Recent Professional Experience
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Senior Front-End Developer Pro Athlete, Inc.
E-commerce: Sporting Goods; Kansas City, MO ( 2021-Current )- Migrated legacy .NET MVC [with jQuery] web applications to Vue [with Vite, Nuxt, Pinia, and Tailwind]
- Led accessibility audits and improvements, ensuring compliance with WCAG standards while minimizing legal risk
- Built and integrated NUnit with Selenium test suite into CI/CD pipeline
- Worked with GTM and Clarity to analyze user behavior and optimize site performance and user experience
- Collaborated with UX and A/B testing teams to maximize user engagement and conversion rates
- Additionally utilized: JavaScript ES6, Figma, HubSpot, Optimize, SQL Server, and AWS S3 and Cloudfront
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Senior Full-Stack Developer Diamond Merckens Hogan
Marketing: Agency; Kansas City, MO ( 2019-2021 )- Led Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) web development (utilizing Java, Maven, OSGI, Sightly, and jQuery)
- Maintained and developed Django sites (utilizing Python, Wagtail, and Oscar)
- Maintained and developed Wordpress sites (utilizing PHP, and jQuery)
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User Experience Architect Artisan Technology Group
Technology: Consulting Solutions; Kansas City, MO ( 2018-2019 )- Organized, planned, designed, prototyped, and developed custom solutions for a wide variety of technology applications (utilizing Angular, React, Material, and XD)
- Conducted market research and in-depth business discovery to provide user-centric design solutions
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Principal Developer Intouch Solutions, Inc.
Marketing: Agency; Overland Park, KS ( 2014-2018 )- Developed dozens of websites for Fortune 500 healtchcare companies (utilizing .NET MVC, AEM, Java, Maven, JavaScript ES6, Sightly, jQuery, Bootstrap, Veeva, and Angular)
- Acted as a liaison between technology vendors and client IT groups to facilitate seamless communication and project execution
- Developed standard operating procedures and documented code standards while mentoring team developers to become certified experts
- Led the creation of an enterprise-scale component library and design system for consistent branding and functionality across enterprise solutions
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Web Developer Softek Solutions, Inc.
Technology: Healthcare Software; Prairie Village, KS ( 2010-2014 )- Designed and developed the public web experience (utilizing PHP, JavaScript ES6, jQuery, Bootstrap and PostgreSQL)
- Managed entire online presence, including social networking platforms and event management
Certificates and Degrees
Graceland University; Bachelor's ( 2001-2005 )
Adobe; Adobe Experience Manager: 6.x Expert Developer ( 2016 )
Amazon Web Services; Accreditation: Business Professional ( 2018 )
Amazon Web Services; Accreditation: Total Cost of Ownership and Cloud Economics ( 2019 )
Technical Background
- .NET MVC [BE] 16yr
- Actionscript [UI] 8yr
- AEM [FWK] 4yr
- Alpine [FWK] 3yr
- Angular [FWK] 3yr
- Apache [OPS] 16yr
- AWS [OPS] 8yr
- Bootstrap [UI] 13yr
- Cake [FWK] 4yr
- Django [FWK] 2yr
- Drupal [FWK] 2yr
- Express [OPS] 6yr
- Figma [DESIGN] 6yr
- Git [OPS] 16yr
- GSAP [UI] 12yr
- GTM [OPS] 5yr
- Gulp / Grunt [OPS] 10yr
- Highcharts [UI] 6yr
- HTL / Sightly [FE] 4yr
- Illustrator [DESIGN] 25yr
- Java [BE] 4yr
- JavaScript [UI] 16yr
- Joomla [FWK] 2yr
- jQuery [UI] 13yr
- JSP [FE] 4yr
- Material [UI] 3yr
- Maven [OPS] 4yr
- MongoDB [DATA] 1yr
- Node [OPS] 12yr
- NPM [OPS] 12yr
- NUnit [TEST] 5yr
- Nuxt [OPS] 1yr
- Photoshop [DESIGN] 25yr
- PHP [BE] 20yr
- Pinia [DATA] 5yr
- PostgreSQL [DATA] 6yr
- Python [BE] 2yr
- React [FWK] 2yr
- Redux [DATA] 2yr
- SASS / Less [UI] 13yr
- Selenium [TEST] 5yr
- Sketch [DESIGN] 10yr
- SketchUp [DESIGN] 3yr
- SQL / mySQL [DATA] 18yr
- Symphony [FWK] 2yr
- Tailwind [UI] 5yr
- TypeScript [FE] 2yr
- Vite [OPS] 4yr
- Vue [FWK] 5yr
- Wagtail [FWK] 2yr
- Webpack [OPS] 3yr
- Wordpress [FWK] 4yr
- XD [DESIGN] 6yr
- Yarn [OPS] 4yr