Resume: Jonathan Grimes

• Responsible for front-end architectures
  • Cross-Platform iOS & Android via React Native
• Migrated runtime from bare React-Native to Expo framework
  • Automated app store publishing
  • Automated Updates: Over-the-air code updates without App Store submissions (code push)
• Assisted with Back-end API specifications
• Introduced a Design System in collaboration with the Design Team
• Spear-headed the introduction of a Component Library (massive prototyping speed up)
• React Native applications: WayBetter, StepBet, DietBet, QuitBet
  • Key UI features: social feeds, posts, threads, product listings, product details views, all with animations and delighters
  • Facebook/Twitter style feeds when hierarchical navigation on posts/comments. Infinite scroll.
• Automated and defined Develeoper workflows and infrastructure to accelerate productivity
  • Installed automated semantic release strategies
  • Streamlined test & validation CI pipelines
  • Added commit-log validation

State-of-the-Art Online Education Platform (LMS) with social features for engagement. (make a comment on a passage and discuss with class, etc) Content authoring tools. Assessment tools. Video streaming. Video production.

• Part of the founding team

• Responsible for front-end architecture

• Main Project: Front-end of primary product (NextThought LMS)

  • Supported content viewing and editing (books, courses) as well as annotating (notes, highlights) and discussions (forums, shared notes)
  • Socially interconnected content (notes could be shared, community dashboards, profile feeds, etc)
  • Chat with friends, classmates, or content viewers (via websockets)
  • Originally built on ExtJS 4, migrated to React.
  • Hosted by a custom node.js web service using express.js
  • Dedicated Mobile PWA (fully responsive built in React)
  • Main application was partially responsive

• Project: OUBound - Housing Web App (Front End)

  • Contracted by the University of Oklahoma (OU) to build a student onboarding portal.
  • Fully Responsive
  • Enabled students to pick roommates, housing (dorms), and campus meal plans
  • Supported Chat(instant - via websockets) and Messages (like email) so students could coordinate with one another.

• Project: OUBound - Financial Aid (Front End)

  • Contracted by OU to build a student financial aid conversational UI wizard, to guide students setting up their funding for school
  • Fully Responsive PWA
  • Used predefined answers, (styled to look like auto-suggestions in a text conversation on a phone) step students through their financial aid options. Once completed, students were scheduled to review with a financial aid advisor.

• Project: ISS Portfolio Manager (Front End)

  • Contracted by ISS to build a portfolio management front end
  • Built & used a custom common-component library to fit the current company’s (ISS) style guide to accelerate this project and future projects in this space

• Consulting: ISS

  • Contracted by ISS to consult and assist with another team within the company.

Web Services used to assess portfolio risk

• Project: RiskManager 3

  • Direct Portal to RiskServer and Reporting
  • Java, Spring application, JSP rendered pages
  • Schema-Driven Editors for most data
  • Maintained legacy application
  • Fixing bugs and back porting features from RiskManager 4

• Project: RiskManager 4

  • Front-end to BlueBox services (a proprietary service framework in-front of RiskServer that generalized the services provided by the company to unify our Bulk services and the ad-hoc portfolio management offered in the app)
  • Java, server-side generated page content using inhouse framework
  • Mostly hand-made forms for data, with some schema-driven elements
  • Implemented new features and took over project from original team
  • I was a key actor for adding ExtJS: Client-Side rendered components & pages to speed the application up