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Launched Theme Generator with Pattern Lab Support

We've used KSS-Node as a style guide generator for a long time (3 years+) with good success. That said it's not as well supported as it once was so we've moved to Pattern Lab (Node edition).

I took the opportunity to move us to Gulp 4 while we were at it. Webpack may be powerful but Gulp's config is way easier to read.

Changed jobs to a new role at Red Hat

I had the opportunity to move back to an individual contributor role and I took it! I was hired to modernize the automated testing workflow for a team at Red Hat. We'll be moving from WebDriver to Cypress.io.

Large React + Redux Refactor

I lead a team that refactored the check out application on a major dental insurance provider website through 2018-2019.

We removed dead code, cleaned up linting errors, refactored the Redux store, created a mock api, added a metric ton of tests and much much more.

Multiple React Apps in Drupal

We had a project that needed to replicate several React applications in Drupal. Instead of creating new Drupal components, we imported existing React apps and embedded them in Drupal.

The fun part of this was ensuring that React and other libraries were only ever loaded once no matter how many applications were embeded on the page.

Launched Mediacurrent’s First Client Gatsby Site

We've worked with Gatsby before (Mediacurrent.com is Gatsby), but this is the first client project to use Gatsby.js. Honestly it went way smoother than I ever thought it would have.

Coffee Ratio Calculator Web App

I Got tired of using a spreadsheet for calculating the correct water to coffee ratio so I built my own web app using Preact and Netlify.

Started Team 1 on 1s

Trying to be a better manager, I read the book The Manager’s Path. This inspired me to start one on ones with my direct reports.

In 2019, we adopted this process company-wide.

Guardian Insurance Redesign

Mediacurrent worked with Guardian to build a new design system for their Direct To Consumer website.

I helped guide and support the design team working as designer / project manager.

Open Sourced Drupal 8 Theme Generator

We have a Yeoman based generator for Drupal 8 themes that we use internally. For the first time we open sourced this project on Github and npm.

We still use a version of this tool today when we set up new projects.

Habitat.org Drupal 8 Redesign

We worked with the most excellent folks at Habitat for Humanity on a Drupal 7 to 8 rebuild and redesign.

This was fun because it was one of the first times we used a style guide driven development approach. We created a extensive design system that is still in use today.