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Web Developer
Cast Iron Coding• September 2020 - Present
Agency web development firm working with enterprise, government, non-profit and academic organizations. Tech: React, Node, GraphQL API, Javascript, Next, CSS-in-JS — styled-components, emotion, Jenkins, Docker, Typescript, Postgres, Craft CMS, Strapi CMS, and more
Software Development Engineer III (Frontend)
TEKsystems• April 2019 - September 2020
Developer on A/B testing team and Personalization product team for enterprise client (1500 developers, homepage: one million vistis/day). Fully distributed, remote, cross-functional teams. Tech: React - Node - NextJS / Express - HTML - CSS - ES6+ JavaScript - NPM - Babel - Adobe Target / Analytics / Launch / AEP - REST / GraphQL API - Azure DevOps - AWS - Increased A/B team performance by implementing tools for team communication, project management, and source control. - Promoted in March 2020 to Personalization team to bring experience optimization expertise to new products. - Personalization phase one launched in June 2020 with 600,000 views in the first month (40% mobile users). - Contributed to presentation and utility React/JS libraries (of 200+ components).
Owner, Web Developer, Web Architect
Akeela Technical Services• January 2005 - January 2019
Web development services, from technical strategy and project management to front-end, back-end, full-stack development and systems administration. Worked on over 50 sites, serving clients that ranged from technology companies (Microsoft), to small to mid-sized businesses, to higher education organizations (BYU-Idaho, BYU-Pathway Worldwide).
Web Development Specialist
BYU Pathway Worldwide• December 2015 - April 2018
Worked in full-stack development, front-end development, online communications strategy and web project management. - Completed major redesign for main site (100,000 unique visitors per month) by translating business requirements into technical solutions: planning, user research, UI/UX architecture, analytics design, working with graphic designers, managing junior coders, managing scope and schedules, and coding - all to organize a successful launch. - Built and managed all related websites and CMS: custom-built themes, plugins, and custom API. Trained business users. - Identified and implemented workflows and systems improvements: user research, project management, source control, documentation practices, and QA methods.
Senior Web Builder
Free Range Media• January 1999 - July 2000
Front-end programmer on interdisciplinary teams for enterprise-scale online projects. Part of end-to-end project development, delivering highly-customized solutions: developed specs, advised teams on site-building issues and coded sites. Also developed internal tools to aid content management and processing.
Webmaster
Microsoft• January 1997 - January 1999
Managed Microsoft online programs in the Education Customer Unit. Responsible for coding and layout, planning and deploying projects. Managed site redesigns, conducted formal usability tests and implemented improvements. Produced the monthly online magazine, Microsoft K-12 Connection (130,000 subscribers).
Education
BYUI
Web Development, Software Engineering, BS• February 2014 - July 2019
Additional Certificates: Web Media, Web Frontend Development, Web Backend Development