Experience

• Prime Health Services

  Application Developer Team Lead

  August 2022–Present

  I currently lead the development team that maintains a bill review application and its supporting services. As a mentor, I prioritize pair programming regularly with the developers on my team to teach them new programming concepts, improve their problem-solving skills, and work on their ability to diagnose and troubleshoot issues.

  • Work closely with stakeholders and the compliance and implementation teams to gather requirements for new features and ensure client needs are being met.
  • Built an accounting system as part of the bill review platform that calculates fees for the review and pricing services applied to medical bills and generates PDF invoices.
  • Architected a process for running background jobs utilizing queue-triggered Azure Functions with real-time progress updates in the UI.

• Prime Health Services

  Application Developer

  April 2019–August 2022

  Pushed for the modernization of the company’s frontend applications—advocating for the use of React and Typescript to enable rich user experiences with complex interactions, while improving the developer experience and maintainability of the source code. Put in place the tooling for compiling/publishing these React applications using Webpack and Vite.

  • Created a library of React components that became the basis for all new UI development and enabled a consistent user experience across all applications. The library has a documentation site built with Storybook, and includes a suite of unit tests using Jest with React Testing Library.
  • Rebuilt two client-facing applications from the ground up with React interfaces, and .NET APIs: a client portal, and a flagship bill review platform that processes thousands of medical bills monthly.
  • Implemented a strategy for writing reliable repository unit tests utilizing a SQL database running in a Docker container that is automatically reset between test runs. This also enabled isolated development on a local machine, preventing disruptions to the development database used by other team members.

• Nashville Software School

  Full Stack Software Developer
  Javascript & Python

  October 2018–March 2019

  Intensive full-time software development bootcamp focusing on full-stack (Python/Django) development fundamentals and problem solving, with the final half of the program executed in a simulated company environment with Scrum methodology.

  • Single-page application development with React and with a focus on modern ES6+ features and modular code.
  • Server-side development with Python, Django, and SQL utilizing test-driven development.
  • Version controlled individual and group projects with Git and Github.
  • Project management with issue tickets and Github projects.
  • Database planning through entity relationship diagrams to define relationships with a flat data structure.

• CORE Design Studio

  Senior Designer / Web Developer

  May 2011–September 2018

  Small, collaborative studio environment with a focus in branding, print, interactive, exhibition, and environmental graphic design. Working on a tight-knit team gave me experience working closely with others and interacting directly with clients to meet their project goals.

  • Website planning, design, and development for mostly non-profit organizations and small businesses.
  • Delivered over 15 custom-built, responsive Wordpress sites built with PHP and SCSS, and have experience with third-party integrations such as Google Maps, Eventbrite, Mailchimp, and Events Calendar.
  • Problem-solving and conceptual design striving for unconventional outcomes that help clients stand out in their field and increase engagement with their audiences.
  • Branding/Identity design, signage systems, and environmental graphic design with a strong emphasis on typography and attention to detail.
  • Design for print including event collateral, magazines, artbooks, and poster that consistently helped clients expand their audience and increase ticket/table sales for major fundraising events.
  • Design/production for a quarterly magazine with a distribution of 70,000.
  • Concept planning, design, and production of physical and interactive exhibits for museums.
  • Built a touchscreen interactive quiz in Javascript for an educational water museum.
  • Highly proficient with Adobe software, including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and XD.

• University of Houston

  BFA Graphic Communications

  August 2007–May 2011