Professional Experience

First and foremost, thank you for inquiring more about my experience as an IT Professional. It is incredibly humbling to have others take time out of their day to learn more about my career.

I'll admit, reciting job history can get boring. For a formal list of experience, please check out my LinkedIn profile or resume below. Feel free to refer to this page for some supplemental material and a quick summary of my career!

Want the more detailed & formal version? No problem!

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Guiding Principles

Fail Fast

Embracing failure and human error makes us better engineers, teams, and humans.

Foster Learning

Promoting continuous learning and knowledge sharing is vital to cultivating positive and productive engineering culture.

Build Smart

When building technology products, building the right product is just as important as building it the right way. Use data to drive decisions!

Want to learn more about how I work? Check out my Personal Operating Profile (POP)!

Notable Projects

Personal Operating Profile (POP)
LLUNA

I recently joined a small but ambitious startup as a co-founder and lead software engineer, where I have been focused on the modernization of their core SaaS technology products: the Personal Operating Profile (POP) and TeamOS. I have been helping the LLUNA team by providing modern coding and UX practices, mentoring junior engineers, and creating application architectures that allow for greater flexibility and scalability.

In addition to leading architecture and software development efforts, I work directly with the CEO and CTO to help drive decisions that best support the product and the growth of the organization.

Key Technologies

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Sass/SCSS
  • NextJS
  • GraphQL
  • Node.js
  • Prisma
  • PostgreSQL
  • GCP
  • Vercel
  • Jest
  • React Testing Library
  • Microsoft Teams Toolkit
IKEA.com Shopping Cart
IKEA US Digital Hub

I had the awesome opportunity to support one of my favorite retail brands, IKEA, by joining their global web checkout product team. I joined a cross-functional team based out of Sweden that is responsible for the shopping cart on IKEA.com, where I developed and helped to launch client-facing experiments deployed to 30+ countries.

In addition to my day-to-day code contributions, I also worked directly with a director of software engineering to establish a technical talent evaluation pipeline and helped to facilitate interviewing for both prospective engineers and technical leaders.

Key Technologies

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Sass/SCSS
  • Node.js
  • GraphQL
  • Express
  • GCP
  • Jest
  • React Testing Library
  • Optimizely
Personal Investor Portfolio Overview
Vanguard

I joined the Client Experience team at Vanguard to help the organization modernize their retail investor digital journey. As a software engineer on one of their cross-functional lab teams, I drove technical efforts to redesign of one of Vanguard.com's most heavily accessed pages: the retail investor overview page.

In addition to code contributions, I also managed a small group of engineers as a developer chapter lead. I love coaching and mentorship, and it was a great opportunity to help junior engineers find their way in a large company.

Key Technologies

  • TypeScript
  • Angular
  • Sass/SCSS
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • GraphQL
  • AWS
  • Jest
  • Cypress

Timeline

  1. Lead Software Engineer Current

    LifeBrand (2023 - Present)

    An exciting technology startup focused on helping individuals and businesses build their social media brand. We use AI to analyze past social media posts for content that doesn't align with the brand you want to build. For businesses and schools, LifeBrand leads the industry with an accredited social media education platform in addition to our services.

  2. Founding Software Engineer Current

    LLUNA (2023 - Present)

    A small (but mighty!) HR Technology startup with a mission to help people and teams build meaningful connections. Their main products include the Personal Operating Profile (POP) and TeamOS. We are working hard to shape the future of work by giving people a platform to analyze how they and their teammates work together!

  3. Senior Software Engineer

    IKEA (2021 - 2023)

    Everyone's favorite build-it-yourself furniture brand! I joined IKEA's US Digital Hub as their first Senior Engineer to help build a collaborative and product-first engineering organization. Working directly with a team based in Sweden, I helped to bridge the gap between our new US Hub and an established, international product team.

  4. Developer Chapter Lead / Senior Software Engineer

    Vanguard (2015 - 2021)

    Vanguard was a great place to start my career. It's a big organization, but I enjoyed their rotational culture and got to try a bunch of different roles (including project management and people leadership) during my time there. In the end, I always came back to good ol' hands-on software development!

  5. Master of Software Engineering

    Penn State University (2019 - 2016)

    I decided to bite the bullet and achieve a lifelong goal of getting my master's degree, taking night classes while at Vanguard. Many long days/nights later, I finally got that very expensive receipt!

  6. B.S. Information Sciences & Technology

    Penn State University (2011 - 2015)

    Fun Fact: I came to Penn State as a psychology major! After being recommended to the College of IST by my undergraduate advisor, I fell in love with the program. IST was the perfect balance of technical and business topics!