Hawkin Dynamics
2021 – Oct 2026
Software Engineer
2025 – Oct 2026
- Built a real-time athlete scoreboard (React, RxJS) for live testing events, with customizable palettes, up to 5 independently scrolling team columns, cycling metrics, and saved templates.
- Created analytical reports, including a 0–100 Total Score of Athleticism with quartile grouping and a block report tracking percent change between dates with user-set thresholds.
- Developed an internal Vue admin tool with input from sales, support, and marketing staff to manage customer data and resolve user complaints without engineering help.
- Led the migration of a custom styled-components codebase to Chakra UI, consolidating duplicate components into reusable recipes and moving brand colors to design tokens that drive light/dark mode.
- Audited the web app for ADA/WCAG compliance with the CTO and fixed findings during updates.
- Improved report exports by replacing client-side PDF generation (~200 KB) with the browser’s native print/PDF dialog, cutting bundle size and improving consistency.
- Diagnosed and resolved dozens of customer-reported data and UI issues, and wrote Jest unit tests for React components.
Lead Mechanical Engineer
2021 – 2025
- Designed every mechanical product, including a force plate redesign that cut manufacturing cost by about 30%, and the TruStrength dynamometer with its accessory line.
- Defined mechanical requirements for a roughly $70K force press that cut calibration time per force plate set by about 70%.
- Wrote the internal, browser-based press calibration software that replaced a legacy C++ GUI, using linear curve-fitting for per-sensor validation and offset correction.
- Established company-wide engineering standards, including a part-numbering system and BOM, PRD, and ECO processes, and mentored junior engineers.