# Miriam Williams > FE Technical Lead | Staff FE Engineer Location: Bountiful, Utah, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/miriam Miriam Williams is a web development professional with experience in both front-end development and back-end development, with production experience in Javascript, React, Node, Postgresql. She transitioned to web development from a career in non-profit work. Where she has experience in program evaluation and coordination, as well as social innovation practices. ## Work Experience ### Technical Lead / Staff FE Engineer @ Canopy Jan 2024 – Present | South Jordan, Utah, United States ### Staff Frontend Engineer @ Canopy Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Draper, Utah, United States ### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Canopy Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Draper, Utah, United States As a Senior Frontend Engineer at Canopy, I work in document management. Using best practices with react, javascript. To build and maintain a file management system. Features include: A restructure/rebuild of the entireUI/UX experience of the file system. Implement retention rules for folders. Implement new files import/migration system. Upgrade document management and other internal tooling to webpack 5 and react 18. Provide mentorship and leadership to other frontend engineers. ### Frontend Engineer @ Canopy Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Draper, Utah, United States As a Frontend Engineer at Canopy, I work on document management. I help build and maintain file managements, esign experiences, file templates and permissions, PDF editing and annotations, and document editing. https://www.getcanopy.com/ ### Web Developer @ HQ inc Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | Ogden, UT Working on a variety of projects on both the front and backend. Frontend: javascript, react, angularjs, jquery, html, css Backend: nodejs, express, graphql, postgresql, mongoDB, redis also: google analytics, auth0, stripe source control with git Working with clients to develop their websites - including online document editing and case management; management dashboards for statistical information, dashboards for client management; payment pages, user management. Development and ongoing management of database schemas and architecture. Restructuring from non-relational database to relational databases. Restructuring of backend servers and of front end projects from legacy to modern web technologies. Fullstack work on projects implementing react on the frontend and usually node with express but also graphQL on the backend. ### Management Consultant @ Accenture Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Washington D.C. Metro Area As the Evaluation Program Manager of Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention Programs: Overall evaluation for $20+ million a year/5-year Department of Defense contract, including monitoring contract compliance on all benchmarks and accurate and timely reporting. Developed evaluation plan consistent with program goals, logic models, and contract requirements. Tracked all program metrics assessing each State’s program based on acceptable quality levels and provided analysis and reporting to client. Managed travel approval process, cost analysis, and budgeting. Designed over 30 social media ready marketing materials for Suicide prevention. Successfully represented the company at Suicide Prevention conference speaking on research and data in creating strong prevention campaigns. Facilitated Human Centered Design session with over 90 personnel focused on the creation of prevention plans. On an ad hoc basis fulfilled data analysis and analytic requests regarding Suicide trends and data, including comparisons with other agencies and general population. As the Deputy Program Manager of the Substance Abuse Prevention Program: Direct supervision of 2 staff members in the absence of their immediate supervisor. Backstopping program management activities Act as secondary level supervision to 131 field based staff. Engaged in ‘In Progress Reviews’ with 54 field based programs. Data analysis and interpretation of large scale survey on risk. ### Communications Assistant @ Baha'i World Centre Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Haifa, Israel The International Headquarters of the Bahá’í Faith and home of the leadership of the international Bahá’í community, it is a multinational non-profit organization with a staff comprised of over 600 individuals from 80 countries. It works with National Offices in over 170 countries worldwide as well as the UN through its Bahá’í International Community Offices. The Headquarters in Haifa have been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. • Reviewed an average of 47 documents a month for accuracy, style, and grammar. These documents ranged in content from: diplomatic, social action, administrative, and circular letters to the entire Bahá’í World (a community of over 5 million people) signed by the highest governing body of the Bahá’í Faith. • Edited and reviewed documents translated from original Persian or Arabic. • Reviewed budgets for accuracy and outgoing payments for approval, in administrative letters providing funding. • Reviewed the work of coworkers to ensure accuracy. • Provided introductory training to new staff on a monthly basis. • Provided 3-4 week in depth training on document review and preparation to 5 new staff members. Special Projects • Program Design: Participated in the design process for creation of new software to enable transition to a paperless system. Provided insights into office functioning and needs. Offered strategies for new and more efficient workflows. • Office Performance Metrics: Developed metrics to measure office performance. Gathered data and analyzed descriptive statistical output. Wrote narrative report describing charts and data assessing office workflows and time management. Coauthored report on performance of the office using this data, which provided recommendations for improved efficiency and functioning. ### Refugee Employment Intern @ Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | South Boston • Worked directly with refugees to develop resumes and job skills, complete applications, and improve English language. • Developed progress tracking mechanisms in excel for refugee employment services. • Built case files for refugee employment services. • Assisted Finance/Billing Office in tracking and monitoring time sheets and appointment request forms for Community Interpreter services. • Data entry and management for Community Interpreter Services programming and scheduling. • Coordinated with Interpreter Services schedulers and Interpreters to ensure appointment accuracy. • Provided training and guidance to new interns and student volunteers. ### Gender Programming Intern @ Plan International WARO Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Dakar Senegal • Engaged in a comprehensive review of PLAN International’s gender-based programming in West Africa. • Wrote sample summary reports on how plan programming could better integrate gender programming in existing programs in three West African countries. ### Project Coordinator @ Center for Social Innovation at Boston College Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Chestnut Hill, MA The Center for Social Innovation is a solution-focused training and research partnership between the Graduate School of Social Work and leading social service organizations, designed to stimulate innovation potential and develop leadership capacity for social innovation among human service practitioners. • Assisted in program design of 2011 Social Innovation Lab, which allowed for 4 organizations to bring opportunities to the Lab for development of innovative program implementation plans. • Interviewed organizations for project concepts. • Developed Log Frames for project goals. • Facilitated preparation training for Rapid prototyping. • Facilitated Rapid prototyping with LAB groups. • Using data from surveys, interviews, and activity notes co-authored narrative reports for each organization. • Redesigned Lab activities for a custom Innovation LAB, which worked with one emergent organization on developing an innovative business plan. • Coordinated recruitment and outreach with over 25 local nonprofit agencies. • Facilitated development of implementation plans for each of the 4 participating agencies on collaboration with teams put together by the agencies. • Provided leadership, supervision, and training to 15 student assistants to the Lab. • Assisted in development of the metrics for the Lab. • Using Qualtrics created the online web surveys for participants. • Pulled data from Qualtrics surveys and assisted in the descriptive analysis of the data. • Created literature, contact, and practice evidence databases of Social Innovation information. • Coordinated all program events. • Coordinated all use of technology, telepresence, desktop sharing, and virtual classrooms. ### Peace Corps Volunteer @ Peace Corps Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 Taught English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), 26 hours a week to classes of 50 or more students aged 11 to 20 in the 6th and 7th grade. Organized Girls Empowerment Camp for region attended by 60 girls. Wrote grant to expand school library by purchase of additional books. Held workshops with students on study skills and research. Developed teaching skills and tools with other English faculty, including teaching techniques, visual aids, and test writing. Created English correspondence club between local students and those in another village. Organized local level and assisted in design of nation-wide English spelling bee. Organized and participated in the painting of a world map mural on several school buildings. Developed and implemented World AIDS day workshops with students. ## Education ### Full Stack Javascript Web Development V School Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ### Master's Degree in Social Work Boston College Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ### Bachelor of Science in Psychology St. Lawrence University Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/miriamleawilliams --- Source: https://flows.cv/miriam JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/miriam/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22