Experience

Socrata

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineering Manager

  • Aug 2019 - Jul 2023

  I moved up to Team Lead of our Release & Quality team, running our planning process, backlog, and retros. Then became a full engineering manager. It's my job to: - Ensure sure my team has clear priorities - Ensure they have the knowledge they need to accomplish those priorities - Maintain our test infrastructure (I'm still the Ruby expert on the team) - Improve our on-call process (It's a passion project for me that otherwise has "shared" ownership. And we all know what that… Show more I moved up to Team Lead of our Release & Quality team, running our planning process, backlog, and retros. Then became a full engineering manager. It's my job to: - Ensure sure my team has clear priorities - Ensure they have the knowledge they need to accomplish those priorities - Maintain our test infrastructure (I'm still the Ruby expert on the team) - Improve our on-call process (It's a passion project for me that otherwise has "shared" ownership. And we all know what that means.)

• Software Engineer II

  • Sep 2016 - Aug 2019

  Started on the Frontend team (developed all the UI) Moved to the Storyteller Team (new product, building a dashboard-like CMS-like tool) Was frustrated with our build-infrastructure and quality tooling, so moved to the Release Team nee Quality Team. I mostly write and maintain ruby code for test automation and release automation, watch our monitoring, manage our release process, and do on-call training. I'm a bit of a fire-fighter at heart.

• Software Engineer

  • Mar 2015 - Sep 2016

  Seattle, WA On the frontend team at Socrata. Working in Ruby on Rails and Javascript (bit of Flux, bit of react)



Luxoft Smashing Ideas

• United States
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interactive Web Developer

  • Jan 2014 - Mar 2015

  Seattle, WA Doing frontend web dev in an agency environment Languages: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript Tech stack: mostly javascript apps with node.js so far



Nordstrom

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Interactive Web Developer

  • Nov 2013 - Jan 2014

  Seattle, WA Contract work for Nordstrom on a team of 14 frontend developers. Workload was shared among the team, agile-style stand-ups daily. Primary Duties: Frontend web-dev for Nordstrom's customer-facing shop site. HTML, CSS. Odds and Ends: Basic Tridion WCM work. Buildng content in the admin interface.



POP

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Interactive Developer

  • Aug 2013 - Nov 2013

  Greater Seattle Area Contract work in an agency environment Primary Project: Building a Windows 8 App using Javascript (WinJS), HTML, CSS on a team of 3 developers. Content delivered through ESPN's API. Other Projects: - Mobile version of an Xbox site [html, css, run using grunt] - Other small projects here and there when a few hours of frontend dev time were needed



Gigantic Planet

• Web Developer

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

  Pioneer Square Helped launch a new community-oriented parenting site focusing on information about raising teens in the digital age. One backend developer and I were the entire tech team, taking over a wordpress frame and custom theme set up by someone working part-time. This led to me being part tech advisor, part designer, and part developer. The client had no experience with websites so I often explained pros and cons of various solutions, then implemented the decisions. I ended up suggesting a new… Show more Helped launch a new community-oriented parenting site focusing on information about raising teens in the digital age. One backend developer and I were the entire tech team, taking over a wordpress frame and custom theme set up by someone working part-time. This led to me being part tech advisor, part designer, and part developer. The client had no experience with websites so I often explained pros and cons of various solutions, then implemented the decisions. I ended up suggesting a new theme and style for the site, which was implemented, and previous Wordpress customizations were moved to a new child theme. Role: Frontend dev, design advisor, theme development and templating, Php work was mostly working through plugin issues, customizing buddypress (a community/forum/friend/messaging plugin) Tech Stack: Php, Wordpress, LAMP server Show less



Tyemill

• Rails Web Developer

  • Jun 2012 - May 2013

  Seattle Building web apps in Rails. A mixture of front and backend, time mostly spent in the views and controllers, limited model creation/development. Have spent most of my time on 3 different specialized line-of-business apps. Deliver small iterations every few weeks, working on features in small teams of 3-6. Experience with writing unit, functional, and integration tests. Using selenium and capybara for integration tests.

• Frontend Web Developer and Project Manager

  • Feb 2011 - Jul 2012

  Greater Seattle Area Frontend web development of ecommerce sites using Magento (a MVC cart and CMS system developed on PHP and the Zend Framework). This includes HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. Also client communication for new feature requests, getting feature requirements, defining specs, and costing development time.



Altig International

• Communication Intern

  • Dec 2010 - Feb 2011

  Editing clips and assisting filming the weekly Altig TV episode Camera operation for yearly company-wide conference Creating video assets to company brand standards Reviewing and editing training materials



Courtney Spurgeon's Freelance

• Web Designer and Developer

  • Aug 2008 - Feb 2011

  Built websites for friends, colleagues, and small business owners. Complete website creation from design to reviews, to development to uploading. Built in HTML/CSS and CMSs.



Free and Clear

• Tobacco Cessation Counselor

  • Oct 2009 - Aug 2010

  Counseled participants on strategies and motivations to help quit using tobacco. Completed over 1500 calls with a wide variety of demographics. Meeting productivity standards with minimal supervision Maintaining records in large health-care database



Mindfly Web Studio

• Web Technician

  • Jul 2008 - Sep 2008

  copyediting, formatting HTML, CMS work, designing internal page layouts, designing ads for clients, including getting client approval and feedback