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I'm a software engineer and former set lighting technician. I have over 15 years experience as an adaptable problem-solver in the high-velocity film industry. From the nuts and bolts of repairing generators to generating emotional, thought-provoking stories; I'm bringing my whatever-it-takes, team-driven philosophy to software engineering.
I'm passionate about writing clean, dynamic, and maintainable code across diverse teams. I'm a technologist with an artist's soul, who believes every line of code has a story to tell.
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May 2024 - Present
wroom.ai
● Product Ideation: Integrated insights from my diverse industry background into product ideation meetings, contributing real-world perspectives to shape AI-driven solutions that align with market needs.
● AI Tool Research: Conducted thorough research on cutting-edge tools such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and RunwayML, assessing their potential to enhance product capabilities and streamline workflows.
● Documentation: Authored comprehensive documentation detailing AI workflows, ensuring clarity and accessibility for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
● Prompt Engineering: Developed and optimized AI prompts for tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, identifying model strengths and addressing problem areas to enhance the quality and relevance of generated content.
Feb 2022 - May 2023
Voray
● Spearheaded the development and deployment of the Community Admin panel, which provided granular control for admin members over their respective communities, significantly reducing the need for operations team administration.
● Collaborated with a globally distributed team of engineers using Agile Methodologies in a fast-paced startup environment by leveraging tools such as Git, Slack, and Asana.
● Partnered with VP of Product to bring new engineering team members up to speed on codebase and SDLC workflows.
● Took ownership in the development and testing of dozens of automated email reminder jobs, saving the operations team hundreds of hours.
● Refactored legacy jQuery scripts to functional React components, which substantially increased code maintainability and the ability to test for bugs.
● Provided technical support, guidance, and documentation to the operations team and customers, which helped reduce onboarding friction, and increased satisfaction with the product.
● Oversaw the transition from in-house custom SCSS to standardized Bootstrap 5.2 SCSS, which reduced complexity, resulting in increased collaboration between engineering and product teams.
● Automated Rails/PostgresQL migrations on deployment to Heroku resulting in increased availability and accuracy of data, and eliminating the need to run migrations manually.
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Apache Superset, Preset.io (Volunteer Contributor)
● Refactored React class components to functional, and added static typing with TypeScript to increase maintainability.
● Remotely collaborated with a team of engineers using Linear for issue-tracking, and Git version control.
● Developed within the principles of the Apache Software Foundation, while contributing to the Open-Source Software community.
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
App Academy
● Immersive software development course with a focus on full stack web development, which entailed 1000+ hours of coding.
Oct 2006 - Apr 2021
Motion Picture Studio Mechanics, IATSE Local 52 / Hollywood Studio Lighting Technicians, IATSE Local 728
● Designed and programmed dozens of custom lighting algorithms on the spot, in a time-sensitive, high-stress environment.
● Collaborated with multidisciplinary team members on 50+ film and television projects/crews, with several resulting in Emmy award-winning cinematography.
● Researched new technology and LAN/wireless network solutions daily, resulting in reduced troubleshooting times, and proficiency in referencing technical documentation.
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