Curriculum Vitae

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Experience

Technical Lead | Sony

March 2024-April 2024

You may not know this, but Sony has a highly successful ISP business in Japan. I was hired to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of front-end software for a new, “premium fiber-to-the-home internet service”. Can’t say more per the terms of my NDA, but it was really cool! I’m bummed it was so short-lived.

Unfortunately, due to changing strategy at the executive level, this project was cancelled shortly after I started. Still proud of what I was able to accomplish!

• Architected a robust, multi-platform design system using Storybook and Style Dictionary to output a custom Tailwind configuration, increasing engineering efficiency by 50%.
• Created Quality Management Strategy (QMS) in my first two weeks to ensure web application performance and accessibility; presented to Sony leadership.

Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems | REI Co-op

July-2021 - March 2024

After spending time as an avid consumer and contributor to REI’s design system, Cedar, I was invited to join the core team to lead the next evolution of the system as we migrated all of REI Co-op to Vue 3.

• Led the development, maintenance and release management of REI’s open-source design system, Cedar, encompassing UI components, design tokens, patterns, documentation, and guidelines
• Distributed efficient and reusable component library that greatly improved presentation, reliability, maintainability and accessibility for REI.com, resulting in dramatic reductions in time-to-market and millions of dollars in developer resource savings
• Improved application resilience and developer productivity by spearheading the introduction of TypeScript to the REI Engineering community
• Led a quarterly cross-discipline collaboration with engineers, designers and product managers to refine and prioritize requests and translate them into high-quality deliverables
• Engineered a design system documentation platform using Nuxt, Vue and AWS. Automated component documentation, streamlining processes and improving team efficiency.
• Championed accessibility by automating e2e WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility testing for the component library, reducing production errors by 50%
• Mentored engineers on best practices, streamlined code reviews by facilitating real-time collaboration, reducing comments by 45%
• Created onboarding training for UX designers and PMs that walked through how REI.com works at a level understandable to a non-technical audience, resulting in increased team productivity and performance

Software Engineer, Digital Publishing | REI Co-op

June 2019 - July 2021

I was promoted to Software Engineer and joined the publishing platform team, working on our content delivery applications and services.

• Crafted search-optimized digital experiences for enterprise e-commerce micro applications, increasing organic demand and ranking by 25%
• Lowered technical overhead 80% and increased Time-to-Market 50% by migrating all landing pages from a monolith to a new micro-frontend platform within one year
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design RESTful API’s for consumption from headless CMS platforms, improving UX by 30% and streamlining content delivery
• Created and implemented a pattern to inject custom data from a WYSIWYG in order to fetch and render dynamic product data within gear buying guides. Increasing organic search value and conversion by 25%
• Led a project to build an interface for visual content editing of REI’s “Expert Advice” articles using REST API’s to interact with the content service and CMS.
• Built a frontend search experience for the REI newsroom application using ElasticSearch to query article data.
• Implemented A/B tests for targeted experiences using both client-side and server-side techniques, enabling a “test and learn” product mindset.

Technical Producer | REI Co-op

July 2017 - June 2019

• Operationalized landing page experiences by developing a reusable library of compositional components using driving $30,000,000+ in sales/day
• Closely partnered with marketing and brand teams to develop highly visible and highly engaging interactive experiences, such as the viral “Opt Outside” campaign, while ensuring a performant and accessible experience for all

Web Developer | National Psoriasis Foundation

May 2016 - July 2017

• Designed and developed the web applications for the foundation’s primary website using Drupal/PHP.
• Created digital screening tool for patients and providers to evaluate risk for psoriatic arthritis.
• Coordinated with multiple internal and external stakeholders across a wide range of healthcare and pharmaceutical disciplines to deliver functionality and features in service of patients with psoriasis

Web Development Manager | Pacific University

March 2014 - May 2016

Promoted to manage the projects, priorities and members of the Internet team in the Office of Marketing and Communications.

• Responsible for overall design, development and functional direction of the university’s websites as well as content management, online advertising, and search engine optimization.
• Co-led the complete redesign of the university’s web presence from discovery to launch. This project included three phases and involved hundreds of stakeholders over the course of 21 months.
• Collaborated with various stakeholders across the university to design and implement a digital marketing strategy for their program, including social marketing, SEO, and paid advertising.
• Consultant to the University Technology Committee and various programs exploring or implementing new technologies.

Web Marketing Developer | Pacific University

August 2011 - March 2014

Hybrid role in the Office of Marketing and Communications responsible for web development, digital marketing, and social media.

• Earned Gold Award from CASE District VIII for the design and development of a landing page suite for the university’s integrated marketing strategy.
• Created monthly reports and analysis for website traffic and conversions. Identified and implemented strategies to increase conversion rate by 300 percent.
• Transformed the university’s social presence from a pseudo-news-feed to a multi-channel platform of diverse content and engagement. Oversaw immense growth in influence and followers on Facebook, Twitter, and other social platforms.

Education

B.A. Integrated Media | Pacific University

August 2007 - May 2011

Believe it or not, I started school with the intention of being a biology major, but got the programming itch when I took a C++ course my sophomore year. At the same time, I discovered I really enjoyed classes on digital art, graphic design and photography.

Eventually, I settled on majoring in Integrated Media, a hybrid major consisting of frontend engineering, UI/UX design, and project management. I intended to earn a minor in computer science, amd completed many high-level math and programming courses towards it, but did not complete the requirements prior to graduating.

• 4-year NCAA swimmer, elected team captain.
• Led the Ambassador program for mentoring new students my junior and senior year

Volunteer work

Board of Trustees | Seabury School

June 2018 - September 2023

Nominated and elected to the board of trustees for small independent school in Tacoma, WA.

• Chair of the development committee
• Secretary
• Hundreds of hours of in-kind web consultation/development