Randy Schott

Seattle, United States

Member since March 18, 2015

Randy started as a desktop engineer with a focus on multimedia, eventually moving on to web development with an emphasis on front-end. He's great at diving in and learning new things, and is seen amongst his peers as a go-to resource in times of need.

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Portfolio

TUNE
JavaScript, React, Angular, Node.js, CSS, HTML5
TechSmith Co.
JavaScript, CSS, HTML, NodeJS, C++, .NET

Experience

JavaScript, 4 years
CSS, 4 years
HTML5, 3 years
Less, 2 years
AngularJS, 3 years
React.js, 1 year
Responsive Web Design, 3 years
Node.js, 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

OS X, WebStorm, Git

The most amazing...

...re-factoring I've ever done was re-writing a rendering engine for a video editor.

Employment

Senior Front-end Engineer
TUNE
2015 - PRESENT
- Help plan and implement conversion of a large Angular application to React.
- Responsible for mentoring other developers on my team.
- Contribute to the development of a company-wide UI component library written in React.
- Collaborate with other senior engineers to drive the technical direction of multiple product teams.
- Act as a bridge between user experience, product, and engineering.
Technologies: JavaScript, React, Angular, Node.js, CSS, HTML5
Senior Software Engineer
TechSmith Co.
2007 - 2015
- Did a major re-architecting of Camtasia Studio, including a rewrite of the rendering engine.
- Contributed to the creation of a quizzing analytics dashboard for users of TechSmith's SmartPlayer.
- Helped create a content hosting and sharing service for enterprise and academic customers.
- Led the development of Snagit for Google Chrome, an extension for screen capture and recording.
- Helped lead various front-end teams working on web-based content creation services.
Technologies: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, NodeJS, C++, .NET

Experience

TechSmith Snagit for Google Chrome (Development)
https://www.techsmith.com/snagit-google-chrome.html
Snagit for Google Chrome is a Chrome Extension that allows users on the Chrome platform to take screenshots and screen recordings, annotate, and share them with others.
TechSmith Relay (Development)
https://www.techsmith.com/techsmith-relay.html
TechSmith Relay is a content hosting and sharing service designed to allow academic and enterprise users to manage and distribute videos and images created by subject-matter experts.
TechSmith Results (Development)
https://results.techsmith.com/
TechSmith Results is an analytics dashboard for tracking quizzing responses collected by TechSmith's custom video player solution. It tracks viewing percentages and helps content owners view the grades and overall trends of their viewer's responses to embedded quizzes.
Camtasia Studio (Development)
https://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html
Camtasia Studio is a world-class screen recording and editing solution aimed at helping subject-matter experts create and deliver outstanding content with minimal effort.
Mobile App Tracking - Attribution Analytics (Development)
http://platform.mobileapptracking.com
Attribution Analytics is part of the TUNE Marketing Console. It is a powerful dashboard for managing and viewing click tracking, partner integrations, and other features related to mobile advertising performance.

Skills

Languages
Less, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, C#, C++, CoffeeScript
Frameworks
AngularJS, Jasmine, Karma, Express
Libraries/APIs
React.js, Node.js, Google Drive, WebRTC, Immutable.js
Tools
Bower, npm, Grunt, WebStorm, Git, GitHub, Trello, JIRA, Slack
Paradigms
Responsive Web Design, Agile Software Development, Promise, REST, User experience design, Functional programming
Misc
Multimedia processing, Web Development, Media queries, Video Compression, Cross-browser Development, Multithreading
Platforms
Linux, Mac OS X, Chrome Extensions
Storage
Elasticsearch

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Michigan State University - East Lansing, Michigan
2003 - 2007

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