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Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer, IBM CIO

  Apr, 2020 - May, 20233 years 1 month

  Directed all aspects of DevOps architecture for a multi-framework design system with Storybook while increasing performance and efficiency through the development and launch of automated tools and cross-org systems.

  • Leader in implementing the Figma designs, a/b testing, i18n internationalization and developer processes on a
    complete rebuild of the employee portal, which combined 5 teams into 1 cross-functional collaborating team

  • Leadership role as the architect of an Innersource multi-framework design system and front end software engineering environment and tooling for the simultaneous creation of Vanilla and Vue.js components.

  • Inherited an existing, hand-released component library project and integrated version control, automated semver releases, extensive testing, and CI/CD with consistent and trustable release naming and scheduling.

• System Architect, IBM Watson Health

  Jan, 2017 - Apr, 20203 years 3 months

  Demonstrated continued success as the creator of architecture for the Watson Health Pattern & Asset Library (PAL).

  • Leadership role in the creation of Watson Health’s client-side design system for native and web applications.

  • Consolidated 3 disparate UI component libraries into 1 and standardized collaborative processes by architecting one design system which integrated UI design and inclusive user experiences for multiple teams.

• Senior Frontend Developer, IBM Watson

  Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20171 year

  Streamlined access to Watson developer documentation by creating a new open-source content management system.

  • Partnered with the design team tasked with creating a developer-centric and accessible documentation site adhering to IBM Watson AI development teams’s technical specs, reducing 8 distributed systems to 1

  • Lead architect the end-to-end completion of a full-stack open-source project, Punchcard CMS, which required backend functionality for immutable data, content versioning, and subscribe-able publishing gateways.

• Software Architect, NBC Universal

  Nov, 2006 - Dec, 20159 years 1 month

  Developed pixel-perfect HTML and CSS for customer-facing streaming applications.

  • Delivered reusable HTML/SaaS product while translating capabilities and features into in-depth documentation.

  • Created NBC’s WordPress system (NBCUPress) which included a focus on a reusable deployment system in PHP.

Projects Experience

• Profile Components

  Aug, 2023 - Present

  zero dependency native web components to present user profiles

  • Created native web components to learn web components

  • Created a set of zero dependency native web components to present user profiles from various social networks by querying the site APIs for the latest user profile

  • Styling to web standards and cross-browser compatibility using the newest browser-supported CSS functionality like nesting and container-queries

  • Architected fullstack DevOps solutions to ensure overall quality of the project including a Storybook implementation with user interface design testing and VRT (visual regression testing), CI/CD for automated deployment, releases, and testing, and auto-generated PRs for dependency updates

  • Test driven development using the native Node test runner, node:test, Guidepup for screen reader and web accessibility assurance.

• jsonresume-theme-microdata

  Apr, 2024 - Present

  A flat JSON Resume theme with schema.org microdata, compatible with the latest resume schema

• Punchcard CMS

  Jan, 2016 - Dec, 20183 years

  Headless Content Management System designed with content strategy at its heart. Built with Node.

  • Designed and developed a server-side headless, open-source content management system built with a focus on quality through content-strategy reflecting real-world use cases and a lean Postgresql/postgres backend.

  • Architected full stack system architecture for auto-generated forms, localization, role-based administration, content approval workflows with revisioning, scheduled releases, caching, and subscriptions via webhooks.

• The Chase, videogame.camp

  Jan, 2012 - Jan, 20142 years

  A high-tech game of hide and seek

  • Created a raspberry pi-based remote camera live projection system

  • Hosted multiple in-person events where the public had to look for the ghost in the crowd

• StoryDocker

  Apr, 2023 - Present

  Storybook, but as a microservice

  • Implemented Storybook as a microservice using Docker Containers released as an open-source tool (StockDocker) able to be installed with zero dependencies and which features a full testing suite enabling prototyping and testing UI and user experience via Storybook’s testing-library integrations.

  • Eliminated the need for multiple implementations of Storybook (previously one for each application development environment) by introducing the ability for Storybook to run multiple JS frameworks out-of-the-box.

Skills