Bruce Bell-Myers

Summary

I have designed and implemented the client architecture for several enterprise, large-scale systems, with more than 20 years of experience in building enterprise applications, user interface and human factor engineering. My concentration for the last several years has been web-based user interfaces, using HTML / CSS / JavaScript and Java, especially in JavaScript, using libraries such as Angular, React, jQuery and Ext-JS, with REST-ful data sources on the server. In addition, I have extensive knowledge of information architecture, professional graphic design and web-based multimedia.

I believe I possess excellent leadership, team-building, presentation and communication skills. Some of the clients I have had the pleasure to work with include Standard & Poor, Union Bank of California, US Bank, Wells Fargo, Minnesota Life, Cargill, Musicland (Sam Goody), via World Network and Infomarkets.com.

I am currently employed at Healthpartners as a Senior Web Developer. I continue to be active in investigating cutting edge user interface technologies and using these to create interfaces which are both visually and technically elegant.

Specialties

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (Angular, React, Web Components(Stencil, Polymer), Webpack, Babel, ES6), AJAX, REST, Java 8, JSP, Scrum, Agile, XP, Team Leadership, Enterprise Web Applications, IoT, Node.js, Redux

Goal

Seeking a position which provides me opportunities to lead by example, mentor others in best practices, and break new ground using cutting edge technologies, while helping improve the user experience of enterprise scale web applications.

Experience

Senior Web Developer at Healthpartners December 2018 - Present

Lead a team focused on delivering a component library based on an in-house design system, based on W3C Web Components, Stencil and Storybook.js. Components are created in close collaboration with the UX and a11y teams to create accessible and responsive components which define and defend the visual and interaction patterns defined by the design system.

Senior Technical Consultant at PTC December 2011 - November 2018

I provided hands-on technical and agile process leadership on a small team creating the web and mobile interfaces for enterprise products, including Windchill, Thingworx and FlexPLM.

I prototyped and helped to implement a set of user interface widgets which implement the visual concepts of the design system, using Polymer 2 web components. The widgets are then provided as an npm library which can be used directly as custom tags in JavaScript apps, or wrapped for PTC’s Thingworx product, so that the look and feel of apps are consistent whether they are custom coded or generated using Thingworx Mashup Builder.

Principal Software Engineer at PTC May 2007 - December 2011 (4 years 8 months)

Team lead on the Client Architecture team, primarily focused on client technologies, such as CSS, DHTML, AJAX and JSON, along a Java-based enterprise infrastructure, based upon J2EE; JSP & Java Beans with Tomcat and Apache HTTPd server, using Ext-JS for data grids and other JavaScript driven user interface components.

Served as Scrum master, helping PTC adopt a truly agile approach to developing software.

Team Lead, UI Development at US Bank 2001 - 2007 (7 years)

Director, User Interface Guild at Perficient 1998 - 2001 (4 years)

User Interface Designer at Perficient 1998 - 2001 (4 years)

Software Engineer at Andersen Consulting 1996 - 1998 (3 years)

Education