Don Crislip

Experience

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  Doner

  Nov 2004 - Dec 2004

  Production Artist

  FreelanceResponsible for producing client revision requests at rocket speed which could only done by quickly learning Doner's procedure and adapting to their culture in a very limited amount of time.

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  The David Group Inc

  Dec 2004 - May 2007

  Graphic Designer

  It was my responsibility to be a print advertisement master that could provide not only beautiful, full-fledged four-color poster ads for trade magazines, but also create simplistic grayscale classified ads to be placed in newspapers. Was solely responsible for the production of The David Group's largest client National City Bank. Received three "Stand-Out Employee" awards.

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  Proximity Marketing

  May 2007 - Apr 2010

  Marketing Design Specialist

  As an e-marketing design specialist, I provided creative strategy for all of our client's campaigns as well as thought provoking compositions. Each design was carefully planned and laid out in a manner that generated high click through rates which translated into high ROI. I provided consultation to the account team as well as the sales staff and contributed in client relations. It was also my responsibility to develop in-house marketing campaigns that span from print advertisements to web and video productions. Show less

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  ExchangeBase

  Apr 2010 - Mar 2012

  Creative Manager / User Experience Designer

  As Creative Manager it was my responsibility to lead the company's creative team as well as assist in building the brand alongside the Marketing Director. I handled long term projects as well as day-to-day operations. Examples of projects range from researching, designing and building the software’s website, user interface, e-marketing, print marketing, and video productions. I led the Product Development Team in creating the most positive user experience by developing wireframes, storyboards, mock ups and prototypes using a combination of html, css, JavaScript, and .NET. I presented this creative to the Executive Steering Committee and collaborated with the Technology Department, ensuring that the integrity of the designed user experience was fully intact. Show less

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  Virtrex

  Mar 2012 - Jul 2012

  Manager of Brand and Graphical Design

  I was in charge of creating the look and feel of everything involving Virtrex and its new cloud software product QUBX. This responsibility included website design for both Virtrex and QUBX, logo creation, QUBX teaser videos, print marketing, Power Point presentations and user experience design for the QUBX software. I was also responsible for the creative services budget, aiding and developing materials for third-party use (ex. a bike build for American Choppers), and creating and maintaining QUBX’s social media presence. Show less

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  Medical Mutual

  Jul 2012 - Feb 2016

  Lead Front-end Developer, UX Team

  • Was the company's first Front-End Engineer and rebuilt five ASP UIs into mobile responsive web pages, using LESS CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery• Initialized and then led the creation of the Starting Block design system that served all of Medical Mutual’s web projects, which ecompassed UI components that were deployable through SiteCore CMS, and engineered with an accessibility-first approach• Led the hiring of the front-end development team from a single individual contributor to four full-time team members Show less

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  Cleveland Guardians

  Feb 2016 - Nov 2022

  • Led software design and engineering of products that facilitated operations and enhanced decision-making across all areas of baseball operations• Planned and led the complete overhaul of the entire baseball system architecture, which included the creation of System Architecture diagrams, DevOps and Deployment diagrams, and Application diagrams• Made technology decisions around which front-end technology to use (Vue), and which backend technology to use per each application's needs (NodeJS, Python, and .NET).• Held bi-weekly 1:1s and mentored team members Show less • Designed an API for querying a SQL Server database using NodeJS and NestJS to fetch pitch and player specific data, which allowed easy prototyping and POC creations and it increased feature development by ~70%• Designed and engineered unique visualization tools in JavaScript for strike-zone heatmaps, player positioning, and various pitching and hitting tools for a large variety of statistics using plotted data points, and wrote a reusable Kernel average smoother to shade each point, which was integrated with D3 library• Completely rewrote the Guardians scouting system, which included creating a customizable, state-managed framework for routing Vue components layered with amateur, international, and pro player data• Created an HTML Canvas grid with virtual scrolling to display 8000+ of rows with 150+ columns per row• Engineered an Outlook-like single page web application, used for creating conversation threads around player-trade concepts, which included the ability to tag players and teams, and create potential trade offers to be consumed by other internal decision-making tools• Led the development of a Progressive Web Application (PWA) for the Major League players to use for coach communication, video, and game-day strategy• Engineered DX utility that automates converting legacy HTML tables into JavaScript modules for importing and using with Ag Grid.• Engineered a utility that automated the conversion of API endpoints into the necessary files, toggles and other components needed for a visualization inside a player-data tool. Show less

  • Manager, Baseball Systems Engineer

    Jan 2020 - Nov 2022

  • Senior Software Engineer, Baseball Systems

    Feb 2016 - Jan 2020
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  Capital One

  Nov 2022 - May 2024

  Principal Software Engineer

  • Led a pod of software engineers in redesigning each layer of a product (AWS Aurora Postgres Database, Java microservice API, Node backend, and Lit Element micro front end in TypeScript) to go from a single line-of-business audience to a full enterprise audience in a two month window• Created a patent-pending subrouter for Micro Front Ends to use without disrupting the main application router• Increased the Lit Element (TypeScript) shared UI component library by 33%, saving an estimated two months of development effort by other teams• Represented multiple teams as tech lead with regards to cyber security compliance and site reliability engineering (SRE)• Mentored all levels of software engineers, ranging from junior to senior Show less

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  Cleveland Guardians

  May 2024 - now

  Staff Software Engineer