As a frontend architect, I'm always focused on delivering real, clear value to the business. I thrive on complex issues—and I never walk away until a problem is solved. I'm known for get up to speed very rapidly with new technologies, tools, and languages.
Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
Reduced targeted errors in the Checkout application by 98.9%, leading to a significant improvement in user experience and transaction success rate.
• Successfully tackled this challenge within a large-scale, mission-critical application like the PayPal Checkout.
• Demonstrated the ability to work effectively under pressure and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
Implemented client interaction tracking within the guest credit card checkout experience, enabling end-to-end monitoring of user interactions.
• This enhanced PayPal's ability to quickly observe and report errors, streamlining the error identification and resolution process.
• Resulted in the identification and resolution of multiple previously undocumented errors, improving the overall stability and user experience of the checkout process.
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
I collaborate across multiple groups—including product, backend, and UX—to design systems / features that deliver clear value and consistency across a wide range of SMB B2B applications. I also co-lead (with 2 other architects) 3 teams with 15 developers across 7 key applications.
I designed, built, and tested a reusable, well documented framework enabling customers to perform complex networking tasks on live devices.
• Provided first-of-its-kind solution—a clear industry differentiator.
• Enabled customers to directly make complex network changes.
I shifted the UI approach across all 7 products.
• Dramatically increased code delivery speed, stability, and maintainability.
I spearheaded an organizational transformation from 'vertical' to 'horizontal' with an updated architecture from technology-based to feature-based.
• Enabled seamless feature delivery across existing applications.
• Enabled more rapid, consistent development with higher confidence against potential bugs.
I implemented internationalization across all UI products—both existing and greenfield. I leveraged cutting-edge tools to ensure rapid localization and language selection. I set up frameworks and tooling and led the migration to a new content system by the development team.
• Enabled full internationalization capabilities—including locale-specific display of dates, times, addresses, and translated copy.
I presented at regular code and coffee sessions to share information across the UI development team. I also regularly mentored junior developers remotely with pair programming.
• Improved team cohesion, instilled best practices, and grew code quality.
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
I developed new features and educated developers new to frontend development.
I served as lead UI developer on a critical dealer inventory platform. I worked closely with analytics and telemetrics to provide users with frontend capabilities to access and utilize very large data sets.
• Provided important new functionality to customers—increasing efficiency and usability.
I built the user interface for a sales and service marketplace supporting small business customers.
• Created reusable framework for displaying, sorting, and filtering customer offerings.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
I built a team of UI developers, QA engineers, UX designers, and product management.
I led the creation of a new cloud application manager to create new cloud-based Linux servers.
• Delivered internationally ready product—still in use—in 6 months.
• Provided 1-click capabilities to create new cloud applications.
2017 — 2018
Education
Timber Creek High School
High School Diploma
2001 — 2003