Horace Reid III

Atlanta GA, *****

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Experienced Web Developer specializing in front-end development with expertise in React, Redux, JavaScript, Next.js, CSS3, and HTML5. Skilled in delivering enterprise-grade websites and applications, optimizing user experiences across devices and browsers.

Highly motivated professional with 10+ years of experience. Strong problem-solving skills, able to deliver reusable and maintainable UI components. Effective communicator and leader, providing technical guidance and mentoring. Continuously learning to stay current with industry trends. Thrives in fast-paced environments, delivering high-quality results.

Selected Technical Skills

Web Development — React (PWA) Redux JavaScript ES6-7 CSS3 CSS-in-JS Next.js SCM (SVN, Git) HTML5 Typescript GraphQL Service Workers Web Services Three.js (WebXR/3D/VR)

Web Containers, Servers & Deployment Tools — Node.js Express.js Docker Circle-CI/CD Jenkins Akamai (CDN) LAMP MySQL Apache SOLR Redis Varnish Memcache NGINX Digital Ocean

Career History

Publicis Sapient (Remote) 1/6/2020 – 7/2023

Senior Frontend Experience Architect / Developer

Orchestrated the optimization of Tapestry’s E-commerce Progressive Web App by harnessing the power of React, Chakra UI, Jotai, Next.js, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud API. This initiative resulted in impressive outcomes, including a remarkable 40% reduction in page load times, a significant 30% boost in mobile conversions, and an overall enhanced user experience.

Provided high-level estimates to the Executive team and the IT department, influencing strategic decisions on revenue-impacting features while minimizing development costs during quarterly prioritization meetings.

Using Angular 2, I contributed as a key member of the Service Reliability Engineering team, actively implementing B2B and B2C features on Verizon's Small Business ecommerce website. Our collaborative efforts resulted in enhanced Key Performance Metrics (KPM) and exceptional stability, successfully preventing revenue-impacting issues.

Delivered comprehensive technical solutions using UML, flow charts, and React-based proof-of-concepts. Minimized ambiguities for offshore engineering teams, ensuring successful project outcomes across time zones.

Reviewed code submissions from offshore developers to validate compliance with technical solutions and organization defined best practices, resulting in a significant reduction of launch-blocking defects during the User Acceptance (UAT) phase.

Updated searchable runbooks for L1/L2 support teams, enabling independent issue resolution, leading to a remarkable 10-20% increase in developer availability for user stories and revenue-generating projects.

Used Quantum Metric, a customer experience analytics platform, to identify and troubleshoot high-priority Frontend React defects in production, ensuring minimal revenue impact and immediate customer resolution.

Analyzed PWA's Product Detail page performance using Web Vitals, Chrome Dev Tools, and React Dev tools. Created technical stories for applying React memorization hooks, achieving a 30% decrease in Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), 10-15% decrease in Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and 50% less React re-rendering.

IST Research (Remote) 3/2019 – 12/31/2019

Universal React / Next.js Senior Contractor

Addressing the most urgent human security issues faced by the world’s vulnerable populations!

Joined front-end team to execute the successful migration from Angular to React, Redux, Saga, Reselect, Next.js, Typescript, JSS/CSS, and Material-UI. Demonstrated that React is a superior approach for rapid development, tailored to their specific use-cases, surpassing Angular's capabilities.

Designed and implemented a process using the GraphQL endpoint to consume backend data, replacing RESTful endpoints for user-specific UI reports from the Graph database. This solution improved development efficiency by providing a flexible UI to adapt to new requirements, accommodating different perspectives on the data.

Improved React solution led to a 20% boost in page load times and interactivity, effectively resolving web browser rendering bottlenecks. This enhancement significantly maximized performance across diverse browsers and devices.

Implemented the atomic component design pattern to create reusable, testable, and maintainable React components, ensuring alignment with the organization's UI/UX design system.

The Children’s Place (Remote) 3/2019 – 7/2019

Architect / Angular-Ionic-Cordova Contractor

Received and fulfilled an exclusive contract to integrate the Venmo payment gateway service into TCP's Angular-Ionic based mobile app. Achieved this through a custom native IOS and Android Cordova plugin, enhancing the application's payment capabilities.

Supplied architectural and technical guidance for integrating Optimizely's experimentation service into TCP's ongoing Serverless-based redesign project. Ensured seamless A/B testing functionality enhancement without introducing new complexity or runtime overhead.

Publicis Sapient – Bed Bath and Beyond and The Children’s Place 7/2017 – 2/2019

Architect / React / Node.js Contractor

Functioned as a technical lead overseeing 2-3 onshore developers working on the multi-faceted product listing and product search pages. Implemented React/Redux at the core, enabling seamless data consumption from RESTful API services and the Apache Solr search platform.

Initiated the drive to achieve 90% code coverage by promoting the practice of writing unit test cases with tools like Jest, Mocha, Chai, and Enzyme. As a result, regressions decreased by 20-25% after the team embraced the practice.

Verizon Wireless – Cloud Platform Division 11/2016 – 6/2017

Senior Full Stack JavaScript Engineering Contractor

Joined the Verizon Cloud Platform team to create a website for marketing information, targeting internal private cloud customers. Utilized the following web technologies:

Frontend: React, MobX, CSS3, HTML5, Jest, Webpack

Middle-tier: Docker, Node.js, ExpressJs, MongoDB, Mongoose, Circle CI/CD

CMS / Backend: Docker, Wordpress Rest v2 API, MySQL, PHP

Consumer Reports 05/2016 – 09/2016

Senior Technical Web Applications Contractor

Joined the Dynamic Rendering Solutions team to re-platform the consumer facing website to replace jQuery.

Frontend: React, Redux, jQuery, JavaScript

Middle-tier: Laravel PHP, Node.js

Penguin Random House, LLC 09/2012 – 04/2016

Senior Technical Web Applications Contractor

During redesign of Penguin.com website

Developed a custom MVC WordPress plugin, utilizing WordPress routing API to route HTTP requests to controllers. This approach effectively separated presentation code from business logic, enhancing modularity and maintainability.

Implemented a Data Abstraction Layer using Doctrine2 (ORM) to map database tables to PHP objects, enhancing maintainability and code structure. This approach improved database interaction and facilitated better code organization.

Deployed Varnish, significantly enhancing site performance with an impressive 80% improvement in page response time and time to interactivity.

During redesign of Penguinrandomhouse.com website

Extended the custom MVC WordPress plugin from penguin.com to seamlessly incorporate new functionality and minimize regressions on the site. This expansion improved the plugin's capabilities without compromising the stability of the existing features.

Provided PHP client stubs to consume Book Title REST API services, establishing a comprehensive and maintainable interface between the front-end and backend systems.

Concep, Inc. 2011 - 2012

Project: Arent Fox. http://www.arentfox.com

Senior Full Stack Web Applications Contractor

Implemented the client’s digital strategy into a newly formed website for the Washington, DC law firm.

Created multiple custom modules to fulfill specialized requirements and authored database migration scripts, using the Drupal API to transfer sensitive legal content from SQL Server Database to MySQL.

NYSE Euronext - New York, NY 2010 – 2011

Technical Lead & Principal Engineer

Led a team of seven designers, developers, and quality control professionals for three sites: nysetechnologies.nyx.com, www.latencystats.com, and exchanges.nyx.com. Ensured seamless coordination and delivery of high-quality websites, meeting project goals and timelines.

Built custom Drupal modules for providing Web interfaces for faceless business functionality.

Guided WSDL development using the SOA contract-first approach, facilitating seamless integration of third-party functionality into Drupal, .Net, and Java applications.

Conde Nast Digital – New York, NY 2005 – 2010

Publisher of Vogue, GQ, and New Yorker Magazines

Senior Web Applications Developer / Technical Lead / Manager

Developed multiple sites, including style.com, wmagazine.com, newyorker.com, gq.com, and vogue.com, utilizing Java Enterprise, Spring MVC, and Hibernate technologies.

Using J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, and AJAX technologies, designed, coded, and deployed The Upgrader (http://men.style.com/theupgrader), a product review and hotlist ratings web application, which resulted in a 25% increase in page traffic, consequently boosting ad revenue.

Education & Certifications

B.S. in Software Development, Western Governors University

A.S. in Engineering Science City University of NY

CIW Advanced HTML5 and CSS3 Specialist Certification

Oracle Certified Associate & Professional Java SE 7 Programmer

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