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The person know as Evan, Just Evan

Building high performing teams and the environment that enables them.

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Work Experience

Director of Frontend Education

Bridge School, Toronto, Canada - Oct 2019 – Present (7 mos)

Director of Frontend Education - Volunteer

  • Help run operations of the front-end program
  • Creation and updating curriculum for future cohorts to ensure skill taught meet the needs of the market
  • Creation of exercises & homework assignment
  • Creation of the student learning objects and outcomes for new course content
  • Evaluating exercises to ensure they meet student learning outcomes and objectives
  • Creation of resource library to accompany course material
  • Curation of additional articles, tutorials, videos for additional support
  • Onboarding new mentors and instructors to the program
  • Assist in the creation of technical assignments for the candidate application process

Instructor - Cohort-9

  • Team of three instructors for a 12-week program running twice a week
  • Creating and maintaining curriculum material
  • Creation of exercises and homework for student evaluation
  • Assessment of solutions to technical challenge of applicants

Technical Director

Rangle, Toronto, Canada - Sept 2014 - March 2020

Manager:

  • Managed engineers - across different client accounts, and within the same client account
  • Worked with engineers and tech leads on their teams to develop career growth plans
  • Piloted and participated in coaching and mentoring initiatives
  • Participated in performance and compensation reviews
  • Regularly gathered, summarized and provided feedback

Full-stack Developer and Consultant:

  • Identify opportunities and challenges on project teams, and work with stakeholders to implement solutions
  • Worked with companies ranging from small startups to large enterprise companies
  • Influenced the multi-year evolution of multiple enterprise products which are in production today
  • Worked across departments in large enterprises to understand business needs from a diverse set of perspectives
  • Worked with management to identify areas of improvement, and proposed plans to improve speed and quality of development, testing and delivery
  • Worked with tech leads to identify solutions, and provide guidance on implementation
  • Collaborated with CTO and other technical directors to identify trends in technology, and worked on plans to enable our engineering teams to have the skills required to meet current and future needs

Culture:

  • Supported Marketing and Events with coordinating events and meetups
  • Assisted developers with preparing technical blog posts, conference proposals and talks
  • Facilitated knowledge sharing and learning through guilds, communities of practice, meetups, lunch & learns
  • Implemented cross-project code review process, onboarding people to the process, explaining the value, coordinating code reviews, reviewing code reviews to ensure goals were being met, viewed code reviews as a crucial part of knowledge sharing and learning.

Training & Education:

  • Contributed to numerous training material for employees, and clients:
  • Contributed and helped maintain Rangle's Angular Training book:
  • Identified skill gaps with employees at Rangle or with clients, and created workshops, lunch & learn, webinars, etc
  • Worked with other technical directors, tech leads and clients to identify learning needs of employees
  • Created and ran a multi-day JavaScript/React workshop that has been taught to over 200 students in Toronto, Ottawa and Glasgow
  • Leverage training material for clients for internal use at Rangle, and as part of the curriculum for Bridge
  • Leverage training material for Bridge internally at Rangle, and for training with clients

Open Source:

  • Contributed to and supported the Augury Angular Dev Tools project
  • Maintained angular-redux, bindings for redux to Angular which was used on several projects at Rangle, and saw adoption outside of Rangle.
  • Contributed to redux-beacon, analytics integration for redux and co-presented at React Europe with Bertrand

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