Curriculum Vitae

Tesla

Sr. Software Engineer (Front End)

• Tesla Design SystemCurrent

  Team-lead: Rebuild the team after the June 2022 purge of remote workers removed 80% of staff. Scale and overhaul infrastructure for ease of maintenance by a small team.

  Collaborate with designers & engineers on re-usable components, patterns, and tools to support teams across Tesla.

  Advocate for excellent & accessible experiences that can be interacted with via multiple interfaces.

  Provide feedback to designers on modularity & flexibility of design patterns, and design micro-interactions for the digital ecosystem around products like Cybertruck.

  Owned TDS React (component library) as first

  Highlights

  • 2022 Team Reconstruction
    Management, Architecture
  • 2022 Dropdown Patterns
    Components, Collab, Lead
  • 2021/2022 Global tesla.com Navigation
    Components, Collab, Lead

• Configurator & Inventory

  Collaborate with design & engineering teams to design & prototype new experiences in vehicle configuration.

  Work with a team to iterate on, collaboratively build and maintain the parts tesla.com related to selling new & used vehicles, principally inventory search & details systems.

  Own the Inventory Search & Details UI for 2019, allowing customers to browse for vehicles, then view photos, specs, and details of any vehicle currently for sale at Tesla.

  Highlights

  • 2021 Intl Packages
    Infrastructure, Standards, Lead
  • 2020 Configurator App Redesign
    Redesign, UX, Collab
  • 2019 Cybertruck Launch
    UX, Microinteractions, Collab
  • 2019 Inventory App Redesign
    Redesign, UX, Collab

• Aquisitions & Used Inventory

  My first team at Tesla, we created the tesla.com vehicle trade-in experience from scratch, and owned the user experience when shopping for used Teslas.

University of WashingtonBothell

Student

High-intensity replacement for a BS in Computer Science

Coursework

• CSS 501: Object Oriented Programming I
  C++, Linked Lists, Binary Trees, Formal Logic
• CSS 502: Object Oriented Programming II
  C++, Significant Figures, N-ary Trees, Data-Structures
• CSS 503: Systems Programming
  C++, Linux, Processor Architecture, Networking
• CSS 506: Software Development Processes
  Waterfall (gasp!), Scrum, Kanban
• CSS 507: Software Modeling Techniques
  User Research, Requirements Gathering
• CSS 508: Software Testing & Quality
  Measures of Success, A/B Tesing, DevOps

Projects

• Re-Engineer: 80 Character Punchcards
• Re-Engineer: Binary-Coded Decimal as a Linked List
• Recursion: Solve Sudoku via Brute Force
• Alphabetical In-Context Concordance
• Polynomial Math
• Binary Search Trees
• Graphs: Shortest Distances
• Data-Architecture: Media-Retreival System
• Process Architecture: Forks vs Threads
• Multi-threading: Barbers Problem
• Filesystem I/O: Buffer Management
• Networking: Relays and Receivers

EvenVision

1. Lead Front-End Engineer

   I worked at the intersection of design & development in a variety of environments, taught & mentored new staff, and designed the tools & components the rest of the team use every day.

   That means that I also worked with our clients to best understand their needs and how we could improve the outcome of our projects over time.

   Projects

   • EV Common Tools
     Themes, D7/D8 Boilerplate, Project Management Utils
   • EvenVision.com
     Website, Brand Development
   • Ingomar Club
     Website
   • ArtSpan & San Francisco Open Studios
     Website
   • Estancia Ranquilco
     Website
   • Cathy’s Power Skating
     Website
   • Jacobzoon & Associates
     Website
   • Singing Tree Gardens Nursery
     Website, Brand Creation
   • Humboldt Fasteners & Tools
     Website
   • Orchids for the People
     Website, Brand Creation
   • Faith of the Fathers
     Website

2. Lead Web & UI Developer

   Build rich, smooth, useful tools from the ground up, both for clients and for their customers.

   I gradually moved from a junior web designer to the lead front-end developer, working principally on the most complex & interactive components of our projects.

   Projects

   • Lost Coast Brewery
     Website
   • Pacific Builders
     Website
   • Humboldt Botanical Gardens
     Website
   • McKinleyville Family Resource Center
     Website, Brand Creation
   • A Woman’s Path
     Website
   • Johnson Mobile Rentals
     Website
   • Sunny Brae Church
     Website, Brand Creation
   • RMI Outdoors
     Website
   • Maui Sod Farm
     Website
   • North Coast Property Management
     Website
   • Anthony Mantova
     Website, City-Council Campaign
   • Housing Humboldt
     Website
   • Arcata Zen Group
     Website
   • Cafe Brio & Brio Baking
     Website
   • Mantova’s Two Street Music
     Website
   • FAAN | Families Advocating Autism Now
     Website
   • Arcata Economic Development Corp.
     Website
   • Visual Concepts
     Website
   • Housing Humboldt
     Website
   • Humboldt Termite & Pest Control
     Website, Brand Creation
   • Humboldt Builders Exchange
     Website
   • Give the Chance
     Website
   • California Baptist Foundation
     Website
   • SoCal Baptist Ministries
     Website
   • Redwood Empire Printing & Design
     Website
   • Emerald City Laundry
     Website

3. Web Developer

   Design & build client marketing websites, from concept to completion, as well as Work with business owners to understand needs, capabilities, and define project scopes.

   Spearhead EvenVision’s transition from Fixed-Width to Responsive web development.

   Projects

   • Redwood Coast Prosperity
     Website, Branding, Data-Visualization
   • Phyl'n Cold-Pressed Juice
     Website
   • Pacific Mindfulness
     Website
   • Wildberries Market
     Blog Microsite
   • Patty Stearns Real Estate
     Website
   • Redwood Region Economic Development Commission
     Website
   • Northcoast Horticulture Supply
     Website
   • HumFresh
     Website
   • Essential Elements Spa
     Website, Brand Creation
   • Trinidad Bluffs
     Website
   • Chapala Cafe
     Website
   • Sequoia Humane Society
     Website
   • LACO Associates
     Website
   • Curb Appeal Construction
     Website
   • Trinidad Trading Company
     Website
   • Jacoby Creek Land Trust
     Website
   • Redwood Parks Conservancy
     Website
   • New Heart Community Church
     Website
   • Redwood Glass & Windows
     Website
   • Cafe Nooner
     Website

4. Graphic & Web Designer

   After freelancing for a time, and spending every waking hour learning everything I could, I went to work with EvenVision as a graphic & web designer, making neat things from business cards to mockups in Illustrator to handling the styling & basic dev on websites.

   Projects

   • Jessicurl
     Website
   • Cunningham, Malone & Morton
     Website
   • Callahan Pickups
     Website, Brand Creation
   • Cloud B
     Blog Microsite
   • Tika Imports
     Website
   • Arcata Sunrise Rotary Club
     Website
   • Humboldt State University | English Dept.
     Website
   • Wendt Construction
     Blog Microsite
   • Shred Aware
     Website
   • Humboldt Folklife
     Website

Sunny Brae Church

A/V Tech Lead

Live mixing for Worship music, recording, processing audio (especially sermon recordings) and developing visual accompaniment for songs and events.

Serving at my home church, every Sunday. Basically just show up and do anything technical, as well as train others to support with slides and A/V Recording as needed :)

Freelance

Early freelance work, including a variety of small projects & favors for friends

Projects

• Ryan Filgas Photography
  Logo, Business Cards, Website
• DMC Home Construction
  Web Design
• Jazz at the Graves
  Event Invites
• Scotia Band
  Postcard Design

Holiday Inn Express

Front-Desk Agent

Fresh out of undergrad, armed with a BA in Economics, I faced the reality that I needed to learn how to answer a phone :)

Humboldt State University

Student

Bachelor of Arts: Economics & Rural Economic Development

Tutored for ECON 311: Intermediate Macroeconomics

Coursework

• GEOG 360: Geography of World Economics
• MUS 361: Music Tech: Recording & Playback
• NAS 306: Native People of North America
• PSCI 303: Third World Politics
• ECON 310: Intermediate Microtheory & Strategy
• ECON 470: Sustainable Rural Economic Development
• ECON 490: Capstone
• BIOL 304: Human Genetics
• BA 415: International Business Essentials
• ECON 306: Economics of the Developing World
• ECON 435: Principles of Money & Banking
• ECON 305: International Economics & Globalization
• ECON 323: Economic History of the US
• GERM 106: German Level II
• HIST 375: US Foreign Relations 1943-Present
• BA 332: Intermediate Business Statistics
• CIS 130: Intro to Programming
• ECON 311: Intermediate Macroeconomics
• GERM 305: Marx, Nietzche, Freud & German Literature
• MATH 109: Calculus 1

College of the Redwoods

Student

Concurrent with Academy of the Redwoods (High School)

Academy of the Redwoods

Student

Concurrent with College of the Redwoods (Community College)

Got my AA Degree the day before my High-School Diploma