Feb 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Dec 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Provided technical patterns and platform for multi-brand Design System. This project introduces Typescript to the codebase, and utilizes many popular tools such as Storybook, Playroom, React Testing Library, and Chromatic. Focus is on Quality Assurance, so various forms of testing have been baked into the project from step one.
• Simplified current CMS patterns, by building out the tools required for Marketing and Creative build composable pages out of predefined modules, replacing the tightly coupled templates/documents which currently exist.
• Moved towards a more sophisticated domain driven design with an nx powered monorepo, ensuring everything is multi-tenant by default. Automating product page creation across serta.com, beautyrest.com, and tuftandneedle.com to provide improved product launch capabilities, and unify functionality and capabilities across the ecommerce stores.
• Optimized the initial load of the checkout application, removing several seconds of potential load time before customer interaction could begin.
• Simplified build/deployment process, cutting Vercel deployment times in half. This improved developer efficiency, and provided the ability for more timely introduction of rollbacks or hot fixes.

Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 · 11 mos

• Oversaw the transition of sitewide promotions from being a 100% manual engineering intensive task, to a fully automated process which could be driven by marketing and creative.
• Working closely with Architects, provided technical support and grunt-work for migration of tuftandneedle.com from Vercel version 1 to version 2.
• Executed CRO experiments on the checkout, and implemented the winners without downtime or service disruption.
• Oversaw addition of multiple new payment types to checkout, including Apple and Google pay, and Paypal express checkout.
• Prepared the checkout flow and other areas of PX responsibility for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday week promotions. The promotional offerings were the most elaborate sequence of back to back promotions with changing offerings that Tuft & Needle had offered up until that point. Promotion week came and went with minimal engineering involvement.
• Instrumental in contributing to initial next.js patterns and best practices during early stages of T&N's conversion to next.js.

Dec 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Added password protection to preview environments across all three ecommerce websites.
• Provided a template for migrating tuftandneedle.com from Vercel (then called Zeit Now) version 1, to the lambda based version 2. Provided initial framework of the code changes required.
• Introduced initial monorepo concepts, in order to speed up development of serta.com and beautyrest.com, by sharing functionality from tuftandneedle.com.
• Assigned to high profile and time sensitive projects for building and launching the ecommerce websites for serta.com and beautyrest.com. Acted as tech lead for the front end of these projects.
• Streamlined build by removing unnecessary build tools such as gulp and grunt, and consolidated templating under a single system.
• Refactored asset bundling from a custom mincer build process to webpack, allowing usage of es2015 features.
• Implemented GitHub release tagging for production deployments to more easily facilitate regression tracking and production rollbacks.

Dec 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Built out dashboard for ticketed events.
• Added support for multi-ticket types and purchases.
• Responsive informational landing pages.
• Migrate stripe API versions.

Feb 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Involved in all aspects of Front End development.
• Integral in feature design and development.
• Owned checkout flow and stripe integrations.
• Implemented payouts flow via stripe.
• Developed custom interactive media grid.
• Conceptualized and built sitemap generation, to improve SEO for search results and user profiles.
• Defined Git practices, to allow for continuous development and regular staged releases.
• Maintained and extended automatically generated Style Guide and Component Library documentation.
• Converted heavy animated gifs to pure html/css layouts with animations.
• Implemented scroll aware lazy loaded sections.
• Technologies used:
• AngularJs, Handlebars, Node.js, Express, SASS, NPM, Bower, Gulp, Karma, Jasmine, Asana, Slack

Dec 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Personal travel blog, featuring custom wordpress theme and Google maps API integration.
• Personalized design.
• Custom Wordpress theme.
• Google Maps API integration, with custom map marker content.
• Google Geocoding API integration.

Jan 2015 – Aug 2015 · 7 mos · New York City

• Self produced my debut album, Watering Can.
• Watering Can
• Trombone heavy, original, modern/avant garde jazz. From the land of the long white cloud, via New York City.
• The name Watering Can was reached in a roundabout manner. Several years ago, while still at school in New Zealand, Jackson put together a recording session with a few horn players and a pianist, and informed everyone to bring along some miscellaneous percussion, which they could play at any time they felt inspired to, due to the lack of a conventional rhythm section. One individual had the audacity to bring an old, beat up watering can; which he then, with great fervour, proceeded to bang with a stick. The fantastically preposterous event obviously stuck in Jackson’s mind, and later provided the inspiration for an equally absurd album title.
• Watering Can consists entirely of compositions written by Jackson himself, and draws from a wide range of influences; from the sometimes sparse and always playful melodies of Steve Lacy, to the various stops along the artistic spectrum of Jackson Pollock and René Magritte, all the way to inanimate objects.
• To realise these ideas, New Zealand trombonist Jackson Hardaker assembled a ragtag group of global nomads in the form of: Dutch guitarist Syberen van Munster, Italian bassist Lorenzo Kim Sandi, and Canadian drummer Nico Dann.
• The music can be at times haunting, surprising, humorous, and traverses the musical styles of rock, swing, march, punk calypso, and beyond.

Jan 2012 – Dec 2017 · 5 yrs 11 mos · New York City

• Miscellaneous small freelance projects. Including full websites, maintenance of existing sites, and WordPress setup.
• Correspond with people of varying levels of technical understanding.
• Discuss goals and ideals with clients, helping them to achieve their desired website.
• Adapt legal agreements.
• Provide detailed breakdown of time spent, if required.
• Keep track of multiple deadlines, over several projects.
• Provide installation service, and initial installation maintenance.
• Research and implement desired extra features.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 · 5 yrs · Remote

• Work independently.
• Meet deadlines.
• Keep detailed correspondence.
• Telecommute, so deal with distractions, and provide my own proactivity.
• Educate myself on new and relevant technologies and standards. Implement them where suitable.
• Keep up to date on developments within the industry.
• Worked on several projects:
• Custom Blogging Platform
• RESEARCH, DESIGN, PROTOTYPING
• Full design document, including use case scenarios, UI mockups, and database design.
• L'inizio
• JAVASCRIPT (JQUERY), CSS, HTML, ASP.NET, MVC FRAMEWORK, ENTITY FRAMEWORK, C#, T-SQL, DATABASE DESIGN
• Custom wedding website, combined with social network elements.
• User management:
• Permissions for guests vs administrators.
• Easy management of wedding attendees and their respective +1s.
• Ability to group guests, for easy organisation.
• Guest families:
• Allows members of the same family to RSVP on behalf of the reset of the family.
• Events management (bachelor party, rehearsal dinner etc).
• Custom guest lists.
• Invisible to uninvited guests.
• Fully custom photo album system.
• Admin view drag and drop window docking.
• Drag and drop multi-file uploading.
• Tripwyr
• JAVASCRIPT (JQUERY), CSS, HTML, ASP.NET, C#, T-SQL, DATABASE DESIGN
• Prototype for a trip planning / blogging social network. No 3rd party code or modules (clients explicit request).
• Full custom registration and subscription management.
• Blogging capabilities.
• Realtime internal chat platform.
• Individual contact lists.
• Event platform: Invite, RSVP status.
• Photo album.

Sep 2009 – Nov 2018 · 9 yrs 2 mos · New York City

• Frequently perform around Manhattan/Queens/Brooklyn, as well as out of state performances in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
• Performed on national television.
• Featured on several jazz albums.
• Self-produced my own debut album released May 4th 2015.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 · 3 yrs · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

• Full stack working with C#, .Net, MVC Framework, T-SQL.