Experience

Simply Framed

• United States
• Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jul 2022 - Present



Shutterstock

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer III

  • Feb 2014 - Jul 2022



Beatport

• United States
• Musicians
• 100 - 200 Employee

• UI Developer

  • Oct 2011 - Jan 2014

  - Rapidly built Beatport Sounds and Mixes sites within an Agile team framework by writing modular and extensible view components and jQuery plugins. - Engineered a UI that DJs used to publish over 44,000 mixes. The interface includes image uploading with instant preview and cropping; choosing and ordering the tracks via multi-slider controls; and the progressive, resumable upload of a high-quality audio file on the order of hundreds of megabytes. - Designed and developed an analytics… Show more - Rapidly built Beatport Sounds and Mixes sites within an Agile team framework by writing modular and extensible view components and jQuery plugins. - Engineered a UI that DJs used to publish over 44,000 mixes. The interface includes image uploading with instant preview and cropping; choosing and ordering the tracks via multi-slider controls; and the progressive, resumable upload of a high-quality audio file on the order of hundreds of megabytes. - Designed and developed an analytics dashboard for DJs to explore their Beatport metrics. Created an SVG charting library based on D3.js to render highly-interactive time-series and geographical visualizations. Show less - Rapidly built Beatport Sounds and Mixes sites within an Agile team framework by writing modular and extensible view components and jQuery plugins. - Engineered a UI that DJs used to publish over 44,000 mixes. The interface includes image uploading with instant preview and cropping; choosing and ordering the tracks via multi-slider controls; and the progressive, resumable upload of a high-quality audio file on the order of hundreds of megabytes. - Designed and developed an analytics… Show more - Rapidly built Beatport Sounds and Mixes sites within an Agile team framework by writing modular and extensible view components and jQuery plugins. - Engineered a UI that DJs used to publish over 44,000 mixes. The interface includes image uploading with instant preview and cropping; choosing and ordering the tracks via multi-slider controls; and the progressive, resumable upload of a high-quality audio file on the order of hundreds of megabytes. - Designed and developed an analytics dashboard for DJs to explore their Beatport metrics. Created an SVG charting library based on D3.js to render highly-interactive time-series and geographical visualizations. Show less



Peace Corps

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Youth Development Volunteer

  • Mar 2009 - Jun 2012

  - Founded and chaired the Technology for Development Working Group, initiating several tech-related projects praised by Peace Corps directors. - Completed a redesign and overhaul of the Ukraine volunteer website pcukraine.org. - Refactored online volunteer collaboration tools in PHP to improve usability and security. - Used jQuery and CSS sprites to create an HIV Infections Counter widget made to work offline across all browsers. Ukraine’s HIV/AIDS Program Manager distributed the… Show more - Founded and chaired the Technology for Development Working Group, initiating several tech-related projects praised by Peace Corps directors. - Completed a redesign and overhaul of the Ukraine volunteer website pcukraine.org. - Refactored online volunteer collaboration tools in PHP to improve usability and security. - Used jQuery and CSS sprites to create an HIV Infections Counter widget made to work offline across all browsers. Ukraine’s HIV/AIDS Program Manager distributed the application nationwide as an effective presentation tool to highlight the human cost of HIV at World AIDS Day events. Show less - Founded and chaired the Technology for Development Working Group, initiating several tech-related projects praised by Peace Corps directors. - Completed a redesign and overhaul of the Ukraine volunteer website pcukraine.org. - Refactored online volunteer collaboration tools in PHP to improve usability and security. - Used jQuery and CSS sprites to create an HIV Infections Counter widget made to work offline across all browsers. Ukraine’s HIV/AIDS Program Manager distributed the… Show more - Founded and chaired the Technology for Development Working Group, initiating several tech-related projects praised by Peace Corps directors. - Completed a redesign and overhaul of the Ukraine volunteer website pcukraine.org. - Refactored online volunteer collaboration tools in PHP to improve usability and security. - Used jQuery and CSS sprites to create an HIV Infections Counter widget made to work offline across all browsers. Ukraine’s HIV/AIDS Program Manager distributed the application nationwide as an effective presentation tool to highlight the human cost of HIV at World AIDS Day events. Show less



iContact

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Front-End Developer

  • Mar 2008 - Feb 2009

  - Guided the design and development of a REST-like API on a LAMP stack. - Developed a new front-end framework in PHP to handle all web and API requests together. The framework included Front Filters for bootstrapping; request recognition; input parsing for XML, JSON, and form data; input validation; error handling; output generation; and logging. Led the creation of a functional testing infrastructure to compliment unit testing of the new framework. - Designed an authentication scheme for… Show more - Guided the design and development of a REST-like API on a LAMP stack. - Developed a new front-end framework in PHP to handle all web and API requests together. The framework included Front Filters for bootstrapping; request recognition; input parsing for XML, JSON, and form data; input validation; error handling; output generation; and logging. Led the creation of a functional testing infrastructure to compliment unit testing of the new framework. - Designed an authentication scheme for the API that relied on a SHA-1 keyed-hash message authentication code and a time-based nonce carried on HTTP headers to provide session-free verification. - Coordinated all front-end development within cross-functional teams of designers, information architects, and developers—leading through scrum and using agile methods.

• Web Application Developer

  • Sep 2005 - Mar 2008

  - Worked across the LAMP stack on a small team using agile methods, to grow iContact’s permission-based email marketing platform by a factor of 15 to 42,000 paying customers. - Built several AJAX-driven features using progressive enhancement techniques to ensure usability across browsers and devices. - Designed and built—from backend PHP out to JavaScript and CSS—a context-sensitive help and walkthrough widget. - Served as MySQL database administrator for a time and created a set of… Show more - Worked across the LAMP stack on a small team using agile methods, to grow iContact’s permission-based email marketing platform by a factor of 15 to 42,000 paying customers. - Built several AJAX-driven features using progressive enhancement techniques to ensure usability across browsers and devices. - Designed and built—from backend PHP out to JavaScript and CSS—a context-sensitive help and walkthrough widget. - Served as MySQL database administrator for a time and created a set of tools to synch schema changes across development, staging, and production databases. - Used semantic XHTML and unobtrusive JavaScript to build highly usable and accessible user interfaces.



Urban Peak

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Outreach Counselor

  • Aug 2003 - Aug 2004



Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2000 - Sep 2002