Tom Byrer

Web application engineer with over twenty years of programming and testing experience in several languages and platforms, focusing on usability and engineering optimization. I have strong leadership background gained from eleven years in the United States Air Force and served in a leadership role at several non-profits.

Obtain front/back-end engineering position in an environment with high morals and vision that helps everyone succeed.

• Web Applications: Creating and optimizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and graphics (raster and SVG), mobile targeting including responsive layouts, GUI design, front-end frameworks (HandleBars, and ReactJS), automation, SEO marketing, CMS troubleshooting, HTTP (CDN utilization, AJAX/API), Git CVS
• Testing: In addition to constant manual testing of many own and other's programs and websites, I have built semi-automated testing components on a few platforms, including Puppeteer from Google.
• IT: Build and maintain computer hardware and operating systems, basic networking
• Management: Visioneering, mentoring, planning, efficiency optimization, marketing
• Audio Skills: Had been radio an club DJ, skilled in various audio tools for music creation and mastering (Abelton Live).  Some experience programming audio plugins.

• Adjust Video Speed, Chrome plugin to help HTML5 video playback go faster or slower in customized speed steps. Forked an existing plugin to make the steps more musical, and as example for an HTML5 spec change suggestion.
• Remotion Animation Player System, internal tool to simultaneously test movies at different aspect ratios. Built with React-Remotion and NextJS.
• Image testing tool using NodeJS & sharp, built after finding some AVIF image compression shifts colors.
• COVID19 Crude Death Rate Chart, a using NodeJS script that downloads compiled test data, calculates and ranks, then outputs a HTML chart and JSON data.
• Testing JS End-to-End Testers article: Wrote an article about comparing two NodeJS based End-to-End testing platforms, Cypress against CodeceptJS paired with MicroSoft's Playwright browser automation. I also coded the accopaning tests
• Awesome Cloudflare Workers: Documented research of Cloudflare Workers, a major CDN's take on serverless JavaScript & WebAssembly hosting. Also wrote the script to turn a CSV data dump of all collected links to output the curated Markdown.
• Open Source Contributions: Over hundred pull requests accepted for open source projects lead by GitHub, Adobe, Google, BootStrap, jsDelivr CDN, and other JavaScript and CSS projects.

ArtsAmbient

President - Kansas City, MO | 2001-Present (21 years)

• Created and optimized audio production plugins (VSTs) programmed in a proprietary flow-based language with x86/SSE assembly and GUI layout engine.
• Created responsive and optimized websites, tweaked for SEO marketing using the CMS Wordpress and static HTML.
• Researching video e-learning platform, including players, video/image/audio compression, and devops.

Tacit Progression

Web Dev Intern - Denver, CO | 2016 (6 months)

• Front-end: Scripted Gulp to create a templating engine with Pug (Jade) and YAML files to match design handed off via Photoshop assets.
• Back-end: created API analysis and NodeJS programming for ecommerce system, ticketing tasks via Jira.
• Mentored and documented various hardware and software computer applications for testing automation using Selenium.

MCI/WorldCom

Data Manager, C/S - Colorado Springs, CO | 2001-2003 (2 years)

• Developed automated report system using MS-SQL, MicroSoft Access, Excel, and Outlook, improving accuracy and opportunities while saving time.
• Increased sales through business analysis of potential customer data.

US Air Force

Communications & Computers - USA & Europe | 1990-2000 (11 years)

• Tracked $1 million equipment inventory using the system I built using MicroSoft Access and Excel, Outlook, and MS-SQL, improving accuracy and opportunities while saving time.
• Operated many systems, including Sun Sparcs and AS/400 mainframes.
• Installed LAN to new facility.