Front-end Architect, Scripps Networks Interactive
New York, NY  •  Sept 2015 - Present

• Responsible for front-end architectural guidance and leadership for Scripp’s core brand sites including foodnetwork.com, hgtv.com, and travelchannel.com with over 50 million monthly viewers across the brand portfolio
• Architected initial implementation of watch.foodnetwork.com (and related brands) in Vue.js
• Wrote theme webpack loader for Vue to help support multiple brand styles for a single component
• Lead design and engineering resources in building a comprehensive styling system to support theming components across 6 brand sites
• Conducted in-depth site performance analysis and lead efforts to improve start render, speed index, and PageSpeed Insights ratings
• Mentored developers on best practices of writing testable, performant code
• Helped bridge organizational gaps by focusing on building better relationships with stakeholders such as product, design, ads, and analytics teams
• Built a post-css plugin to split mobile and desktop stylesheet payloads and unwrap unneeded media queries for each target payload
• Implemented codemods for large scale automated refactoring, architectural fitness functions to ensure preservation of key system characteristics, and custom eslint/stylelint rules to codify best practices. 

Full Stack Developer, Vencore Inc.
Huntsville, AL • Sept 2014 - Sept 2015

• Contributed to a large, data-centric aircraft inventory web application driven by ExtJS and ColdFusion
• Designed data visualization interfaces with AmCharts and d3js
• Helped internally promote new practices such as adopting end-to-end testing
  

Co-op Engineer, ADTRAN Inc.
Huntsville, AL • July 2011 - Sept 2014

• Embedded C++ development on the NetVanta IP PBX Platform
• Linux server administration and maintenance on an Apache web server with a MySQL database
• Maintained AngularJS and PHP based test automation reporting dashboard
• Helped convert legacy test automation infrastructure onto a platform built with python around Robotframework