My work

I was a full-stack engineer on the team responsible for implementing the Massachusetts Paid Family & Medical Leave system, a brand new state program that provides paid time off for workers. The team successfully launched the application within a year, by the legislative deadline, during the COVID-19 pandemic. I led various initiatives, including a migration from JavaScript to TypeScript, usage of Storybook to test each question page in isolation, and introduced the concept of using a state machine to manage the complex multi-step application flow (60+ potential pages), allowing the team to visualize the implemented routing behavior.

I was the tech lead and helped create the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Design System. Initially built for HealthCare.gov, it’s also now in use on sites like Medicare.gov and CMS.gov. I was responsible for the system’s CSS and React architecture, documentation, and implementation.

I was an interaction designer on the team redesigning the HealthCare.gov eligibility and enrollment experience. I was responsible for solving complex form design challenges, such as downstream effects & nonlinear navigation, question sequencing and help and guidance patterns.

Dropmark helps organize all your links, files, and notes into visual collections. As part of the 4-person team at Oak Studios, I helped shape the product vision, design, and development. In 2015, I focused on making the product self-sustaining, leading the creation of the Teams offering. I led the design and development of features like annotations, reactions, a new browser extension, and overall refresh of the Dropmark brand.

Initially designed and built in one month at Oak Studios, Siteleaf is a CMS for static Jekyll websites. As part of the 4-person team, I led the design and frontend development, building the bulk of the frontend, including a WYSIWYG markdown editor and smart metadata controls that adjust based on the name of the field.

As a side project, I designed and built tooling to help track, share, and search my reading highlights. Using the project as a learning playground, I’ve built a robust serverless architecture for importing highlights, fetching book metadata, and generating text embeddings to support semantic search and summarization.

CreativeMornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community. As part of a small 3-person consulting team, I led the design and frontend development of the initial CreativeMornings.com website. The site was translated into 11 languages, included over 350 hours of video and an administrative section for hosts to manage event registration and content. I was responsible for a number of interactions, from the login form dropping off the page when you log in, raining hearts when you like a video, tagging quotes within videos, and a custom interactive map showing all chapter locations.

Blue was a weather app we launched at Oak Studios, and was designed and built in one week during our yearly team getaway. I was responsible for conceptualizing and creating a marketing page for the app and decided the best way to explain the app was to show it in action and let it speak for itself. Over a period of 24 hours, I recorded a timelapse overlooking Los Angeles. From there I recreated the app’s interface in HTML & CSS, then paired a CSS animation of the interface with the timelapse, demonstrating the relation between weather, time, and the interface’s color gradient.

Gazette was a product I conceptualized and built the frontend for while at Oak Studios. It allowed you to subscribe to your favorite blogs, websites, and publications and receive a weekly, personalized ebook to read and highlight on iOS, Kindle, or Android. It synced issues with Readmill, Kindle, and also allowed you to download directly.