Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer

  Kongregate

  2021 – 2024

  Remote

  • Led platform and website rebrand development effort, to support 40,000+ daily users. This work resulted in 40% SEO rankings improvement, 25% Core Vitals improvement, and per-user gameplay increase of 15%.
  • Led efforts to create a robust component library and UI Kit for the new Kongregate Design System (Konstruct).
  • Collaborated with graphic artists, comic inkers, and storytellers to create a generative NFT collection and website 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.
  • Created a dashboard enabling teams to review visual changes across NFT collection generation runs by providing feature filters for comparison, reducing team review time by nearly 80%.
  2021 – 2024
• Senior Software Engineer

  Bletchley Park: Design Engineering

  2014 – 2021

  Remote

  • Led development of 8+ projects for enterprise clients, SMB customers, and internal stakeholders.
  • NPR Live Sessions: Developed a bespoke content management system for station managers of 20+ national radio stations, providing the ability for artist management, automatic video transcoding, music, and artist recommendations. Created a versioned API for third-party tool integration.
  • Built a modular React frontend framework for political think-tank organizations to easily deploy across multiple initiatives.
  2014 – 2021
• Tech Lead

  A Hundred Years

  2012 – 2014

  Remote

  • 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 playbook outlining company philosophy, design and development process, and strategic approaches to product discovery and implementation, which was adopted as the standard by all new team members.
  2012 – 2014
• Principal Software Engineer

  HUGE

  2010 – 2012

  Los Angeles, CA / Remote

  • Directed teams of 5-10 engineers in development and delivery of multiple full-stack projects for clients.
  • American University: Developed a frontend framework for release of their award-winning site and subsequent child site spinoffs.
  • Royal Caribbean: Led development efforts for company website rebrand and updated purchase flows.
  2010 – 2012
• Senior Software Engineer

  HUGE

  2008 – 2010

  Brooklyn, NY / Los Angeles, CA / Remote

  • iVillage: Orchestrated vertical releases to accommodate iVillage’s user base of 21.4 million users.
  • Nintendo: Launched an interactive web experience for Punch-Out!!, a game selling 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.
  • JetBlue: Created interactive flight path visualizations and various frontend experiences.
  2008 – 2010
• Web Developer

  Under Armour

  2008 – 2009

  Baltimore, MD / Remote

  • 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.
  2008 – 2009
• Web Developer

  Mammoth NYC

  2007 – 2008

  Brooklyn NY / Remote

  • 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.
  2007 – 2008
• Web Developer

  Splice Today

  2007 – 2010

  Baltimore, MD

  • 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.
  2007 – 2010
• Web Developer

  Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

  2007

  Remote

  • Built an interactive frontend experience for IDEO Selects: Works From the Permanent Collection.
  2007
• Animator/Video

  U.S. Green Building Council

  2007

  Baltimore, MD

  • Created a feature animation for “Green School”, played as the opener to the Greenbuild 2008 Boston/Chicago Conference.
  2007
• Director of Design Technology

  Fastspot

  2001 – 2007

  Baltimore, MD

  • 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.
  2001 – 2007