University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee / B.S. in Information Science and Technology
August 2016 - Milwaukee, WI
Lead Engineer
May 2024 - Present, American Family Insurance, Madison, WI / Remote
AI Transformation Leadership: Pioneered large-scale adoption of Claude AI
and its advanced tooling ecosystem—including Retrieval-Augmented Generation
(RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Claude Skills—while designing
optimized workflows that minimized token usage and maximized business value.
Dramatically accelerated frontend page and application redesigns from
approximately 4 weeks to ~2 days and API development from 2 weeks to 2 days,
significantly boosting team velocity.
AI Workflow Optimization: Established efficient AI-assisted development
processes and prompting strategies using Claude Skills and MCP to reduce
context overhead and token consumption, creating sustainable, cost-effective
patterns that enhanced productivity without compromising code quality.
Frontend Architecture: Established scalable frontend architecture patterns
leveraging React, Angular, and TypeScript, resulting in improved performance
and developer experience.
Technical Leadership: Led cross-functional teams in designing and delivering
high-impact user experiences while maintaining rigorous standards for performance,
accessibility, and code quality; improved team productivity by 20%.
System Integration & Security: Implemented complex OAuth 2.0 authentication
flows with ForgeRock, ensuring secure and seamless enterprise integrations.
Cloud Optimization & Infrastructure: Drove cloud infrastructure
reconfiguration that delivered approximately 50% cost savings while
preserving system reliability; led widespread adoption of Terraform for
Infrastructure as Code.
Senior Engineer
October 2020 - May 2024, American Family Insurance, Madison, WI / Remote
Micro Frontend Architecture: Implemented module federation and web
components to enable team autonomy while maintaining consistent,
high-quality user experiences.
High-Traffic Platform Development: Developed and maintained customer
web portals serving 5M+ users, focusing on billing, payments, and user
preferences using Angular, TypeScript, reactive patterns, and state
management.
Full-Stack Collaboration: Designed and developed RESTful APIs with
NestJS that integrated seamlessly with frontend applications.
Cloud Migration: Led migration of multiple applications to AWS,
implementing industry best practices for security, scalability, and
operational reliability.
CI/CD Excellence: Designed and implemented robust CI/CD pipelines
including automated security scans, comprehensive testing, and
multi-environment deployments.
Accessibility Advocacy: Championed and implemented WCAG standards across
all web interfaces to ensure inclusive and compliant user experiences.
Founder
October 2023 - Present, Lunch Creek Web Designs, Kewaskum, WI
Performance Optimization: Built high-performance websites using Astro
and modern frameworks, consistently achieving excellent Google Core Web
Vitals scores.
Frontend Expertise: Developed responsive, cross-browser compatible
templates with clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
UX-Driven Development: Delivered user-centered designs that increased
engagement and conversion rates for small business clients.
Lead SDET
August 2016 - June 2020, Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee, WI
Test Automation Framework: Led redesign of testing infrastructure using
Node.js and JavaScript, reducing test execution time by 75%.
Technical Leadership: Defined and managed testing strategies for
high-traffic applications serving thousands of concurrent users.
Code Quality & Tooling: Enforced best practices through constructive code
reviews and built custom automation frameworks and developer tools that
significantly improved productivity.
