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Work Experience

• Senior Full-stack Engineer, Consultant, 

  Feb, 2018 - Present

  Help clients, big and a small achieve their goals in the most efficient way possible. Apply my experience through collaboration and shared learning.

  • Promoter of functional programming. Trained several teams to use Ramda/Lodash fp

  • Manage numerous small teams in a player/coach capacity

  • Built out a greenfield UX for a piece of proprietary hardware from conception to customer delivery

  • Implemented SSR using NextJs to provide a fast, SEO friendly user experience

  • Drove patterns and best practices at each client

  • Leveraged pairing as a tool to level up fellow developers

  • Shared strong opinions while being receptive to change

  • Enforced WCAG / ADA compliance as table stakes

  • Acted as a catalyst to positive change on every project

  • 🤓 React, Node, GraphQL, NextJs, Razzle, Material UI, ExpressJs, Postgres, Docker, Ramda, Typescript

• Mentor, 

  Dec, 2020 - Present

  Prepare bootcamp students for their first jobs in a software engineering career

  • Advised student cohort during capstone project

  • Provided feedback and instruction through pairing

  • Perform code reviews

  • 🤓 React, Javascript, Html

• Co-Founder / CTO / Lead Developer, 

  Jun, 2017 - Present

  Built a modern event managment system to streamline volunteer placement that is actively used by several pro sports venues including FirstEnergy Stadium, Paul Brown Stadium, and Quicken Loans Arena

  • Mastered React as a static frontend with a GraphQL backend

  • From UI to DB. Implemented entire AWS stack solution hosting an enterprise level application

  • Harnessed the opportunity to leverage all the automation and code quality tools of my choosing

  • Static React/Apollo driven frontend hosted via CloudFront cdn

  • Learned and implemented GraphQL queries, mutations and deployed on AWS ECS

  • Docker all the things. Local dev, dev env, and prod all leverage the same docker containers

  • Implemented entire CI/CD pipeline with blue/green deployments

  • 🤓 React, Node, GraphQL, AWS, CircleCi, Docker, Auth0

• Full-stack Engineer / Remote worker, 

  Jan, 2017 - Oct, 20162 months

  Worked with seed investor to convert an original idea into a functioning online application

  • Lead a small, but extremely competent team to wrangle product ideas into real requirements

  • Learned how to best communicate with the product team to manage expectations

  • 🤓 React, Node, MeteorJs, ExpressJs, Postgres

• Full-stack Developer / Team Lead, 

  Apr, 2016 - Oct, 20166 months

  Responsible for a contractor team, leading the development of multiple React / NodeJs driven applications and services.

  • Helped bring existing ecommerce site into WCAG / ADA compliance

  • Worked directly with Under Armour development teams on their ecommerce site, underarmour.com

  • Successfully managed a team across multiple timezones

  • Contributed to a vast Javascript ecosystem and actively deployed changes to production through CI/CD pipepline

  • In addition to task work, also performed code reviews and assisted team with architecture decisions

  • Implemented Slack bots to automate status and pull request reports

  • Contributed to Apple Pay integration project

  • Gained familiarity with React patterns and practices on an already very familiar understanding of client/server js

  • Fully committed to remote work and the communication surrounding that environment

  • 🤓 React, Node, GraphQL

• UX Architect & Javascript Player-Coach, 

  Oct, 2010 - Apr, 20165 years 6 months

  Responsible for several micro teams, leading the development of multiple Angular / NodeJs driven applications.

  • Strong background in Javascript using the following frameworks AngularJs, NodeJs, ExpressJs, Bootstrap

  • Implemented the conversion of legacy applications to Angular driven SPA

  • Conducted several Angular and NodeJs bootcamps for junior developers. Prefer to show others how rather than telling them to figure it out.

  • Provided boilerplate Node.Js project that stood as the foundation for all new development

  • Introduced html and css precompilers to improve both quality and remove bloat

  • Wrapped development build process and deploys into a pretty little bow with Grunt/Gulp

  • Responsible for rapid proof of concept and prototyping of mocks for Product evaluation

  • DRY code evangelist

  • Directed a geographically dispersed team of web developers

  • Advocate micro service architecture. Do one thing simply and efficiently

  • Participate in upfront design meetings: brainstorming, gathering requirements, white-boarding

  • Interface with graphic designers and developers to streamline work and ensure delivery of design vision

  • Establish design and usability patterns for team

  • Address usability concerns early on in SDLC

  • Led the charge (and won the war) for the strict support of evergreen browsers only

  • Successfully delivered 3 core application redesigns with micro teams and equivalently small timelines

  • 🤓 Angular, AngularJs, NodeJs, ExpressJs, Twitter Bootstrap, Postgres

• Software Engineer I-III, 

  Sep, 2008 - Oct, 20102 years 1 month

  C#, ASP.Net web developer driving UI refresh of fordparts.com

  • Manage proxy between services and front end

  • Provide asynchronous means of data refreshing

  • Core contributor to fordparts.com

  • Implemented several third party jQuery plugins to achieve a modern interface

  • 🤓 C#, ASP.NET, MSSQL, Rest APIs, JQuery

• Database Developer, 

  Jul, 2006 - Sep, 20082 years 2 months

  Database development including scripting, stored procedure generation, data structure creation and optimization.

  • Optimizing/creating the CRUD procedures for service developers

  • Providing a tsql style guide and enforced the use of it

  • Introduced patterns and practices that saved DBAs time and effort during deployments

  • 🤓 MSSQL, Team Foundation Server

• Entry Level Developer, 

  Sep, 2004 - Jul, 20061 year 10 months

  Small insurance consulting company DBA and WinForms developer.

  • Responsible for audit platform that lead to the company being purchased by Xerox in 2006

  • Data-mined and queried large data sets to find financial loss patterns

  • Coupled database work with a WinForm application to visually display points of interest

  • Integrated SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services)

  • 🤓 VB.Net, MSSQL

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