Experience

YETI

• United States
• Consumer Goods
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Principal Architect

  • Sep 2019 - 4 years 4 months

  Austin, Texas Area Designing and building software solutions and integrations for company processes key to product customization, e-commerce, DTC, and wholesale, ultimately feeding the UX for both internal and external customers.

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Sep 2017 - Sep 2019

  Austin, Texas Area Served as Web Team Lead and Principal Software Engineer for YETI Custom Shop (YCS) architecting and developing the frontend and web API integration of the YCS SPA platform into YETI.com. This involved the migration of several critical cloud and middleware interfaces from one ERP to another. The SPA frontend architecture I developed for YCS is highly portable and adaptable to any ERP, but also required a reskin, which I built out as well. I developed and maintained several Node.js CLI and server… Show more Served as Web Team Lead and Principal Software Engineer for YETI Custom Shop (YCS) architecting and developing the frontend and web API integration of the YCS SPA platform into YETI.com. This involved the migration of several critical cloud and middleware interfaces from one ERP to another. The SPA frontend architecture I developed for YCS is highly portable and adaptable to any ERP, but also required a reskin, which I built out as well. I developed and maintained several Node.js CLI and server libraries pertinent to our need to mass-generate customization image previews for end-user consumption. Other duties included mentoring junior developers, writing technical documentation for in-house applications and integrations, staffing and interviewing, and defining budget requirements.

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Feb 2016 - Sep 2017

  Austin, Texas Area I designed, developed, and maintained a completely custom e-commerce shopping and product customization experience for YETI Rambler products using modern javascript single page applications, both external and internal. I created custom integrations using a javascript frontend and Node.js development environment along with our ERP's REST API, NPM, Gulp, Handlebars web templates, Payload.js SPA driver, SASS/SCSS, testing with Jasmine/Karma, and more. I also managed UX, SEO, marketing… Show more I designed, developed, and maintained a completely custom e-commerce shopping and product customization experience for YETI Rambler products using modern javascript single page applications, both external and internal. I created custom integrations using a javascript frontend and Node.js development environment along with our ERP's REST API, NPM, Gulp, Handlebars web templates, Payload.js SPA driver, SASS/SCSS, testing with Jasmine/Karma, and more. I also managed UX, SEO, marketing facilitation, analytics integration, software dependency maintenance and upgrades, cross-browser compatibility, web product development, software development process and lifecycle, third-party integrations, web DevOps, and more.



Rightside

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior UI Engineer

  • Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

  Austin, TX I worked as Senior UI Engineer, architecting and building new products and single page applications to accompany various TLD marketing brands and services. I also architected and managed the corporate website, blog, and various integrations across the company's web infrastructure.



Leaf Group

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior UI Engineer

  • Oct 2011 - Dec 2013

  Austin, Texas Area I was hired as a Senior UI Engineer to architect and develop social media applications and other specialized company applications using OOP JavaScript, jQuery, Underscore.js, d3.js, Raphael/gRaphael, Python, Tornado Web Server, MongoDB/NoSQL, CSS3 and HTML5.



Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• UI/UX Developer

  • Aug 2011 - Oct 2011

  Austin, Texas Area [ 3 Month Contract ] - Joined the HP.com IT development team for HP's new US Home & Home Office e-commerce site. Responsibilities included advanced OOP JavaScript, JavaScript architecture design, HTML5, CSS/CSS3, jQuery and jQuery plugin development.



Dun & Bradstreet

• United States
• Information Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• UI Developer & Software Engineer

  • Jul 2009 - Aug 2011

  Austin, Texas Area I Worked as a UI Developer and Software Engineer on the Balboa project helping to develop Hoover's new subscriber website. Responsibilities included coding HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery plugin development, graphic design, Java/Velocity template coding, Spring, JBehave, Selenium, SVN, and strict agile development practices. Also responsible for phone screening and interviewing candidates for UI developer positions.



QuantumDigital, Inc.

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Web Designer & User Interface Engineer

  • Nov 2004 - Jul 2009

  Austin, Texas Area I worked as senior UI Engineer and New Media Team Leader. I was initially hired as a web designer by contract in 2004 to redesign the home pages for their existing websites, and gradually redesign the internal dynamic sites and various user interfaces. Duties included user interface and graphic design/icon design for all primary company websites, CSS style management, writing and maintaining the company style guide, usability, accessibility, designing, developing and managing the company… Show more I worked as senior UI Engineer and New Media Team Leader. I was initially hired as a web designer by contract in 2004 to redesign the home pages for their existing websites, and gradually redesign the internal dynamic sites and various user interfaces. Duties included user interface and graphic design/icon design for all primary company websites, CSS style management, writing and maintaining the company style guide, usability, accessibility, designing, developing and managing the company Intranet, search engine marketing/optimization and findability enhancement, designing all advertising landing pages and graphics for marketing campaigns, and leading the QuantumDigital development team for the company's new website and branding. Technologies used are XHTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, AJAX, IIS, Visual FoxPro, and Westwind Webconnect. Specific examples of UI design: -Designed and Developed the QuantumMail.com Management Dashboard web application, implementing web standards, AJAX and SQL Server interaction, among other technologies. Sample login links are listed in the “Portfolio” section below. -A desktop-to-web application entitled Print On Demand System (PODS) for company-level management of direct mail orders for BellSouth Corporation (AT&T). The development of this application was initiated for the needs of BellSouth, but was designed and developed to be easily customizable for future clients with similar needs. -A customized web order interface for placing bulk ship orders over the web for John Deere Corporation. This application was designed to fit John Deere’s branding and was developed to run independently of the company’s in-house application. -Upon company name change and rebranding, I developed the new website in a Linux / Redhat environment using the CakePHP framework, Prototype Javascript framework, and several more open source software resources. Show less



Independent Contractor

• Web Designer & Developer

  • Jul 1997 - Nov 2004

  Houston, TX & Austin, TX Contracting in web design, web development, PHP / MySQL development, JavaScript. I also hosted my clients' sites and managed subscriptions on my own dedicated server.



Danzig Platz BBS

• Owner & Operator (Sysop)

  • 1994 - 1995

  Houston, Texas Area I began my geekdom running a BBS. Remember those? I used the pseudonym “Jon Klaus.” To my surprise, there is still reference to it online - http://www.bbsmates.com/viewbbs.aspx?id=118825