Resume

Results-driven web application consultant with proven experience building and shipping complex web applications. Ten years experience working with and delivering on remote software teams. Excellent written communication and remote project management skills. Pragmatic about engineering tradeoffs and their consequences to productivity and business objectives. Friendly and open-minded.

Professional Experience

TeejayVanSlyke — Portland, OR — Present
My solo consultancy founded in 2009 and set to "moonlight" during full-time work, I help startups and agencies design and build full-stack web-based solutions.

Create branding & identity. Lead marketing efforts. Sell and implement web development projects of varying scale and complexity in Rails, Go, React, and other technologies.

Built analytics dashboard for a social media engagement platform in in ES6 with React and Redux.
Built and designed internal interactive video training quiz for the engineering division of a multinational ecommerce brand in React using create-react-app.
Challenge myself to dabble in one new technology per month. My most recent were Elm, ClojureScript, and Meteor.

PS Dept. — New York, NY — 2012-2017
On-demand personal shopping and luxury concierge service for the iPhone.

Led the development of a marketplace-based ecommerce Rails API that processed millions of dollars in customer sales, along with a backofffice support dashboard tool used by a team of in-house personal stylists.

Built custom in-house client request and order fulfillment pipeline.
Built and designed internal backoffice tool for servicing styling customers and automating style team tasks.
Integrated ES6, React and Redux components into our existing Backbone codebase.
Conducted peer reviews of pull requests and provided constructive guidance.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
Ithaca College — Ithaca, NY

Technical Skills

Ruby on Rails · ES6 · Babel · React · Redux · Node.js · Gulp
Webpack · Golang · Zsh · Vim · Heroku · AWS · Sketch · Photoshop