Dec 2016 – Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Nov 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Apr 2014 – Aug 2014 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked on various full stack aspects of the Ruby on Rails rewrite of the Couchsurfing web application.

Jul 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Work in Scala/Lift on the web application supporting our solar monitoring software.

Aug 2011 – Jul 2012 · 11 mos · Berkeley, CA

• Designed and developed a web application used to collect research data on question/answer pairs pulled from online data sets (such as Yahoo! Answers)
• To build the research tool I had to refractor and extend existing, but outdated code to be more efficient, more accommodating to rapid feature implementation, produce usable data output, and interface with RESTful APIs
• Designed, developed, and launched new lab website utilizing custom WordPress functionality for the content management
• Managed undergraduate team in a research group, providing technical and academic guidance

Feb 2007 – Nov 2011 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Chicago

• Dollar General – Rebuilt their public facing website on SharePoint 2007 including hardware planning, site structure design, front-end development, and launch
• McHenry County, IL – Rebuilt their public facing website on SharePoint 2007 including design pitch, custom applications, and front-end development. This project led to a strong client relationship with Risetime and $1M+ in subsequent work
• Rush University Medical Center, IL – Built site to highlight the opening of their newest building including an interactive HTML5 video based building tour with custom content management
• Performed development, design, and UX/usability advising for a variety of other clients regarding internal and public facing projects

Jun 2003 – Aug 2006 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Worked on design, development, and testing of mobile device test automation software
• Wrote scripts to automate mobile device testing and helped to direct development of the scripting language
• Developed cross-language (.NET and Java) integration between two pieces of software that eventually led to the merger of two test automation tools, eliminating a large redundancy in the mobile device testing division
• Presented work to executive leadership team

Jan 2003 – Jan 2013 · 10 yrs

• Designed, built, and launched dynamic web sites for clients in several industries
• Built custom content management systems and modified existing systems to meet specific client needs
• Performed user experience reviews and produced reports detailing ways to increase usability and user experience for business web sites