mikesusz.dev

hello!

My name is Mike and I love solving problems. I've been doing web UI development, UX strategy, and various aspects of web design and development for 28 years. At times I've been a team-lead and scrum-master. I'm currently employed as a Senior Front-end Developer with IBM Consulting.

mission

My mission for work is:
To work with diverse teams
of kind people, to
solve important problems
for my company, our clients,
and their users

my latest projects at work

I've been alternating between 'bench' time (time between billable projects, spend doing estimation & proposals, and learning new things!) and supporting projects that build social-care network infrastructure. These projects are personally rewarding, knowing that my work is helping people access resources for food/housing/employment help.

All of these projects use a similar stack: front-end is svelte/sveltekit, svelte superforms, sass/scss, and Carbon Design System components (and plenty of custom-built components/molecules). data is a combination of postres sql, fhir, IBM's Connect360 Platform.

My current tenure on these projects is coming to a close, however. I'm really hoping to find another seat with a project where I can get involved at the beginning — planning, strategy, estimation, requirements gathering and orchestration. These are the areas where I can provide a lot more value than just "how fast can you execute?"

And, if you're reading this, and you know of an opening on a diverse team of kind people who will be solving important problems, feel free to reach out. While I consider myself an IBMer, I am also always looking to build things that help people.

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