Resume

Manager experience

• Manage and mentor multiple reports ranging from Junior to Senior levels.
• Gather and distill peer feedback into useful data for career growth and goal setting.
• Provide coaching and support through challenging situations.
• Advocate for reports including compensation adjustments and level promotion.
• Work at personal & engineering practice level to improve manager skills across the company.

Team Lead experience

• Troubleshoot team processes and run experiments to improve team cohesion and effectiveness.
• Grow engineers into technical and project leaders through empowerment and collaboration.
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with clients to develop relationships that foster clear communication of technical work and feature implementation planning.
• Work with and mentor other team leads to develop shared practices and growth as leaders.
• Collaborate with team representatives from Product, Design, and Delivery practices to develop feature implementation plans using Agile principles.

• Led feature work including discovery, writing user stories, coordinating with Product, Design, and Delivery as well as interfacing with clients.
• Helped team to improve unit and end-to-end testing across the frontend.
• Facilitated meetings and discussion around various processes.
• Presented internal talks on pair programming, mentoring, and other topics.
• Mentored jr engineers, helping define knowledge gaps & develop projects to grow their skills.

I am the Publisher and Editor-In-Chief at this small press and its flagship publication, Luna Station Quarterly. In addition to writing editorials and a monthly blog column, I handle numerous other responsibilities.

• Manage remote staff of over 20 editors and 30 bloggers including assigning story submissions, planning and running staff meetings, onboarding new editors, and writing documentation.
• Create all cover designs, book layouts and digital editions for each publication.
• Source and manage support tools for newsletters, social media and story submission management.
• Handle all web development responsibilities for the magazine, press, and submission websites.

I worked on small teams at this digital consultancy providing full product development, from design to code in an Agile package.

• Created applications in React, GraphQL & Typescript and Rails for Fortune 10 clients.
• Refactored front-end custom CSS/Sass frameworks, ensured full unit and integration test coverage and improved user experience and accessibility on client sites.
• Presented technical talks on Accessibility and Xpath.
• Helped establish internal best practices and preferred toolsets.

At this consultancy, I implemented new workflows and technologies, improved team efficiency, mentored junior developers, and presented internal tech talks.

• Senior Developer on mobile sites for the 1800Flowers brands, increasing conversion rates, maintaining and improving existing codebase, and implementing new features.
• Architect and Tech Lead for Web Payments API and Google AMP implementation projects.
• Tech Lead and Project Manager for Bloomreach partnership, serving top 100 ecommerce merchants, improving search and conversion.

My main responsibility was designing and building PHP-based user interfaces for the company’s various ecommerce sites and blogs.

June 2010 - December 2010

At this boutique web agency, I assisted in all aspects of site development, from template creation to photo preparation.