Jason Wilson

Experience

• Front End Engineer

  Education Advisory Board

  April 2017 - Present
  • Co-led accessibility efforts in a legacy Ruby on Rails application to meet WCAG 2.0 AA compliance.
  • Modernized e-mail templates to be responsive and in line with core branding.

• User Experience Engineer

  Daxko

  February 2016 - April 2017
  • Architected and guided the launch of Daxko Mobile, a new mobile application built using Cordova and React serving members of YMCAs and JCCs to over 200 different clients.
  • Implemented a build process in node for Daxko Mobile to package assets per client across both Android and iOS, reducing build times from hours to minutes.

• Interaction Designer

  Daxko

  October 2013 - February 2016
  • Developed a redesign for one of the most highly trafficked pages in the principal SaaS product with more than 4 million monthly hits using research performed in extensive usability sessions.
  • Performed a complete interface overhaul for several products updating an existing 6+ year old design and centralizing the look and feel under a more common UI framework.
  • Declared war against silverlight - refactoring existing components to native HTML5 with progressive fallbacks to flash when necessary.
  • Introduced an automatic asset pipeline as part of the front-end build process; reducing the average number of asset requests per page from 40 down to less than 5.
  • Championed and developed a new design system with components, documentation, and accessibility to unify products. Worked with designers and other developers to ensure the needs of the users and the product were built directly into the system.

• Software Engineer

  Daxko

  April 2011 - October 2013
  • Led interaction design for an Accounting SaaS product serving member based non-profits.
  • Convert the core javascript library from a 5 year old version of EXTJS to the latest version of jQuery.
  • Created a web standards group to standardize specifications across all development.
  • Created a new set of icons to be used across all products.

• Web Developer

  Infinity Insurance

  February 2011 - April 2011
  • Created a portable javascript widget that would allow notes to be created for claims from any web application.

• Software Engineer

  Infinity Insurance

  July 2009 - February 2011
  • Led user interface development for a new first notice of loss application.
  • Worked extensively with claims representatives by performing usability studies to learn their workflow and utilizing iterative development to reduce call volume and the time to record a claim.
  • Worked with engineering to adopt a standard user interface, utilizing jQuery with a JSP front-end to integrate with a legacy mainframe system.
  • Developed a process to do daily system checks of gigabytes of data between mainframe and database tables during a data migration project to ensure data integrity.

• Application Developer

  Infinity Insurance

  July 2007 - July 2009
  • Created an internal project workflow system to help keep track of internal business requirements.
  • Adapted a plugin to publish and sync business requirements to the company wiki.
  • Triaged and fixed maintenance bugs and defects for the claims system.