Creative and proactive problem solver with strong research skills gained from workplace experience. Proficient in turning designs and ideas into functional, accessible, and responsive web applications. Excels at troubleshooting technical and non-technical problems. Used these talents to support production environments, debug complex technical issues, and identify innovative technical solutions.
Responsibilities included setting up and troubleshooting local development environments, participating in an Agile workflow including daily stand-ups, collaborating with other developers local and remote, developing responsive web pages from documents provided by design teams, collaborating with back end teams to develop features of REST APIs, reviewing pull requests to support teammates with code quality and consistency, and pair programming with other developers to create code solutions to complex client requests.
Earned 2 IBM Service Excellence Awards for project contributions
Developed a group of helper applications that formed the basis of an audit workflow that allowed users to quickly and efficiently work with a large volume of data.
Learned new technologies quickly enough to begin contributing code faster than expected, enabling the team to make an important deadline that was assumed to be missed.
Created an interface and generic boilerplate code for interactive data tables that allowed the rest of the front end team to rapidly develop new features.
Collaborated with back end developers to integrate front end features with the API
Won IBM Service Excellence Award for contributions directly leading to the successful delivery of mission critical components.
Assisted senior team members in maintaining test and development environments for developers and implementing a reliable CI/CD pipeline so developers would no longer have to manually deploy code changes.
Joined the team later in the development cycle to help complete a SPA that allows users to create a profile and connect with local health and benefits providers so they can gain access to the services they may need.
Created a template system to accelerate development of new features of the application
Created custom React Hooks to simplify development of modals and dialog boxes
Lead a team of new apprentices in learning all aspects of the Agile workflow
Lead daily stand-up meetings with the apprentice team
Assisted in creating sprint plans from documents and meeting notes provided by the Business Analyist team
Assisted apprentice front end and back end developers in learning how to work together to integrate their features.
Won IBM Service Excellence Award For contributions that directly lead to the sale of the project.
Developed a web application, using the client's proprietary front end framework, to be used by HR departments to easily enter new hires into their benefits system.
Refactored large sections of the state management layer for a less repetitive code base
Wrote a library of helper functions to be reused by developers throughout the application
Created services to perform CRUD actions using API endpoints.
Supported teammates in learning the git workflow and DRY programming principles.
For contributions directly leading to the successful delivery of mission critical components.
For contributions that directly lead to the sale of the IBM Community Health Monroe County COVID Project.