Lead Front-End EngineerJournal Communications (Apr 2014 - Present) - Milwaukee, WI

• Promoted to take the Lead role: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  • Results:
  • Designed and developed the current navigation on http://www.jsonline.com/ with always on going enhancements and feature changes.
  • Implemented Google Analytics for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  • Implemented Viafoura cookie based commenting syetem.
  • Redesigned homepage, article pages, blog pages.
• Mobile Web App development: Best of Brew City
  • Results: One of the best mobile app for “going out” guide in Milwaukee.
  • Awards:
    • Society for Features Journalism - Third prize
    • Webby Awards - First prize

Software EngineerJournal Communications (Apr 2013 - 2014) - Milwaukee, WI

• Web development for 150+ (high traffic) sites across nationwide media markets.
• Mobile web apps, Single Page Applications, responsive webs design, Client side MVC frameworks, REST APIs, Data APIs and web services,
• SEO, Social Media, Experience with Google Maps, Backbone.js, jQuery, BrightCove Video
• Developed: Journal Media Group's corporate website
• Technologies: JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Backbone.js, Zepto.js, Underscore.js, AJAX/JSONP APIs, PhoneGap

Application Support AnalystKohl's Corporate (Sep 2012 - Mar 2013) - Menomonee Falls - WI

• Ensure 99.999% uptime of Kohls.com by trouble-shooting E-Commerce code, developing reporting and monitoring applications for monitoring team. Responsible for continuing maintenance on assigned production applications, guiding monitoring team on issues and documenting, and collaborating with other IT departments to ensure successful deployment and support of applications.
• BMC Remedy IT Service Management (ITIL process management)
• Technology/Applications: Azul, Gigaspaces, NetCool, ESP Mainframe, SharePoint, Ominiture, Gomez, Qpasa, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Blue Martini E-Commerce Framework, KeyNote
• Maintain ecommerce webservers running Linux and push out patches after QA stage.
• Create and maintain UML diagrams for code and Network diagrams for clustered servers
• Created portal to monitor complete e-commerce environment using spring framework.

Programming InternRockwell Automation (May 2010 - 2011) - Milwaukee, WI

• Created and maintained intranet database applications to help company employees manage parts records and help with other day-to-day application issues.
• Developed a monitoring tool to keep track of parts history usage.
• Developed a MS Access database to load part attributes data.
• Developed a MySQL database that linked to the MS Access database. Designed an intranet website using CS5, HTML and PHP for drafters to load parts into the same database.
• Developed another website for managers from different departments to check on status of their parts.
• Helped develop an automated process to load parts into SAP software using DataLoad scripting tool.
• Created a time log tool using HTML and PHP to keep track of time spent by employees on various jobs.