Founding Engineer

• Feb 2023 - Present

Staff Engineer

• Feb 2022 - Present

Founder

• Jul 2021 - Present

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Principal Consultant - Delta Dental

• May 2020 - May 2021

- Managed multi-disciplinary team of 7 remote consultants, frontend, backend, devops, in modernizing Billing and Payments applications to AWS service-oriented architecture- Architected SSO and RSA key management in Node.js, allowing modular library architecture of JWT-based fine-grained AuthN/AuthZ used by 4 other teams within Delta Dental organization- Led lift and shift migration of legacy Billing Management application, helping create a server-side rendered React and Express application for 8k+ billing admins- Automated deployment test suite, alerting, and monitoring in collaboration with DevOps, QA, and Business leadership by identifying key pain points in current processes- Company lead for interviewing and hiring decisions for internal Frontend and Fullstack roles Show less

Principal Associate Consultant - AAA

• Apr 2019 - Apr 2020

- Led strategic planning and architecture of UX Design and Form System used by 5 internal AAA teams, improving new products time to market by ~36% on average- Created Storybook system with code playgrounds to drive adoption for internal teams- Managed team of 5 remote developers and led agile ceremonies- Guided lift and shift process to move Quote Web Service from legacy app to a UX optimized, API driven service- Created guidelines and implemented best practices and patterns for React state management, async actions, and React Testing Library- Led creation of monorepo pattern using Lerna for package management- Supported development of automated CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins Show less

Founder, CTO

• Oct 2018 - Mar 2020

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Interim Principal Consultant

• Apr 2018 - Oct 2018

- Joined as principal consultant to bundle and sell the RadPad core software architecture - Externally contracted a 6 person software development team (iOS, Android, Ruby, React) - Planned new tech roadmap for a lead-driven business model - Led team in rebuilding payments platform - Led arch planning for external integrations - After delivering on the roadmap of tech features, RadPad was acquired by Priority Technology, an 8-figure exit, citing the payments and technology infrastructure as a main driver of the acquisition Show less

Product Engineering Lead

• Nov 2016 - Apr 2018

- Founding engineer, leading recruiting and hiring of an in-house tech team for an on-demand fashion manufacturing company - Hired 7 tech roles: 4 web developers, product manager, BI engineer, and one of the best CTOs west of the Mississippi - Managed the full-stack development team for 10 remote engineers spanning 5 time zones - Helped decompose an off-shelf Ruby monolith into API driven microservices - Pioneered a novel concept, Frontend as a Service, (FEasS) which abstracts the frontend to sit behind a thin Node facade, serving isolated React components as a microservice - Led the implementation of our main business differentiator, the dress customization experience - Helped lead a "test-first culture"-- transforming broad ideas into testable assumptions, defining how we internally built products - Drove the lifecycle of product development: from engaging UX and marketing to solidify strategy planning, creating tech requirements, managing the developer workload, and continual improvement of products Show less

UX Development Lead

• Feb 2014 - Mar 2015

- Part of an incredible team that rebuilt the marketplace to be in the top 1% of loading times amongst the web's eCommerce platforms. (★Sub 500ms DOM Content Loaded Faster than Amazon.com) - Front end Javascript optimizations to improve perceived page load times over 65% across marketplace (★Did I mention this is faster than Amazon.com?) - Managed 3 Frontend developers to grow white-labeled site catalog to over 100+ sites - Led interaction redesign of checkout flow. This and page speed optimizations increased conversions of users who have made at least one search from 1.8% to 3.5% in less than 6 months. - Set the technical direction for front end architecture - Team lead managing the process of designing, rebuilding, and testing of the Point of Sales product, an isolated SPA in Angular - Before Babel was vogue, removed jQuery and created a gracefully degrading, polyfilling, ecmascript 5 compatible architecture supporting IE9+ Show less

Freelance UX Developer

• Oct 2011 - Jun 2014

Clients were Angel Round & Series A startups in Chicago and Los Angeles. Focus was on instituting better UX practices in building web and mobile products. Took clients'​ visions for their brand's personality and architected the design/code to align with their user goals. Consulted companies primarily on these topics • Implementing UX feedback loops • User Interface composability • Front End Frameworks and Development • Email Marketing campaigns Clients were Angel Round & Series A startups in Chicago and Los Angeles. Focus was on instituting better UX practices in building web and mobile products. Took clients'​ visions for their brand's personality and architected the design/code to align with their user goals. Consulted companies primarily on these topics • Implementing UX feedback loops • User Interface composability • Front End Frameworks and Development • Email Marketing campaigns

User Interface Developer/Designer

• Jun 2012 - Sep 2013

Focused on brand engagement, web UI, mobile user experience, and gamification. Designed and coded the frontend user interface for the Sporrior web application, a lightweight platform to consistently engage people with daily fantasy sports. Prototyped the UX flows for the mobile application and user tested to gain insights using agile techniques. Focused on brand engagement, web UI, mobile user experience, and gamification. Designed and coded the frontend user interface for the Sporrior web application, a lightweight platform to consistently engage people with daily fantasy sports. Prototyped the UX flows for the mobile application and user tested to gain insights using agile techniques.