Jamie Skinner
Developer, designer and artist
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I am a developer, designer and artist with over 10 years of experience building delightful experiences for a wide range of software products. Give me a creative problem and I'll find an elegant solution.
Professional Experience
inbanx · Product Owner & Technical Project Manager
2024 – 2025Enterprise budgeting and expense reporting tool
- Set and managed project initiatives, timelines and priorities
- Collaborated with designers to build and augment user experiences
- Interfaced with support to manage and prioritize bug tickets and customer support responses
Touch To · Product Owner & Technical Project Manager
2023 – 2025Technology consulting and dev shop. Clients include ReelGolf, inbanx & Ultra
- Collaborate with clients to design, develop and manage the core functionality of their apps
- Managing backlogs, writing tickets and engaging with stakeholders to hit key milestones
- Organizing and performing SCRUM rituals
Tradeblock · Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
2022 – 2023Sneaker trading & bartering platform
- Worked with a team of 4 engineers to release all customer facing mobile app features
- Built an image processing pipeline to isolate, transform, and sync images to the product catalog
- Functioned as the primary point of contact for all technical support tickets from users and staff
- Maintained and updated the admin portal described under Etcetera
- Acted as design-engineering liaison, communicating technical and design requirements to the respective teams
Etcetera · Founder, Designer & Engineer
2020 – PresentCreative engineering and design studio
A studio of my own conception to bring more lateral thinking to the earlier stages of the design process for companies in the earlier stages of a product vision.
- The Miracle Foundation: designed and built a dashboard to keep track of children, their parents, and all relevant fostering information as they progressed through the foster system
- Tradeblock: designed, built, maintained, and updated an admin portal where employees could see real-time details of a trade, user, sneaker, or shipment
- ShareGro: integrated Interactive Brokers, a stock trading API
IBM · Lead User Experience Engineer
2015 – 2020International Business Machines, Design Studio
Question, define, test, build, then scale. Through this iterative process my design team and I were able to deliver delightful, award winning experiences across the Hybrid Cloud portfolio.
- Built complex graphical prototypes of dashboards to monitor Kubernetes resources
- Carefully considered accessibility standards across the product
- Attended an extensive Design Bootcamp focused on teaching the core tenets of Design Thinking
Education
- Galvanize (formerly MakerSquare) (2015) — Advanced Software Engineering Immersive
- Kalamazoo College (2012) — Major: Studio Art
- Universidad San Francisco de Quito (2011)
Awards
- Gold A' Design Award - 2018
- COMPUTEX d&i Specialty Award - 2018
- Skinner Legacy Award - 2010 (named after me)
- New Braunfels Hometown Hero - 2010
Personal
- Climbing, creative coding, mountain biking, skateboarding, mural arts, camping, hiking, tinkering
- Jaws Skatepark, New Braunfels TX: fundraised $500,000 for the city skatepark