Engineering and project lead for the Indeed Profile, a central nexus of the Indeed website where millions of job seekers from across the globe update their profile and resume information, and an internal resume generation service, used to provide resumes in various output formats throughout the Indeed ecosystem. Responsibilities include gathering requirements from stakeholders, planning and assigning work for fellow engineers, designing technical architecture to extend existing platforms, coordinating and analyzing the roll-out of new features, diagnosing and resolving production-impacting incidents, providing code reviews and technical feedback, and creating and maintaining technical and business process documentation. Serve as the primary technical point of contact for partner teams interested in integrating with Indeed Profile, including Recruit’s Indeed PLUS job distributing platform, working with product and UX representatives to establish and document a sustainable methodology for these collaborative partnerships. Provide mentorship to junior engineers as well as non-engineers transitioning into engineering roles. Coordinate efforts to ensure our team met company-wide code freshness, cost reduction, and delivery lead time OKRs. Individual contributions across a wide range of systems, including AI-powered tools for job seekers, primarily using React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Java.

Inside the Black Box: Open Source and Higher Education Systems (HighEdWeb - October 2016)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/1460/the-stories-our-systems-tell/

Turning the Monolith Inside Out: Open-Source and Higher Education Systems (HighEdWeb West - July 2016)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/1375/there-is-no-open-source-higher-education-ecosystem/

Creating Dynamic Web Content (UCSB - November 2014)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/675/creating-dynamic-web-content/

Overview of Web Standards (UCSB - July 2014)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/532/overview-of-web-standards/

Introduction to Web Accessibility (UCSB - February 2014)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/496/introduction-to-web-accessibility/

Responsive Whales: Tables and Images (MMWCon - December 2013)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/420/mmwcon-2013/

Introduction to Responsive Design (UCSB - November 2014)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/429/introduction-to-responsive-design/

Creating Responsive Content (UCSB - August 2013)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/400/creating-responsive-content/

Let's Share: A Financial Aid Case Study (UCCSC - August 2013)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/397/uccsc-talks/

UCSB HTML5 Workshop (UCSB - June 2013)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/381/ucsb-html5-workshop/

Responsive Design: Real Talk (UCSB - June 2013)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/389/responsive-design-real-talk/

jQuery: JavaScript Made Easy (UCSB - June 2013)

https://www.loganfranken.com/blog/392/jquery-javascript-made-easy/

Full-stack web application and service development using primarily C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, Entity Framework, SQL Server, JavaScript, React, Angular, jQuery, HTML, CSS, and PowerShell. Lead the development team on a complete overhaul of the Student Financial System, including developing and maintaining infrastructure to support the integration of data between the new system and existing systems. Update and extend the UCSB Financial Aid website, ranging from implementing minor aesthetic enhancements to developing full-scale features. Lead a team of developers on various projects, including migrating both the UCSB Financial Aid website and Early Academic Outreach website from a custom-built content management system to Sitefinity. Convert a restful WCF HTTP financial aid estimation service used by the majority of the other University of California campuses into a set of open-source libraries hosted on GitHub, including .NET and PHP versions, and assist existing service users in the migration. Collaborate with developers across the department, including providing support to other teams with resource constraints to ensure on-time delivery of critical business applications as well as building shared libraries and utilities to support development across the organization. Actively participate in the university's developer community by contributing to the UCSB Web Standards Guide and helping organize the department's annual hackathon-style event, the Innovathon. Encourage the adoption of Scrum across the department by gathering standards and leading training sessions.

Web and desktop application development and design using primarily C#, ASP.NET, .NET, ADO.NET, WCF, SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, and Ajax. Updated and extended the UCSB Financial Aid website, ranging from server-side to client-side updates as well as functionality updates to aesthetic enhancements. Developed and maintained a WCF HTTP financial aid and Expected Family Contribution (EFC) estimation service used by the majority of the other University of California campuses, including gathering Federal requirements, supporting technical staff from other universities as they implement clients for the service, and creating sample service clients in C#, VB.NET, and PHP. Maintained a custom-built content management system and integrated new departmental websites into the system. Developed and extended components for an enterprise desktop application framework. Designed graphics for web applications using Adobe Photoshop. Coordinated with business staff to simplify and restructure website content. Implemented a customized, responsive (mobile-ready) ADFS 2.0 single-sign on (SSO) design that matches the aesthetic of other university websites and helped other developers integrate their website into SSO authentication. Gathered and documented organizational standards and best practices and encouraged collaboration among developers through coordinating developer meetings and presentations. Collaborated with developers from the University of California, Los Angeles and other universities in updating and maintaining the device experience Mobile Web Framework as well as developing the next iteration of the framework: a comprehensive, responsive design toolkit. Assisted departments with extending their social media presence, including setting up accounts on Twitter and Facebook, creating graphics to visually connect the social media sites with their parent site, and integrating social media feeds into existing websites.