Lead the end-to-end development of a shared Smart TV application used across major platforms. Manage a high-performing engineering team focused on performance, scalability, and platform growth. Drive architecture, optimization, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver a seamless, high-quality streaming experience across devices

• Worked closely with Product Managers and Designers to develop new UI features for the front page of Fandor.

• Assisted architecting the Fandor Editorial React web application for scalability into future streaming services.

• Implemented site analytics, through custom middleware, to track/monitor activity, video, and site performance.

• Adhering to BEM naming scheme, wrote styles in SCSS, utilizing custom mixins to reduce our codebase.

• Applied data fetching in GraphQL server, deserializing JSON API spec payload, served in persistent immutable data structures using Immutable.js, to the React application through Redux Saga/Redux.

• Composed reusable UI components using custom React elements to provide a smooth UX for users.

• Wrote tests for React components/redux actions, reducers, and sagas using Mocha, Enzyme, and Flow type.

• Added features and fixed bugs in the Rails CMS allowing content team to easily manipulate and add data.

• Edited scripts and created migrations to improve data synchronization from production to local environments.

• Oversaw and performed all kitchen operations including: managing 15 cooks, labor control on employees, recruited and trained 12+ employees including all paperwork and ServSafe certifications.

• Ensured kitchen conformed to all California health standards, ordered food daily from 8 locally sourced vendors, managed inventory on 100+ items weekly, created recipes and specials critics raved over.

• Created new schedules weekly and monitored all food costs to maintain 13% kitchen labor cost and 20% food cost substantially increasing profit margin, created new accounts with food and supply vendors.

• Contributed to opening 2 new restaurants including all equipment ordering, kitchen and floor construction, calibrating all kitchen equipment, developing new menus and recipes.

Worked as a freelance production assistant with Macula Films, Blue Owl Productions and Next Level Pictures. Worked closely with producers, directors and production teams to: keep crew on schedule; make deliveries and lunch pick-ups; handle equipment pick-ups and drop-offs; coordinated transportation throughout shoots; transcribed video in post-production; downloaded footage.