Web Platform Practitioner
My career comprises over a decade of modern web development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
As web development has evolved from statically served pages, to client-heavy SPAs, to full-stack hybrid client/server applications I have continuously broadened and deepened my skill set.
A problem solver first, my best work has been in creating solutions that boost developer effectiveness, code reusability, and cross department collaboration.
Skills and Experience Across the Entire Stack
- Next.js, React, Web Components, Lit, Stencil.js, 11ty, Astro
- JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Python, shell scripting, functional programming
- SQL, GraphQL, REST APIs, JSON, sanity.io, Contentful, headless CMS
- HTML, CSS, SCSS, SVG, Styled Components, Emotion, CSS-in-JS, vanilla extract
- node.js, JAM stack, SSR, SSG, island architecture, SPA, PWA, MVC, MV VM, MV*
- AWS, (Lambda, S3, ec2, Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, Cognito) Netlify, microservices
- git, SCM, Agile methodologies, DX, code review, Scrum, best practices, mentorship
- unit and integration testing, automation, Jest, Mocha, TDD, Puppeteer, Playwright
- design systems, design tokens, accessibility, a11y, WCAG, UX/UI, user studies
- naming things, cache invalidation
Recent Accomplishments
- Championed greater collaboration between Design and Development teams at by establishing common practices, terminology and workflows between departments
- Designed and lead development of our in-house hybrid SSG/SSR JAM stack web metaframework which:
- Enables familiar page-building paradigms within a more flexible structured content CMS (sanity.io)
- Augments common CSS-in-JS frameworks with a set of composable utility functions
- Maps deeply nested backend data to explicit TypeScript objects, using recursive type generics
- Created data-driven react/redux tooling capable of generating complex, dynamic web forms for manipulating deeply nested data defined via JSON schemas
Employment History
| company | position | start | - | end |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HZ Design Group | Principal Architect | Apr 2022 | - | May 2023 |
| HZ Design Group | Senior Software Engineer | Feb 2020 | - | Apr 2022 |
| Frederick Mutual Insurance | Senior Software Engineer | May 2019 | - | Jan 2020 |
| Social Security Administration | Developer (contract) | Jan 2019 | - | May 2019 |
| DivvyCloud | Senior Software Engineer (contract) | Apr 2018 | - | Oct 2018 |
| Washington Post | Senior Software Engineer (contract) | Jan 2017 | - | Jan 2018 |
| Independent Contractor | Instructor and Consultant | Jan 2016 | - | Jan 2017 |
| Decisive Communications | Senior Software Engineer | Mar 2015 | - | Jan 2016 |
| NGP VAN | Software Engineer | Jan 2014 | - | Feb 2015 |
| Marriott | Front End Developer (contract) | Feb 2013 | - | Dec 2013 |
| Unison Inc | Front End Developer (contract) | Nov 2012 | - | Feb 2013 |
Education
- BS in Computer Science from Hood College in 2008
- AS in Computer Science from Frederick Community College in 2004
- Certificates: ScrumMaster (CSM) in 2013, MCSE, A+, and Net+ in 2000