Jan 2025 – Jun 2025 · 5 mos · Remote

• Decreased feature delivery times by 40% and improved team health by establishing and leading the adoption of Agile best practices, including strict Definitions of Ready and story decomposition techniques.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner and Scrum master to ensure story requirements were clear, actionable, and testable prior to backlog refinement sessions.
• Maintained effective and collaborative relationships with Tech Leadership from other teams to facilitate knowledge transfer sessions and swift clarification and resolution of dependencies or issues between teams. These relationships improved my overall product knowledge, which I could then filter based on relevancy, urgency, or impact and subsequently share with the developers. This also served to shield developers from unnecessary meetings or distractions.
• Mentored developers around challenges, code quality and other technical excellence standards and expectations, and discussed opportunities for improvement. I also shared my knowledge and decades long professional experience in software development to help guide their own professional growth as well.
• Contributed to Community of Practice projects to advance engineering organization-wide goals in technical excellence and collaboration.

Mar 2024 – Jan 2025 · 10 mos · Remote

• Built and maintained accessible, responsive UI components for a SaaS application used by power grid operators to view and simulate real-time data.
• Utilized a modern tech stack, including Node.js, Vite, TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, and Material UI, while following Web application development best practices, such as component composition and SOLID principles, to build a performant, scalable and elegant frontend application.
• Wrote detailed and effective component unit tests using Vitest, React Testing Library, and Playwright for functional testing.
• Facilitated design validation and developer adoption and ease-of-use through comprehensive Storybook documentation.
• Used knowledge of the various cloud providers, such as Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS, to architect a cloud provider agnostic pipeline for deployment of the Web application infrastructure in the customer’s own cloud environment.

Jun 2023 – Mar 2024 · 9 mos · Remote

• Spearheaded a three-person development team to build a unified platform that enabled seamless, multi-cloud resource provisioning (AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud) through a single web interface.
• Orchestrated all scrum ceremonies (standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning) and utilized key metrics to track and improve team velocity against project goals.
• Collaborated directly with stakeholders to translate business needs into detailed technical requirements, actionable Jira tickets, and a strategically prioritized product backlog.
• Mentored junior developers on frontend best practices (HTML, CSS, React), elevating the team's skills to produce a more performant and user-friendly application.
• Drove significant improvements to the codebase and developer workflow by enhancing accessibility, automating repetitive tasks, and implementing modern tooling (ESLint, TypeScript, Playwright) used to ensure code quality.

Jan 2023 – Jul 2023 · 6 mos · Remote

• Sole engineer embedded in the Design/UX Research organization, responsible for building a Web application that enabled designers and UI/UX researchers to embed prototypes created in various tools such as Proto.io and Figma, and capture user interactions for analysis.
• Designed and built a highly scalable, full stack Web application, with accompanying backend services, using VS Code Dev Containers for consistent development environments, PNPM for mono-repository workspace tooling, Turborepo for task orchestration, Docker Compose for local development, Vite/React/Styled Components on the frontend, Express/Prisma/GraphQL on the backend, and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Utilized deep understanding of foundational Web technologies such as the HTTP protocol, iframes, cookies and nginx reverse proxies, to extend the functionality of the prototyping tools and implement a novel solution that went far above and beyond the expectations of the product team.
• Eliminated the need for two full-time roles by designing and automating the prototype import and processing workflow, freeing team members to focus on higher-value tasks.
• Used a JavaScript/Node.js stack to build new features and functionality as well as fix longstanding bugs and UX issues in the software used for the in-dash entertainment system.

Apr 2022 – Jan 2023 · 9 mos · United States · Remote

• Engineered and maintained core Data APIs and web services using Node.js to deliver real-time game data and player statistics for NBA.com and televised broadcasts.
• Implemented a new GraphQL API service to replace the existing legacy REST API services, which reduced the number of requests required to retrieve data and improved request latency and performance by up to 80%.
• Created a GraphQL API client library used by frontend teams for simple, type-safe consumption of data from Core Data API Web services.
• Responsible for enhancement and maintenance of Web services used by the NBA League Pass streaming service for the delivery of real-time video and statistics.

Aug 2018 – Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos · On-site

• Frontend engineer using JavaScript/TypeScript and React.js to build Machine Learning-driven chat application on the Twilio platform used by the “Nike Experts on Demand” team to support and engage high-value customers while adhering to usability and accessibility best practices.
• Leveraged "CSS-in-JS" libraries such as styled-components to construct responsive, pixel-perfect UI components from Figma designs provided by design. Used extensive knowledge of CSS to achieve smooth, high-quality UX and animations.
• Collaborated with backend and mobile teams to design efficient, scalable solutions, define API contracts, and prioritize sprint work.
• Authored unit tests using Mocha/Chai, component rendering assertions using Jest and react-testing-library, and functional tests with Cypress.
• Maintained highly-effective relationships with the Product Owner and larger business organization to refine and prioritize stories in the product backlog, resolve design anomalies or external dependencies, and validate business hypotheses via A/B experiments.

May 2015 – Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos · On-site

• Led a team of three engineers on a project to redesign and migrate the Nike customer support sites off the Oracle CX Customer Portal platform to a single AWS cloud-hosted Web application written in JavaScript and React.
• Directed the complex migration of 48 legacy PHP codebases from a manual, untested environment to a modern Node.js mono repo with full source control and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborated closely with the Product Owner to create and refine stories in the product backlog, ensured tech debt was captured and prioritized, managed inter-team dependencies, and mentored junior engineers.
• Successfully converted and unified “Get Help” customer service and support sites into a single Git repository with 70% code coverage, localization, and internationalization built-in, and deployment pipelines that saved hundreds of developer hours.
• Architected and implemented scalable data warehousing solutions using Snowflake, consolidating multiple data sources and optimizing query performance for real-time analytics.

Apr 2011 – May 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bozeman, MT · Hybrid

• Architected and built Oracle Service Cloud CRM solutions according to requirements provided by the sales team, for the purpose of product demonstrations.
• Utilized the Oracle Service Cloud platform to deliver complete, end-to-end CRM solutions to demonstrate core product functionality, such as customer support sites, knowledge management, incident management, custom workspaces and workflows, business rules, custom business objects, and more.
• Used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP/CodeIgniter to construct Oracle Service Cloud Customer Portal sites that were tailored specifically for each prospective sales lead, by wrapping a custom themed Customer Portal application with a pixel perfect copy of their respective website.

Nov 2010 – Jan 2011 · 2 mos

• Windows/Linux network administration for small business owners in Great Falls, MT and surrounding areas
• Employee account management via Active Directory
• Troubleshooting and resolution of network, security or other issues reported by by clients users

Jan 2006 – Jul 2009 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• At N.E.W.I assisted customers with any hardware or software issue they were experiencing utilizing various technologies, including remote desktop software, Oracle, and Avaya phone systems. I effectively trained new and existing employees for new clients and technologies. As well, I handled escalated customer issues using professional communication techniques to ensure a quality

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr

• As a Web developer for Advanced IT Services, I designed, developed, and maintained web sites for financial institutions using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET and MS SQL. As well, Windows Server 2003 based HTTP, SQL, email, and login servers were maintained for performance and security.