Education
Bachelor of Science (OM&IS)
Northern Illinois UniversityMay 2010
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer II
Optum Digital2020 – Present
- Lead the development and maintenance of complex React and React Native applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and a high-quality user experience
- Collaborated with backend engineers, and product teams, in order to ensure seamless integration and functionality, along with aiding in many areas of project and product management
- Conducted regular code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices while mentoring junior and mid-level developers, providing guidance on coding standards, troubleshooting, and problem-solving
- Worked closely with UX/UI to transform design concepts into functional, responsive, and user-friendly interfaces
- Maintained strong test coverage via Jest and various E2E testing tools to ensure code reliability and to reduce defects
- Enacted coding standards/style-guides for a more uniform codebase
Senior Frontend Engineer
Rally Health2018 – 2020
- Created and implemented a robust RX and Pharmacy web app platform
- Worked closely with UX/UI to transform design concepts into functional, responsive, and user-friendly interfaces
- Collaborated with backend engineers, and product teams, in order to ensure seamless integration and functionality, along with aiding in many areas of project and product management
Fullstack Engineer
Earlybird Co – Custom web design and development2015 – 2018
- Managed numerous AWS products for client websites including but not limited to EC2, RDS, S3, and SMS
- Built client web apps from the ground up using VueJS and AngularJS JavaScript frameworks, all while employing the latest web coding conventions
- Designed and managed API’s on Linux-based servers utilizing the PHP Laravel framework
- Coded custom deployment scripts in Ansible for CI/CD automation in order to ensure uniformity when releasing multiple products
Web Developer
Red Frog Events – Experiential entertainment events2013 – 2015
- Helped oversee numerous concurrent projects for the various event websites
- Supported the ticketing/registration platform EventSprout built in CodeIgniter and then later in Laravel
- Managed and maintained RegistratioNATION website (precursor to EventSprout) via CodeIgniter
Junior Web Developer
Silverline Creative – Custom web design and development2012 – 2013
- Managed and maintained RegistratioNATION website in CodeIgniter for Red Frog Events
- Helped maintain the various custom-built event websites