TiVo
TiVo brings customers live, recorded, and streaming TV together into one premium experience for both cable and cord cutter users.
Background
Year
2016 - 2019
Role
Software Engineer, Front End Web Developer
Skills
HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, NodeJS, AngularJS, RESTful APIs, Single Page Applications (SPA), Foundation CSS, Bootstrap CSS, PHP, Drupal, WordPress, Apache, Bash scripting, MySQL, AWS
Work
I worked as Front End Developer for the IT Department at TiVo. Responsible for all consumer marketing and e-commerce flows, website property, and data. I collaborated frequently with internal marketing and design teams to produce landing pages and support applications for product launches and sales campaigns.
| 2016 | Project |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Transform mockups from design team into fully responsive, cross-browser compatible product detail pages for new products using Drupal, Apache, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Angular to help generate over ~$10,000 in quarterly revenue. |
| 2016 | Improved front end development and QA team work experience by researching new technologies, implementing CSS Flexbox and physical mobile device testing, ensuring 100% visual accuracy during development and QA, ultimately reducing bug counts by 50% within the first three months of hire. |
| 2017 | Project |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Develop and maintain Angular apps for customer service call center teams who perform backend service transactions (such as box activation, change payment plan, cancellation, etc) using Drupal, Apache, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Angular to help generate over ~$10,000 in quarterly service fees. |
| 2017 | Manage and support off site teams by translating business requirements into technical requirements, drawing up step by step plans for each task, and distributing workloads in order to maximize efficiency of workforce and ensure quality and timely work. |
| 2017 | Delivered successful migration of single server WordPress application from Rackspace to AWS with Marketing and IT teams by planning, researching, developing, and implementing new technologies and system designs (using RDS, S3, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFront, CloudFormation) saving $20,000 in monthly spend. |
| 2018 | Project |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Collaborate with SEO Managers and Consultants to implement SEO and analytics with Google Tag Manager (GTM). |
| 2018 | Validate landing pages built by marketing team 3rd party developers correctly implement our Add To Cart APIs to drive promotional sales. |
| 2018 | Pinpoint bottlenecks in our web performance metrics analyzing server response time, caching strategy, must-remove network requests, and asset delivery optimizations to potentially improve initial page load times by over 60%. |
| 2018 | Participate in IT infrastructure migration; caught and resolved ~5 issues saving hours in deployment and potentially avoiding a rollback and reschedule. |
| 2019 | Project |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Automated implementation process of new promotion offers from the marketing team writing NodeJS scripts to process Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into Angular templates, effectively placing 80% of the work usually done by the IT department back into the hands of the marketing team. |
| 2019 | Port CRM web application (cancel service) to www.tivo.com using Javascript and jQuery redirecting 80% of call center requests to end users. |