Blake Winton

• Grew a team from 6 to 10 through hiring and internal transfers.
• Drove multiple large cross-team projects, such as the New Print UI and MR1 UI Refresh.
• Determined what the next improvements to Firefox should be, assigned people, and got them done.
• Identified areas of growth, provided opportunities, and got promotions for multiple people at multiple levels.

• Grew a team to three employees, working on prototypes, polish bugs, internal tools, and designing the DevTools.
• Successfully advocated for more resources for the projects we were working on.
• Transferred people to other teams when they outgrew the scope of the tasks we were responsible for.

• Created interactive prototypes to let designers work with their designs, and put in front of users for testing and validation.
• Fixed many polish bugs, to bring the front-end closer in line with the spec, and add consistency.
• Wrote internal tools and created a Design System site to help the designers implement and communicate their designs.

• Fixed bugs and implemented new features for Thunderbird 3, Mozilla’s email client.
• Oversaw students doing the same.
• Worked on a Django-based front-end for a database of ISP configuration settings.
• Took over management of a team of 1 full-time employee and three contractors.

• Fixed bugs and implemented new features for Thunderbird 3.0, Mozilla’s email client.
• Oversaw students working on a database of ISP configuration settings.
• Specified and wrote a couple of iPhone applications.
• Finished release of Churchill Downs Mobile Application.
• Initiated code review and led meetings for the open source Basie Project.
• Researched bugs and suggested and implemented fixes for former clients.
• Rewrote a build system in Ant (from Microsoft's cmd shell).
• Wrote an invoice generator using JQuery, CouchDB, and BlueprintCSS.

• Mentored and assisted co-workers and co-op students.
• Designed and developed several translation servers, based on the Phantom Fiber Server Framework.
• Added several key features and fixed many bugs in the Phantom Fiber Server Framework.
• Ran the build server, packaged products for deployment, and assisted clients in deploying those products.
• Designed and developed a Web front-end to the server using SpringMVC, Facelets, and JSF.
• Architected, implemented, maintained, and enhanced four core pieces of functionality.
• Designed and developed several tools to assist in building the software, as well as to prevent errors in critical infrastructure.
• Moved nearly seamlessly from client to server to supporting products to tools and back.

Interests

• Bicycling.
• Working with programming languages.
• Dancing.
• Reading.
• Independent Canadian music.