About
About Me
I'm a Front-End Engineer with 9 years of experience spanning multiple industries and departments. I have strong communication skills, a entrepreneurship degree, and experience in all aspects of launching and running a business. Always a strong proponent for change, I will help you achieve your goals as you help me achieve mine.
Philosophy
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
Work Experience
InMoment
Oct 2016 - Present
UI Team Lead & Senior Front-End Developer
I lead front-end development efforts at InMoment and created and ran the UI Guild.
- Lead a team to manage global aspects of the Experience Hub.
- Worked on migration from Angular 1 to Angular 2 on Experience Hub
- Built new component library using Bootstrap 4 and Angular 4
- Led a team in the creation of a new Admin Application
Software Technology Group
May 2016 - October 2016
Senior Front-End Developer
As an employee of STG I worked as a contractor for MRM-McCann Salt Lake and InMoment as a Front-End Developer.
- Built Open Source plugin to create video pointer lines for landing pages (MRM-McCann)
- Managed Development efforts for Verizon Signature Experiences project through phase 3 (MRM-McCann Salt Lake)
- Performed load analysis and optimizations for landing pages on ION cms (MRM-McCann Salt Lake)
- Took over USPS Deliver the Win site development (MRM-McCann Salt Lake)
- Updated navigation and ran usability tests on the new (InMoment)
- Built Front-End Team (InMoment)
MasterControl
June 2014 - May 2016
UX/UI Lead
Worked as a liason between Development and UX. Helped to define process and implement new technologies.
- Conducted surveys and usability tests of new designs
- Design user interactions for interfaces
- Assisted in interviewing candidates
- Made technological decisions and guided implementation
MasterControl
March 2012 - June 2014
Documents Team Tech Lead & Software Engineer
Led the development efforts on the Documents product team.
- Conducted daily and weekly agile meetings with the team.
- Built new feature sets for the Documents module
- Designed and built customer success display for main entry
- Built a testing tool for use by engineering department
Simplicity Group
June 2011 - March 2012
Chief Technology Officer
Managed technology stack, built new systems, maintained systems. Everything required of a CTO at a small company.
- Performed migration of systems from Adobe ColdFusion to Railo
- Designed and built a new lead-collection system
- Upgraded affiliate marketing system to include product-search functionality leveraging the Google Shopper API
- Created marketing system for merchants with physical locations and leveraged the Google Maps and Places APIs
School Improvement Network
September 2009 - June 2011
Web Developer
Worked for a marketing department initially to manage web presence. Eventually moved to product development.
- Developed an email marketing system for tracking user subscriptions and interaction
- Constructed a landing page system for testing marketing strategies
- Reworked the code for the company website
- Created and implemented ColdFusion reporting in PD360
Simplicity Group
September 2008 – September 2009
Web Developer
A ColdFusion developer learning the wonders of affiliate marketing. I rebuilt and optimized a lot of systems in the process.
- Redesigned architecture of a template-based affiliate marketing system
- Upgraded reporting in lead management software
- Developed a system for managing Amazon EC2 instances
- Created a site for streaming user-uploaded content
BYU HHPS
January 2008 – September 2008
Web Developer
Student developer working on applications to support Health and Human Performance Services.
- Built an application for tracking hours worked by volunteer staff
- Updated and fixed issues with an application for keeping track of coaches
Instructor Experience
University of Utah
December 2017 - Present
Professional Education Instructor
I was asked to teach several courses for the Professional Education department
- Dreamweaver (Levels 1 & 2)
- Web Design: An Integrated Approach
- Dreamweaver Advanced
- Responsive Web Design
- HTML5 / CSS Advanced
Salt Lake ColdFusion User Group
February 2011 - February 2016
Group Manager and Instructor
I organized the user group, scheduled meetings, coordinated with speakers, and presented several times a year. Topics I presented on include:
- Semantic HTML
- Responsive Web Development
- Web Storage Technologies
- HTML5
- New ColdFusion Features with each release
- Advanced CSS
My Education
Indiana University
September 2017 - August 2019
Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
I'm pursuing an MBA through Indiana University's Kelley Direct Online program.
University of Utah
January 2010 - August 2016
Entrepreneurship Undergraduate Degree (BS)
After starting in computer science I discovered that I was more interested in business and switched to a business degree.
Brigham Young University
January 2008 - September 2008
Figuring out Life
I attended BYU for a semester. I learned a lot, and moved on with my life. Ask me about it. :)
My Skills
Personal Skills
- Effective Communication
- Leadership
- Project Management
- Agile Development
- Presentation
- Documentation
- Organization
Programming Skills
- HTML
- CSS / LESS / SASS
- Javascript
- Typescript
- Java
- PHP
- ColdFusion
- Visual Basic
Software Familiarity
- Wordpress
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Visual Studio Code
- Brackets
- Eclipse
- Visual Studio
- Microsoft Office
IT and Server Skills
- AWS Products
- RHEL and Ubuntu Linux
- Windows Server
- MS SQL Server
- MySQL
- Oracle
- MongoDB
- Apache
- Nginx
- IIS
- Tomcat
Frameworks and Libraries
- Angular JS
- Angular
- React
- Express
- Fusebox
- Zend
- jQuery
Certifications
Adobe Certified Expert - ColdFusion
Adobe Certified Expert - Dreamweaver
Contract Work
- All 18
- Design 7
- Development 18
- API / Integrations 6
- Hosting / Cloud Services 11
- Documentation 2
Little Poppy Co
I came into this project late. There were several issues including jQuery incompatibility issues and bootstrap integration problems. I addressed all of the crucial issues as well as updated the UI to make it match the comps and be more responsive.
Bellamoi Boutique
The client was having some problems implementing template changes in Volusion and changing the checkout process. I made the modifications they requested and provided guidance on SEO, SEM and Social Media Marketing.
Bright Water Foundation
I was initially contacted by the Bright Water Foundation to "finish" a site that they were working on. This led to a complete redesign of the site, implementation of the new site in WordPress, and migrating the hosting. All at a discount to help their organization move forward.
Utah State Department of Health - Opioid Campaign
GumCo contacted me about building out the Opidemic website for the Utah State Department of Health. It was an ambitious project with a three week deadline for the initial site but we powered through it in time for them to launch a campaign at a conference. It was built on WordPress and hosted on my Amazon Web Services account.
Code Savvy Consulting
Code Savvy is a new consulting firm looking to build their online presence through a website. I threw the site together for them in a weekend based on a theme they selected.
Utah School and Institutional Trust Funds Office
GumCo contacted me about building out the website for SITFO. They were looking to raise awareness for an upcoming amendment to their charter in the 2016 election. They were looking for a simple site to help convey their message to a broad audience. It was built on WordPress.
GumCo
Having done a considerable amount of work for GumCo's clients they approached me about fixing some of the issues on their site. I fixed the immediate issues and encouraged them to go down the path to a complete rewrite.
Vislevel
VisLevel is a startup looking to revolutionize the way businesses handle task management. I built the website and the application for them as well as their API.
The Sweet Tooth Fairy
GumCo contacted me about this project as a potentially massive project. The Sweet Tooth Fairy was wanting to change their website and switch ecommerce platforms. I built the site on Mura CMS and migrated them from GoDaddy to Temedy for eCommerce.
Temedy
Temedy is an eCommerce platform that needed to be migrated to the cloud. I performed the cloud migration and built the new angular based admin and API for the platform.
Utah State Treasurer - Unclaimed Property Division
GumCo contacted me about building the website. It's built in Sitefinity CMS and hosted on the State's servers.
High Country Adventure
I performed two redesigns of the High Country Adventure website over the past decade. The latest version is built on Mura CMS.
Simplicity Group
I used to work for Simplicity Group and they still reach out to me from time to time when they need help. While contracting for them I migrated their servers from a colocational center to AWS cloud hosting. I keep their certificates up to date and fix issues with their systems as they arise.
Xcel Fitness
Xcel was hosted on a personal hosting account. I migrated it to a new hosting account and performed some UI updates.
Alliance Probation
Initially contacted to help guide them through purchasing a new server I convinced them to migrate their platform to the cloud. I've been maintaining it for them and updating it as needed. It has undergone several redesigns to meet their needs.
The Go Travel Sites
The Go Travel Sites were integrating with a web scraping company but needed a system to automate the process. I designed and built a multi-threaded ColdFusion system to manage those requests and process them.
Hirevue
I contracted with Hirevue to help with Zend integration and documentation. It was short and sweet. I eventually got paid and we all moved on with our lives.
Simply Renee - Clip It Up
Ah, my first contract. For an insanely low price I built a custom eCommerce platform for them to sell their products online. I worked many sleepless nights and long weekends to hit the deadline but I made it.
Contact Me
Love to collaborate with creative people.
My Contact Info
Salt Lake City, UT