Summary

Howdy, my name is Stephen. I’m a Texan living in NYC. I prefer to write code that follows modern web and accessibility standards. I enjoy crafting thoughtfully designed user-facing features and WebApps using React, and prefer working with next-gen APIs with modern JavaScript. I’m a big fan of WordPress, open-source software and Next.js ✌️

Employment

Staff Engineer ∙ New York City
National Basketball Association, 2021–Present

Built the NBA’s Connect Web Application infrastructure from the ground up with Next.js and React Typescript
Successfully launched the new NBA App on Hisense, Xbox, PlayStation, and Comcast platforms worldwide in the fall of 2022
Instilled a culture of documenting processes, debugging tools and workflows for platforms
Facilitated relationships with Connected TV platforms

Front-end Engineer ∙ New York City
Vimeo Inc., 2018-2021

Work spanned a wide gamut: internal tools, search, transactions, design systems, localization, video collaboration tools, Vimeo API work, open-source and growth experiments
Built marketing landing pages, bridging customer data across product and non-product web apps
React Typescript and PHP stack mostly
Manage Vimeo’s custom WordPress blog theme

Technologist / Engineer ∙ New York City
Grok, 2016-2018

Interdisciplinary ad/design studio
Interactive prototyping, video production, storyboarding/research and web development
Various clients included: Adobe, Cision, CallidusCloud, FirstQuality, Qlik , VMWare and Marketo

Web Engineer ∙ Dallas
Six Flags Corporation, 2015-2016

Managed and migrated an aging web infrastructure comprised of multiple systems: PHP, .NET, Java and JavaScript
Most work was within Drupal and PHP

Web Designer / Engineer ∙ Dallas
Freelance, 2012-2016

Produced software, WordPress sites and themes, web portals and created automation tools for apartments to manage their web presence
Clients included, The Perot Museum and other Texas non-profits, Greystar, Redstone, Yardi, and other national multi- family housing corporations.

Education

Bachelors in Interdisciplinary Art & Design — Minor Studies in Computer Science
University of North Texas, 2014

Awards

Over the years, I’ve received a few awards and commendations here and there.

2013 DFW Wordcamp Presentee
2014 Awwwards Honorable Mention & Nominee
2015 UNT Creative Grad Presentee
2017 iwantmyname.com Blog Roll Honoree
2020 Webby Nominee

Contact

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