Curriculum Vitae

Freelance Web Developer, Designer, Consultant

Self-Employed

Ongoing

• Website modernization, performance, accessibility, SEO optimization.
• Website hosting, DNS registration and management
• WordPress Theme and plugin development.
• CSS Illustration creation and optimizations.
• HTML & CSS tutoring

Contract Programmer

Mozilla Corporation (Harvey Nash)

Mozilla Thunderbird

April 2024 - June 2024

• Contract programmer in Python to migrate existing localization files into Fluent files for Mozilla Thunderbird desktop application.
• Successfully moved several subsystems from DTD (document type definitions) and dot properties files and made appropriate changes and refactors with the team in XHTML and JavaScript to Fluent.
• Interacted with the team in Bugzilla and Phabricator using Mercurial (hg) for source to get my changes into the greater Thunderbird codebase.

Software Engineer II

Integrated Specialty Coverages, LLC

February 2022 - August 2023

• Worked with Product Managers to evaluate and implement changes to help manage insurance policies throughout their lifecycle: from lead, to bind, renewal, cancellation in all aspects according to complex business rules.
• Contributed materially to code reviews with other developers and offshore teams to try to maintain code quality.
• Responsible for programming and ongoing support of legacy Zend 1 stack; frontend of jQuery/Smarty.
• Participated in release planning and deployment of legacy platform including git workflows, tagging, releases, rollbacks as needed to maintain the health of the platform.
• Helped establish good git hygiene and advocated for code quality in a codebase local, offshore and consultants contributing to it.
• Responsible for migration of a Docusign implementation moving from a password auth to OAuth flow plus modernization of API in a legacy non-composer context.
• Cancellations Center: worked on a new view to pull accounting data outside the primary stack in an actionable way to change a process involving accounting, excel and manual letter generation into one to generate paper letters via LOB API.
• Ongoing Production Support of issues found by the business to assure database state correctness.
• “FastPass” team member; responsible for making manual Production Support more self-serve and automated.
• PHPUnit: refactoring effort to improve and update legacy codebase safely.
• Contributed to new node/TypeScript based API codebase to add new API methods including unit tests.

Software Engineer

Telcentris/VOXOX

April 2019 - December 2021

• Staff programmer on Voxox’s customer-facing and internal-facing tools.
• Responsible for maintenance of existing systems and adding new features.
• Exposure to Angular for future systems.
• Some branch and release management tasks using Bitbucket/Git, shell scripting.
• Internationalization and localization management using POEdit and GNU gettext utilities.
• Added Google ReCaptcha to signup flow to defray signup spam.
• Added PHP composer-managed JavaScript library import tooling to keep libraries out of code base.
• articipated in code reviews and deployments.

Software Engineer

Lawn Love

March 2018 - April 2019

“Uber for Lawn Care.” Ongoing maintenance and improvements to the customer-facing, lawn care-provider-facing, operations staff facing software. PHP/MySQL based homegrown CRM for managing the Lawn Love marketplace. Managed using AWS OpsWorks. Frontend programming included JavaScript, Query, AngularJS, KnockoutJS. GitHub. Agile/Kanban process in Jira. Product development on small team with rapid iteration of low-fidelity mockups an demos. Managed WordPress instance deployment and maintenance.

Web Developer

Slacker Radio

September 2011 - May 2017

• Slacker Radio was a streaming audio & music service. It served individual user listeners & provides software as a service to integration partners (Samsung, Verizon, AOL, US Cellular, T-Mobile).

Primary Frontend Developer (ECommerce)

• Built Samsung Milk Music single page app (SPA) to accept credit card & cellular carrier payments in mobile & browsers
• Built Verizon SPA for management of ringtone content
• Spearheaded U.S. Cellular year subscription promotion SPA
• Designed & developed T-Mobile Tuesdays promotion SPA
• Evaluated & updated legacy payment pages for augmentation and AB testing with new payment flows
• Coordinated with backend team on administrative APIs to produce management tools for internal
• & external use to allow staff to manage subscriptions, promotions for Slacker & partners
• Established standards for web beacons in Ecommerce SPAs to measure usage & effectiveness
• Standardized HTML practices to streamline QA Automation processes to test applications

Web Developer (Web Music Player)

• Participated in ongoing maintenance & build of major version of web player

Primary WordPress Developer (Slacker Blog)

• Built Slacker Blog WordPress theme
• Standardized, documented, maintained Atom XML grammar for consumption of featured content to be consumed by mobile & web platforms
• Customized WordPress backend to gather and publish featured content

Web Developer (Image Services)

• Independently developed Slacker Image API SPA to test Image Services deployments

Web Developer (Mobile Apps)

• Roku Channel Store deployment
• Automotive app development
• Tablet app development for Android