Hi, I'm Dywayne

Full Stack Developer & Design Engineer

Passionate about user experience.

About Me

Dywayne Johnson
  • Name: Dywayne Johnson
  • Location: United States
  • Email: djohnsonkc@gmail.com
Google UX Design Certificate

Professional Profile

Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer/Developer with an extensive background in Web and Mobile development, RESTful API development, JWT authentication, ETL processing, SQL/NoSQL database design, also with training and a natural ability in UI/UX design as a rare combination of skills and experience helpful in creating robust and engaging digital experiences that help businesses reach their goals. Passionate about performance, simplifying complex processes, and creating user-friendly applications that are easy to use and understand. Committed to delivering exceptional results from big-picture concepts to detailed designs and implementations.

Full Stack Development Skiils

Technical leadership, architecture, and development of responsive web and mobile applications and RESTful APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, focused on performance and scalability, translating UX designs into functional UI assets based on brand guidelines that include React components, JavaScript, CSS, images, and HTML/JSX templates

  • React
  • JavaScript
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • C# .NET
  • AWS, Heroku
  • SQL/NoSQL
  • Agile/Waterfall

UI/UX Design Skiils

UI/UX design lead with technical research capabilities to vet design feasibility and translate needs to front end and back end team members, providing guidance on performance and scalability considerations. Create UI assets based on brand guidelines.

  • UI/UX Design
  • UX Writing
  • UX Research
  • Figma
  • Adobe XD

"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution."
-Unknown

Portfolio

I have included a few designs and case studies I created as part of my Google UX Design Certificate training as well as other, more recent real-world project examples in the form of screenshot apps. In addition, I have included a link to a video demo of a recent project. I am continuting to expand my portfolio to share my professional design examples, which can be made available upon request.


Resume

Experience

  • 2021-TODAY

    Sr. Full Stack Developer & Design Engineer

    Rosnet, Kansas City

    Full Stack Developer and Design Engineer building UI components for design system shared with other teams. Conducting user research, storyboarding, wireframing, low/hi-fi prototyping, useability studies, translation of designs for other developers.

  • 2017-2021

    Sr. Full Stack Mobile & Web Front End Software Engineer

    Rosnet, Kansas City

    Mobile and web full stack development including the UX, UI, API for many mobile and Web SaaS products for Rosnet.

  • 2009-2017

    Principal Application Architect

    Hallmark Cards, Kansas City

    Full stack development building end-to-end solutions that brought Hallmark's vision to life in meaningful, digital ways.

Education

  • Sept 2022

    Google UX Design Certification

    Google UX Design Certificate

    Completed all 7 required courses with a 97.99% average GPA.

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  • 1994

    Bachelor of Science

    Computer Information Systems, Park University

    Graduated with Honors/Distinction. GPA 4.0

Awards

  • 2023

    Sprit of Innoviation Award

    Rosnet (2 years running)

  • 2022

    Spirit of Innovation Award

    Rosnet

  • 1999

    Award for Excellence

    Midwest Cinema Group

  • 1998

    Outstanding Employee Award

    Midwest Cinema Group

Activities

  • ONGOING

    Volunteer Activties

    Working with at-risk, abused, and neglected children in the foster care system in Kansas City

    Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kansas City

    Homeless in Kansas City

    Disaster relief

Patents

  • June 2011

    Computer program, method, and system for preventing execution of viruses and malware

    US 20140173735

    Preventing execution of viruses or malware on a computing device...

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  • May 2011

    Prompting Service

    US US8819169B2

    Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing methods are provided for establishing and updating a prompting scheme for soliciting feedback from a customer.

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  • Apr 2006

    Method And System For Providing Evidence Based Evaluations Of Medical Treatments

    US 20070271121

    Methods and systems for securing and providing evidence based evaluations of medical treatments...

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