I've helped do everything from build the web application/site to push those heavy drink carts from building to building (back in the day). I've done everything I've been asked (and some things I wasn't even asked) to do, and I love what devLink provides to the community.

Board Member

Lead Front-End Developer

Since resuming responsibility for the web site in 2014, I've migrated to WordPress for the main marketing site and built mecaevents.com on a Node Express API against a MS SQL database on Amazon RDS. The front-end of the site is built in React (without Redux) and is hosted on Microsoft Azure utlizing Bitbucket Pipelines for deployment. Since I don't have time to write code as a manager, this allows me to stay up to date with current technologies. It has now been updated to React 16 and I have started using Portals to provide for better code portability.

Created a new events site (mecaevents.com) utilizing Twitter Bootstrap (with a custom theme), ASP.NET MVC, KnockoutJS for all data bindings and development of a custom binding to manage results viewmodels. Also developed API to allow for others to develop mobile apps if desired utilizing ASP.NET WebAPI.
Upgraded DotNetNuke multiple times to now running on v 7.0
Migrated site to DotNetNuke (5.0) Content Management System which is activel

Director of Web Services

Building various tools with JavaScript using React, Redux, gulp, jspm, karma, mocha, sinon, chai, lodash, etc. Also building some Node stuff including submissions to http-server and other open source Node projects. Part of the WISE team responsible for putting on weekly knowledge sharing "lunch and learn" presentations, part of the Cengage Way (Agile practices) team.

Software Developer IV

Product Engineering Manager

As Front-End Web Lead, I worked with two different teams focusing on improving the User Experience for CollegeVine, a company focused on helping High School students (and their parents) close the guidance gap. I helped convert a shared React component library from JavaScript to TypeScript, upgraded Webpack versions and helped establish best architectural patterns and practices.

Due to a company reorganization, I was laid off after only 6 weeks, just as I was getting ramped up on building the marketing site out in a mobile-first pattern, focusing on shrinking page size and progressive enhancement for larger interface sizes.

Front End Lead

Senior Software Engineer - Front End

Manager of the World Languages Team, consisting of 15 software engineers across 3 agile teams. Responsible for motivating the team to do incredible things, preparing migration plans to transition from one product focus to a set of two and other managerial tasks. I focus on creating an incredible team culture and have implemented Team Morale Surveys to help determine where we can improve that culture.

I'm currently in the process of establishing a team hierarchy to better allow for me to deal with the recent departure of both my team's Product Owner and Technical Platform Manager leading to my need to maintain the backlog and make product level decisions.

(Software) Engineering Manager

As of July 2014, I'm still a part-time remote consultant for Avatar.

JavaScript/UI developer for ASP.NET applications including extensive use of jQuery, jQuery UI, Underscore.js, KnockoutJS and the MVVM pattern on multiple projects. Beginning to work on a XAML/C# Windows Store application using a Windows Azure hosted cloud service and SQL Azure.

Assisted in the development of 5 production DurandalJS based Single Page Applications (SPA) utilizing full Knockout MMVM, Bootstrap, MomentJS, ToastrJS and a WCF Web Service.

Senior Software Consultant

Contracting through Syrinx Consulting for Cengage

Currently working on building out new web interface for World Languages modules utilizing gulp, ReactJS with Redux, jspm and Bootstrap. Implemented SASS for styling and implemented OpenTok for video and voiceboard solutions.

Senior Consultant (for Cengage Learning)

Senior Software Engineer

Through Verity Recruiting, I am responsible for maintaining and updating the Rainmaker vehicle tracking system. Rainmaker is a Durandal based web application using an ASP.NET Web API service for data transfer, and utilizing Aspose, DataTables.net, and other JavaScript libraries.

Software Consultant (Remote)

In this new role for me, I get to function as a cross functional developer and a great new platform we're building. I get to use great languages like JavaScript and Erlang, building tools like RabbitMQ, Kazoo and Puppet, and I get to work with a great cross functional team, building a cloud platform for the future.

While at PATLive/Tresta, I have helped create custom Durandal widgets to promote application-wide reuse, written custom Knockout bindings, dabbled in creating Erlang data providers and repositories and written my fair share of unit tests using QUnit. For you buzzword bingo players:

- Durandal
- Knockout
- Node.js
- SASS
- Grunt
- Jade
- HTML5/CSS3
- JavaScript
- Erlang
- CouchDb
- MariaDb

Senior Software Developer

Responsible for creating vision to revamp marketing site entirely, moving to an NX based monorepo using TypeScript and Next.js for creating applications with multiple reusable libraries to define code separation and greatly improve reusability. Manage 3 web developers including identifying and mentoring web development intern culled from our customer support troopers.

Web Architect/Web Development Manager/Front End Lead Developer

(FE) Web Architect for Chatbooks
Speaker, Open-Source Contributor, Father, Son, Brother, Husband

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Jason Clark

(FE) Web Architect for Chatbooks Speaker, Open-Source Contributor, Father, Son, Brother, Husband