Portfolio – Henry Vasquez

I’ll be sharing various things I’ve created, articles I’ve written, media appearances, and content from over the years.

Product Management

These are proprietary products that I managed for another company, so I’ll have to keep it general enough to respect the intellectual property owners. These write-ups should give you a good sense of the kind of applications I’ve worked on.

HR Software – Helping Employees Develop their Skills and Navigate their Career Growth at Work

Technologies: .NET Core, React, GraphQL, Aurora MySQL

Innovations: Using a machine-learning model to predict employee skills, proficiency levels, and job matches based on data collected from over 250 million user profiles

Challenges: Customer education, managing interdependencies with over 10 downstream features that consumed our APIs, maintaining momentum over a 2+ year development timeline.

Manufacturing/ERP – Containing Defective Hardware Across a Large, Complex Operation

Technologies: Angular, C#, REST API, Entity Framework, MSSQL

Innovations: Shipping a fully-featured, well-documented Public API with a thin client (built for substantial third-party use).

Challenges: Migrating data from a debt-ridden schema, keeping the coupling between connected applications to a minimum.

Manufacturing/ERP – Document Management System for Manufacturing Specification Authors

Technologies: Angular, C#, REST API, Entity Framework, MSSQL

Innovations: Creating an application that can take in documents from multiple heterogeneous authoring tools. We also built a handy document diagnostic tool to help catch negative downstream impacts, formatting issues, and bad metadata before release.

Challenges: Working around the substantial technical debt of the existing system, choosing the right transaction scope for the service layer.

Manufacturing/ERP – Root Cause Analysis Toolkit for Quality Engineers

Technologies: Angular, C#, REST API, Entity Framework, MSSQL

Innovations: Integration between a custom ERP and Confluence for Analysis Notes, notifications for recurring similar defects using a relatedness algorithm.

Challenges: Striking the balance between rigid, structured workflows and providing the freedom for users to get the knowledge out of their head and into the application.

SaaS/Professional Services – Project Management Application for Consulting Firms

Technologies: Kendo, Custom JS, ASP.NET, C#, REST API, MSSQL

Innovations: Too many to count. Developed a custom task message syntax (think # and @ on Twitter) to enable rapid metadata entry that was intuitive for users. Created a zero-adoption product that worked in email without any signup (think of ical invites for assigning tasks). The user experience was the most tactile, playful productivity tool in its class.

Challenges: Not every screen and “mode” of the application was as fluid as the core experience.

SaaS/Professional Services – Work Collaboration Mobile Application

Technologies: Objective-C (iOS) using our public REST API

Innovations: Seamless flow from email into the mobile app, plus a ton of delightful animations.

Challenges: It was very difficult to pare down the features from the desktop application, while providing a simple, engaging experience.

Healthcare – Clinical Trials Tracking Software

Technologies: Bootstrap, Laravel (PHP), REST API, MySQL

Innovations: Clever Excel import tool to handle cases not supported in the UI.

Challenges: For reasons unrelated to technology, large parts of the business process could not be automated or digitized right away.

Digital Media – Custom Content Management Admin Tool for Large Digital Media Network

Technologies: JQuery, PHP, MySQL

Innovations: Combined a publishing calendar, configurable voting algorithm, explicit content filter, and WYSIWYG image captioning tool. Lots of saved time!!

Challenges: We had to build, test, and validate this without disrupting the day-to-day sites, which were receiving over 10 million pageviews each month.