Bachelor of Arts - BA

Certification

In charge of worker compensation claims, constant communication between Medical centers and Insurance companies.

Customer Patient Advocate

Support underprivileged youth gain collegiate experience to guide their growth and assist in their pursuit for higher education

Day Camp Counselor

• Overhauled Wordpress codebase’s HTML and CSS with modern semantic HTML5 and CSS3 to create a beautiful mobile-friendly, cross-browser experience
— Rewrote and reorganized core CSS, adding best practices such as reset.css.
— Redesigned the website to be mobile-first in Figma and led the implementation of the new website experience
— Collaborated closely with the client to clarify requirements and ensure changes directly drove business goals. A key example is the redesign enabled users to access core features of the website, such as reserving gym time slots during the pandemic.
— Provided the client training on basic web development to enable the product to be self-service.

• Audited and implemented SEO best-practices resulting in a 40% lift in organic search traffic
— Updated codebase to use semantic HTML5 and SEO metadata.

Software Engineer

∞	Presented preliminary data at the IARR conference, Dean’s breakfast and PRIDE symposium 
∞	Contributed towards establishing current studies on Conflict-responses in romantic relationships
∞	Reviewed and interpreted theoretical background to apply towards approved studies
∞	Coordinated participant-studies and collected data 


Research Assistant

• Led implementation of greenfield critical internal PHP metrics dashboard. Collaborating closely with Design, developed new internal product and led ongoing feature development.
— Internal dashboard used by 500 employees as a critical piece of their daily workflow.
— Improved quarterly meetings efficiency by 20%.
— Tech stack: PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Drupal.
— While educating internal teams on how to use the product, took in feedback and provided an in-app feedback form that informed new features and bugfixes.
— Core features include ability to write notes in live discussions between attendees, real-time metrics dashboards, and generating metrics reports.

• Led massive refactor of large production legacy codebase to use modern ES6 object-oriented Javascript from PHP and jQuery
— Improved REST API response time by 35% by leveraging async/await and reducing waterfall requests.
— Converted hundreds of jQuery DOM manipulation logic to vanilla JavaScript.
— Refactor DOM styling from Boot

Frontend Developer

Front End React Developer

• Co-founder and primary engineer of Makers Create Studio, a web and digital product studio
— Collaborate with clients directly to help grow their digital presence and deliver on their business goals.
— Deliver lean, highly-performant web applications with SEO best practices.
— Makers Create serves as a space for experimenting with new and budding technologies.

Web Developer

• Led project and was primary implementor to fix an inoperable project resulting in securing a huge government contract. 
— This product is now utilized by every underwater ship in the U.S. Navy.
— Improved production client application performance UI load time from 40sec to 4sec. Large refactor of legacy application to remove request waterfalls.

• Led development of greenfield government financial planning application built with Canvas.js and vanilla JavaScript
— 8 engineers actively working on the project.
— Regularly meet with the client and translate requirements to tasks to distribute to team.
— Code reviewed every significant pull request for this project and used pairing as a way to make the development cycle engaging, fun, and educational.

• Technical leadership responsibilities include meeting with the customer to establish requirements and create individual tasks for the team and myself to work on, often while managing multiple projects in parallel
— Led bi-weekly and month

Experienced engineer continuing to spread the enthusiasm for making ideas into an applications

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