I am a front-end leaning full-stack software engineer with a passion for creating beautiful and accessible
user interfaces. With over eight years of experience in the creative field before transitioning into software
engineering, I have a keen eye for visual detail which I apply to my development practice.
Implemented a headless CMS (Contentful) into a Ruby on Rails monolithic application using React on the front end to empower the marketing department to own content creation.
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Utilized SEO best practices to improve organic search engine rankings.
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Drove growth and generated MQLs by strategically launching new marketing web pages.
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Spearheaded initiative to adopt agile best practices and improve project management efficiencies.
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Created comprehensive documentation for content authors and engineers regarding how to utilize and maintain Contentful.
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Supported a cross functional marketing team as their engineering resource.
Built internal job tracking software for a large electrical utility company, increasing productivity and job accuracy resulting in millions of dollars saved for the client.
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Designed a role-based access control (RBAC) system for use in multiple locales.
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Collaborated with the back end team to plan RESTful APIs and connect them to the front end.
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Utilized ArcGIS to visualize dynamic job data on maps in several US regions.
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Reworked legacy table components in order to improve performance by up to 500%.
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Created internal job training documentation and mentored junior developers.
Operated in a fast place environment with an international and fully remote team to maintain and expand our marketing site, resulting in exponential growth of MQLs and conversions.
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Utilized Contentful and GraphQL to provide content authors with well planned entry models, empowering them with the autonomy to author flexible pages.
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Owned the development lifecycle for projects including: a site wide rebrand, blog migration from Wordpress to Gatsby/Contentful, creation of a content hub driving 10,000+ organic visitors monthly.
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Mentored junior developers on front-end best practices, delegated tasks to team members, participated in code review, and kept an open door for pair-programming.
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Collaborated directly with the design team to build pixel perfect and responsive user interfaces.
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Migrated localized sites for 6 languages from subdomains to localized versions of the root domain.
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Lead a cross functional push to maintain WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards.
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Collaborated with SEO Strategists to ensure the marketing site maintains best practices, and raised the Ahrefs site health score from 16/100 to 97/100.
Collaborated closely with design teams to create a brand new design system for Nike.com.
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Spearheaded an icon library using best practices to handle inline SVGs.
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Ensured that all components met WCAG 2.1 AA standards.
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Worked closely with the globalization team to offer components to all supported geo locations.
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Authored Storybook stories and extensive documentation for the component library.
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Committed to 100% code coverage in Jest using React Testing Library for unit and snapshot tests.
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Socialized the design system for other teams to ingest, provided support during adoption, and worked collaboratively to ensure the components APIs were intuitive and fit our consumers needs.
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Maintained a separate styling repository in order to keep parity with styled components for teams that were unable to ingest components written with CSS in JS.
