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Why hire me?

If you are looking for a front-end developer who specializes in React, who can create an amazing new product from scratch, or uplift an existing one so you can deliver more new features consistently, while bringing your project into a more maintainable and developer-friendly state, then you are reading the right resume.

I am looking to join a team that wants to invest in their front-end web stack for the coming years, someone looking for a developer that can help them make the right decisions and invest in the right areas. If you are considering things like building a theme-able design system in React, creating a site (or suite of sites) leveraging the JAMstack, or making a progressive web app, I would be a great candidate for your project.

When I am not working, I spend my free time indulging in various activities, namely game development and 3D modeling, with interests in learning more about VR/AR and 3D on the web. I first began working with Unity where I learned a bit of C#, but then switched to the Unreal Engine where I mainly use C++. One of my stranger projects was building a UI for a GTA5 mod leveraging CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) which allowed me to create it in a full modern frontend architecture, which included being able to use React and Tailwind to create the inventory, health bar, etc.

Experience:

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ThinkReservations Front-End Developer | Oct 2020 - Oct 2022

Working at ThinkReservations as a Front-end developer has been a new challenge. The reason for this is the small size of the company, which has required me to put on many different hats. I have been working primarily on the main product, but as the only current Front-End Developer at the company, aside from the CEO, I have also helped on the Marketing sites where I introduced Tailwind to simplify our styling solution while modernizing the overall look of the site. I also dug into our legacy Rails apps where I brushed up on my ERB skills when the situation called for it.

AspireIQ Front-End Developer | Aug 2019 - Sept 2020

After initially working with AspireIQ as a consultant and re-building their marketing sites, I joined as a full-time employee on the product team. There I worked on one of the most mission-critical parts of the company, the post-campaign analytics dashboard. In this project, I built a variety of sub-pages that offered different views into the performance of posts. This ranged from a variety of graphs (which offer side by side comparison to different sets of filters) to a table view, or a view of each post with metrics attached. I also introduced Storybook as well as Jest and the React Testing Library for front-end testing which was previously not done at all.

Consulting JavaScript Development | Since 2015 - Current

Over the years I have completed a wide range of freelance projects. I have had the ability to work with some really awesome clients like AspireIQ, Level Up Tutorials and CBS. At times this has been my full time source of income, at other times consulting has been a side project or put on pause. I have done this on and off since first learning how to program.

Lately I have been very focused on JAMstack development for my consulting.

Thinkful Full Stack Mentor | Jan, 2018 - March, 2019

As a Thinkful mentor, I met with students weekly and coached them through the program to ensure their success. During these one-on-one video calls, I assisted the students with a variety of things, from jumping into their code and squashing bugs, to reviewing their resume, all the way to dealing with imposter syndrome. It is my job to make sure they become the most qualified candidates they can be by the time they graduate. This role was very exciting because it forced me to stay on my A-game and allowed me the opportunity to meet new developers who I am still in contact with to this day and continue to mentor. During my time there, I was able to learn several topics in great depth by explaining them to dozens of people every week.

Technologies Taught:

  • HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Node
  • Express
American Express Front End Engineer | Feb, 2018 - Aug, 2018

I was hired to replace the sole front-end developer on the Architecture team, one of my first decisions was to remove a very uncommon react boilerplate in favor of NextJS, a decision I think benefited the project long after I left. As part of the Architecture team, I was tasked with creating the front-end of Central, an application for measuring the effectiveness of all of Amex’s programming teams. In addition it was responsible for tracking the flow of data through all of Amex’s applications. For this, I introduced the visx library (D3 primitives as react components) and used it to build various interactive data visualizations that directors could use to get the full picture. In this role, I also helped expand the frontend team by interviewing prospects and training a new hire.

Our team was one of the first at the company to be using React JS, and we were the first to introduce GraphQL at American Express. Because of this, I had the opportunity to train other teams on its use. All of this was done in an incredibly short span of 7 months.

Uhaul SDET | Oct, 2015 - Dec, 2017

I started at U-Haul as a manual tester in Quality Assurance, and by the time I had left I was a Software Development Engineer in Testing. When I first started there they had no test automation, and I was only just a few months into teaching myself how to program. So I decided to start wrapping our applications in test harnesses using Ruby, and a few months later I had a team of people I was training and partially project managing. As the team grew I was able to work on more ambitious things, and I implemented a dashboard for test running and monitoring the results. Historical data could be compared using data visualizations built in D3 and eventually visx using React. The dashboard also integrated with Slack, sending messages to the user when their test completed. After that, I decided I wanted to continue building interfaces using React, and because of this I knew I would have to leave U-Haul as all our applications outside of the one I built for testing were in C# and Angular apps.

I have also hosted the JAMstack Phoenix meetup since the beginning of 2019 (Currently on hiatus because of COVID-19), spoken as a guest at other meetups on a variety of topics from JavaScript to Freelancing to Finding Clients. Additionally, I have contributed to a handful of open-source projects mostly around the Gatsby Ecosystem.

Shortlist of technologies I am proficient with:

  • JavaScript
  • GraphQL
  • JWT

  • React
  • Jest
  • Tailwind

  • NextJS
  • Theme-UI
  • Ramda/Lodash

  • GatsbyJS
  • visx/Victory
  • Node