Technical and business-savvy front-end web developer with over fifteen-years experience.

Works well with developers, designers, user experience professionals, product and program managers to conceive and construct great things.

• HTML (HTML5)
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS3)
• Sass
• Compass
• LESS
• Bootstrap
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• Angular 2
• Velocity Template Language
• Rapid Prototyping
• Git
• Github
• SVN
• Perforce
• Content Management Systems
• Search Engine Optimization
• Responsive Web Design
• Agile Development Methodology

Daybreak Games Company

Senior Web Developer April 2017 - Present

Web developer for Daybreak's Platform team, supporting the marketing of, and community around, the company's family of games.

• Working with the company's in-house content management system, built marketing sites for esport tournaments, including:
  • H1Z1 Elite Series
  • H1Z1 Invitational
• Launched Just Survive, which was formerly a sub-site alongside H1Z1.
• Various web updates to support marketing initiatives and product launches.

GoPro

Senior Front-End Web Engineer July 2015 - March 2017

Front-end developer dedicated to building the user-interface layout and UI components for GoPro's Quik for Desktop application.

• Built HTML/CSS (Sass) screens for the application's UI. Major components including:
  • Complex layouts with fixed, responsive, and layered elements, for media management, playback, and editing
  • Modals
  • Drop-down and contextual (right-click) menus
  • Custom form elements: inputs, ranges, sliders, progress indicators
  • Drag and drop elements
  • Animations and transitions
• Architected, wrote, and compiled, the application's HTML and SCSS code.
• Prototyped new UI interactions and features with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, for the benefit of product owners, UX designers, and other developers.
• Focus on code and element reusability, and UI performance - perceived speed, and user feedback.

Brightscope

Senior Front-End Web Developer July 2013 - July 2015

• Redesigned enterprise reporting dashboards to be responsive to screen size and device capabilities.
• Converted CSS code base of an enterprise-scale application using Sass/Compass.

XIFIN, Inc.

Staff Engineer, UI/UX Lead April 2013 - July 2013

• Performed usability reviews of current and in-the-pipeline products.
• Built functional prototypes, including one for a document management application.

The Active Network

Associate Manager, Software Engineering January 2012 - April 2013

Front-end architect tasked with creating standards, patterns, best practices, and reusable components for the company's many consumer web properties.

Accomplishments include:

Style Guide

Developed a comprehensive style guide and pattern/component library for the Active Network's consumer web properties in conjunction with the company's brand relaunch. Sites that are using the guide include:

• Active.com
• Active Advantage
• Active Gear Up
• RegOnline
• Active Access Developer Center

Responsive Web Development

• Created a responsive, mobile-friendly look and feel for WannaDo.com.
• Through discussions and presentations, worked to convince upper management of the need for Active.com to be a responsive site in its next iteration.
• Consulted on the development of redesigned Active Advantage with pages that are responsive to the user's browser/device dimensions.
• As a hackathon project, developed a mobile-friendly game, "Active Monkeys", to encourage an active lifestyle and healthy eating habits among children.

Development Manager December 2009 - December 2011

Responsible for Web UI Development team across all of the Active Network's consumer-facing properties, content newsletters, and advertising emails.

Web Developer November 2000 - December 2009

Accomplishments include:

Active.com Optimization

• Member of the cross-functional team that led design and development of the successful effort to optimize Active.com for registration conversions.
• Lead developer on the Active.com property - coding and overseeing major redesigns, minor tweaks, and everything in-between. As a ColdFusion developer, also maintained the site's publishing tools for both content and commerce.

iHoops

Front-end developer on iHoops.com, a high-profile youth basketball site, built in partnership with the NBA and NCAA, and backed by a national promotional campaign.

Third-party Integrations

• Built What's Your Active, a photo and video sharing community, on top of the FileMobile platform.
• Sony Run Group, a community for runners, was built out on the ONESite social platform.
• Active.com's community platform, which included forums, blogs, wikis, and integrated profiles, was built using Jive Software.

Advertising Solutions

• Demonstrated the social media landing page concept to internal stakeholders, and developed it for a major advertising client as Make It Pink!, promoting Susan G. Komen for the Cure events.
• Prototyped and developed the use of the AOL Rising Star "Project Devil" placement for Active.com, which became a significant new revenue source.

Aperio Technologies

Web Developer July 2006 - January 2007

• Redesigned the corporate site for aesthetics, ease-of-use, and search engine optimization.
• Developed annual meeting registration process using ASP, JavaScript, and with PayPal integration.
• Customized open-source forum software for a customer support message board.

Booz Allen & Hamilton

Senior Consultant February 1998 - October 2000

• Lead Developer on several web-enabled database applications using ColdFusion, HTML, and JavaScript, with SQL Server or Oracle databases, for clients including the Food and Drug Administration and the US Navy.
• Software Development Manager for Capability Maturity Model Level II effort; wrote plans and standard-operating procedures for software development activities.
• Presented detailed design documents for a knowledge management system to the firm's senior leadership.

Washington University in St. Louis

1990 - 1994
BA, Economics
English Literature minor