Professional Experience


AMP Agency

Sr. Director of Front-End Technology · Jan 2021 — Present

Remote / Portland, OR
  • Runs a team of several front-end developers and support hiring decisions for technical department
  • Verify budgets vs timelines
  • Work closely with department heads to establish and codify processes both within the technical department and cross-discipline on everything from code style to release-cycle management
  • Continue contributing 85%+ of time to billable project work

SmallTalk

Director of Front-End Technology · Jan 2019 — Dec 2020

Remote / Portland, OR
  • Run a team of several front-end developers and support hiring decisions for department
  • Establish overall front-end technical standards and approach for all projects
  • Allocation of technical staff to projects
  • Work with Account managers to establish estimates, timelines, and overall project budgets for new and existing business
  • Develop company-wide standards for technical implementation and handoff
  • Develop new-business pitch content to sell new business with cross-discipline teams

Velowerks

Sr. Manager, Front-End Engineering · April 2017 — Jan 2019

Remote / Portland, OR
  • Run a team of several front-end developers and support hiring decisions for department
  • Established front-end code standards
  • HR Manager for Senior- and Mid-level developers, providing both career guidance and technical support
  • Project-level technical lead for all Front-End projects on a variety of platforms
  • Estimate efforts for projects, and allocate staff according to needs
  • Participate in new business pitches

Epsilon

Lead Front-End Developer · Feb 2013 — March 2017

🌁
San Francisco, CA
  • Act as lead developer on several high-profile projects
  • Establish and document department-wide code standards for front-end technologies
  • Lead stand-ups
  • Lead bi-weekly releases, including documenting all release notes

Gyro

Sr. Web Developer · March 2012 — Jan 2013

🌁
San Francisco, CA
  • Worked on PHP, WordPress, HTML email, and JS-based SPA for various B2B clients such as Ryder, VMWare, Varian
  • Participlated in creative pitch sessions with rest of Creative team

88 Brand Partners

Sr. Interactive Developer · Feb 2010 — March 2012

🌭
Chicago, IL
  • Supported on day-to-day devops and IT responsibilities for the company
  • Developed PHP, HTML websites for clients such as NorthShore University System, Discover Card
  • Built internal employee / manager review tool
  • Build HTML banner ads

Visible

Web Developer · March 2009 — Jan 2010

🌭
Chicago, IL
  • Built PHP, WordPress and custom HTML websites for a variety of clients
  • Supported on day-to-day devops and IT responsibilities for the company

Lisa P. Maxwell

Web Developer · March 2008 — July 2009

🌭
Chicago, IL
  • Built PHP, WordPress and custom HTML websites for a variety of clients
  • Built a ActionScript-based streaming chat and video website
  • Front-end developer on a dynamic print-ad building system
  • Supported on day-to-day devops and IT responsibilities for the company

Infomercial.TV

Web Developer and Integrator · May 2006 — March 2008

🌴
Los Angeles, CA
  • Designed, developed and maintained campaign landing pages and full websites for direct-marketing clients

Big Fish

Web Developer · July 2004 — March 2006

🏙
Boston, MA

Designed and developed and maintained campaign landing pages and full websites for a variety of clients.