Make Design Systems People Want to Use

Mentor students from local colleges and universities on developing their skills and portfolios. Also advise on strategies to gain employment and maximize opportunities for growth post-graduation.

Design Mentor

Provide professional guidance to incoming students. Answer questions and reinforce curriculum coursework including code reviews, concept discussion, debugging, and project guidance.

Mentor

Associate's of Applied Arts (AAA)

● Lead development of React accessibility patterns including Menus & drag-and-drop architecture supporting 50M monthly customer interactions
● Collaborated with product, design, and accessibility organizations to deliver light/dark mode theming features with React Styled Components
● Improved component import footprint with subcomponent mapping, enhance React composability API
● Rotation support for critical customer defects, including triage and root cause analysis
● Maintained infrastructure in Rollup, Webpack, CircleCI/Github Actions pipelines, Tailwind/ESLint/Stylelint plugins, and regular dependency migrations/updates

Staff Software Engineer, Garden Design System

Interactive Design Intern

Senior Software Engineer - Horizon Design System

● Converted legacy CoffeeScript/React 14 codebase to functional React JSX, building with webpack, delivered with server-side rendering in team of 10 engineers
● Piloted agile scrum to improve engineering output & deliverables visibility
● Lead experimentation on shared component library for core UI, project architecture, CI/CD, and internal NPM publishing pipeline in Artifactory
● Increase customer signups with frequent A/B variant testing on top-of-funnel flows, increasing user signups and decreasing bounce rates
● Collaborated with product and design to ship redesigned company subsite using Ruby on Rails, internal SCSS design system, orchestrating API services for jobs (Lever, Glassdoor)

Software Engineer

● Delivering redesigns, new user features in legacy Ruby on Rails applications
● Consulted with clients to research, plan, and deliver bespoke solutions in web apps
● Mentored junior developers

User Experience Engineer

● Shipped core product redesigns for Audiobook interface
● Prototyped features using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to aid design/development collaboration
● Collaborated with product and development in agile teams, participated in design review & critique

Lead Product Designer

● Shipped cross-platform redesign, product design system across iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac
● Implemented front-end web features, collaborated & rotated as lead in cross-discipline agile scrum team

User Experience Designer

● Collaborated & experimented in early-stage UX / UI projects directly with Founder / CEO
● Delivered redesigned branding / identity and marketing website
● Implemented front-end solutions using HTML and CSS (and component libraries, e.g. Semantic UI

Front-End Developer & UI Designer (Contract)

● Lead agile scrum experiments & adoption for team of 15 cross-functional members, increasing product visibility
● Implemented foundational Web Component packages including Date Picker, Menu, Accordion, supporting platform with 40M users
● Maintained 30+ component library features on internal Artifactory NPM instance
● Enhanced platform capabilities with streamlined accessibility and design patterns
● Collaborated with product, design, and accessibility organizations to plan and deliver high visibility features, including platform-wide theming using CSS custom properties for branded experiences
● Provide customer support triage, mentor junior engineers, interview engineering candidates

Staff Software Engineer - Horizon Design System

● Implement complete website designs using Figma / Adobe, including layout, graphic design, user experience, user interface design, animations & design systems
● Build & architect websites with headless CMSes, Next JS, including marketing pages, blogs, user-submitted content, and collaborative editorial workflows
● Provide WCAG 2.x (AA+) auditing and remediation strategies according W3C standards
● Implement industry standard SEO strategies and automated solutions for Google Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, analytics integrations (e.g., Google, PostHog), and artifact generation (sitemaps, robots, etc)
● Partner with clients on long-term maintenance, including content strategy and detailed website upkeep documentation

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