“Having worked with Erik on several projects as his project manager, I've been able to see several examples of him overcoming challenges and demonstrating excellent leadership qualities. I've always liked his ability to advocate for users and maintain that design thinking hat. This was invaluable in our projects. One key example is a pattern library that we didn't have hours to work on, but would have been quite valuable for the effort. Erik built out an MVP to prove out the value, and this became a critical tool in helping the designers and developers communicate while speeding up project delivery. Another great example was during our engagement in building an Alexa skill for a large multi-national bank. In this case, Erik thought through a strategy for how we could efficiently categorize and implement their products and services while preventing collisions with the rest of the invocations in the Alexa skill and yet maintaining that user experience lens of what makes sense to the user -- in essence, his solution didn't overly complicate things. Erik's not afraid to voice his opinion on these matters and put forth suggestions and strategies that benefit an effort. I have confidence that any org that bring Erik on will benefit from these qualities that he has continually demonstrated.”
Erik Williamson
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Microsoft Worldwide Inside Sales Hub
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See projectAs part of the DISH team at UpTop, I got to translate designs into React components, C# endpoints, and SQL schema updates. Later in the project I was able to convert the majority of frontend code from ES6 to TypeScript.
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libft
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See projectThis is my implementation of a number of C standard library functions that I wrote in school to learn more about the language.
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Radio viewshed planning tool
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See projectI made this to allow easier planning of new WWAN sites and troubleshooting of existing deployments. It is a JS wrapper around the "Splat!HD" C++ radio viewshed library to allow easier use.
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