About

Work Experience

• Owner, Arcana Labs, LLC

  Jan, 2012 - Present

  Consulting through my company Arcana Labs, LLC for 15+ years. Full-stack development in numerous frameworks and platforms. Operator/Maintainer of web and mobile products.

• Product Design & Development Lead (full-stack) / Build Systems / DevOps / Selenium, Cavulus, Inc.

  Dec, 2013 - Present

  Designed and coded frontends using Next.js, Ember and Vue.js to create a software used by hundreds of thousands of people. Built a drag-and-drop form builder with Ember.js on top of Ruby on Rails that's still in production after more than a decade. Redesigned a large enterprise legacy ColdFusion CRM app. All projects were created under HIPAA and HITRUST regulations and featuring Section 508 compliance. Integrated interfaces in numerous technology stacks and communicated changes to other developers effectively.

• Founder / Designer / Developer, InfiniteScan.com

  May, 2009 - Aug, 20123 years 3 months

  Designed and developed a web radio with a brain. You can explore web radio stations and favorite stations and albums as you come across them. Use the YouTube integration to automatically create album playlists of your favorite records and the app would do the rest. Frontend featured an image-less design heavily utilizing CSS and SVG for visuals.

• Sr. Interactive Designer & Developer, MobileRoadie.com

  Mar, 2011 - Sep, 20121 year 6 months

  Designed & built custom mobile apps for Roy Orbison, Domino Records, the FADER, Le Web, The Doors, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins, P Diddy, Magic Johnson Enterprises, U2 and many more. All designed with Photoshop and built with HTML5/CSS3/jQuery & Mobile Roadie's app building platform. I led build & design on new PWA mobile web app builder offering.

• Creative Director, MyFDB.com

  Apr, 2009 - Aug, 20112 years 4 months

  As the third employee at this startup, I led the product and development team through a successful alpha release, a $1M seed round and eventual sale. Saw our team go from 3 to more than 40 people and then launch at Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week 2009.

• Lead Designer, ELC Technologies

  May, 2008 - Aug, 20091 year 3 months

  I started & grew the design team. Helped “set up shop” and ran to launch many successful seeds. A great place to work. Built concepts and products for Langenscheidt Publishing, NBC Universal and ESPN.

• Lead Designer, Thoughtbot, Inc

  Jan, 2007 - Sep, 20077 months

  Led the firm's design offering. Clients included Nature Publishing, FIRST LLC, Felissimo, Carbon Rally, and GradSpot.com.

• Digital Media Developer, Sametz Blackstone Associates

  Feb, 2006 - Jan, 200710 months

  Transformed the award-winning Boston communications strategy's web department. Built and educated a team on CMS technologies and delivered many successful sites for clients like Harvard University, MIT McGovern Institute, Boston College and My Sister's Keeper. Rebuilt the web ticketing system for the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Celebrity Series.

• Systems Analyst, GE Global Research & Development

  May, 2005 - Sep, 20054 months

  Undertook projects to redesign & unify a research intranet, redesigned internal sub-sites, created cleaner code, and ensured quality over various corporate platforms and environments.

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