Chris Tack

Edifecs

Full Stack Developer • February 2021 — Present

I'm in charge of the company website along with several internal tools / sites

• Utilize modern web best practices to maintain the current website
• Build new corporate website from the ground up

The Be Good Project - Banana App

Full Stack Developer / DevOps • June 2020 — Present

I'm part of a volunteer team building software that will address hunger for families and individuals facing food insecurity, while reducing food waste and associated environment impacts. The live apps can be viewed on the App Store:

• Banana App - Client
• Banana App - Donor
• Led Dev / Ops by creating builds for iOS, publishing to Apple App Store / TestFlight and enabling iOS app testing for members of development, product management, and UX teams.
• Spearheaded process for continuous integration and continuous deployment, saving 2 hours each release.
• Designed architecture solutions with project lead and development team, increasing productivity and ease of use across team for mobile application development built using React / React Native / Typescript / Ruby on Rails.

Zulily Inc.

Full Stack Developer • March 2019 — July 2019

Worked on the store / site team to update numerous pages with new branding (colors, fonts, images, etc.). Daily partnership with Product Managers and other developers on analyzing feature/business requirements and user stories along with participation in development task breakdown.

• Built and worked on 40+ customer facing web pages while learning PHP, completing in timely manner and approved by development lead, design lead, and project manager before being merged to production.
• Decreased page load time by 15% with compatibility across modern web browsers by implementing UX page redesigns following W3C, HTML5, and ES6 standards and reducing image sizes.
• Increased open communications by engaging in daily standup utilizing Agile principles to share progress.
• Implemented translation function across account settings pages, enabling language localization through PHP translation function.
• Documented and tracked bugs using JIRA, communicating progress.
• Deployed code updates to GitLab and Amazon Web Services (AWS), pushing customer-facing content to 30+ servers simultaneously.
• Maximized page load time by utilizing AWS S3 for updating, storing, and managing video and images displayed on web pages.
• Designed internal tool utilizing 3rd party API, removing backgrounds from product photographs reducing image clipping cost 38%.
• Leveraged Docker and AWS EC2 for software testing before deploying to production environment, eliminating impact to live version.

Zulily Inc.

Senior Photographer, Editorial Photographer, Videographer • March 2013 — August 2020

Produce images for use on zulily.com

• Increased studio productivity by beta testing and providing feedback on internal tools via JIRA tickets and conversations with developers.
• Improved daily workflow by partnering with software development team to prioritize tasks, reducing time spent on menial tasks.
• Produced photo and video content for web, print, video, social media, and internal communications, representing Zulily and 3rd party vendors simultaneously.
• Eliminated down time by establishing process with technical support team for managing studio computers.
• Reduced photo clipping cost 38%, cost savings of $400K+ annually by formulating idea for and working on product photo clipping app that automated / sped up process.

General Assembly, Seattle WA

Certificate in Full Stack Web Development • 2018

Kendall College of Art & Design of Ferris State University

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography • 2004 — 2007

Being a Fine Art focused program, I took a wide variety of art classes including art history, printmaking, color theory and numerous photography specific courses.

Kendall College of Art & Design of Ferris State University

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Digital Media / Graphic Design • 2004 — 2007

My focus for this degree was primarily web, video, and motion graphics though I did take numerous print design classes.

Simon Memory Game

Developer • 2018

My take on the classic Simon game. Users observe the pattern played by the computer and then repeat the pattern back in order to advance to the next round.

It was challenging figuring out how to increment the computer move and then await user input while comparing the player move to that of the computer

Technologies used:

• HTML5
• CSS
• Good old fashioned Javascript

Tool Library

Developer • 2018

The tool library app was built using Django. Users are able to create an account (or log in) and then add tools that they own to the tool library.

Although it was one of my first Django and Python projects, it was fun experimenting with a new programming language!

Technologies used:

• Django
• Python
• ES6
• Materialize
• RESTful API's
• mongoDB

Seattle Transit

Developer • 2018

Mobile-first team project (Henry Hong & Sutthirath Sean Vilaysane). We consumed the One Bus Away API and created an app allowing users to find bus stops near their current location on a map using the mapbox API.

Technologies used:

• NodeJS
• ExpressJS
• ES6
• Materialize
• RESTful API's
• mongoDB
• mapbox API
• One Bus Away API

National Park Finder

Developer • 2018

I created the National Park Finder App to help users find parks to visit in the destination of their choosing. Users can save their favorites as well as parks they have visited. The app was build with mobile-first in mind. Media queries were used to ensure the app is aesthetically pleasing on larger displays.

Technologies used:

• ES6
• React
• React Router
• CSS3
• RESTful API's
• mongoDB
• National Park Service API

Organizational leadership

I have several years of experience leading organizations from community groups to business departments. From public speaking, to mentoring, to coordination of people and events, I can lead in any context.

Communications strategy

Content and marketing strategy,

Digital content development and creation

Copy writing, graphic design, web design, front-end web development, print design

Eagle Scout

Boy Scouts of America • 2002

The rank of Eagle Scout is the highest honer that can be earned within the Boy Scouts of America.

The Outdoors For All Foundation

Volunteer • 2012 — Present

Provided photography for events throughout the year and weekly lessons during the ski season.

Special Olympics of Washington

Volunteer • 2012 — Present

Race course setup for the Special Olympic State Games in Wenatchee WA. Photography and video for athletes.

• Tack Photography