About

Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer, 

  May, 2022 - Present

  As a top performer at Vivun, I helped lead the Demo Automation team. We took this product from zero to one and added the third product to Vivun's offerings. I was the primary architect and developer of the capture extension and core contributor to the web application. As the team grew, so did my responsibilities, and I helped to interview and hire 3 new team members to accelerate our timeline.

  • Architected and implemented the capture extension for Vivun's Demo Automation product

  • Interviewed and hired new team members to accelerate our development timeline

  • Member of Architecture Council and Security Champions where we worked cross-teams to solve organization level problems

  • Received both High Performance Grant and Top Performer awards in 2022

  • Winner of the inaugural Vivun Security Capture the Flag competition in 2022

• Senior Front-end Developer, 

  Jan, 2021 - Mar, 20221 year 2 months

  I contracted with IBM via Thirteen23 and Guidea to work as part of IBM's PAL team building a component library used by various teams within IBM to build customer-facing applications.

  • Wrote and maintained a react component library based on IBM's carbon design system

  • Worked on integrating these components into IBM's Graphite application framework part of the Maximo application suite

  • Helped maintain build processes, testing, visual regression testing, and deployment of these applications using various technologies such as Docker, Github Actions, Jest, and Cypress

• Owner, 

  Apr, 2020 - Present

  I lost my position at C3 Presents due to COVID-19 and immediately started freelancing again. During this time, I've taken various projects including: a simple live-stream event websites written in React, a native application for a coffee shop to allow online ordering and pickup written in React Native, a React component library used to build customer-facing applications, a WordPress plugin for using GravityForms to record audio answers to questions, and much more.

  • Helped implement an update to a branding/marketing company's public website

  • Wrote a React Native app for a coffee shop to take orders for pickup and delivery

  • Developed a GravityForms plugin for WordPress to allow a user to record an audio or video reply to a form question

  • Consulted with various agencies to help them choose the best technologies and platforms for their clients

  • Wrote and maintained components for a React component library used by IBM to build customer-facing applications

• Technical Lead, 

  Nov, 2017 - Apr, 20202 years 5 months

  I leaped at an opportunity to work on mobile apps when the business decided to bring mobile app development in house and apply a similar white label pattern that had proven successful for websites. I architected and built a content management system (CMS) in React and the mobile apps in React Native. The server architecture of the mobile app was also built on AWS. Using Lambda, Cognito, AppSync, DynamoDB, S3, and CloudFront, I built a highly scalable, serverless architecture to handle the application load. This effort was hugely successful as C3 quickly scaled the system to support approximately 40 apps with 900,000 active users.

  • Architected and implemented a white-label React Native app for use at music festivals

  • Lead a team of contracted developers to define direction, maintain code quality, and set expectations

  • React, React Native, Apollo, Redux

  • TypeScript, Java, Objective-C

• DevOps Engineer and Systems Administrator, 

  Apr, 2015 - Nov, 20172 years 7 months

  After finishing development on the WordPress platform, I pivoted to DevOps and Systems Administration. I worked entirely within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem to move C3’s hosting from a single large RackSpace server to a scalable, distributed system using CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, EC2, RDS, and ELB. Eventually, C3 hosted approximately 40 websites on this architecture capable of handling spiked server loads from hundreds of thousands of users per minute and serving a total 32.7 million users in 2019.

  • Implemented a scalable AWS server infrastructure for running the WordPress platform capable of handling hundreds of thousands of users per minute

  • Managed local developer tooling by creating a Vagrant instance matching our production EC2 servers

  • Taught junior developers how to develop new websites using the custom WordPress platform

  • Amazon AWS EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, ElastiCache (Memcached), CloudFormation

• Full Stack Web Developer, 

  Aug, 2012 - Apr, 20152 years 8 months

  During the first phase of my time at C3 Presents, I built a custom white label WordPress platform that enabled the marketing department to easily manage festival data and scale to support dozens of festivals. This platform was integrated with multiple third party services including Shopify, MailChimp, and Spotify. It also contained many custom components and features to fit the festival business. It was crucial to make all of the data easily administrable so that a small number of marketers could manage the content for many festivals.

  • Architected and implemented a white-label WordPress platform for festival domain-specific data

  • Recorded walk-through videos detailing how to use the various features of the platform

  • Development of various custom WordPress themes from designs provided in Illustrator or Photoshop

  • PHP, WordPress

  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript

  • Photoshop

  • Illustrator

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