Charlie Pinnix

• Spearheaded the front end development of Speak2Sign, a React/Redux kiosk application to help hearing people learn American Sign Language and connect with deaf people at a local market.
• Led the front end development of templates and components for a large, multinational corporate website running on Adobe Experience Manager, transforming a dated website, and paving the way for future work.
• Collaborated with Wordpress back end engineer to develop medical information website that supports patients suffering from a rare cancer.
• Competed in high stakes United States Government hackathon with team of 8 engineers, designers, and product managers—and claimed victory.
• Won three internal hackathons about community change, conversational interfaces, and augmented reality, one successfully launching as the product Speak2Sign at Union Market.
• Leveraged javascript skills to augment and develop new, in-house smart office technologies including large screen interfaces that report the weather, display ride sharing arrival times and welcome clients using facial recognition technology.

• Led the development of a single-page dashboard application written in React used to analyze revenue data in the hotel industry.
• Implemented a next generation codebase utilizing bleeding edge Ecmascript 6+ code compiled with Babel.
• Utilized Redux and Immutable to keep data flowing in one direction and allow for blazing fast component rendering.
• Implemented a test-driven workflow using Mocha, Chai, and Sinon to ensure maximum code quality and functionality.
• Optimized performance using Webpack and React Router ensuring only common and route specific assets are retrieved on page load.
• Developed beautiful, responsive visualizations with D3 that dynamically resize as the browser window changes, opening the door to mobile visualizations for the future.
• Leveraged design skills to develop company-wide brand guidelines, resulting in a more unified experience across disciplines.
• Incorporated brand guidelines into a dashboard design that sells itself by evoking a sense of beauty and delight unseen by the target market.

• Led the design and development of a new desktop email application that reduced the previous codebase from 100,000 to 20,000 lines of code.
• Collaborated with a team of software engineers to build the Inky Mail application for iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows.
• Improved office workflow and product quality by implementing a continuous integration system that executes nightly builds, notifying the team of any code quality issues.
• Designed and maintained a Wordpress marketing website that converted 30% of visitors to download. Created the Inky octopus character to symbolize an email application that is smart and versatile.
• Crafted 10 brief yet comprehensive marketing decks used to bring in new business and develop existing relationships.
• Fostered a culture of design in a company composed of software developers despite being the only designer on staff.

• Designed and developed a javascript web application featuring search, virtual scrolling, cloud storage, document sharing, and annotation.
• Created an identity and visual language for a legal startup focused on patent law.
• Contributed to early corporate development leveraging lightweight, low friction tools such as Google Apps, Slack, Trello, and Github.
• Collaborated with the founding team to craft a corporate mission statement and develop marketing language used in online ads and blog posts.

• Built software in collaboration with a graduate student studying dance for a 2 night, 500 person, thesis performance composed of motion tracking, interactive code, and image projection.
• Developed a multidisciplinary approach to art and design that combined computer programming, printmaking, drawing, and painting.
• Exhibited 5 artworks at the Art Honors Thesis Exhibition.
• Received the Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship and the Nancy Clarvit Design Scholarship for work in art and design.
• Built websites and templates for Drupal, Wordpress, and Omeka while interning at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.
• Completed basic biology curriculum before committing to art and design full-time.

• Documenting life and the world as it should be through an ongoing photography practice.
• Producing printed books for personal reflection and capturing simple compositions to be viewed on Instagram.
• Photographs are made with iPhone 7, Sony RX1, Sony A7RII, or Sony RX100.

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• Developing illustration systems inspired by biology, architecture, and outer space that are repeated indefinitely to form expansive worlds.
• Crafted with pencils, pens, white paper, document scanner, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Maya, React, and Gatsby.

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• Leading the open-source development of Verious, which provides simple React components for Gatsby to help designers and developers efficiently build beautiful static websites.
• Utilizing best practices in grid systems and vertical rhythm to provide a framework that elegantly responds to changing viewports.
• Used atomic design principles to guide the development of components that build on top of one another, keeping the codebase flexible and dry.

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