Joe Buza

Led UI development for multiple strategic projects in the Animation Studio, enhancing talent allocation, budget planning, and production workflows. Designed and developed the entire user interface for an AI-assisted dialogue breakdown tool, contributing to a solution that saved 40-60 hours per project. Led planning and execution of the re-write of critical artwork distribution platform managing over 11.5 million artworks across multiple locales, saving millions in operational costs. Spearheaded the migration of all Animation Studio applications (5) in the monorepo to Turbo repo, latest React version, and internal tools. Led the team through comprehensive testing before merging, ensuring a smooth transition. Created a reusable file transfer component, simplifying uploads across multiple applications. Secured second place in Animation Studio AI hackathon.

Led a team of 4 frontend engineers in developing Notify, a mass messaging feature for school districts. Built client applications for school administrators, teachers, and parents to view and manage student data. Developed an internal chat application facilitating parent-teacher communication. Spearheaded the design and implementation of a group-messaging feature (Broadcast) for the web platform. Managed scrum meetings, task assignments, and intern mentoring.

Convert designs into responsive, interactive sites that work across multiple devices, operating systems, and resolutions. Developed the user interface on the careers site to streamline the process of finding and applying for a job at C Spire. Implemented a user interface to display the network performance of the company's systems. Built a tool that allows users to customize their wireless plans. Mentored members of my team in Angular js, Flexbox and Sass best practices.

Developed an Android asset tracking application on a web-based visualization platform. Maintained the company's Android application. Wrote a Puppet script to create a consistent, reproducible and portable development environments for bootstrapping project development. Collaborated on Google Maps applications for enterprise clients in numerous industries. Developed map-based demos and proofs-of-concept for the sales team and potential clients.

Developed GIS mapping functionalities using C# and .NET framework utilizing MapWinGIS.

Developed department website for the Department of Pathobiology and Population Medicine. Applications used include Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Languages utilized include CSS/ HTML, JQuery and JavaScript.

Collaborated on an iPhone GIS application that enables a user to create projects that are geo located and time stamped, add a server for project syncing, and perform GPS real time tracking. Languages utilized include XML, Cocoa, Core Data, MkMapKit, and other SDK technologies.

Developed synonymous gene identifier program using C++ and The Arabidopsis Information Resources.

Research focused on using proteomics data and computational tools to find potential novel genes and proteins in organisms.