Front-end lead on multiple greenfield Next.js applications, driving architecture, estimation, and delivery from the ground up. Successfully migrated a legacy production app from Redux to Next.js, significantly improving performance, maintainability, and developer experience. Consistently champion code quality through testing standards, code reviews, and scalable engineering practices.

Staff Engineer

Mark43’s mission is to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all.Responsibilities<ul><li>Scoping, planning, and development of new functionality.</li><li>Triaging and remediating bugs.</li><li>Providing 24/7 on-call support on a rotating basis.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Conducted over 50 technical interviews of candidates of various experience levels.</li><li>Identified and solved several user-impacting performance issues.</li><li>Rebuilt multiple workflows to be up to established code standards.</li></ul>

Senior Software Engineer

Mokriya is a global digital product engineering consultancy firm.Responsibilities<ul><li>Scoping and building features.</li><li>Reviewing peers&#x27; code.</li><li>Collaborating with the design-system team.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Serve as liaison between a team of external consultants and the client.</li><li>Establish patterns for easily adding test coverage to a variety of different component types.</li><li>Lead incorporation of a custom design system and supported further customization when necessary.</li></ul>

Senior Frontend Developer

XAPPmedia specializes in delivering high-quality voice-powered technology experiences (think Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant).Responsibilities<ul><li>Design and development of critical user workflows</li><li>Upgrading 3rd party libraries.</li><li>Demoing new functionality to senior leadership and other stakeholders.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Expand unit test coverage of existing features from approximately 24% aggregate to 82%.</li><li>Build end-to-end test coverage of critical, revenue-impacting workflows and incorporate them into the CI system.</li><li>Built a customised login workflow using Auth0.</li></ul>

Lead Front End Developer

BlueAcorn is a web development agency that specializes in e-commerce.Responsibilities<ul><li>Scoping, estimating, and executing pixel-perfect customizations of Salesforce Commerce Cloud (formerly Demandware) new implementations.</li><li>Demoing functionality of customizations to clients.</li><li>Preparing documentation prepared for both technical and non-technical users.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Obtained Salesforce Commerce Cloud (formerly Demandware) Certification and successfully mentored 3 developers in the pursuit of their own certifications.</li><li>Launched 3 new implementations on time and under budget.</li><li>Supported the scoping of an internally developed starter theme.</li></ul>

Lead Front End Engineer

Junyo was a startup that specialized in applying big data analysis to educational technology.Responsibilities<ul><li>Rapidly producing demos &amp; proof of concept apps for internal &amp; investor use.</li><li>Collaborating with backend (Python) developers on the planning, implementation, and testing of new features.</li><li>Troubleshooting, patching, and testing user-reported bugs.</li><li>Providing estimates on all tasks via JIRA and reconciling those estimates through logging &amp; tracking time spent per task.</li><li>Working with the design team to solve complex UI/UX problems.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Rebuilt the corporate site in less than 7 days during nights and weekends with the help of one other engineer</li></ul>

Front End Web Developer

Izea is the leading sponsored content marketplace.Responsibilities<ul><li>Tracking/troubleshooting/resolving software bugs.</li><li>Finishing Rails devs’ features (styling content, adding JavaScript, writing integration tests).</li><li>Composing documentation for new and esoteric features (via GitHub wikis).</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Reduced bundled CSS size by over 40% by removing unused Bootstrap modules and converting trivial Sass mixins to @extends.</li><li>Spearheaded the incorporation of animated UI elements via Bootstrap and custom JavaScript/CSS Animations.</li><li>Refactored the entire front-end codebase to scale gracefully from 1920 pixels to 320 pixels wide, with the help of one other engineer.</li></ul>

Different Perspective is a creative agency that specializes in branding, identity, and advertising.Responsibilities<ul><li>Transforming Photoshop mockups into responsive websites via custom-built WordPress themes.</li><li>Auditing potential web projects to help determine the scope, required materials/licenses, and approximate number of hours to complete.</li><li>Bug tracking and troubleshooting of live projects.</li><li>Corresponding with clients when their needs are technically oriented and communication through the Project Manager would be inefficient.</li><li>Educating clients on the administration and management of their sites through written docs, remote screen sharing, and face-to-face training.</li><li>Educating the staff on emerging technologies that will empower them to sell a higher-end product.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Incorporated CSS and JavaScript-powered animations in every project that we shipped.</li><li>Delivered highly customized content management functionality via Advanced Custom Fields.</li></ul>

Web Developer

My career began taking on freelance web development gigs. My weapon of choice was WordPress when the client needed control over the content of their site.Responsibilities<ul><li>Managing web projects from inception to launch.</li><li>Communicating with clients regarding their needs and designing/developing a solution. </li><li>Customizing existing frameworks to meet a variety of communication, media distribution, and commerce needs. </li><li>Supporting clients when additional help is necessary. </li><li>Time-tracking, invoicing, and accounting for all transactions.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Was able to pay rent in New York City for a year as a freelance web developer</li></ul>

Principal

I have been working with JS since my career began in 2011, and has been the primary focus of my day to day since December of 2017. I believe that simple code is better than clever code.

I have been using React as my primary tool since December of 2017. I learned using class based components but have been using functional components pretty exclusively since 2019.

I have been a firm believer in the importance of unit tests since I began working with React. I am well versed in common sense best practices and know how to maximize critical code paths.

My career began as a freelancer making custom WordPress themes. It's been some years since it was my primary focus, but I still maintain multiple sites that run themes that I have developed and am well versed in best practices for custom theme building.

I have been working remote full-time since December of 2017. (Though if you count my early days as a freelancer, then you'd say I've been working remote since 2012). I have developed a number of skills and habits to maximize productivity and maintain the ever important work-life balance.

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