Experience

One North

• Movies, Videos, and Sound
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Director, Front End Development

  • May 2022 - Present

  Chicago, Illinois, United States



IBM

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Creative Developer

  • Jan 2019 - May 2022

  Greater New York City Area Continued work on w3DS, the internal Design System for IBM. In this time, we launched major iterations v6 and v7, shifting from a Bootstrap-like utility design system to an Airbnb-type application specific library. Primary duties were mostly Front End implementations, with secondary duties in Design conversations, Prototyping, UX considerations, Accessibility overhaul, and Product visioning. Primary deliverable being a Vanilla CSS/JS front-end library with Vue.js docsite, Vue.js component… Show more Continued work on w3DS, the internal Design System for IBM. In this time, we launched major iterations v6 and v7, shifting from a Bootstrap-like utility design system to an Airbnb-type application specific library. Primary duties were mostly Front End implementations, with secondary duties in Design conversations, Prototyping, UX considerations, Accessibility overhaul, and Product visioning. Primary deliverable being a Vanilla CSS/JS front-end library with Vue.js docsite, Vue.js component library, Figma component library, and systemwide brand contribution being secondary deliverables. Show less



Blenderbox, Inc.

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

• Senior Frontend (Creative) Developer

  • Jun 2018 - Dec 2018

  Greater New York City Area Collaborated with Design, UX, DevOps, and Back-End specialists to bring several web projects to fruition including Hudson Inc (https://www.hudsoninc.com), The Henry Luce (https://www.hluce.org/), and 59E59 Theaters (https://www.59e59.org/).



NYU Langone Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Frontend Developer

  • Apr 2018 - Jun 2018

  Greater New York City Area Collaborated with Design and Back-End specialists to help launch a redesign of the NYU Langone internal user portal.



VSA Partners, Inc

• Creative Developer

  • Sep 2017 - Mar 2018

  Greater New York City Area Developed a design system intended to support the internal projects of IBM, a company with a user base with 350,000+ members. The scope of this project was truly daunting and a continually rewarding challenge. Responsibilities included maintaining and contributing to a Vue-based doc site, heavy build process optimizations via gulp, feature road-mapping, and stakeholder presentations.



Hard Candy Shell

• United States
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Creative Developer

  • Aug 2015 - Apr 2017

  Greater New York City Area Developed fully-functional, well-reasoned responsive prototypes and production-level builds for a wide berth of projects including the redesign of Travel Zoo, Man Repeller, YETI, The Points Guy, and Above Average. Responsibilities included strategy, interviewing, planning, wire-framing, system creation, design extension, and boilerplate creation. Small teams, weekly client check-ins, and the adoption of agile processes necessitated concise communication, rapid production, and the inception of… Show more Developed fully-functional, well-reasoned responsive prototypes and production-level builds for a wide berth of projects including the redesign of Travel Zoo, Man Repeller, YETI, The Points Guy, and Above Average. Responsibilities included strategy, interviewing, planning, wire-framing, system creation, design extension, and boilerplate creation. Small teams, weekly client check-ins, and the adoption of agile processes necessitated concise communication, rapid production, and the inception of new workflows. Show less



Quiet Points

• United States
• Design Services

• Principal / Digital Director

  • Nov 2014 - Mar 2017

  Jersey City, NJ / Brooklyn, NY Founded a full-service branding agency focused on attractive design with a soft touch. Our clients ranged from large brands like The NY Red Bulls, to mid-sized businesses like First Environment, and small businesses like Xina developing their brand for the first time. As Digital Director I was tasked with overseeing everything from planning, scope, and contractual considerations to UX, look and feel, build-outs, content management, hosting, and deployment.



Bayard Advertising

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Lead Web Developer

  • May 2014 - Jul 2015

  Tackled the more advanced coding projects for a mid-sized ad agency specializing in employer branding. Additionally my duties included managing and mentoring a team of junior developers, proposing development-centric policies, and ensuring that both internal and external expectations were met.



Smith Group

• United Kingdom
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Web Developer

  • Aug 2011 - Apr 2014

  Asbury Park, NJ Built, launched, and supported pixel-perfect responsive websites from design comps. As a one-man technology department, I was tasked with bridging the transition from print-based design to digital design. Established my on-going love for design, typography, user-experience, and detail.