01 · About
I build things, then figure out what they're worth.
The pattern is always the same: something irritates me, I build a fix for it, and then I spend a while working out whether it was worth building. That is what a parking problem on my block turned into, what two problems at the jiu jitsu gym turned into, and eventually the reason I went back to school for the half of this I could not argue on my own. NYC, mats most evenings, an airport when I can manage it, and more coffee than I will defend here.
By day I'm a software engineer at Collins Aerospace. Most of my time there has gone into a design system, which exists because so much of UI development is building the same generic components over and over, each one re-themed and restyled in company colors. A handful of teams now build on it, and — more recently — an AI agent writes components against it. That second part has changed how I work more than anything else in the last few years.
Evenings are an MBA at Baruch's Zicklin School, concentrating in AI and product development. The point isn't to stop engineering. The thing I'm after is the overlap — building AI-era products and being able to argue for them in business terms, rather than handing that part to someone else. Each class ends in something shippable, and those land further down this page.
JHParking started out of sheer frustration. During COVID more people on my block bought cars while the number of street spots stayed exactly where it was, and the choice became parking up to a mile from home or circling the same blocks for up to an hour at peak times. What it does today is let a friends group share where they parked and when they are leaving; the paid marketplace is where it is going. I had taken a run at this years ago as ParkForLess and put it down; the idea kept looking right, so I picked it back up. MatAI and CoachMe both came out of the jiu jitsu gym.
I'm in NYC. If you want the long version, my CV has it — otherwise, keep scrolling.
02 · Experience
Five-plus years across aerospace, finance, and legal tech.
Software Engineer
·Collins AerospaceDesign systems, AI tooling, and platform work for aerospace engineering teams.
- Built and shipped an internal React and TypeScript design system — 50+ accessible, themeable components on Figma's Simple Design System, published to the internal npm registry with Storybook, a live component dashboard, and a documented release pipeline. Open to every developer in the org and adopted by 5+ projects. Worked with design to integrate the package into Figma itself, so a design emits code snippets built from its components and developers copy and paste the UI — there are always tweaks to make, but where a component drops in untouched, mostly the non-interactive ones, it cuts the time to build a screen by up to 90%.
- Built Poolside, an in-house AI agent that learns the design system's patterns and generates components on demand — cutting component creation time by up to 80% and retiring the paid tooling we had been leaning on. Five custom, project-specific components have shipped through it, and it is rolling out to new teams.
- Built Skyler, an Angular configuration interface for a radar sensor platform: live telemetry visualizations — array tilt, azimuth compass, pitch and roll attitude indicators, MapLibre GL mapping — plus full scan-mission management across STARE, PPI, RHI, and raster patterns.
- Led a platform-wide TypeScript migration and the move to modern CSS with Tailwind, improving maintainability and developer experience.
- Owned end-to-end platform work — performance, testing infrastructure, observability, and CI/CD — alongside React and GraphQL application development.
Infrastructure Project Manager · Leadership Development Program
·Collins AerospaceRan infrastructure delivery across business units during the second rotation.
- Managed a portfolio of 6 infrastructure projects across lifecycle stages, delivering 2 to completion while balancing competing stakeholders.
- Introduced Scrum practices that lifted team velocity and cross-functional collaboration.
- Standardized company-wide PM artifacts — project charter, RACI matrix — that were adopted well beyond my own team.
Applications Licensing Specialist · Leadership Development Program
·Collins AerospaceOwned enterprise application licensing during the first rotation.
- Drove a software license rationalization that cut license count 18% year over year.
- Consolidated 75+ applications across 6 servers, reducing redundancy and improving accessibility.
- Built a React and Python license-tracking tool giving stakeholders real-time visibility into server status.
Front-End Experience Developer
·J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.Shared front-end components for the firm's public-facing experiences.
Drexel co-op- Built reusable JavaScript and HTML5 components deployed across multiple sites, establishing shared front-end patterns.
- Delivered responsive, maintainable code against stakeholder requirements, using BitBucket and SonarQube for version control and code quality.
IT Applications Developer
·Dechert LLPReporting automation and analytics for internal legal teams.
Drexel co-op- Automated reporting and ETL workflows in SQL and Python for internal clients.
- Built Tableau dashboards surfacing application usage, performance, and adoption patterns.
Finance Coordinator · Muslim Interscholastic Tournament
·MISTBudget ownership and live event production across four tournament cycles.
- Owned the tournament budget across four cycles, managing spend against sponsorship revenue and growing the budget 5–20% year over year.
- Secured and managed corporate sponsors including PwC — owning outreach, deliverables, and the relationship.
- Ran live interscholastic competitions end to end: run-of-show, speaker and judge coordination, venue and vendor management, volunteer staffing, and day-of execution across concurrent tracks.
03 · Work
Everything I'm building, and everything before it.
04 · Skills
What I bring to the table.
Engineering & Platform
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Python
- C#
- SQL
- React
- Next.js
- Vue
- Angular
- Node
- Express
- GraphQL
- Design systems
- PostgreSQL
- Firebase
- MongoDB
- Stripe
- CI/CD
AI & Data
- AI-assisted development
- Agentic workflows
- LLMs
- Vision-language models
- Prompt engineering
- Evaluation & benchmarking
- RAG
- Tableau
- Data visualization
Product Management
- Roadmapping
- PRD authoring
- MVP scoping
- User research
- Marketplace monetization
- Unit economics
- Trust & safety
- KPIs & A/B testing
- Agile / Scrum
Strategy & Advisory
- Technology & product strategy
- Business case development
- Cost optimization
- Market & competitive analysis
- Go-to-market
- Change management
- Stakeholder management
05 · Education & Certifications
Formal training, in progress.
Schools
Baruch College · Zicklin School of Business
Master of Business Administration
Concentrating in Artificial Intelligence & Product Development · expected June 2028
Drexel University · College of Computing and Informatics
B.S. Software Engineering
3.5 GPA · co-op program · 2021
Certifications
Project Management Institute
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Expected Dec 2026
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner
2022
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Master
2022
Udemy
100 Days of Front-End Development
2022
06 · Off-screen
What I'm doing when I'm not at the keyboard.
Jiu jitsu
Three years in, a blue belt under Ryan Quinn out of Queens Jiu Jitsu, and a semi-active competitor. I play guard, which is not typical for a big man, and most of what I enjoy is cross-training and learning new moves. What keeps me coming back is the detailed yet aggressive nature of it.
Photography
Cameras taught me composition long before code did — what to leave out, mostly.
Coffee
Pour-overs at home, espresso when I'm out, opinions either way.
Traveling
Notes from new cities have a habit of turning into side projects a few months later.
07 · Let's talk
Any of this sound interesting?
Every project up there is open. If you want to write code on one, poke holes in the idea, test an early build, or just talk it through over coffee — I'd genuinely like to hear from you.
Recruiting, collaboration, or a plain hello all land in the same inbox, and I read every message.
08 · What's next
The MBA track, in public.
Evenings are an MBA at Baruch's Zicklin School. Every class ends in a deliverable, so each one ends in something shippable instead — a small consulting tool — and the workshops, panels, and case competitions get written up after the fact. Both land here when they land.