Lead AI Front-End Engineer
Architecting the future of AI-driven user interfaces.
High-performance UI engineering meets systematic AI operationalization.
Core Competencies
psychology
AI Engineering & Strategy
Operationalizing generative AI into production architectures.
AI Operationalization
AI Agentic Workflows
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Prompt Engineering
AI Context Orchestration
System Integration Architecture
Design-to-Code Engineering
architecture
Architecture & UI
UI & UX Architecture
React 18+
TypeScript
Next.js
Web Components
Micro-frontends
React Facade Strategy
GraphQL
Node.js
Design Tokens (Figma)
Storybook
verified
Quality, Testing & DevOps
Jest
React Testing Library
Unit Testing
Redux
Material-UI
Responsive Web Design
RESTful Web Services
Web Standards & Performance Optimization
DXP Evaluation
Azure DevOps
CI/CD
npm
GitHub
Technical Sprint Frameworks
Professional Experience
Technical Leadership Across
Target
Daikin Applied
Lead AI Front-End Engineer
- AI Ecosystem Engineering: Architected AI-integrated development environments (IDEs) using Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to bridge design-to-code pipelines, directly enabling high-fidelity, automated component generation.
- High-Fidelity Component Automation: Streamlined UI engineering by directly syncing Figma design tokens and architecture into the IDE, significantly reducing time-to-component and ensuring pixel-perfect fidelity.
- AI Strategy & Operationalization: Architected and operationalized an enterprise-grade AI coding capability utilizing Copilot Agent Mode, transforming it into a repeatable, responsible engineering standard that consistently reduced technical debt and lowered long-term maintenance costs.
- Web Component Platform Integration: Built an internal Web Component platform that operationalized AI-ready development, featuring secure CI/CD pipelines, internal npm distribution, and automated Storybook documentation within Azure DevOps.
- Engineering Efficiency Framework: Created a data-driven "Efficiency / Technical Sprint" framework that quantitatively linked AI-assisted technical debt reduction to measurable business value, enabling clear communication between engineering output and leadership objectives.
- Architectural Foundation: Designed a React-based façade strategy and framework-agnostic UI architecture that preserves delivery velocity, effectively protecting the organization from long-term framework lock-in while integrating design tokens directly from Figma.
- AI-Enabled Platform Modernization: Accelerated modernization readiness by leveraging AI workflows to clarify refactoring priorities versus lift-and-shift requirements, preventing resource waste ahead of major platform transitions.
- Strategic Technical Guidance: Translated complex AI/SaaS/PaaS vendor trade-offs into executive-friendly guidance, successfully aligning Product, UX, Engineering, and Leadership on high-stakes platform decisions.
- Evidence-Based Decision Making: Led comprehensive DXP evaluations, utilizing POCs and decision frameworks to ensure front-end-aligned platform choices, successfully avoiding post-selection risks.
Target
Senior Engineering Lead
- Contributed to and created several micro frontends
- Subject Matter Expert for 5 front-end web apps / repos / properties + Github integration
- UI / UX Driver for 5 front-end web apps, utilizing Material-UI
- Architected responsive design solutions (“Phone to Desktop”) for 5 front-end web apps
- Partnered with each engineer to increase React, Javascript, and UI + UX skills across the team
- Reviewed Pull Requests + consulted for multiple teams across Target to ensure front-end code quality
- Created mock-ups + action flows for 5 front-end web apps, from skeleton to “Pixel Perfect”
Ameriprise Financial
Senior Front End Engineer
- Ported Riot.js based web projects to React.js
- Wrote unit tests for React.js based projects
- Mentored junior engineers on ES6/ES7, React.js
- Collaborated on the creation of React.js projects with two separate teams
Singular Engine
Creator
- Translated Material Design UI/UX to web code.
- Created a Cordova-based HTML/CSS/JavaScript prototype app shell that can be compiled to deploy from a single code base to iOS, Android, Internet Browsers, Windows, OSX, and other platforms.
- Implemented offline support which enables the framework to function when no connection to the internet is present.
- Developed an asynchronous loading mechanism that allows the website to load and display content to the user very quickly even on very slow connections while loading the rest in the background.
- Innovated a progressive-enhancement development method that allows the framework to function as a website or application even if the user has JavaScript and/or CSS disabled.
- Designed an app-like animation system that provides smooth motion even on very old mobile devices.
Polaris Industries, Inc.
Senior Web & Application Engineer
- Reduced workload and saved time across the board for the creative department by taking ownership of website compositions earlier in the workflow pipeline which was more effective and faster than working with pre-cut artwork. Extensive Photoshop and wireframes translations to UI/UX code.
- Developed several Android applications to complement various product lines; consulted and contributed on counterpart iOS versions.
- Led efforts for front end development of all web properties and applications, including mobile and desktop versions, across 7 separate company divisions.
- Achieved improved website compatibility among all browsers via standards adherence and modern progressive enhancement methodologies.
- Replaced flash-based applications with JavaScript/CSS/HTML5 controls to increase website compatibility on desktop and mobile, reduce load times, and increase code reusability.
- Reduced workload by recreating and modularizing 5 different product configurators into one code base.
- Created and successfully held several "Trends, Best Practices" re-occurring group meetings in order to help introduce and educate the team on cutting edge web trends and best practices centered around JavaScript/CSS and HTML5.
Prior Professional Experience
Technical Lead, Architect & Developer | Various Organizations
- Systems Architecture: Engineered scalable intranet/extranet applications and managed complex database normalization for enterprise clients.
- Full-Stack & Multimedia Development: Deployed data-driven applications for global leaders (Medtronic, 3M, Motorola).
- Engineering Leadership & Mentorship: Guided cross-functional teams and led SEO and mobile initiatives.
- Platform Innovation: Built scalable intranet/extranet applications and automated business processes.
Education
school
Ridgewater College
Hutchinson, MN
CVMP (Computer Video Multimedia Production) / AAS
Personal Projects
rocket_launch
Drone Piloting
Plymouth, MN
200+
Flight hours between 6 drones
2014 - Present