I am an experienced Front-End Developer based in Washington, D.C. I work with companies and agencies around the world, building user experiences, and digital products with focus on responsive design, accessibility and performance.
I enjoy building resilient solutions for online experiences. But great experiences don't build themselves - they start with a strong collaboration between research, engineering and product owners to define customer issues.
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Built and deployed a complete relaunch of the multinational television networks fleet of web sites (CMS and cutomer facing). Focusing on internationalization.
Participated in the migration of all network sites to an Open-Source CMS with a PHP based front-end, utilizing using JavaScript MVC framework (Backbone.JS) to maximize responsiveness, adaptability and load times
Practiced in iterative and incremental development under Agile workflows
Participated in the migration of all sites to a Python/Django Front-End layer over a PHP generated API, utilizing HTML5 and CSS3
Migrated network sites from Pearl based static sites to fully dynamic Java templates
Developed a standards document for coding templates, CSS, and Javascript
Developed a user profile system that included integrated sign-on, identity storage and gamification tools for a top five health and care focused multi-site network
Worked in a Ruby-On-Rails environment in an Agile/Scrum release cycle
Began a project of page optimization and restructuring storage of assets that lead to measure improvements in page load times
Developed award-winning digital products for a wide variety of clients includes nonprofits (Ms. Foundation for Women), the federal government (FBI Crime Statistics) and Fortune 500 companies (GEICO)
Worked with a proprietary Content Management System to program sites in ColdFusion to interact with SQL databases using XHTML, XML, CSS, Javascript and jQuery
Provided coaching and guidance to a small team of Front-End Developers, conducted code reviews, and oversaw the implementation of standards and testing practices
Defined levels of effort for new projects and features, communicate the same to management
Developed solutions for consumer-facing web sites, internal applications, mass email systems, and newsletters
Created style-guides for internal and external clients
Senior Multimedia Author · Plateau Systems, Ltd
Technologies/Skills Utilized: Photoshop, Illustrator, Proprietary Authoring System, UX, IxD, IA
Developed Learning Management courseware to meet Federal regulatory guidelines for employees in nuclear facilities nationwide
Worked with a proprietary Multimedia development system to program courseware delivered via CD-ROM
Managed a team of six other developers, training the same on proprietary tools
Responsible for leading development assignments for team members
Managing project timelines and deliverables
Software Support Representative · Optical Technologies Group
Responsible for the support of software distributed by an international mass storage device maker.
Software Quality Assurance Tester · Legend Entertainment
Provided quality assurance testing and customer phone support for award winning adventure game company (Star Control 3, Mission Critical, Shannara)
Education
I am a completely self-taught web developer. I always push myself to develop my skill set whatever my surroundings. It helps that I have had many talented team-mates to help me become more skilled along the way.
George Mason University
President and Founder of Audiophile Club/Phi Beta TeenBeat
DJ at WGMU a student run radio station
Chowan University
Residence Assistant Program
Dean’s Scholarship Awardee
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