2021 — 2024
Austin, Texas
Technical Leadership & Data-Driven Cloud Integration: Acted as the chief front-end architect, utilizing Vue.js, Inertia.js, Laravel, and AWS Cloud Services. Collaborated closely with data teams to understand their workflow and optimize the product's feature set, ensuring rapid, reliable access to vast real estate databases.
Security, Analytics & Enhanced User Experience: Integrated a holistic toolset with Sentry for logging, Mixpanel for in-depth analytics on user behavior, and Twilio for robust two-factor authentication, striking a balance between application security and a data-rich user experience.
B2B Real Estate Platform & MVP Development: Championed the MVP for a B2B commercial real estate data engine, transforming complex data-driven requirements into an intuitive, efficient front-end structure, making vast data sets user-friendly.
Design Integration & Stakeholder Collaboration: Fostered strong relationships with designers to seamlessly blend intuitive UI/UX with data-rich backends. Engaged proactively with managers, business leaders, and stakeholders to ensure the platform's alignment with both user expectations and strategic business goals.
Data-Centric UI/UX Design: Played a pivotal role in integrating vast datasets into UI designs and wireframes, using design expertise to guide the team in creating data-rich yet user-centric interfaces, making intricate commercial real estate data easily navigable.
Quality Assurance & Data Integrity: Instituted rigorous development and data validation protocols. Emphasized code reviews, QA testing, and comprehensive data integrity checks, ensuring accurate, high-quality deliverables for users and stakeholders.
Seamless Post-MVP Integration & Expansion: Expertly integrated post-launch features and technologies like Mixpanel, Salesforce, and Elasticsearch. Prioritized seamless additions to the platform, facilitating continual growth and accommodating ever-expanding commercial real estate datasets.
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
Sports Web App Development & Architecture: Engineered a high-performance PWA for Major and College sports teams, using JavaScript, Vue.js, and Node.js in the JAM Stack. Delivered real-time updates and statistics through scalable RESTful APIs, ensuring seamless integration across Web, iOS, and Android platforms for a superior fan experience.
Automated Testing & CI/CD: Spearheaded test automation using Mocha, Chai, Axios, and Selenium, ensuring data accuracy and seamless game-day deployments. Integrated these into CI/CD workflows to reduce event-day issues.
Quality Assurance & Data Integrity: Elevated code and data quality with tools like ESLint and Prettier, focusing on consistency in game statistics and live updates through meticulous code reviews.
UX/UI Design: Collaborated with marketing and sports analysts to translate fan insights into immersive designs. Used Sketch and Adobe XD to create mockups, enhancing fan engagement through live streaming, player bios, and notifications.
Performance Optimization: Ensured seamless app performance during peak loads like match days, utilizing AWS S3 for caching to maintain access to live scores and replays.
Agile Development: Advocated Agile methodologies, aligning technical teams with sports analysts to deliver timely updates and features in sync with sporting events.
Integration & Modular Design: Integrated frontend components with backend systems like player databases and ticketing. Established a UI library for rapid development and consistent fan experiences.
Dynamic & Configurable Design: Developed a modular UI adaptable to team branding, and a frontend system that uses external settings for each team’s site, enabling streamlined updates and tailored digital presence.
Austin, Texas Area
Utilized the Javascript, Vuejs, and React frameworks to architect/develop test-driven modular applications and reusable components. Worked within the JAM Stack (Javascript, APIs, & Markup). Created scalable APIs (PHP, Python, and Ruby) to communicate with various frontend javascript platforms (Web, iOS, and Android).
Automated browser testing using Selenium WebDriver; Composed deep documentation for setting standards and fast-tracking collaborative processes for other developers.
Increased quality of code by implementing ESLint, prettier, and pre-commit to establish code consistency across all projects. Integrated automated tests into CI/CD, preventing unformatted/buggy code from being pushing to staging/production.
Initiated UX research interviews to gather user demographics and business requirements from leadership, marketing, and other internal business units; Composed visual mockups and interactive prototype designs using Sketch & Adobe XD: Order status management pages, Marketing landing pages, a financial portal, CMS dashboard, and various applications for customers and internal teams to streamline processes and workflows.
Supported an agile development environment workflow, leveraging tools such as Gitflow, NPM, Netlify, continuous deployment, and continuous integration, pushing daily iterative updates to staging and production seamlessly. Conducted sprint planning, estimations, daily stand-ups, grooming, retrospective, code reviews, and UI presentations with leadership, peer developers, and included teams.
Centralized all company UI elements and branding by creating Node.js cookie-cutter packages for all web, iOS, and Android applications to create consistent UX, styling, plugin, and package and deployment management across all platforms.
2017 — 2018
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Collaborated with owners, designers, & marketing teams to determine project plan timelines and deliverables using knowledge of both front/backend technologies.
Assisted backend developers to migrate legacy site into a scalable LAMP stack environment using a Larvel framework to create consistency in codebase application structure.
Created sitemaps, mockups, wireframes by utilizing Adobe XD, Sketch, HTML, CSS3, and JavaScript to advise technical and non-technical teams of new technologies, capabilities & feature proposals. Created UX analysis reports to balance users' needs, business goals, and technical capabilities.
Executed lead role on full frontend website redesign using PHP (Larvel), Vue.js & jQuery frameworks collaboration with other development teams using an Agile & Scrum environment structure using GIT collaboration tools.
Integrated industry REST APIs and third-party services to build interactive dashboard, autonomous on-boarding flows, and reporting systems for users, and admin business operations.
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Full Stack Development:
Developed enterprise-level user authentication system integrated with Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Instagram APIs;
Scaled operational workload by setting up & maintaining payment/subscription systems. Created financial portals for leadership and accounting units.
Architected relational database structures and developed APIs that translate the SQL data into JSON for javascript applications to communicate.
Developed client-facing applications to increase company reach to over 10M impressions per month. Implemented UI/UX designed into scalable web applications for business to accommodate user services and requests.
Automate repetitive business operational tasks and increase overall company productivity by creating internal administration portals, customer interfaces, and, API integrations to eliminate manual text, email, analytics, reporting, and data entry.
Expanded company capabilities by implementing employee portal features, built algorithms to increase effectiveness and reduce man-labor.
Built E2E testing specs and test based on direct business requirements, translated into automated tests.
Configured digital asset security rules, data audits, and customer data security. Maintained database architecture integrity, backup, and recovery systems.
UI/UX Design
Created pixel-perfect and harmonic UIs for key pages and website elements.
Created interactive Mockups/Prototypes to provide visual exploration of a series
of concrete design concepts for a new feature or element to be added to ecosystem and/or optimized design of existing applications; (Adobe Creative Suite, XD, Sketch).
Defined leading edge progressive web design principles and standards into a company styleguide document, centralizing all composition, information archictucure and reusable UI components.
Assured the implementation quality of design: Provided review and communication to developers in order to achieve design objectives.
Education
2011 — 2013
Tarrant County College
Computer Sciences
2011 — 2013
2007 — 2011
Mansfield High School
High School Diploma
2007 — 2011