Overview
- Self-motivated UI Software Engineer with 10+ years’ experience designing and building compelling user interface features utilized by multiple Fortune 500 companies
- Clever creator with superior UI/UX design and building skills uses industry standard frameworks and languages to expand capabilities of enterprise software
- Curious problem solver resolves issues and thrives in a data-driven culture while constantly iterating to successfully improve customer responses
- Skilled designer is often selected to take on high-profile and complex projects utilizing core search UX design principles and creating front-page projects
- Clear communicator works well on large and small teams, collaborating with stakeholders and peers to design and implement rich, intuitive, UIs
Professional Experience
Harmonia
UI Engineer
01/2024 - Present
- UI lead of Harmonia Innovation Lab, a small R+D team conducting research and creating prototypes to help land government contracts, with a special focus on AI analysis of real-time streaming GIS data.
- Constantly add new features and capabilities to kepler.gl, a Redux/React-based GIS analystics system.
Monster / Randstad
Senior UI Engineer
05/2020 - 07/2023
- Co-designed and developed Style Forge design-system-to-dev pipeline across brands allowing precise export of CSS data from Figma into new React/TypeScript component library
- Created intuitive functional demonstration prototypes, added 15+ reusable components to library, and generated three proof sites in Node/Next.js
- Built series of landing pages in React/TypeScript and improved core search functionality and Google Analytics tracking for Monster worldwide site serving 7 million unique visitors monthly, developing novel i18n/branding solution.
- Independently developed platform agnostic “classifieds widget” developing robust and responsive CSS; widget was immediately adopted across three major newspaper affiliates
CarGurus
Senior UI Engineer
12/2016 - 04/2020
- Collaborated on new React-based search and filtering features, adding new search to website homepage increasing lead volume by 5-10% and consistently exceeded team goals through compelling UI improvements
- Developed in React/Redux while maintaining legacy Freemarker UI on core listings and international expansion teams on site averaging over 37 million monthly visitors. Oversaw pushes to datacenter fleet of 40+ servers.
- Spearheaded a11y improvements across entire site. Slashed AXE/Wave errors by 100% and warnings by 95%; reduced legal liability
- Designed coursework and delivered instruction in Processing/P5 to colleagues