aaron williams
Owner at Polymathic
helping people tell story technology web design , video , graphic
's problem ? everyone ha problem facing solution share others , many medium choose . want help people focus problem , design solution , share solution others . key point like focus communicating effectively correctly defining problem , always straightforward seem even know need need skill . cultivating skillset help people share solution , message , story 'm always looking improve . continuous improvement , kaizen , autodidacticism , whatever want call , believe . pursuit knowledge applying learning passion mine 'm searching opportunity learn .
Polymathic
https://www.linkedin.com/company/polymathic-company
Owner
Gardendale, Alabama, United States
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VIVA HEALTH
https://www.linkedin.com/company/viva-health
Javascript Developer
I currently work at Viva Health, a company that provides health insurance options to companies and their employees in Alabama.

I'm helping Viva Health create consistent and accessible web design standards that can be easily distributed throughout their applications to enable clear communication with the end-user. This comes in the form of a centralized design system that delivers TypeScript and React.js components to the development team making it easier for developers to create consistent, high-quality applications.
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Jenkon
https://www.linkedin.com/company/jenkon
Frontend Web Developer
I started at Jenkon on a brand new team and there was a lot to figure out at first. Not just the workload and coding problems, but how to operate as a team, especially without a Scrum Master or a Product Owner available. To help orient the team I temporarily took on the duties of Scrum Master and shared the responsibilities of a Product Owner to make sure that the rest of the team could move forward with their work. I also initiated a centralized design system that leveraged React.js, Material UI, and TypeScript so that our three different web applications could share a unified user interface solution.

I worked with some great people here and we faced difficult challenges, but we all had an interest in working together to create a quality product and did our best to focus and achieve that goal.
Birmingham, Alabama Area
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EBSCO Information Services
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User Experience Designer
I learned a tremendous amount at this role and it helped shape my approach to design and communication. I worked on a rapid prototyping team that would meet with Product Owners and Stakeholders to discuss problems in the software and design and clearly communicate solutions to the developers. I learned how to approach a design from the customer's perspective by listening to them, observing their use of the product, and iterating on the design.

It doesn't matter how good your design is, you still have to convince other people of its value and there was a constant challenge of communicating and selling a design. I would work on a design to help make sure everyone is aligned and my team was involved from the initial discussions with Product Owners and Stakeholders all the way until the developer is deploying it to the customer. Our team would keep the conversation visual by creating prototypes of a design and rapidly iterate on those until it became well defined and the developers could reference these to answer questions or reach out to our team to discuss it.

In my last year at EBSCO I learned React.js and saw this as a way to speed up and improve the quality of the prototypes I was delivering. After one of my high-fidelity React prototypes got picked up as an active project I created a centralized design system using React.js and TypeScript so that the same components that I was creating prototypes with could be used by the developers to create the applications. This allowed our team to focus on the quality of our UI solutions and removed a translation barrier between the prototype and the application.
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Oakstone Publishing
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Courseware Developer
I developed and maintained online course environments using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. I would integrate 3rd party or custom technologies into an existing CMS and one of my proudest accomplishments at this job was when we used an open source mapping software to create "microscope slides" that allowed you to zoom in and out of a collection of gigabyte-sized images. I would also develop additional services and features using JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX.
Birmingham, Alabama Area
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Game and Interactive Media Design
Bachelor's degree
ITT Technical Institute-Bessemer
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New Chamber Member of the Year
Gardendale Chamber of Commerce
Polymathic was recognized as the New Chamber Member of the Year in its first year at the Gardendale Chamber of Commerce.
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        I've worked with a lot of great people in my career, and Aaron stands out as one of the best and brightest. He takes his work to heart and is always ready to meet any challenge. It's more than a job for him. He cares personally about being excellent, and that drives him to meet or exceed expectations and deliver the best results possible. Then, there's his leadership, which comes natural for him. He is well equipped to lead a team to get a project off the ground and out the door. Always willing to mentor, and help in any way, Aaron will make a huge difference on any Team.
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