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Experience
2021 — Now
2021 — Now
▫ Optimized product performance through expertise in React, hooks, JavaScript
▫ Became the go-to subject matter expert for analytics tools, identifying cost-saving opportunities and ensuring data integrity across the stack.
▫ Helped create and reengineer the tooltip-led tour frontend into a reusable framework, now the go-to solution for onboarding guides across multiple Zendesk products.
▫ Collaborated with product, design, and engineering leaders to deliver Zendesk's most complex products, personally expanding onboarding features across the entire platform.
▫ Led technical design efforts, navigating complex systems and multiple repositories to find solutions, becoming the go-to person for tackling challenging spikes and driving design initiatives with technical proposals, MVPs, and task estimations for stakeholders.
▫ Played a key role in supporting onboarding, code reviews, and deployments for a growing team of junior engineers, ensuring their work reached completion despite timezone challenges.
2018 — 2021
2018 — 2021
New York, New York
▫ Created an internal article editor used by Verizon Media’s editors to write, edit, and publish entries and slideshows.
▫ Programmed in Typescript + React, Redux, redux-saga, hooks
▫ Styled various complex visual components from modals, text editors, date pickers, etc with Styled-Components.
▫ Broke down our existing entry editor components/redux actions/sagas into a reusable developer API, then reused it to expand the apps functionality to allow for creating/editing slideshows.
▫ Balanced reusability, maintainability and deadlines to achieve “the most momentum I’ve ever seen on a project” as described by our product person after our first release.
2017 — 2018
2017 — 2018
305 Veterans Blvd, Carlstadt, NJ 07072
▫ advocated use of new JS technologies Vue, Webpack, ES6
▫ migrated a liquid Shopify website to Vue.js and Webpack environment and optimized front face website by 5 seconds
▫ wrote Webpack configs, plugins, and node scripts for internal/external company apps
▫ developed tools for in-house developers
2017 — 2017
Whippany, NJ
▫ advocated use of angular to the team and improved UI/UX
▫ utilized .Net/mssql skills to bridge communication between front and backend development; speeding up sprint goals
▫ handled ASP WebAPI for company and led to mobile app creation
▫ Integrated DevExpress/D3JS graphs; clients easily understood their revenue data
2016 — 2016
2016 — 2016
Greater New York City Area
▫Practiced explaining complex, technical projects to many different types of teams
▫ Learned how to pick up and adapt to new technologies
▫ Practiced Agile code development methodologies
▫ Worked collaboratively, to develop and build leadership skills
▫ Networked with other developers and companies in the NYC area
Education
Lehman College
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science
2012 — 2016