Curriculum Vitae

Education

Maryland Institute College of Art, BA Graphic Design

Languages
Ruby, JavaScript, Typescript
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, React.js, React Native, Lit, Next.js, Gatsby, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS
Tooling and additional experience
Algolia Search, API Development, AWS, CircleCI, Cloudinary, CodeClimate, Elasticsearch, Fastly, Figma, Framer Motion, Github Actions, Google Firebase, GraphQL, GSAP, Hasura GraphQL Engine, Hashlips Art Engine, Imgix, Keen.io, KeyCDN, Lookbook, Mapbox, Meilisearch, Motion One, MySQL, Postgres, React Query, Redis, REST, StorybookJS, View Components, Zencoder, Zustand
Deployment experience
AWS Amplify, Digital Ocean, DO App Platform, Dokku, Heroku, Netlify, Vercel

Collaborated with a small team to revamp and rebrand the Kongregate platform and brand website, enhancing performance and ensuring a seamless experience for 40,000+ daily users.
Collaborated to create a design library of web components (Konstruct UI) that could be used across all Kongregate properties.
Coordinated with graphic artists, storytellers, comic inkers, and character riggers to curate a cutting-edge NFT collection for the Blood Vessels web3 RPG, consisting of thousands of distinct layer-based art images.
Created a character card generator for the Blood Vessels web3 RPG game, which could produce near limitless role-based character data with randomized traits and attributes, presented in an easy to parse UI.
Architected a dashboard enabling teams to review generative trait iterations in NFT collections, caching assets from S3 with Imgix, storing character data in Postgres, and providing filters for feature comparison.

Led development of 8+ projects for enterprise clients, SMB customers, and internal stakeholders.
NPR Live Sessions: Created a customized content management dashboard for station managers of 20+ national radio stations; crafted a versioned API for third-party tool integration.

Led full-stack development efforts for TED-Ed, TED City, WorldScienceU, 100yrs, and various microsites.
Contributed to design system style guides and component libraries for TED-Ed, utilizing Zeroheight and Lookbook.
Developed a company playbook outlining company philosophy, design and development process, and strategic approaches.

Directed teams of 5-10 engineers in development and delivery of multiple full-stack projects for clients.
American University: Led development effort in creating a CSS framework for the release of american.edu, and upon which subsequent sub brand sites could be built and maintained.
Royal Caribbean: Led a team of developers in architecting a scalable component system to support purchase flows and modular site content.

iVillage: Orchestrated development efforts for sequential vertical releases with a focus on performance and capabilities which could accommodate iVillage’s user base of 21.4 million monthly visitors.
Nintendo: Launched an interactive web experience for Punch-Out!!, a Wii game which sold 1.27 million copies.
FX Networks: Developed high performance online experiences for the newly redesigned fxnetworks.com in the run-up to a fall kickoff.
Created interactive flight visualizations and various frontend experiences for JetBlue.

Built interactive and updatable frontend microsites in Flash/Actionscript and Javascript for Under Armour Athletes Hunt, Under Armour Mountain Gear, and Under Armour Performance Training.

Led frontend development efforts for a wide range of web projects in the entertainment industry, such as Young Frankenstein the Musical, One Hour Photo, Dragon Dynasty, IFC Entertainment, and IFC In Theaters.

Built full-stack solution for a daily online magazine which receives millions of viewers per month. Included was a bespoke administration system for content editors and site managers to add and publish articles, monitor user comments, and upload media.

Built an interactive frontend experience for IDEO Selects: Works From the Permanent Collection.

Created a feature animation for “Green School”, played as the opener to the Greenbuild 2008 Boston/Chicago Conference.

Led technology efforts in all aspects of frontend and backend development, animation and interactive experience, for a wide range of clients including Cambridge Architectural Mesh, Cleveland Institute of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

2013 Webby in Education category for TED-Ed
2010 OMMA Award, “Best in Show” for Integrated Online Campaign for Pepsi Refresh
2010 OMMA Award, “Best Integrated Online Campaign” in the Non-Alcoholic Beverage category for Pepsi Refresh
57th annual Cannes Lions, Bronze Cyber Lion for Best Digitally Driven Integrated Campaign for Pepsi Refresh
2010 “Best Web Site of Industry” in the Education category by the Web Marketing Association for American University