Resume
Prolific web designer and developer with 20 years of experience creating state-of-the-art websites and applications. I have a keen interest in web technology, mobile applications, user experience, and website performance. Several of the sites I have designed and developed have won awards, and the iOS Apps I’ve created have over 30,000 combined downloads on the iTunes App Store. What I enjoy the most is working with a team to create products and applications that get used and are enjoyable to use
Skills
Experience on up to date advance web development technologies, Next.js, React, NPM, GIT, ES6, JavaScript, Vercel, CSS3, HTML5, Ajax, MVC, JSON, Tailwind and Storybook Front End Development, User Interface (UI) Design, User Experience (UX) Design, PHP, Objective-C, Contentful, MySQL, Laravel, WooCommerce, and WordPress Able to quickly assimilate and learn new technology to accomplish goals. Adept at functioning independently on multiple projects
Experience
Jan 2022 – Present- Coded new features on the JAMStack based Whispir.com website using Next.js with Contentful headless CMS and deployed at Vercel
- On-page, off-page, and technical SEO strategy and optimization increased site lighthouse performance score by 130% to 92/100
- Worked closely with marketing department and digital designers to transform design and UX concepts into fully functional and optimized web experiences
- Coordinated review/testing teams for launch and kept launches on time
- Integrated site search using search.io, custom coded filterable resource library
- Designed and developed custom websites, web applications, and iOS apps for clients in a wide array of industries: Energy, Environmental, Health and Fitness, Fashion, Municipalities, Legal, Non-profit, Retail, Industrial, and Healthcare, and more
- Project responsibilities included user research, branding, visual design, production design, and information architecture
- Designs I created and coded earned three W3 design awards, a Savvy award and a Marketing Excellence Award from the Zweig Group
- Custom WordPress design and WooCommerce integration for iknowaguybicycles.com and howardcreekfarm.com
- Created applications for iTunes App Store totaling over 30,000 combined downloads.
- Composed initial teaser video for Center for Empowered Living & Learning
- Responsible for design and maintenance of high traffic sites—bodyforlife.com and eas.com.
- Designed and produced monthly informative e-newsletters for over 300,000 subscribers with high open and click through rates.
- Responsible for exercise animations, advertisements, applications and interface design.
- Designed and implemented web pages and custom web based business tools for various regional and international corporate clients.
- Composed advertisements for placement on New Home Source, 9News and The Denver Post websites.
- Created a web version of the “Richmond Express” for Richmond American Homes using Quark documents and avenue.quark to extract data through XML and transform using XSLT.
Education
Bachelor of Science
Certificates and Courses
Interests
Cycling, science fiction, classic video games, reading and dark roast coffee.