Apr 2023 – Jan 2024 · 9 mos

• With a cross-functional team, helped a build a suite health care related web apps, including Patient Portal, Provider Portal, and a shared component library. My responsibilities included:
• Rapid Greenfield Application Development: Contributed to the development of a suite of WCAG AA-compliant women’s health AI applications, building core front end infrastructure and features across a patient portal, provider portal, and shared UI component library
• Feature Architecture and Development: Served as technical lead of key patient and provider facing features, including a scheduling system integrating Cronofy and Google Calendar, a secure sign up flow with Auth0 and OAuth, and a HIPAA, PHI, and FHIR-compliant login flow.
• Improved Onboarding and Team Efficiency: Authored documentation on onboarding, trouble shooting, repository coding standards, testing standards, and internal tools to support current and future developers
• We used: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Mantine, GraphQL, Apollo, NextJs, Auth0, Cronofy, Jest, React Testing Library, GitHub, HIPAA, PHI, FHIR, ICD-10, CCD/C-CDA, a11y, WCAG, cross functional collaboration, code reviews, testing frameworks/test automation, responsive design, performance optimization, CI/CD pipelines, design systems, reusable components, state management, product mindset, product ownership, monitoring and observability tools

Oct 2021 – Jul 2022 · 9 mos

• With a team, rebuilt an complex legacy feature in React, Typescript and xstate
• Modernization of Complex Legacy Feature: Rebuilt a complex legacy query builder feature in React, Typescript, and Xstate. This feature enabled users to create advanced analytics queries and view results in intuitive visual charts and reports
• Enhanced the Shared Component Library: Contributed to the shared UI component library by adding reusable components including multiselect, file upload, and inline label input components; expanded Storybook documentation to improve developer adoption and usability
• Strengthened Organization Efficiency: Improved developer experience by enhancing onboarding, testing, and legacy system documentation, spearheading process changes to accommodate teammates with disabilities, and initiating team-wide workflow enhancements.
• React, Typescript, Xstate, Jest, React Testing Library, GitHub

Jan 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Denver, Colorado, United States

• Led Feature Development: collaborated with product, design, and back end engineers to architect and develop new features for the Managed Projects organization, including A/B testing and end to end testing. Managed Projects allowed customers to book home improvement projects (such as new fences or new roofs). Features include a map box integration that allowed users to calculate needed measurements (such as the length of a fence or square footage of a new asphalt driveway) by marking boundaries on satellite maps of their properties, and pay-over-time via Affirm integrations
• Directed Large-Scale Application Refactor: Initiated and led a comprehensive rewrite of the Managed Projects app in order to eliminate conflicting components and improve maintainability across teams. Conducted in-depth code audits, collaborated across teams to set coding standards, created a 3-month structured roadmap, and led implementation across teams.
• Led Cross-Team Organization: Founded and led the bi-weekly “Managed Projects Front End Guild” to connect front end engineers across 5 teams, enabling shared architecture decisions, improved communication, and codebase consistency
• Documentation and Engineer Resources Development: Authored 90% of documentation for a project spanning 5 teams, including onboarding, troubleshooting, coding standards, and testing standards.
• We use: Vue, Vuex, Tailwind, Jest, Pugmail, Cypress.io, JIRA, MapBox, A/B Testing, Email HTML, Trello, Figma, Gitlab, cross functional collaboration, code reviews, testing frameworks/test automation, user experience, component-based architecture, frontend architecture, mentoring, technical leadership

Dec 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Denver Area

• Lead designer and developer building an app for internal clients to run tests for routers.
• Fully Owned Web Application and API Development: Built UTAP (Universal Test Automation Platform) application, an internal app for running tests suites on hardware, including scheduling tests, viewing pending tests, and displaying individual and aggregate reports of test results.
• Managed Product Roadmap: Collaborated with stakeholders to define features and align priorities, translated feature requests into clear, actionable tickets, and provided meaningful estimates
• Spearheaded UX Redesign: Redesigned the application to be accessible and user friendly, from a set of three pages (a form to start a test and two 15-column tables for pending and completed tests), to distinct, intuitive, visually engaging user flows and charts to visualize result data
• Improved Team Efficiency and Code Quality: Implemented coding standards, authored onboarding and troubleshooting documentation, set up code quality enforcement with ESLint and Prettier, and implemented unit tests using Jest
• Improved Team Cohesion, Collaboration and Culture - initiated regular team retrospectives and organized team building activities, mentored junior developers
• Vue.js, Vuex, Axios, Node.js, Chart.js, Swagger, MongoDB, Jest, Vue-Test-Utils, Mongoose, cross functional collaboration, code reviews, testing frameworks/test automation, user experience, mentoring

Jun 2018 – Sep 2018 · 3 mos · Greater Denver Area

• With a team, built a large-scale single page React application in an Agile work environment
• White Label SPA Development: Collaborated on the development of a white-labeled insurance management SPA in React, featuring localization, internationalization, comprehensive testing, and customizable branding for deployment across multiple clients
• Expanded Shared UI Component Library: Built 5 UI components for shared component library used across multiple applications, including Error and Success modals, an Upload File component, an Edit/Publish/Save fixed footer, and a tooltips component
• React, Redux, React-Intl, Jest/Enzyme, Sass, i18n, GitLab, Sass

Jul 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Worked on the front end to build an online content management application. It allows users to gather data on social media posts about specific keywords, send email blasts, post to social media, create loyalty campaigns to track user engagements, and more.
• When this app was finished, I helped fix bugs, add features, and keep the CMS running smoothly. This included creating and managing APIs, managing tables in HANA and AWS, and updating three private NPM modules. Additionally, I helped manage offshore developers, creating and prioritizing tasks, reviewing pull requests, and creating wireframes for a feature re-design.
• Modernized Phizzle App: Rebuilt Phizzle Legacy application with Node.JS, Express, JQuery, and Jade. This application allowed sports teams and celebrities to manage fans on social media: gather sentiment and demographics from post keywords; create loyalty campaigns; and send email blasts
• Maintained Private NPM packages and APIs: Maintained internal package libraries that provided validation and formatting layers between APIs and third party services to reduce cognitive load and enforce consistent practices
• Managed Off-shore Engineers: prioritized tasks, managed sprint goals, and ran code reviews to support contract engineers
• HTML5, CSS3, Jade, JQuery, Javascript, Node.js, Express, AJAX, Chart.js, HANA, AWS, Node.js, Express, DynamoDB, Twitter APIs, JIRA, Code Reviews, Scalability

Nov 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 6 mos

• Website and Application Design and Development: Cross-functional collaboration with clients to deliver custom applications and websites across diverse platforms and technologies, including a Drupal site for a university chemistry department, a jQuery site for a meditation non-profit, an Angular survey app for car dealerships, a mobile React Native app for walking tours, and a full-stack event management app using React, React Native, Node, Express, MongoDB, OpenAI, Amazon SES, and S3
• Custom Features and Bug Fixes: Deliver client requested bug fixes and user experience enhancements to existing sites, including sites built with Angular and React, with diverse clients across health, wellness, finance, and nonprofit sectors.
• Accessibility Training and Advocacy: Created a free Chrome extension to support web users with visual impairments, publish ongoing educational resources to train developers on accessibility best practices, and offer consultations for small businesses and founders to ensure accessibility WCAG/a11y compliance
• Projects include:
• Chrome extension leveraging VertexAI to generate image descriptions alt tags so vision impaired users can still access image-based content on non-WCAG compliant websites
• Event management application for local meditation teacher, including email services and member management
• Feedback survey app for automotive client
• Email newsletters
• React, Vue.js, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, AWS, Grunt, Sass, Node.js, Express, Wordpress, GitLab, S3, Amazon SES, OpenAI, MongoDB, Email HTML

Aug 2015 – Nov 2015 · 3 mos

• A ten week immersive web development training that focuses on building complex web applications using HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, Javascript, AngularJS, and Ajax on the front end with NodeJS, Express, and MongoDB on the backend. On average, we built 3-4 simple or 1-2 complex web applications per week.
• Projects included:
• Online restaurant menu and ordering platform
• Meditation habit-building application with timer, log, and calendar to plan sessions
• Online video chatting platform utilizing OpenTok and Google OAuth
• Web translation and quiz application utilizing Google Translate API
• Online form and job application database
• Interactive quote library

Oct 2014 – Aug 2015 · 10 mos · Denver, CO

• I primarily work with financial professionals, providing a media query service that results in 3-8 queries per week and, on average, one earned media story per month, including such outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, LeanVest, Yahoo Finance, and the Chicago Tribune.

Oct 2013 – Sep 2014 · 11 mos · Greater Denver Area

• Agency 33 is a Denver-based boutique firm specializing in public relations and investor relations. Our areas of expertise include Green Tech/Clean Energy and Professional Services.
• As a junior public relations strategist, my responsibilities included:
• In the Public Relations sector:
• Researching and making contacts with journalists interested in our client companies' specialties
• Brainstorming newsworthy opportunities that apply to our client companies
• Writing pitches based on those ideas, and sending them to potentially interested journalists
• Following up with journalists, solidifying current or future interest
• Coordinating interview or television coverage availability between reporters and clients
• Researching and following up with German bloggers
• Blogging on behalf of Agency 33, 1-2 blog posts per month
• In the Investor Relations sector:
• Researching and creating databases of Venture Capital firms
• Writing compelling pitches of our startup clients for distribution
• Follow-up with Venture contacts to establish interest
• Coordinating meetings between clients and Venture firm contacts
• Some of my accomplishments include:
• Spearheading a Facebook photo contest for a client, netting a 100% increase in 'Likes' for the clients page - resulting in a doubled audience moving forward
• Taking charge of an account for a financial planner, achieving 14 stories over a nine month period, including a feature in the Wall Street Journal and quotes in the Chicago Tribune and Forbes.com

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Greater Denver Area

• Peak Incorporated is a third-party direct sales company that works with Fortune 500 companies to drive revenue, acquire customers, and improve company-customer relationships.
• As an account executive, I worked in direct sales. I went door-to-door in residential areas to recruit new customers and strengthen existing customer relationships.
• Set office record for fastest earned promotion
• Periodically made highest sales as new employee in office with 40+ employees

Nov 2011 – Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Bangflashbam Art and Accessories was founded for one simple reason: founder Danielle Ford wanted a wallet with the sleek elegance of a cigarette case, but the added organization of credit card and ID holders, and they simply did not exist. After hours of Google research, a few failed attempts, and a few years of compliments from passers-by admiring her creation, she went into business selling them online.
• Bangflashbam is a small operation, and as its operator, I am in charge of everything: finding cost-effective suppliers, creating products, logo and graphic design, branding products, advertising and marketing, website maintenance, and customer service.
• Design and create innovative cigarette case wallet and artistic mosaics
• Design and maintain logos, graphic design, web design, company Facebook page, and product branding
• Initiated more visible branding and advertising, driving traffic volume by 200% and increasing sales by >35%
• Increased profit margin by 250% via pricing actions and more efficient supply sourcing
• Manage Etsy advertising, Google Adwords PPC Campaigns, and Facebook advertising

Sep 2011 – Dec 2011 · 3 mos · Columbus, Ohio Area

• Intersectionality: New Approaches to Theorizing Difference was a 500-level course offered by the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University. The focus is on building an understanding of the interrelated nature of various axes of social classification as a useful rubric for theorizing difference. Topics of the course included Critical Race Theory, Sovereignty Studies, Whiteness Studies, Critical Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Disability Studies.
• These topics were deep, interdisciplinary, and complex. This course required students to explore paradigms that were at best unfamiliar, and at worst hostile to their own personal paradigms coming in. It was, predictably, very challenging material.
• As a teaching intern, I worked with the course professor, Maurice Stevens, to develop curriculum and consider the most productive and accessible ways to present the material to students. Additionally, I functioned as a second source of support in the classroom - someone who could provide non-judging attention, encouragement, and answers while the professor was helping others.

Jul 2011 – Mar 2012 · 8 mos · Office of International Affairs at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio

• The Middle East Studies Center (MESC) is a US Department of Education Undergraduate Title VI National Resource Center. The mission of the Center is to foster and generate knowledge of the Middle East, its past and current economic, social and political developments, and to promote teaching, learning, research and public awareness of the diverse array of Middle Eastern languages, cultures, and peoples.
• As an office intern, my job was to provide support for ongoing projects within. As a media consultant, I took footage from MESC-sponsored teaching workshops and created short instructional teaching videos. These videos are offered freely by the center to teachers and educators in the state of Ohio.
• Re-organized media lending library with over 1000 items, creating more accessible and efficient system
• Digitized 300+ resources to provide greater access to outside educators
• Researched and outlined community outreach speaking events on the Arab Spring Revolutions
• Database Entry – input thousands (7000+) of pieces of information to evaluate an in-development online database product; heavy use of Google Docs
• Created over twenty individual instructional videos from footage from sponsored workshops to be provided as free tools for instructors

Jan 2010 – Nov 2010 · 10 mos

• The Sentinel was Ohio State's on-campus based satirical newspaper. Loosely inspired by The Onion, The Sentinel covered local, national, and buckeye-related stories...with a humorous twist.
• I worked as a co-editor for the campus life section, as well as a contributing writer.
• Brainstormed featured stories and recurring content in Campus Life section
• Organized story selection for Campus Life section
• Copy edited submitted stories for all sections
• Wrote contributing stories on world politics and campus life

Jan 2010 – Mar 2010 · 2 mos

• Mondokio International News is an educational website that focuses on offering worldwide perspectives: they select topics and provide translations of articles on these topics from outlets all over the world. A student interested in Iraqi elections can read coverage from the US, France, Iran, Japan, etc.
• More than just translating, I also researched leading news outlets in Germany, selected the most robust articles, and translated them into English to be published online.
• I researched and presented on the most influential news sources within Germany.
• I evaluated and selected compelling editorials on stories of international interest.
• I translated selected editorials from German into English, which were then published online at Mondokio International News.
• Translated over twenty published articles in two month period.

Jul 2007 – Jul 2008 · 1 yr · Öhringen, Germany

• From September 2007-July 2008, I and 49 other students selected for the prestigious Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship studied abroad in Germany. Poor coordination in the responsible organization often left students confused and unprepared.
• As a result, I began proactively gathering information from the organizations we were involved with, organizing student communications, and otherwise making sure we had the information we needed. By the end of the year, organization officials were calling me directly over working with other members of their organization to get resources to students in the program.
• I organized a social media group before the program began to provide connections and resources among students
• I gathered and distributed information to students, researched and answered student questions, on topics including required seminar locations and dates, how to acquire and get reimbursed for travel to and from seminars, as well as return travel to the United States
• I distributed photos and essential communications from national organization to students in our program
• I was the point-person between national organizations and students in program
• I created and still maintain database of alumni contacts