Front-End Developer creating awesome experiences for ecommerce, marketing, and SaaS companies

Experience

I'm a Front-End Designer/Developer hybrid who is passionate about crafting beautiful web experiences. I am well versed in SaaS, ecommerce, and marketing spaces where I focus on responsive design, user experience, and accessibility. I take great pride in fleshing out complex designs thoroughly and with attention to detail.


Software Engineer, Visual Experience

BounceX // New York

Nov 2019 - April 2020

  • Developed interactive promotional campaigns using jQuery for DOM manipulation and event handling

  • Collaborated with Software Engineers, Product Integrity Analysts, and Designers to deliver compelling visual experiences compatible across browsers and devices for 25+ ecommerce clients

  • Responsible for troubleshooting client-specific visual and functional issues using Dev tools, internal tools and debug logs

 

Front-End Developer, Freelance

FRANK COLLECTIVE // New York

June 2019 - Nov 2019

  • Developed a mobile-first, responsive single page website using Gatsby with React

  • Created a custom Shopify theme for an ecommerce store

  • Implemented design improvements to websites with custom WordPress themes

  • Translated designs into HTML/CSS/JS code with ADA compliant and semantic markup

  • Responsible for QA, troubleshooting, and fixing client-specific issues across browsers and devices

 

UI Developer, Engineering

Extole // New York

2017 - 2019

  • Built responsive creative theme templates using Mustache with semantic and ADA compliant markup

  • Overhauled CSS (Sass) codebase using a modern BEM naming convention and flexbox layout

  • Refactored 10+ legacy pages to match updated conventions

  • Managed creative customizations to meet client requirements and deadlines

  • Initiated, maintained and owned a living style guide to ensure consistency across Extole's user interface

  • Collaborated with product, design, and engineering team members to implement new feature developments

  • Led a weekly support team workshop and training session

  • Worked in 2 week sprint cycles in an Agile development environment

  • Daily use of Git/Github version control

  • Conducted and received peer code reviews

 

Interactive Designer, Tech Services

Extole // SAN FRANCISCO

2016 - 2017

  • Managed 70+ client migrations from a legacy platform to Extole's latest software

  • Wrote project and client-specific documentation using Confluence

  • Implemented 25+ product features across 4 creative themes using Extole's SaaS platform

  • Became an Extole CMS subject matter expert and led workshops to train employees how to use the platform

  • Responsible for debugging and optimizing front-end code to ensure an excellent consumer experience

  • Identified and fixed bugs in creative theme templates

 

Interactive Designer, Creative Services

Extole // San francisco

2012 - 2016

  • Translated visual designs into "Refer a Friend" promotional landing pages, forms, emails and onsite placements for 200+ clients using Extole's SaaS platform

  • Collaborated with Client Service Managers to launch and update hundreds of campaigns

  • Designed high fidelity mockups for client approvals during launch

  • Responsible for troubleshooting front-end code for templates and consumer facing web experiences

  • Implemented a Squarespace website used for demos in sales cycles

  • Developed and shipped the HTML/CSS for an entire creative theme used for Extole's client facing marketing tool

  • Designed, developed, and tested responsive hand-coded email templates

 

Front-End Designer & Developer

FREELANCE // SF, NYC

2012 - present

  • Translated designs into a responsive single page website for an agency using Elementor for WordPress

  • Styled all content for a social travel app using CSS modules in React

  • Developed responsive websites and landing pages for emerging businesses using WordPress and Squarespace CMS

  • Designed and produced visual assets for projects, in collaboration with photographers and graphic designers

 

Ecommerce Administrator

BULO // SAN FRANCISCO

2011 - 2012

  • Maintained an omnichannel retailer's website using the Magento CMS platform

  • Managed all content and setup for 5,000 SKUs

  • Produced and retouched 1200+ images in a studio environment

  • Successfully launched and oversaw the company's WordPress blog

 

Skills

Front-End

  • HTML5, CSS3, vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, React, JSX

  • Sass, Less, Flexbox, BEM

  • Liquid, Mustache, Underscore templates

  • NPM, Grunt, Yarn, Babel, Webpack

  • Accessibility, ADA compliance

  • Squarespace, WordPress, Shopify

  • Email development

Design

  • Sketch, Adobe CC - Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, InVision

  • Mobile-first and responsive design

  • UI/UX prototyping

  • Email design

Tools

  • Git/Github

  • Jira, Asana, Trello, Wrike

  • Confluence

  • Sublime Text

  • Litmus, Email on Acid

  • Chrome Dev Tools, iOS Simulator, BrowserStack

 

CERTIFICATIONS

Intro to Programming in JavaScript

CODECADEMY // ONLINE // VIEW Credential

April 2019

 

Certificate of JavaScript Development

general assembly // San Francisco

January 2018

 

Education

MFA in Web Design + New Media, Technology

Academy of Art university // San Francisco

December 2012

 

BFA in Studio Art, Sculpture

University of florida // Gainesville

May 2004