Senior Technology Professional

Project Management | Web Development | User Experience

Versatile, performance-driven technology professional dedicated to facilitating the development of engaging world-class websites and applications. A user strategist and advocate with expertise honed by helping Disney, one of the world’s most celebrated brands, to provide the best e-commerce experience possible. Enthusiastically employ user-centered design approaches to build innovative, functional products that delight customers and produce measurable returns on investment (ROI). With expertise in:

Senior Software Engineer – Disney.com
Senior Developer – AdSales

Successfully developed software tools, game engines, and development guidelines used to drive millions in annual revenue.

• Delivered innovative, engaging digital experiences based on research and analytics through collaboration with creative teams, technical development teams, business product management, and support staff.
• Led cross-functional teams to implement key development initiatives.
• Moved development projects from idea through scoping and all phases of design and implementation, championing the integrity of the user experience throughout.
• Played a critical role in managing the overall user experience of Disney web properties; advocated for the user experience throughout all phases of the development cycle, including business needs analysis, user-centered design and development, usability testing and measuring success, ensuring that all user experiences adhere to the Disney brand tone and personality.

Key Accomplishments

• Significantly increased guest search interactions by developing search type-ahead and suggestions interface for the Disney.com/search page and global chrome navigation.
• Developed a companion module for the Disney.com/search page that displays Disney Store product results matching the guest’s search query as an image carousel; the novelty of which helped increase revenue by tens of thousands of dollars.
• Spearheaded the creation of Disney’s stylistic global chrome and footer; dynamically generated navigation modules that are highly customizable, CMS driven, CDN cached, and optimized for performance, SEO, analytics, device comparability, and accessibility.
  • Navigation modules are prominently displayed on all Disney branded sites and viewed by millions of unique guests daily.
• Played a key role in the design and construction of 3 Disney.com homepage frameworks.
• Successfully partnered with Pixar and Skywalker Sound on the Wall-E Disney.com homepage animation.

Senior Flash Developer

Served as an integral part on a team of developers driving rich internet applications/products from planning and inception to launch.

• Assisted in the development of the front and back-end systems efforts, with a particular focus on Flash web and video development.

Key Accomplishments

• Developed video chat application software and a dynamic modular user interface generation platform.
• Pioneered the use of Flash Communication Server technology in video conferencing in direct collaboration with Macromedia.

Flash Game Developer

Designed, prototyped, and implemented scalable, reliable game interfaces using Flash technologies for desktop and set top devices.

• Participated in the generation of game scripts and storyboards; solved complex technical problems and identified and addressed performance bottlenecks.

Key Accomplishments

• Worked with the “WebTV” platform to bring gaming to users of Microsoft’s emerging (at the time) set-top technology.
• Designed video game engines for use on set-top entertainment systems.