I am a User Experience Developer with over 12 years of experience in front end design and development. I strive to meet user’s unique needs in system design and development while maintaining the core business objectives of the system. I bridge the gap between UI design and front-end development in a fast-paced Agile environment juggling many projects. I design and build mobile-capable, cross-browser compatible, dynamic data-driven, responsive websites with Angular, HTML5 and Sass (CSS3) following best practices for Section 508 compliance. I am comfortable working in a dynamic team environment working closely with Business Analysts, full-stack Developers and SMEs and enjoy learning new skills and sharing them with my teammates. I am eager to apply my UX and UI Development skills to help a company drive growth. I aim to enhance performance and increase adoption through effective front-end design and development, ensuring usability and accessibility.
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Here is what I am able to share and proud to have worked on. So many things I’ve done, most in fact, have been the intellectual property of my past employers, and they have been very jealous and guarded of their property (understandably). I can provide personal references for all these projects that I’ve worked on, and many more not even mentioned here. Things that used to be in the wild that I did are no longer there. A lot of things were always password protected, and now the original servers they were hosted on no longer even exist. I helped to design and build systems that required NDA’s and extensive FBI background checks in order to work on (I will still pass them). I am, and always have been, and always plan on being respectful of other’s intellectual property, especially my employers’; past, present and future. Please understand that I cannot show everything that I’ve done, especially some things I’m most proud of.
EXL LifePRO (https://www.exlservice.com/lifepro) is the industry leading, enterprise administration system for the complete support of Life, Annuity and Health Insurance Products. It is used by many of the world’s largest Insurance institutions. The original product was developed over the last 30+ years using COBOL and Wireless Web Forms. In around 2017, they decided to begin modernizing the product and began rebuilding it in a modern tech stack using Angular and C#. Currently there are 2 systems with Classic (COBOL) and Web UI (Angular) systems running concurrently as the new Web UI product continues to be developed to eventually completely replace Classic. I was brought on board in October of 2019 to help their ongoing design and development efforts in the new Web UI. There was a lot of new system in place when I started so I inherited a lot of the overall design scheme that I had to work within. These are just some of the IXDs that I worked on recently. These interactive, high-fidelity wireframes were done using Justinmind and were developed in close interaction with the assigned BA with critical input from the Product Owner and senior management. These were also done to illustrate a particular user story in each case so they might not make sense to you out of context. If you click anywhere on the design, then certain sections will show as green and those are the parts that are clickable and have functionality tied to the story that they illustrate.
In 2021 EXL LifePRO was designated a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Life Insurance Policy Administration Systems, North America. I designed a lot of the new features going into the V20, V21 and V22 releases. Even though my role was predominantly a design role, I was able to take a User Story that was slated to be a 21 Point Story, have it changed to a 5 Point Story, assigned to me as a developer, developed with some minimal Sass code and code committed for one of our Section 508 remediation stories. The development team had systematically misapplied Bootstrap responsive screen classes in the html, and they wanted to rewrite 1.5 million lines of html to put the correct classes on them. I saved the company a bunch of money by writing 150 lines of Sass instead that fixed this Section 508 compliance problem.
TCC (https://tccsolutions.com/) is a small company specializing in creating custom, enterprise level, software solutions for different State government departments. TCC specializes in Childcare Licensing Platforms that allow states to do everything they need to issue and administer the licensing of childcare centers and workers in their respective states. During my time there, I worked on projects for the States of Indiana, Oregon, Michigan, New Jersey, and Louisiana, as well as the company websites, and our base product Ascend.
It looks as if TCC has redirected their URL to a new website since I left in 2019. You can find it as I left it (although it has lost all performance) in May of 2019 on The Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20190322234626/http://www.e-tcc.com/who-we-are. This was an MVC.NET site that was completely custom coded. I gave it a complete overhaul in summer 2018 and switched it over to use Sass. I also designed and built out a lot of new pages at that time as well. For a few of the early pages, TCC contracted Innovate Map to design them shortly before I started working at TCC. I designed and built the subsequent pages to be along the same lines as what Innovate Map designed. I actively maintained the site and designed and built new pages as needed. I had just recently integrated Service Workers to make it a Progressive Web Application (May 2019). This site had a nearly perfect score in a Lighthouse Audit and was incapable of getting a perfect score due to the server running Windows Server 2012R2 which was not able to serve HTTP/2. If we’d upgraded to Server 2016, I would have been able to achieve a perfect score. Note: I’m sure that Wayback’s version is not performant at all.
Vertex Solutions was a small company that TCC acquired in 2017. They were a tech company that specialized in creating different high technical training software and systems for mainly US Military groups.
First, I was tasked with trying to fix their old site that they had been using. It was so old, and so bad, and the software was so out of date that it was unfixable, so they then tasked me with building this site completely from scratch and the deadline was literally Black Friday that year. I had 6 weeks to build this site completely from scratch. It was built with Angular CLI and started with Angular 5. Because of the tight deadline, I collaborated with our Sales Support Specialist on some of the design work so I could get the architecture done. I was awarded Employee of the Month for meeting the tight deadline. I had just recently upgraded it to Angular 7 and integrated Service Workers to make it a Progressive Web Application (April 2019) when I left TCC.
It looks as if Vertex Solutions is no longer owned by TCC, and their site has since been redone by a different vendor. You can find it as I left it in May of 2019 on The Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20190124111656/http://www.vertexsolutions.com/vertexsolutions/, although it did not capture my JavaScript, which is too bad, because what I did with particles.js in those photos was pretty epic and ahead of its time.
