SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER · AHEAD / CHICAGO

I build software that matches how people actually think.

Full-stack engineer with an M.S. in HCI. Fifteen years from contextual inquiry and cognitive task analysis to production Elixir and React — with no handoff chain in between.

Selected work
15 yrs
HCI research and production engineering
50%+
less end-user workload, NFI TMS
M.S. HCI
DePaul University, 2018

Experience

Fifteen years, four chapters.

AHEAD

Senior Software Engineer

Building enterprise IT lifecycle management tools in Elixir and Phoenix LiveView. Full-stack ownership from architecture through production — the same research-first approach applied to backend system design.

ElixirPhoenix LiveViewPostgreSQLTypeScriptReact

Chicago Sports · Side project

Live Bears dashboard.

A real-time dashboard for Chicago Bears season stats, roster, and matchup analysis — built in Next.js with live ESPN data. Proof that the same design system scales to a sports context.

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Chicago Bears live dashboard