Work experience timeline
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Staff Accessibility Engineer at SerivceNow
- Dev architect for Web Platform Accessibility team: workings across the org to coach teams
- ServiceNow's rep to both W3C's Accessibility Guidelines and ARIA working groups
- Accessibility testing automation at scale: persona based rules in CI, AOM snapshot testing
- Building complex, reusable components that are resilient to abuse by implementing teams to ensure accessible experiences no matter on their use (charts, comboboxes/typeaheads, trees, etc)
- Working cross functionally with products, design, QE and technical writers to build an SDLC that bakes accessibility into the mechanics instead of tacking it on at the end
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Senior Engineer at Elastic
Accessibility lead focusing on Kibana (the main app) and the design system
- Building a culture of accessibility throughout design and development with trainings, fostering champions, and sharing resources across the organization
- Defining specs and developing complex components to meet WCAG and WAI-ARIA guidelines with a focus on practical and usable accessibility
- Verifying work across the org through code review and (automated and manual) testing in a litany of desktop browser, OS, and screen reader combinations
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Senior UI Engineer ⅠⅠ at CrowdStrike
- UX tech lead of parallel quarterly major initiatives, completing: UI architecture, scoping and estimating work, creating timelines, prioritizing tickets, and team mentorship
- Fostered strong cross‐team communication and technical ownership in small teams of UI engineers, leading the team to achieve their quarterly goals
- Guided technical direction of broader UI team with heavy emphasis on scaling (from 10 to 30+ engineers), accessibility, and component design
- Evolved interview process to reflect modern web development and reduce unconscious bias
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Senior UI Engineer at LinkedIn
Previously, UI Engineer
- Reduced support case volume 25% by migrating a legacy project to a new architecture, normalizing disparate APIs, and fixing user flows for common tasks
- Helped teams deliver on-time by hopping onto at-risk projects
- Set standards for new projects, including: full test coverage, BEM, and style documentation and a mock server (reclaiming ~12 developer-weeks in Q4 2016)
- Organized and lead Ember office hours and moderated mob code reviews to help elevate teammates’ development skills
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Frontend Web Developer at Mindstream Interactive
- Built responsive sites, ranging: simple, static pages; large, ecommerce sites; and complex web apps
- Created a standardized boilerplate, minimizing developer startup costs for each new initiative
- Spearheaded modern workflows to save developer time and improve maintainability for long standing projects
- Developed an HTML email builder cutting development time by 80%
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Webmaster at Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Access Service
- Managed development process and client requests, while presenting to outside stakeholders
- Created a website, including: a blog, event registration system, private document sharing and a resource checkout library
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Software Development & Web Experience Intern at Progressive Insurance
- Wrote a REST API and a responsive UI following test-driven development (TDD) for an internal tool
- Maintained Progressive’s homepage
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Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
- B.S. in Management Information Systems
- Minor in Computer Science
- GPA: 3.2
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