UX Engineer

Blinkk (blinkk.com)

2021 - Present

Clients: Google, Teachable

• Develop and maintain automation solutions for open source build systems and plugins.
• Integrate current internal tool sets and build systems with NextJS/ReactJS.
• Refactor and configure current CMS hierarchy to be more maintainable for the client; configuring related logic for the front end.
• Build, maintain and deploy interactive websites and applications to creative and client specifications.
• Develop learning presentations for team-wide education.
• Executing the standard of maintainability, interactivity, accessibility, localization and performance throughout every project.
• Skills/Technologies Utilized: JavaScript, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3, NodeJS, NextJS, ReactJS, WordPress, Kintaro, YAML, SASS, GCP

Senior Developer

Dynamic Marketing Systems (discoverdms.com)

2021 - 2021

Clients: American Airlines, CITI, AT&T, Barclays

• Develop and maintain automation solutions for internal asset management and storage after identifying time wasted on current manual process using AWS Amplify.
• Provide designers and account managers with development expertise and assist with UX Design.
• Led internal documentation initiative to create and manage development best practices for code style, frameworks, build tools and any other development practices.
• Developed HTML Email Automation script to quickly swap out dynamic content for multiple emails, utilizing MJML for pixel perfect emails across all major email clients.
• Skills/Technologies Utilized: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, NodeJS, Webpack, ReactJS, React Native, WordPress, MJML, AWS Amplify

Senior Developer

Black Airplane (blackairplane.com)

2018 - 2021

Clients: Kefi, The Weather Channel, Big Nerd Ranch, Coca-Cola, SeatGeek

• Build, maintain and deploy interactive websites and applications to creative and client specifications.
• Build and maintain POS Application in React Native for all shopping and guest/party admission at Kefi.
• Build and maintain Kiosk Sign In/Sign Up Application in React Native to handle guest registration and check-ins.
• Establish code standard guidelines, best practices and project workflows.
• Utilizing WordPress’ Headless REST API and Vue for the front end, created a modern and flexible Pet Adoption Portal with automatic adoption form generation.
• Developed a community fundraising platform for the jewish community. Bringing a digital solution forth to help synagogue’s hold traditional holiday fundraising events and prayers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Developed a community outreach fundraising platform to show gratitude during the COVID-19 Pandemic utilizing the Google Maps and Places API’s to track messages, location, likes and names.
• Mentor junior engineers and actively create educational material for team members to showcase new technology and standards.
• Consistently adapt to emerging technologies both on the back and front-end to accommodate a wide variety of clients.
• Skills/Technologies Utilized: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, NodeJS, Webpack, AngularJS, Angular, ReactJS, React Native, VueJS, WordPress, Laravel

Instructor

Creative Circus (creativecircus.edu)

2018 - Present

• Instructor for incoming students, teaching an assortment of subjects including: ReactJS, Web Animations, JavaScript, ES6, Programming Theory, WebGL, etc.
• Mentor and help with an assortment of projects outside of students' class responsibilities.
• Develop and maintain curriculum(s) based on the latest technologies and best practices.
• Necessity to have difficult conversations to help students performance.
• Contribute as a Creative Circus Alumni and Instructor.

Interface Engineer

Hook Studios (byhook.com)

2015 - 2018

Clients: Google, YouTube, Slack, Dropbox

• Developed the official YouTube Rewind Digital Experience (2015 - 2017) showcasing all of the top YouTube Content Creators. Each iteration set a high benchmark which required a step up in digital solutions each time. From WebGL 3D Animation to PixiJS and Canvas Digital Art Creation, the experience grew more entertaining and interactive.
• Developed an internal sprite sheet generator for animators to quickly batch animation frames together for their projects.
• Developed a banner generation system using NodeJS. Saving thousands of man hours from manually creating individual banner builds.
• Developed YouTube Email Automation script to read from Google Sheets spreadsheet and quickly build out and send each countries top 100 tracks for the week to subscribers.
• Build, maintain and deploy interactive websites and applications to creative and client specifications.
• Create and maintain build systems, scaffolds and tools used by engineers and designers every day for faster in-house production.
• Help develop learning tools, presentations, documentation and other resources for onboarding new engineers and general employee education.
• Learn new technologies, absorb documentation quickly and deploy clean, efficient, bug-free code to the expected standard.
• Skills/Technologies Utilized: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Angular, Backbone, React, React Native, Polymer, AEM, AMP, GCP, Node, Gulp, Glue, Goro, Kintaro, Closure, Bracket, GSAP, ES6