I long for meaningful work that connects my heart to the world and those on my team. While I have many years of leadership experience, my current priorities are to grow personally and hone my technical skills. How can I help you?
From UX and mobile-first to engineering and scalable architecture, I offer a comprehensive ability to design, build, and deploy great software.
microservices service-oriented scalable serverless test-driven i18n API database object-oriented RESTful json:api UML ORM MVC security semantic versioning release management technical writing
team leadership tech leadership mentorship Scrum Kanban Jira
Here's a sample of recent work.
I lead the effort to develop a WordPress theme for this French food producer Materne. Includes ZenDesk API integration and plenty of Lottie animations.
Written in Vue.js and PHP, this sales calculator responds to user activity to generate a PDF.
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Adobe made a big fuss about this backbone.js-driven mural. They showcased the project during this Adobe MAX 2014 keynote. The concept was simple: A responsive grid combined with a Behance data source, creating a safe space for artists of all kinds to share their ideas about bullying. Adobe Studios provided the design, which I executed. I had a blast making subtle refinements in the experience, with beautiful results.
The experience has held up well over the years and across new browsers. I no longer maintain it.
This project is dear to my heart. Known as a workhorse for the company, Connect has served as a RESTful API for Vacasa's monolithic data and business logic. Now that services have a consistent interface for that data, we're able to decouple chunks of the monolith into new services and modernize.
I introduced json:api to the company with this project and it has since been adopted as a standard.
I was the tech lead on the team that created this service. I wrote the OpenAPI specification that drives the documentation.
I designed and built an application that managed and generated 1099 E-Files and PDFs for Vacasa. It included a thorough, regex-driven validation process, and also used a job manager to kick off and manage asynchronous processes.
I was a senior engineer on a great team where we built a RESTful, json:api-ready API service to present business logic at the heart of what Vacasa is: homes.
I bootstrapped the project and designed the Features module. This module required we translate home data from a monolithic and more complicated structure into a new service with a simplified design and its own source of truth. And keep both systems live and in sync at all times.
I picked up a new programming language and framework with this project.
Exterro is a legal "e-discovery" platform. I rebuilt their mobile-first site from the ground up using CraftCMS. This project includes a blog, showcases several products, and includes a resource library. I wrote several Craft plugins to support this site.
When I arrived at Vacasa, the engineering team was using a proprietary object-relational mapping (ORM) library to manage access and simplify the use of their monolithic database, called "EntityModel". We realized that for one, this ORM reinvented the wheel in PHP - when there are several widely used, full-functionality ORMs available. As our plans for PHP-based microservices started to take hold, we knew we needed our models to have the capability of one of these pre-existing ORM libraries. As our microservices were intended to be Laravel-driven, it made sense to adopt Laravel's ORM, "Eloquent".
I rebuilt EntityModel to both support existing instances of the library and be forward-compatible with Eloquent. So now the models can use all the Eloquent bells and whistles without having to refactor any existing models.