👋 Hey there

Paul here!

I am a:

• Digital Designer
• Functional Potter
• Web Develper
• Technical Analyst
• Tabletop Game Nerd

Artwork

Handmade Pottery

functional clay pieces

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Machine Cut Works

wallets, game tokens, greeting cards, and more

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Hand-painted Works

oil / acrylic usually on canvas

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PROJECT LEAD / SENIOR I18N ENGINEER

Autodesk, July 2019 - Oct 2022

• Managed multiple projects on my cross-functional team from ideation through deployment and testing, as well as created plans for ongoing maintenance.
• Started and scaled my division's integration with an internal Continuous Localization service, which provided automatic and updating translations to production-released code within 1 hour.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks by planning out a roadmap of multiple Agile/Scrum sprints worth of work at a time and communicating adjustment to project delivery estimates.
• Presented quarterly to stakeholders and other peers at division-wide meetings about product delivery updates and process innovations.
• Researched the feasibility of potential features by digging through legacy code, soliciting feedback from engineers outside my team, creating prototypes, then sharing findings with the product team.

PRODUCT ENGINEER

Booking.com, Dec 2017 - June 2019

• Developed and conducted technical interviews with an emphasis on empathy for all-involved, simplifying the recruitment process without sacrificing assessment ability.
• Built-out an onboarding guide that streamlined experience for new engineers allowing them to write production ready code in half of the time.
• Collaborated globally to gather product requirements and deliver developer support as our product expanded to new regions.

UI ENGINEER / DESIGNER

Study.com, July 2014 - Nov 2017

• Collaborated closely with product owners and backend engineers to design and implement UI/UX for new features.
• Consulted analytics data at every step of the product process to ensure app development would be impactful.
• Defined frontend coding standards and gathered feedback to optimize development processes and product quality.

EXPERIENCED TECHNOLOGIES

Software Engineering

Javascript, Node.js, React, Redux, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, Django, Webpack, AWS, S3, MongoDB, MySQL, Mode, Tableau, Jenkins, XML, Bootstrap, Git, Github, RESTful APIs

General Applications

Jira, Confluence, Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms), MS Office (Word, Excel), Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, InDesign, Inkscape, GIMP

Education

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Software Engineer, B.S.

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Table Top Nerd

Simple Character Sheet

I play a lot of TTRPGs that aren't Dungeons & Dragons. While I love handing out paper character sheets to my players, I have been known to forget to bring the character sheets to a session or two. So instead of printing out character sheets, I have them create them on this little app I made.

simplecharactersheet.com

Pandemic Legacy Tracker

NOTE: I made this before 2020

Track when the next epidemic will occur in your Pandemic Legacy board game.

pandemiclegacytracker.com

Other Resources I Made