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

Professional Experience (Cont)

porchfest.info UX Designer / Fullstack Engineer 04/2014 - Present
AOL / Millennial Media Senior UI Engineer 03/2014 - 11/2016
ThruPoint / Café X UI Engineer 02/2013 - 02/2014
alleyoop.com @ Pearson UI Engineer 04/2010 - 01/2013

Additional Experience

JP Honk & BABAM Musician and Co-Leader 05/2013 - Present
Alien Bill Productions Programmer 03/2004 - Present