I'm a front-end-focused software engineer with experience across full-stack Web applications. Previously worked in news industry as corporate content director and editor. Outside of technical abilities, skills include audience development, content creation and management.
Skills
Languages/Frameworks
Testing
Systems/Practices
Education
Vanderbilt University, BA, English, Spanish
Turing School of Software and Design, Front-End Engineering Program
Professional Experience
eGifter
Front-End Developer
Huntington, NY/Remote, Oct. 2021 to present
- Work in Vue, Sass, TypeScript and Nuxt to build and maintain modern user interfaces for leading platform for eCommerce gifting and for gift card rewards and incentives.
- Implement new feature requests for internal projects, eGifter-branded marketplaces and client marketplaces.
- Work on framework improvements in Vue/Nuxt codebase.
- Fix bugs and work with QA team through testing process.
- Implemented new features, in Vue front end and C#/.NET back end, in content management system to allow for management of clients and products.
Ethopass
Software Engineer
Boulder, CO, Aug. 2020 to Oct. 2021
- Work in Vue, Vuex, TypeScript, Sass and Jest to build out front end of secure authentication solution at startup.
- Built out the Ethopass admin panel, which allows administrators to provision, delete and modify user credentials within an organization.
- Implemented new designs for the product's web extension, incorporating back-end API.
- Implemented unit tests using Vue Test Utils and Jest. Implemented end-to-end testing using Selenium and Mocha/Chai.
- Built out documentation site for Ethopass project using Vuepress.
Swift Communications
Director of Content
Gypsum, CO, Jan. 2017 to Feb. 2019
- Leader of the overall content plan for 18 newspapers/websites across Colorado, California and Utah — including all digital, print, news, niche and social media produced by the local operations.
- Grew company's overall digital audience by 45% in two years.
Vail Daily
Managing Editor
Vail, CO, June 2010 to Jan. 2017
- Oversaw all editorial content on a daily basis, managing a staff of 10-15 editorial employees.
- Created daily On the Hill video ski/activity report in Vail, Aspen, Summit County and Tahoe that achieved nearly 1 million video views and $250,000 revenue in four years.
- Covered Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in 2014 and Pyeongchang, South Korea, in 2018.
Awards
Turing School of Software and Design
First place, Demo Comp
June 2020
- Won first place for the Trackbasket app at Demo Comp, which was open to all upper- level students in the school. Six projects were accepted into the demo comp.