Architectural ownership and coding of presentation layer frameworks that integrate client side and server side technologies using object-oriented JavaScript, AJAX, CSS3, HTML5, JSP, Tiles, Spring MVC, and Struts. Support developers directly and indirectly through documentation and reference implementations.

Work with business owners and leaders of UX, Software Engineering, SEO, Operations, and Merchandising teams to refine requirements, estimate projects, and ensure maintainability in the user interface engineering of Hotwire.com, Hotwire international, Travel-Ticker.com and associated administration web applications.

Technical lead and final point of escalation for the UI Engineering team. Set training goals and review software designs and code for 6 local and 7 offshore (Kiev, Ukraine) UI Engineers. Represent UI Engineering within the wider Software Engineering team. Support monthly major product releases.

Designed, built and maintain AJAX framework integrated into the server-side presentation layer. Reduced the complexity of AJAX programming by providing a simple interface to re-render a given module without the need for additional programming.

Implemented developer productivity improvements including creation of an object-oriented JavaScript and CSS component framework integrated into the server-side component architecture. Introduced automated tools such as source control triggers for checking code style (jslint), generating API documentation (JsDoc), and flagging “dead” files, CSS selectors, and JavaScript functions that may impede performance and/or future refactoring. Devised and developed a set of reference implementations of core UI components for training, troubleshooting and testing.

Owner of strategic transition from Struts to Spring MVC as Hotwire’s core presentation layer framework. Lead integration of existing Tiles 2 view composition framework into Spring MVC, including Ajax framework, OO JavaScript tie-ins, and client side validation.

Championed performance best practices. Elevated the discussion of performance issues from an operations-centered concern about “page weight” and bandwidth to a company-wide commitment to a high-performance user experience. Introduced automated performance monitoring through Gomez and ShowSlow. Worked with operations, product and other teams to drive performance goals. Optimized performance by asynchronously loading JavaScript and CSS at the framework level, minifying and concatenating JavaScript and CSS while retaining the ability to debug in development, and improving cache utilization of static resources.

Technical lead (and later manager) of a strategic team of 5 user experience engineers, researchers, and designers. The User Experience team was responsible for company-wide UI framework engineering and interactive design. Periodically supervised offshore contractors, including in-person visits to India.

Develop UI component framework using Java, XML, JSP, JavaScript and CSS. Directly responsible for UI framework package of 1,000 Java classes and associated source code. Shipped eight major releases of the product. Support 30 application developers and 40+ implementation engineers on codebase of 14,500 Java classes and associated source code on three shipping product versions.

Lead user experience initiatives for new modules, including customer visits, structured usability testing, prototype development, functional specification review, and developer training.

Built "Client Refresh" AJAX API allowing developers to easily target any portion of the screen to be updated on-the-fly without a full page render.

Led UI programming effort on top of JSP-based UI framework

Developed functional specifications, test plans, and release criteria with product management, design, and QA teams

Constructed visual simulations and site maps of urban development proposals for environmental review, marketing, and comparison of alternatives

Managed production staff and technical aspects of client relations

Presented seminars on visual communication tools for city planning including web development, photosimulation, real-time 3D, and animation

Dames and Moore Group, Fourth Dimension Interactive º San Francisco

Environmental Simulation Center º New York

City of Seattle, Seattle Design Commission º Seattle

On the Ground Magazine º Seattle

Implemented facilities inventory and utilization analysis of Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY