Kat Schmidt

• Developed a full-stack, customizable dashboard application for World of Warcraft accounts, leveraging multiple external APIs to aggregate large account data sets, manage reminders, and support event planning.
• Utilized modern frontend development skills to build custom interactive stream overlays, alert panels, and dynamic widgets for Twitch and YouTube creators.
• Collaborated closely with creators to translate their ideas into actionable UI requirements, refining concepts through planning sessions to align on clear, feasible design and development options.
• Produced and edited high-quality video content for streamers and content creators, including highlight reels, animations, and short-form social media content.
• Managed multiple freelance projects simultaneously, providing clear communication, meeting deadlines, and maintaining strong client relationships.

• Increased client satisfaction by providing tailored consulting services and effective problem-solving strategies
• Presented findings and recommendations to executive-level stakeholders, effectively communicating key insights and action plans
• Utilized legacy code of AI auto tagger program and made UI improvements based on new stakeholder requirements
• Created new UI dashboard components
• Started initiative to create enterprise wide metrics that will monitor code deployment frequency, mean lead time for changes, mean time to recover, and change failure rate
• Created custom exporter to take in different comma-delimited files and transform them into searchable text
• Utilized Grafana to customize and analyze metrics
• Assisted tech lead with creating development and code review tickets
• Assisted in creating continuous integration and delivery (CI&CD) pipelines utilizing enterprise level GitLab

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to create seamless user flows, improving overall product usability
• Coordinated with UX designers to translate wireframes into fully functional UI prototypes
• Contributed to the development of company-wide best practices for UI engineering processes, enhancing overall productivity levels within the organization
• Developed and maintained front end code base that shows the user the most optimal solution (based on real world events, travel time, etc.) for their shipping cargo
• Researched and proposed new solutions to make website more user-friendly

• Lead front end group in design and process automation of enterprise wide "Call-In Database" tool that was decommissioned after several years
• This tool helps keep track of any reported outages within the enterprise, serves as an audit trail for future audits, metrics for leadership, and possible impacted systems and locations due to a scheduled or unscheduled outage
• Served and lead demos, resource gathering sessions, and "whiteboarding" sessions with multiple departments leadership in an effort to develop a strategy for several web applications
• Designed and developed web applications that assisted the operations team for enterprise-wide security monitoring
• Provided analytics, automation support, data flow, and UI for creating a direct end to end connection to assist technical support
• Documented current and past applications created by team

• Served as Lead Full Stack Engineer and was tasked to design, build, test, implement, and maintain web applications to reduce daily enterprise wide operations while still improving efficiency by querying several databases (both MySQL and NoSQL) and creating fast user-friendly interfaces
• Designed, built, tested, and implemented new components as needed
• Analyzed existing teams capabilities, ease of use, and effectiveness, and submitted recommendation for improvement
• Documented current and past applications/systems engineered by team
• Provided end use support for System Administrators and Information System Security Officers with security even logging in order to reduce search time of potentially dangerous security events
• Mentored several new employees showing both internal procedures and programming tutoring