Experience & Qualifications

Professional Experience

• UX Systems Architect / Front-end Engineer

  Peraton Inc.
  Nov 2012–Present
  • • Surfaced architectural, implementation, and UX risks early so teams could make informed decisions before issues hardened into delivery or compliance problems.
    • Stabilized front-end patterns across projects by tightening inconsistent UI behavior, semantics, and accessibility before debt spread.
    • Applied Section 508/WCAG standards as implementation discipline, catching issues that automated checks or visual review alone would miss.
    • Used AI to pressure-test ideas, review edge cases, and accelerate delivery while retaining architectural ownership and judgment.
    • Translated between design intent, engineering constraints, and real user behavior to keep solutions buildable, coherent, and usable beyond the demo.
    • Identified fragile or over-engineered implementation paths, then simplified them into maintainable patterns teams could support.

• Sr. Java Developer

  Akimeka, LLC
  May 2012–Oct 2012
  • • Designed and implemented Java/JEE-based web applications, integrating front-end and back-end components.
    • Delivered system documentation and production support.

• Sr. Webmaster/Java Developer

  Pacific Disaster Center
  Apr 2006–Apr 2012
  • • Led development of responsive web apps and mobile-first sites using Responsive Web Design (RWD).
    • Managed deployment, access controls, and analytics reporting.

• Software Engineer

  Pacific Disaster Center
  Jun 2004–Mar 2006
  • • Analyzed user requirements and designed, developed, and maintained desktop applications, GIS-related tools, and internal utilities.
    • Designed and maintained JSP-based web applications, Oracle-backed systems, and internal desktop utilities. Handled implementation, documentation, and user support lifecycle.
    • Handled implementation, documentation, and user support lifecycle.

• Computer Science Intern — GIS / Gazetteer

  Pacific Disaster Center
  Jan 2002–May 2004
  • • Built custom UI tools in Visual Basic 6.0 for metadata editing in Gazetteer database.
    • Supported GIS/Gazetteer workflows with ESRI tools, ArcCatalog, VBA/Visual Basic, and ArcObjects.
    • Conducted metadata research and taxonomy refinement for geographic place-names system.

Intercultural Experience

Lived in Macau and Japan; bring Cantonese and Japanese language experience to cross-cultural work.