Seeking full-time opportunities to apply my varied background to web projects.
Adept at React and the modern web, full-stack JavaScript. Reliant on good code structure, patience, reference to documentation.
Passionate about user interfaces, an advocate for designing user experience first and foremost. An engineer who can design, a designer who can build.
Quick learner, able to take on problems outside direct area of expertise and be successful. Easy-going, skillful communicator, empathetic and thoughtful, in technical and non-technical communication. Detail-oriented, zealous about quality.
Cornell University, Master of Engineering, 3.86 GPA
Brigham Young University, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, 3.78 GPA
Languages
- CSS (10 years)
- HTML (10 years)
- JavaScript (10 years)
- TypeScript (2 years)
Current Stack
- React (4 years)
- Vite (2 years)
- Tailwind CSS (2 year)
- TanStack Query (4 years)
Tools
- Cypress (1 year)
- GitHub (10 years)
- NodeJS (5 years)
Other JS Tools
- React Redux (2 years)
- react-bootstrap (3 years)
- Material-UI (2 years)
- Docker (2 years)
UI Software Engineer
Responsible for the UI for our small-business owners, first at FreshLime, then at GotYou. (Both companies share resources and have the same CEO.)
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Selected tech stack, built, and maintained web application for business owners to manage their accounts.
- React
- Vite
- TanStack Query
- Tailwind CSS, Headless UI
- shadcn/ui
- Zustand
- Cypress, vitest
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Maintained original site for store owners to manage their accounts.
- React
- Material UI
- Redux
- Bootstrap
User-Interface Designer
Responsible for design of software applications, internal and external web sites, and web applications.
- Improved the previously-engineer-designed interface of main web application, resulting in a good-looking UI loved by managers, customers, and even engineers.
- Built and maintained main external site.
- Built and maintained employees-only intranet. With a high design concept, this Adobe AIR site was finicky, but lovely.
- Coached new employees in using company’s software.
Production Manager
Responsible for workload and personal growth of programmers.
- Managed group of 5 programmers.
- Hired 1 full-time and 6 freelance programmers.
- Worked across disciplines: Coordinated with 6 project managers, 4 design directors, technologists at other offices and many client representatives.
Electrical Engineer, Design
Responsible for design of power supply for a new color copier product, prototype electronics, design of copy-controlling functionality and mechanical interface for sensors and heater.
- Created performance and regulatory specification and defined technical criteria to evaluate vendor qualifications, resulting in selection and implementation of a power supply used world-wide.
- Redesigned analog circuit and edited reference specification for clarity, achieving proper execution of copy-controlling function on a color copier with no field failures and no customer complaints.
- Redesigned paper sensor circuit, thus ensuring a smooth production ramp with no shutdowns for this sensor.
Electrical Engineer, Manufacturing
Responsible for main electronics boards for three printer and copier products, seeing to design quality, cost and reliability improvements, warranty performance and support issues; also responsible for production-line issues.
- Improved functional test of electronics board at contract manufacturer through improvements to test software, eliminating 2 failure modes of the board at top-level factory.
- Reprogrammed DOS end-of-line testing for copier product, which resulted in an assembly-time reduction of 2 minutes per unit.
- Reduced high servo subsystem failure rate by over 90%.
Front-end developer
Open-source React project from Hack For LA
- Brought cohesion to team’s use of Material-UI
- Wrote Cypress tests, expanding code coverage from 50% to 91%
- Wrote and edited documentation
- Within a month, became main contributor
Full-stack developer
React+GraphQL SPA, large side project
- Built with Vulcan, which uses Meteor
- Wrote 71 React components
- Used Redux, Apollo, Twilio, and many npm libraries
- Used MongoDB with server-side data denormalization
WordPress Developer — unionworking.com
Built this grassroots site, based on a client-selected WordPress template.
- Selected and deployed free plugins as needed.
- Created additional graphics as needed.
- Copy-edited as client allowed.
Squarespace Developer — susannahb.squarespace.com
Built musician site, based on a client-selected Squarespace template.
- Improved limited Squarespace options with injected jQuery and CSS.
LimeSurvey Programmer
Upgraded new-client assessment.
- Wrote jQuery scripts to work around LimeSurvey limitations.
- Designed new templates to use in LimeSurvey.
- Due to high quality of work, client offered 20% bonus.
Designer
Designed UI for new web distribution platform.
- Expanded sections of HotDocs Server with existing design.
- Designed new look for administrative section of web site.
SiteSpect Programmer
Designed throughput improvements.
- Built A/B tests with SiteSpect to improve monetization of SEO-heavy web site.
LimeSurvey Programmer
Responsible for building survey for Resolve client Wikimedia.
- Built survey for all Wikipedia editors around the world.
- Wrote jQuery scripts and rewrote CSS and HTML templates to work around LimeSurvey limitations.
- Ensured translation was correct in 8 languages.
Languages
Conversational Spanish
Other Professional Experiences
Acting teacher in Los Angeles.
Television, theater, and commercial actor in Los Angeles.
Electronics teacher at Middlesex Community College.
Music director for Methodist church, chorus member of Boston Symphony Orchestra and La Jolla Symphony, piano teacher,
theater administrator in New York.