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      <span class="block">Justin Conway</span>
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      Wheaton, IL &#8212;
      <span class="hidden print:inline-block">conwaydev.com &#8212;</span>
      <a href="mailto:justin@conwaydev.com" class="underline"
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      Profile
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      Chicago-based Engineering Manager with over fifteen years of experience
      solving problems with web technologies. I am interested in creating
      performant experiences for users regardless of ability and leading
      passionate/ curious teams to ship awesome/ rad work.
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      Skills
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        <h3 id="languages" class="font-sans">Languages</h3>
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            HTML
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              >(yes, HTML is a programming language)</span
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            CSS
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              >(these days I am more interested in atomic-based CSS,
              particularly for teams, but boy-howdy is it fun to write CSS in
              2023)</span
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            JavaScript
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              <li class="mt-0">TypeScript</li>
              <li class="mt-0">Node</li>
              <li class="mt-0">React</li>
              <li class="mt-0">
                Hacking on Google’s AMP-script component like its a sudoku
                puzzle
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              <li class="mt-0">Svelte</li>
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          <li class="mt-0">
            PHP
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              >(Once in a job interview for a role I didn’t get I was embarassed
              to say that I wrote in PHP, but the hiring manager said “You know,
              one of the P’s in PHP stands for <em>Pays the bills</em>.” I’ll
              never forget that)</span
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          <li class="mt-0">MySQL</li>
          <li class="mt-0">MongoDB</li>
          <li class="mt-0">
            Terraform
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              >(as well as various tools to make the AWS landscape more
              maintainable)</span
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            Python
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              >(mainly used for web scraping, but if you have a Python challenge
              then put me in coach)</span
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        <h3 id="misc" class="font-sans">Misc</h3>
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            Inclusive and equitable hiring process creation & improvement
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          <li class="mt-0">OKR creation and measurement</li>
          <li class="mt-0">Cross-organization program management</li>
          <li class="mt-0">
            On-call support rotation management, and monitoring set up (DataDog,
            PagerDuty, Pingdom)
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          <li class="mt-0">Web performance budgeting and tooling</li>
          <li class="mt-0">Making websites work in IE7</li>
          <li class="mt-0">Continuous integration (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)</li>
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      Experience
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          Sprout Social
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        <p class="text-sm print:text-xs mt-0">Chicago, IL</p>
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        <ul>
          <li>
            <h4 class="lg:text-2xl font-sans print:lg:text-lg">
              Senior Engineering Manager
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            <p class="text-sm print:text-xs mt-0">May 2022 &#8212; Present</p>
            <ul class="mt-4 pl-6 list-disc print:text-sm">
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                In charge of our Brand Creative Web Engineering team.
                Responsible for managing the resourcing and intake of projects,
                prioritization, and ensuring team growth and stability.
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                Responsible for hiring, coaching, and mentoring an engineering
                team focused on creating accessible and performant web
                experiences that create and drive engagement and conversion.
              </li>
              <li class="mt-0">
                Achieved one of the fastest hiring rounds in Sprout history with
                a role kick-off meeting ➡️ verbal acceptance in 28 days (and one
                of my proudest hires to-date ☺️).
              </li>
            </ul>
            <h4 class="lg:text-2xl mt-4 font-sans print:lg:text-lg">
              Engineering Manager
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            <p class="text-sm print:text-xs mt-0">September 2019 &#8212; May 2022</p>
            <ul class="mt-4 pl-6 list-disc print:text-sm">
              <li class="mt-0">
                Received an award for exemplifying our Global Leadership Model
                around hiring, coaching, developing talent, and modeling
                inclusive leadership.
              </li>
              <li class="mt-0">
                Collaborated with our Revenue partners to create improvement
                strategies with process and vision alignment and create
                actionable long-term goals for our team.
              </li>
              <li class="mt-0">
                Created on-call rotation processes to ensure confidence from our
                partners across the organization.
              </li>
            </ul>
            <h4 class="lg:text-2xl mt-4 font-sans print:lg:text-lg">
              Senior Web Engineer
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            <p class="text-sm print:text-xs mt-0">June 2018 &#8212; September 2019</p>
            <ul class="mt-4 pl-6 list-disc print:text-sm">
              <li class="mt-0">
                Received a company value award for technical contributions to
                our Marketing technology stack.
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              <li class="mt-0">
                Created and maintained the infrastructure still utilized by our
                Marketing and Sales partners, including setting up alerting,
                performance testing, and continuous integration and delivery to
                ensure developer confidence.
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                Implementation of a Content Management System and process
                creation to enable our Marketing partners to do their job more
                effectively with less of a bottleneck from development.
              </li>
              <li class="mt-0">
                Standardized our approach to web accessibility and the creation
                of baseline performance metrics for our Marketing stakeholders
                and Brand Creative developers.
              </li>
            </ul>
            <h4 class="lg:text-2xl mt-4 font-sans print:lg:text-lg">
              Web Engineer
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            <p class="text-sm print:text-xs mt-0">July 2015 &#8212; June 2018</p>
            <ul class="mt-4 pl-6 list-disc print:text-sm">
              <li class="mt-0">
                Collaborated with Visual design and Marketing to bring marketing
                site landing pages and paid media campaigns to life.
              </li>
              <li class="mt-0">
                Created technical improvements to our WordPress stack and
                simplified our deployment process.
              </li>
              <li class="mt-0">
                Worked with cross-department engineers to share components and
                develop a shared design system.
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          StageBloc
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        <p class="text-sm print:text-xs mt-0">Chicago, IL</p>
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          <li>
            <h4 class="lg:text-2xl font-sans print:lg:text-lg">
              Front End Developer
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            <p class="text-sm print:text-xs mt-0">November 2013 &#8212; July 2015</p>
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                Worked as part of StageBloc’s front-end team, creating new
                features as well as optimizing and refactoring existing
                functionality.
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              <li class="mt-0">
                Played a critical role in product and UX brainstorming sessions.
              </li>
              <li class="mt-0">
                Developed custom websites and themes for music artists such as
                Kid Rock, Eric Church, Kenny Chesney, and Metallica.
              </li>
            </ul>
          </li>
        </ul>
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          530MediaLab
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        <p class="text-sm print:text-xs mt-0">Long Beach, CA</p>
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            <h4 class="lg:text-2xl font-sans print:lg:text-lg">
              Lead Front End Developer
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            <p class="text-sm print:text-xs mt-0">August 2011 &#8212; October 2013</p>
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                Worked as a team lead of 8 developers to provide development
                support to an agency primarily focused on lifestyle and
                streetwear brands.
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                Spent a large amount of time handling git merge conflicts.
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