Atlassian

Frontend Engineer

• Building features for Confluence on a cross-functional team with engineers, product, and design
• Led the development of Presenter Mode, which was featured at TEAM '22, and is the subject of the most-liked community blog post of all time
• Contributing to major refactor of inline comments in Confluence
• Acting as my team's Customer Champion to ensure we are prioritizing customer support issues and practicing empathy for our users
• Writing unit tests and integration tests to ensure excellent code quality
• Debugging complex issues within a large-scale web application
• Improving developer productivity by building tooling to ease in-editor test running

Favor

Frontend Engineer

• Focusing on Favor’s consumer and internal web apps, using React, Redux, Node, Webpack
• Working closely with Product and Design to build beautiful, user-centric interfaces with extreme attention to detail and care for the user’s experience

OneSpot

Frontend Engineer

• Focusing on Frontend development for OneSpot's Onsite and Insights products using React, Redux, Flow, Node, Webpack
• Strong focus on performance and bundle size as third-party Javascript application
• BDD and integration testing with Mocha and Cypress
• Maintain and prioritize client work backlog

ShoreTel

Summit Platform Product Manager

• Developed and maintain the product roadmap
• Acted as product owner on SCRUM team
• Maintained the product backlog and prioritize development
• Managed all aspects of the software development lifecycle
• Guided user interface additions and improvements with an eye toward user experience
• Evaluated key market trends and competition
• Acted as voice of customer and subject matter expert on all aspects of the platform
• Ensured that the proper requirements are defined, understood, and developed
• Led customer training for platform development and ensure documentation accuracy and completeness

Corvisa

Platform Marketing Manager

• Led marketing strategy, including branding, visual design, and content
• Designed and created collateral and email campaigns
• Coordinated and attended trade shows and events as representative for the platform, including conducting demos

Advent Financial/Corvisa Services

Marketing Manager

• Developed and maintained overall marketing strategy
• Led team of marketing professionals and designers through re-brand
• Provided guidance, direction, and feedback for Advent marketing team
• Guided development of marketing websites
• Created engaging and attractive marketing collateral and sales materials
• Coordinated and executed marketing campaigns across multiple channels and audiences

Advent Financial/Corvisa Services

Marketing Coordinator

• Assisted in planning and implementation of marketing strategy
• Coordinated creative and execution for print, email and social media marketing campaigns for both B2B and B2C audiences
• Planned and executed trade show presence for multiple shows and two brands, including booth design
• Maintained and updated company websites

Journal Communications/Journal Interactive

State Street Digital Product Manager

• Developed websites for small business clients including front-end development, content editing, search engine optimization, and user training
• Acted as client relationship manager and technical consultant
• Provided effort estimates for projects
• Created project plans, progress updates, statements of work, proposals, and training manuals

Journal Communications/Journal Interactive

Interactive Project Manager

• Responsible for launching more than 45 websites within timelines and with results beyond expectations
• Analyzed site metrics and trends in order to help direct clients in organization and development of website redesigns
• Created project plans and timelines, and documented requirements
• Acted as the go-between for the client and the development team

Journal Communications/Journal Interactive

Special Features Producer

• Produced original content for websites and coordinated sponsorship opportunities with sales staff
• Conducted SWOT analysis for classified verticals
• Created feature comparison charts for use in evaluating current and potential vendor relationships
• Analyzed site metrics to determine optimal content positioning and improve traffic

Journal Communications/JSOnline.com

Web Content Producer

• Posted daily content in a variety of media to JSOnline.com
• Created polls, forums, and blog posts to enhance reader interactivity, moderated comments, and responded to reader feedback and questions
• Developed special topic pages as necessary to help facilitate community dialogue and interaction
• Made decisions on placement and presentation of content
• Shot and edited video, edited audio and photos
• Worked with editors to help coordinate online coverage daily and for special projects
• Maintained several section pages on JSOnline.com to assure content was produced is adherence with set style and standards

Daily Illini

Managing Editor Online

• Oversaw a staff of 15, including training and feedback
• Responsible for management of all content on DailyIllini.com
• Developed and maintained overall vision of progress for website