflow where they can each do what they do best, together. With Talkoot, you can make sure every ecommerce description, tweet, facebook post, banner ad, retail headline (and all their translations) are singing from the same customer-relevant, brand-approved, legally-blessed songbook.

Designed UX / UI experiences that optimized retail websitesDeveloped A/B tests in JavaScript, jQuery, CSS3 and HTML5Created winning A/B tests that improved the user experience for ecommerce websitesAnalyzed Google Analytics data, heat maps and scrollmaps for optimization insights

Improved SEO, accessibility and readability for adidas.com product descriptionsCollaborated with researchers, writers, copywriters and product managers to tell engaging stories for customers across all of adidas' business lines.Part-time contract work.

At Epicodus, I learned JavaScript, HTML, CSS and Ruby on Rails. I spent over 800 hours pair programming for five months and coding for a month in an internship at a startup.I now have the set of skills to needed to learn any new language, write production code, and stay relevant as a Web developer.I earned the Web and Mobile Development certificate.CORE SKILLS:• Ruby on Rails• JavaScript • MVC Frameworks: Ember and AngularJS• Databases such as MySQL, MongoDB and Firebase• Node.js• HTML5 & CSS3• Sass• Git• jQuery• Bootstrap• AJAX• SQLBEST PRACTICES:• Test-Driven Development (TDD)• Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)• Git and Github• Pair ProgrammingCOURSEWORK• Intro to Programming• Ruby• JavaScript• Rails

As an Instructor at the Wisconsin School of Business for five semesters, I taught General Business 300: Professional Communications.I also taught public speaking courses in the Communication Arts Department and led discussion sections in the History Department and in Integrated Liberal Studies.

Implemented a strategic research agenda based on extensive consumer surveys.

Wrote, researched designed, executed and presented twenty-nine market research reports on technology, retail, and media trends. Consulted for top-level executives at dozens of Fortune 500 companies in Europe and the US. Managed the European research team producing over sixty new research projects per year.Generated broadcast and print publicity for Jupiter.