Josh Alvies

Josh Alvies is a Principal Software Engineer and UX Team Lead at Game Taco since September 2008. In this role, they are responsible for leading the user-experience development for WorldWinner.com. Josh has also served as the team scrum master and UX developer for an early Facebook gaming venture within the company. Josh has extensive experience working with ES6/React, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, PHP, Perl with Mason, MySQL, Informix, and Linux+Apache environments.

Prior to their current role, Josh served as a Technical Development Coordinator at the National Basketball Association from January 2006 to September 2008. In this role, they managed the day-to-day technical operation of NBA and WNBA team websites. Josh assisted team personnel with problems, enhancements, and queries about the operation of their sites and the content management system driving them. Josh also oversaw site redesigns and managed the developers tasked with developing new site features.

Before joining the NBA, Josh worked as a Web Developer and Site Manager at Murphy & Company from May 2004 to January 2006. Josh'sresponsibilities included front-end web development and some aspects of design for a Fortune 500 consulting firm's primary client. Josh also served as the site manager and developer for a Microsoft Sharepoint-based template for quick-turnaround intranet sites.

Josh started their career as a Product Manager at Design Ideas from October 2001 to April 2004. Josh managed product development for design-forward housewares and decorations sold at wholesale to small businesses and large big-box chains. Additionally, they assisted product and graphic designers with intermittent graphic design and modelmaking responsibilities during times of heavy workload.

Josh Alvies attended Springfield College in Illinois from 1997 to 1999, where they obtained an Associate of Arts (A.A.) degree in Business/Commerce, General. Josh then continued their education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1999 to 2001, earning a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree with an emphasis on Art Direction in Advertising.

In addition to their formal education, Josh Alvies has obtained several certifications. In March 2020, they completed the Stanford University Machine Learning course through Coursera. In June 2013, they completed the course "An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python" also through Coursera. Furthermore, in May 2013, they completed the course "Gamification" and in November 2012, they completed the course "Human-Computer Interaction," both through Coursera as well.