Ian Lovett

Developed Angular client for a private product running on top of Rook, an open source next gen storage platform running on Kubernetes. Implemented socket realtime connections for requests which might take seconds or minutes, unblocking the user. Decided to use ngrx platform, an Angular implementation of Redux, which allowed realtime push notifications to fit nicely into the ecosystem. Regularly met with UX Designer to discuss mockups and provided feedback and insights. Brought up workflow concerns to team with suggestions of how to improve the user experience.

The champion of UI/UX for Fulfillment Center Systems department (~30 people), answering questions, preaching best practices, and directing developers in the right direction for their respective team’s projects. Developed and maintained an internal front end framework bundle based on AngularJS & Angular Material, along with other common libraries like lodash, momentjs, tinycolor and shared logic between modular apps using the framework. Developed a yeoman generator for other engineers within department to quickly get up and running with the aforementioned framework bundle. Redesigned an application heavily in use in the warehouse, implemented in Angular, rolled out software onsite, interviewed users, addressed feedback, improved productivity of users by an average of 5% Participated in recruiting tech talent by interviewing candidates for UI positions. Developed distributed workers to crunch data in parallel and dump data into ElasticSearch for quick report generation based on aggregations of large datasets. Designed UI for a handful of applications using the framework, reviewed other teams code regularly and provided tips and in depth explanations of improvements to make. Planned Epics and Stories for many projects, identified key requirements and estimated development time required.

Front end developer for portlets within Cisco WebEx Social, a collaborative social networking platform for intranet use within large companies (100,000+ employees). Portlets were essentially self contained apps that could be added to a user's custom home page or communities pages. Lead daily scrums as scrum master on projects with 5 - 10 members. Responsibilities included resolving blockers as soon as possible, keeping team on track, and maintaining up to date project status in Rally. Ran technical interviews on potential front end developers within the company. Managed Git repositories and acted as a very knowledgeable source of information on how to use Git for the rest of the team. Posted tutorials on the basics of Git. Worked with WebEx Social platform lead developer to design a custom portlet jQuery event system, which included initializing, loading, navigating, and tear-down on the single page application. Multiple instances of the same portlet issues were resolved by using the portlet instance in the namespace. Developed and themed custom jQuery plugins & Dojo components. Created helper libraries to reduce tedious and repetitive work to be re-usable between portlets. Developed script to automate upgrade of over 15,000 HTML pages to reduce repetitive tasks, while standardizing or "prettifying" HTML. Thanks to the script, our team finished one month early on our four month project.