Emily
Taintor
McIntyre
About me
Hi, I’m Emily! I’m a recently self-taught front-end developer with 7 years of experience in product management and design. I’ve worked at companies big and small, on new and existing products, but the one constant in my career has been that I have felt most engaged with my work when solving technical problems with great teams. In my first role as a developer I have had the privilege of doing just that, while being able to draw upon the strong foundation in product and design that I have built in previous roles.
My background in product and design, degree from a top engineering school, years of learning from and working alongside world-class engineers, and experience with all parts of the development process from ideation through launch and iteration make me a unique candidate for front-end roles. What I lack in years of formal coding experience I make up for in a strong product sense, an eye for (and lots of experience with) product design, an instinct for making technical tradeoff decisions thoughtfully and holistically, expertise in rapid testing and user research, and an agility and adaptability that is imperative in a fast-paced tech environment. I love what I do and bring enthusiasm for both being great at it and making work a great place to be. Don't hesitate to reach out to me! I'm looking forward to meeting you.
Projects
Quizzical Trivia Game
Quizzical is a trivia game that I created as the solo project for the 'React Basics' module of the Scrimba Front End Developer Career Path. This app makes use of the Open Trivia DB API to generate sets of 5 multiple choice trivia questions. Design and functionality requirements are from Scrimba.
Next steps: Add more controls for how many questions, of which type, in which category, consider trying to make it a game you could play live with friends, or integrate an AI API to generate a broader variety of more relevant questions with answer explanations.
FamilyWorks Text-to-go
I partnered with FamilyWorks, a Seattle-based food bank and family resource center, to build a text system that would allow the members of their community to customize and order boxes of groceries for out-of-hours pick up. We began this project during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic when the need for safe access to community resources was high and hard to come by. I worked closely with the Food Bank Manager to design and build the system using a variety of low-code tools. This program has increased the reach of FamilyWorks to 100+ regular households participating and is now offered in English, Spanish, and Chinese.
Next steps: Upcoming improvements include inventory integration for more granular customizations and delivery via integration with DoorDash, among other ideas.
Link Swap Extension
I originally built this extension to satisfy a request my husband had for a fix to his own workflow - to swap a small part of the Salesforce links he had to use for work that directed him to Salesforce's new UI, with a string that would then make the link direct him to the old UI, which he preferred. I recently updated the app to be a more multi-purpose tool where the user can input any string they want to find, and any string they want to replace it with, and the extension will find any instances of links that contain the original string and swap it for the new one. I plan on publishing it to the Chrome Store soon!
Next steps: Add more granular stop/start control and make it possible for the user to select which type of element they want to replace text within, in addition to just links, and publish it.
Digital Business Card
This digital business card was created as a step in the 'React Basics' module of the Scrimba Front End Developer Career Path. The goal was to build a basic React app to solidify our understanding of components and how to use them. This was my first React project. Design and functionality requirements are from Scrimba.
Next steps: Look for ways to make this useful 🤷♀️
Cook List
Cook List is a recipe search and saving app that I created as the solo project for the 'Working with APIs' module of the Scrimba Front End Developer Career Path. We were tasked with building a movie watchlist app and I used Edamam's Recipe Search API to make it something I would be likely to use myself and keep improving on. This was my first self-directed API project (rather than following a spec).
Next steps: Store saved recipes in a more robust way, integrate the search and save functionality with the RecipeFinder project, allow for more categorization, tagging, and note taking on individual recipes.
RecipeFinder
RecipeFinder is a personal recipe management tool that I created as the solo project for the 'Responsive Design' module of the Scrimba Front End Developer Career Path. While the prompt was for a learning journal or a hike finder, I built a recipe management tool because it was something I thought I'd use and be more likely to keep working on. This was the first project that I used CSS Grid.
Next steps: Connect search experience to recipe search API used in CookList project, store saved recipes in a more robust way, add more fields and make most or all fields editable, add concept of users with log in/sign up, refactor as React app, etc.
Color Scheme Generator
This color scheme generator app was created as the solo project for the 'Working with APIs' module of the Scrimba Front End Developer Career Path. The goal was to use a color scheme generator API to build an app that would take various inputs and generate appropriate color schemes accordingly. This was my first project with APIs since college and my first introduction to async/await. Design and functionality requirements are from Scrimba.
Next steps: Incorporate accessibility check API and add more customization within generated palettes.
Mobile Ordering
I created as the solo project for the 'Essential Javascript Concepts' module of the Scrimba Front End Developer Career Path. Design and functionality requirements are from Scrimba.
Unit Converter
I created as the solo project for the 'Essential Javascript Concepts' module of the Scrimba Front End Developer Career Path. Design and functionality requirements are from Scrimba.
Web Developer (Marketing) at WilsonHCG
Jul 2023 to Present
RPO and Human Captial Consulting firm
- Build, maintain, and improve upon WilsonHCG's website using Hubspot CMS.
- Ideate, prototype, build, and test new components and user flows to help the team meet marketing goals.
- Define and prioritize the technical roadmap with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Manage separate websites, themes, and components for WilsonHCG and 2 child offerings/brands.
Growth Product Manager at Bold.org
Nov 2020 to Jun 2022
Scholarship and college matching platform
- Led product strategy and execution through a period of hypergrowth, gaining over 1 million users in a year and serving hundreds of thousands of monthly active users.
- Combined business goals and user needs to design and deliver an entirely new product offering with key acquisition hooks and an inbound sales pipeline to support our educational sales team. Acquired over 650 active clients at over 415 client universities in the first 7 months after release.
- Managed one APM and one designer, and served as the strategic hub for our engineering, sales, and growth teams.
- Designed and executed dozens of experiments, including increasing the conversion rate of our onboarding quiz over 50% through A/B testing, among other notable experimentation wins.
Lead Product Manager at Homeroom
Jun 2019 to Sept 2020
After-school enrichment management platform
- Managed product strategy, product design, and day-to-day development work for our hybrid team of 6 engineers.
- Worked within a small leadership team alongside CEO and Head of Engineering to define and execute product and business strategy, growing customers and GMV over 300% YoY.
- Acted as product designer, including everything from user research and product validation through high-fidelity mockups and user flows, eventually hiring a product designer to manage design execution as resources allowed.
- Introduced product analytics, leading team in instrumenting tracking and incorporating insights into product design and strategy.
- Pivoted the team and product when the business was affected by the COVID-19 school closures, designing and delivering an entirely new consumer marketplace for online classes in less than 2 months.
Associate Product Manager at IXL Learning
Feb 2018 to Jun 2019
Education and analytics platform for K-12 schools
- Owned product strategy for, designed, and led a crew of engineers through building and launching multiple reports within an entirely new suite of analytics for school leaders.
- Managed product design and execution for a variety of features and pages throughout IXL’s product and marketing efforts.
Program Manager II at Microsoft
Aug 2015 to Sept 2017
Photo and video editing tool built into Windows OS
- Led product strategy and development for a team of 8 engineers on our video editing feature area, shipping biweekly to a massive audience.
- Conducted many forms of user research, including creating a 900+ person beta testing program for educators and building a feedback community of 120+ local educators, school administrators, and IT professionals.
- Initiated and led Window’s Photo and Video editor team’s education initiative, including defining appropriate investments and a 2-year roadmap for product and marketing efforts to become the first choice video editor for classrooms.
- Managed 14 engineering interns and 2 design interns over 2 summers, building real-time video transcription and translation projects.
Product + Marketing Designer at Squadle
Aug 2014 to Dec 2014
Back-of-house restaurant management system
- Designed product, emails, marketing materials, merchandise, and supplementary print guides for start up as first design hire.
Product Design Intern at Microsoft (Garage)
Jun 2014 to Aug 2014
40-person experimental internship program
- Defined the roadmap for, designed, and shipped a real-time collaborative digital whiteboarding Universal Windows Application.
Education
Scrimba
Completed April 2023
Front-end Developer Career Path and other supplementary courses
Reforge
Completed April 2022
Completed Product Strategy course and participated in other supplementary courses
Tufts University School of Engineering
Graduated May 2015
B.S. in Human Factors Engineering, subsection of Mechanical Engineering
Volunteering
FamilyWorks
Dec 2020 - Present
Built text-based ordering system to broaden reach and impact of Seattle-based food bank, with significant upcoming improvements at a much broader scale
Skills
HTML
Tech
CSS
Tech
Javascript
Tech
React
Tech
Typescript
Tech
SQL + PostreSQL
Tech
Bootstrap
Tech
C++
Tech
Figma
Design
Sketch
Design
Adobe Ai
Design
User Research
Design
Usability Testing
Design
A/B Testing
Design
3D Modeling
Design
Spanish
Languages
Portuguese (basic)
Languages
French (basic)
Languages
Contact me
The best way to reach me is by email. I just started to look for opportunities as a front-end developer. If you or someone you know is hiring for something like that, please reach out! I'm looking forward to connecting.