Work

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

  • Built the NBA’s Connected Web Application infrastructure from the ground up with Next.js and React Typescript
  • Successfully launched the new NBA App on Hisense, Xbox, PlayStation 4/5, 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.

  • 2023 Sports Technology Award – App of the Year Honoree
  • 2020 Webby Nominee
  • 2017 iwantmyname.com Blog Roll Honoree
  • 2015 UNT Creative Grad Presentee
  • 2014 Awwwards Honorable Mention & Nominee
  • 2013 DFW Wordcamp Presentee

Contact

Want to get in touch? Generally, my email inbox is always open. I’m reachable in other parts of the web too: