Resume

Senior Front-End UI/UX Designer/Developer with extensive experience in designing and developing user interfaces with a user-centric experience for web-based applications in a variety of fast-paced environments. Experience working within agile methodologies for web development with a successful track record for working independently as well as with teams.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

UI/UX Designer/Developer: 12/2021 – 09/2024

Insight Global, 725 S. Figueroa St. Suite 3350, Los Angeles, CA 90017. (213) 404-4140
Work Location: Remote

• Built React UI and Vite interfaces that helped integrate Zendesk helpdesk application and APIs to the Disney Streaming Jira ticketing API integration.
• Designed and implemented front-end development for an internal cloud engineering application used for managing scaling of Kubernetes pods within Disney/Hulu infrastructure pipeline built in React, Redux, Express, Next.js, AWS Lambda, and MUI. Cognito was used to manage the authentication for the application.
• Provided front-end development support for an application to allow the provide ad capabilities information across all the Disney brands and to provide a single point of truth for consumption into streaming pipeline systems. Utilized CI/CD pipelines that employed TypeScript, oAuth, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Kubernetes, Docker, and Norfolk.

UI/UX Designer/Developer: 07/2021 – 12/2021

M9 Solutions, 3033 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 480, Arlington VA, 22201. (703) 936-0880
Work Location: Remote

• Provided analysis, design, and development for the React front-end user interfaces for DHS ICE data analysis toolset that utilized Elastic search and Mongo DB.
• Analyzed the current interface designs, provided alternative methods for standardizing and improving the user experience and front-end architecture.
• Integrated a Keycloak user management for providing security and authentication to data analysis toolset.
• Designed a workspace management, and workbook toolset for improving the usefulness of the analysis application.

UI/UX Designer/Developer: 10/2020 – 07/2021

IndraSoft, 1768 Business Center Drive, Suite 200, Reston VA, 20190. (703) 435-9052
Work Location: Remote

• Provided analysis, design, and development for the front-end user interfaces for DISA Storefront.
• Analyzed the current interface designs, provided alternative methods for standardizing and improving those applications to provide better sustainment and maintenance until it is replaced by a modernization effort.
• Assisted in support and maintenance of current applications that were built in React and Java Server Pages.
• Built custom front-end interface for managing help data that was consumed from external data sources.

Front-End UI/UX Web Designer: 11/2019 – 09/2020

Resource Management Concepts, 46970 Bradley Boulevard, Suite B, Lexington Park, MD 20653, (301) 862-7501
Work Location: NSWC Indian Head, MD 20640

• Provided analysis, design, and development for the front-end user interfaces of U.S. Naval web applications to support field technicians.
• Designed/developed user interfaces for a React-based web and stand-alone applications.
• Analyzed the current interface designs, provided alternative methods for modernizing and improving those applications and designed/developed interfaces for new web-based applications.
• Improved the development process with streamlining user interface development processes with modularization of code into components and separation of front-end and back-end code bases.
• • Driving change of front-end development to modern JavaScript frameworks to improve consistency and code quality.

Principal Front-End UI/UX Web Developer: 01/2017 – 07/2019

ManTech International, 45610 Expedition Drive, Suite 401, Lexington Park, MD 20653, (301) 862-2200
Work Location: NAS Patuxent River, MD 20670

• Designed/developed UI/UX for the Enterprise Predictive Analytics Model (EPAM) data simulation application to support Aircraft Readiness across the Naval Aviation Enterprise. This utilized a real-time data stream integration similar to Kafka for monitoring the progress of the simulations. This included a forecasting simulation that used 2 years of aircraft data to simulate 10 years. The UI interface allowed the user to build a simulation, monitor the simulation’s progress in real time and provide a charting ability to compare simulation experiments. Built in C# .Net MVC.
• Built-in training into the web-based applications so that was updated as the codebase was updated to ensure that help for the applications was always up to date.
• Improved the development process with streamlining user interface development processes with modularization of code into components and packages.

UI/UX Developer: 11/2016 – 12/2016

1 Source, 1250 H Street Suite 250, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 795-8600
Work Location: 1310 G Street, Suite 570, Washington, DC 20005

• Analyzed the front-end UI/UX of legacy web applications for the U.S. Treasury Alcohol, Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau (TTB). and provided alternative methods for modernizing the bureau’s aging applications to meet customer’s needs, federal guidelines, and future sustainability.
• Provided samples of modernizing the current front-end with Twitter Bootstrap, custom CSS, and provided a list of JavaScript solutions to help modernize the bureau’s aging Java Spring applications. Supported React based front end applications for managing storefront data.

Front-End Web Developer: 06/2015 – 11/2016

Novetta, 7921 Jones Branch Drive, 5th Floor, McLean, VA 22102, (571) 282-3000
Work Location: Fort Washington, MD 20744

• Designed/Developed user interfaces for a Java Spring MVC application to support a Department of Defense customer.
• Created wireframe designs of new functionality using Adobe Illustrator, MS PowerPoint.
• Created wireframe designs of new functionality using Adobe Illustrator, MS PowerPoint.
• Provided front-end development support with Twitter Bootstrap implementation, custom CSS, and specialized JavaScript/JQuery validation and DOM manipulation.
• Provided troubleshooting support for existing JavaScript, CSS and front-end development issues.
• Built JSP front-end templating system that increased the speed of development and consistency of new interface components.

Web Developer: 02/2015 – 05/2015

Sabre Systems, 46655 Expedition Drive, Suite 301, Lexington Park, MD 20653, (301) 863-5090
Work Location: NAS Patuxent River, MD 20670

• Supported a legacy ColdFusion application for a U.S. Navy customer.
• Researched options to transition a legacy application to a modern CMS and/or cloud solution by contacting the NAVAIR IT Department, DISA, and SPAWAR to try and meet my customer’s requirements.
• Researched other alternatives such as migrating the legacy application to a modern application framework with a responsive layout user interface.

Multimedia Designer: 09/2013 – 10/2014

Solute, LLC, 21815-J Three Notch Road, Lexington Park, MD 20653, (301) 866-0111

• Supported a U.S. Navy training support project for the U.S. Navy P-3C Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System.
• Worked on the design and development of the Adobe Flash-based SCORM compliant training. Working within Agile methodologies, my duties include, user interface design, layout design, CSS, HTML, XML, JavaScript, ActionScript coding and 3D modeling and animation as well as 2D animation.
• Gathered and wrote requirements for the training application for use by the development team.

Senior Developer: 05/2011 – 09/2013

Project: U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Airworthiness NAVAIR 4.0P

General Dynamics Information Technology, 08/2013 – 09/2013, 44421 Airport Road, California, MD 20619, (301) 737-6200.
Work Location: NAS Patuxent River, MD 20670

Arena Technical Resources, LLC, 12/2012-07/2013, 104 South Washington Street, Rockville, MD 20850, (301) 654-0003.
Work Location: NAS Patuxent River, MD 20670

TKC Global, 10/2012-12/2012, 13873 Park Center Road, Suite 400 North, Herndon, VA 20171, (571) 323-5200.
Work Location: 44425 Pecan Court, Suite 101, California, MD 20619

Criterion Systems, 05/2011-10/2012, 8330 Boone Blvd. Suite 400, Vienna, VA 22182, (703) 942-5800.
Work Location: 44425 Pecan Court, Suite 101, California, MD 20619

• Supported a ColdFusion web application project to manage flight clearance requests for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft.
• Designed and developed the user interface, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, ColdFusion coding of display pages in the ColdBox framework.
• Gathered and wrote customer requirements for the web application that was used by other developers on the team.
• Created the user guides for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ Flight Clearance Request Web Application.
• Worked with other groups on the Navy’s e-Device initiative to get airworthiness products out to the fleet.

Multimedia Specialist: 6/2006 – 4/2011

ManTech International, 45610 Expedition Drive, Suite 401, Lexington Park, MD 20653, (301) 862-2200

• Supported a variety of U.S. Navy customers with the creation and management of multimedia products.
• Duties included requirements gathering, configuration management, content management, acquiring source graphics, interface design for web-based applications as well as multimedia products, design complex graphics from abstract concepts, kept designs within a brand structure, and archival of graphics and multimedia products.

Multimedia Specialist: 08/2004 – 06/2006

BAE Systems, Information Technology, 8201 Greensboro Drive, Suite 1200, McLean, VA  22102, (703) 847-5820
Work Location: 1200-1298 First Street Southwest Washington, DC 20003

• Developed an array of multimedia products for a U.S. Government customer in Washington DC
• Gathered and generated requirements, acquired source graphics and documentation, integrated multimedia elements, participated in final product reviews and archived completed elements.

Senior Systems Engineer: 05/2004 – 08/2004

Advanced Information Engineering Systems Inc. 22309 Exploration Drive, Lexington Park, MD 20653, (301) 862-2100
Work Location: NAS Patuxent River, MD 20670

• Supported the U.S. Presidential Helicopter Program with the development and maintenance of web sites/applications, development of interactive CDs, and designing graphics for miscellaneous print media.

Programmer Analyst: 05/2000 – 04/2004

BAE SYSTEMS, Electronic Systems Division, 23481 Cottonwood Parkway, California, MD 20619, (301) 862-9300
Work Location: NAS Patuxent River, MD 20670

• Provided graphics, web and multimedia support to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Business Development Office, Patuxent River Naval Air Station.
• Developed and maintained websites/applications for NAWCAD, U.S. Navy Test Pilot School, and other NAVAIR websites/applications.
• Developed interactive CDs and commercial videos that promoted NAVAIR capabilities that used composited video and 3D computer animation.
• Created advertising ads for print and the web to promote NAVAIR products and services

Animator: 11/1999 – 04/2000

Renegade Productions, 10626 York Road Suite F, Cockeysville, MD  21030, (410) 667-1400

• Designed and developed graphics, 2D/3D animation for regional video productions used in marketing, training, commercials and infomercials for cable television.

Drafter/Graphic Designer: 11/1993 – 10/1999

Marconi Systems Technologies, 23481 Cottonwood Parkway, California, MD  20619, (301) 862-9300

• Prepared complex to moderately complex drawings using AutoCAD. Layouts consisted of components and assemblies, including mechanical and electrical drawings, schematics, and system diagrams.
• Prepared tables, charts, viewgraphs, and technical illustrations to depict parts of equipment for clarity and dimensional purposes.
• Created conceptual animations of Navy shipboard communication centers through the development of 3D models, texture maps based on equipment components.

EDUCATION:

Masters of Business Administration: 2010

Johns Hopkins University, Carey School of Business, Baltimore, MD

Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts – Imaging and Digital Arts: 1999

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

Associate of Arts Degree in Arts and Sciences: 1997

College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, MD

High School Diploma: 1991

Calvert Senior High School, Prince Frederick, MD

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

Certified Scrum Master Training 2019