San Francisco, California, United States
I create delightful user experiences for projects such as YouTube TV and Skintone.google. Currently part of Google’s AI Transparency team
Freelanced for a variety of agencies & Web evangelists primarily on a NDA basis, Leveraging modern front-end languages, frameworks, tools, & best practices such as RxJS or ES7 Observables; SystemJS, ES2015, Sass, Rails 4, Web Components, React, Reactive Functional Programming, & BDD development. Recent publicly disclosable clients includes Casper, Trumid, Code & Theory, & GlobalCitizen.org Most recent freelance project was for Casper. For Casper, I was part of the team contracted to redesign their site powered by Rails to accommodate selling multiple product from previously selling only one products, re-engineering their site to better accommodate modern JS & CSS along the way. I lead or aided in the brainstorming & development of various new components such as their courier slot picker & other various components that made up their new checkout flow, home page, and product pages. Primarily utilized Babel, SystemJS, RxJS, Sass, & modern DOM (DOM4) to accomplish such tasks. In summary, I've designed & developed user experiences on the Web for various companies as a Front-end & Back-end developer on a contract basis.
• Architect, implement, and iterate on front-end designs and user interactions • Working closely with designers and product engineers to ship early and often • Build efficient and reusable front-end systems and abstractions • Participate in design and code reviews, as well as deal with day-to-day issues Never intending to be there the whole campaign, this was a personal sabbatical of sorts while preparing for other opportunities I wanted to pursue in 2016 that more align with my interests of making modern, performant, & accessible Web applications.
Worked on experimental features & components for Foundation for Apps utilizing Polymer, Angular Directives. I also fixed & improved code associated with Foundation 5. Occasionally helped with problems associated with client projects.
Taught, mentored, graded the work of students in the topics of introductory front-end engineering involving HTML5 and CSS3 as a TA for the Information Technology Program. Taught a select few more modern techniques associated with Sass, Rails, HTML5, "CSS3", and responsive web design outside the courses I TA'd associated with front-end web development because the courses of the program primarily focused on obsolete techniques and workflows associated with the XHTML, ECMAScript3, and CSS2 specifications.