Staff Frontend Engineer · SF Bay Area · 20 years

20 years of
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I build the interfaces complexity hides behind — real-time fleet dashboards, vehicle configurators, healthcare tools, multi-step ecommerce flows, and more. Creative, thoughtful, and pragmatic, I turn ideas into reality and have an obsession with getting the details right.

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Work History

A few defining
chapters.

Led frontend architecture for fleet EV charging platform
Built real-time fleet monitoring and analytics interfaces
Developed schema-driven UI systems and complex data tables
Mentored engineers, worked closely with product and design
Sole frontend engineer on a greenfield inventory application to keep track of touchscreen devices in use throughout Kaiser medical centers, which became critical during the covid-19 pandemic for telehealth and remote patient monitoring
Defined UX, delivered wireframes, mockups, and full React/TypeScript implementation with Node backend
This was a short-term contract role during the covid-19 pandemic (I had an entire office floor to myself! That was a first!)
One of the tech leads for Tesla's vehicle configurator — consumer-facing, 40+ markets
Frontend polish, NodeJS services, unit testing, deployment pipelines
Designed localization strategy for several high traffic applications
Contributed to inventory vehicle discovery and purchasing flows
Led small frontend engineering team for renewable energy monitoring platform
Built dashboards and analytics tools for real-time energy data and reporting
Built data visualizations for customer soloar and wind installations using Adobe Flex, Flash, and later HTML5/CSS3
Small company: I split my role between UX designer and applications developer

Early career focused on full-stack web development, interactive kiosks, working in advertising, government and education.

Protrigga Design — Partner · Interactive advertising & Flash production2005–2009
CaratFusion — Senior Developer · Digital media & campaign toolingNov 2005–Jun 2006
Academy of Art University — Instructional Designer · Online course curriculumJun 2004–Mar 2005
County of Humboldt — Senior Applications Developer · Government web appsJan 2002–Dec 2004
College of the Redwoods — Associate Faculty · Taught web design & developmentJun 2002–Jun 2003
Personal Projects

Things built.
Skills

The toolkit.

Frontend
React
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
Vite / Rspack / Webpack
CSS / HTML
Backend
Node.js
Next.js
Express
REST APIs
GraphQL
PHP
Systems
Microfrontends
CI/CD pipelines
AWS
Docker
Design
Figma
WCAG / ADA Compliance
Data visualization
UX
AI / Recent
LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude)
Prompt engineering
Vision APIs
AI-assisted dev workflows
Education
Humboldt State University
B.A. Geography / GIS
Contact

Let's talk about
what you're building.

I'm currently open to interesting new opportunities.
SF Bay Area, open to remote.

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