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Redmond, Washington, Us

Identifying & investing in technological advancements to improve access for everyone as the lead for Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility grant program.

Redmond, Washington, Us

* Developed Ally Skills Workshop Curriculum, trained facilitators, and facilitated workshops across the organization.* Aligned allyship programs across all product teams in the organization* Developed programs to activate Microsoft's D&I Core Priority among WebXT leadership and staff.

Redmond, Washington, Us

* Establishing & evolving Microsoft’s vision for Progressive Web Apps in terms of capabilities, accessibility, privacy, and operating systems integrations through strategy documents, standards contributions, and mentorship of colleagues just starting to work in the space.* Leading the push—internally and externally—for increased diversity and inclusion in tech to help further improve the culture of Microsoft through allyship efforts within Experiences & Devices (including developing and running the employee-driven Ally Skills Workshop).* Increasing engagement with the developer community to help improve the web platform through founding The Web We Want and running research studies to identify ways to improve developer UX in browsers.* Developing AI/ML technologies to be used to both increase the accessibility of the web for users with disabilities and reduce the number of accessibility problems created by developers who are not aware of how their choices can erect barriers to access.* Advocating for the design and development of broadly inclusive software through internal and external speaking, consulting, and writing.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I help make the Web better for everyone by advocating for Web standards, accessibility, and interoperability.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I help make the Web better for everyone by advocating for Web standards, accessibility, and interoperability.

Helping to organize the PWA Summit with colleagues from Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Samsung.

I started the Web We Want as an effort to open up the lines of communication between designers and developers building things on the web and browser makers. Community members can submit problems that need solving in areas including accessibility, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DevTools, etc. and they can also vote on previous submissions. Microsoft, my employer, was the first to jump onboard with this project, but Google and Mozilla have also signed on to the project. As the submitted "wants" gain traction (and validation from the community), we will begin working on cross-platform, standardized solutions to those problems.

New York City, Ny, Us

I’m honored to be steering the ship at our industry’s most long-lived and prestigious magazine.

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

Currently:Talks, workshops, consulting, and training on web design best practices including Progressive Web Apps and accessibility. Clients have included Box, Fidelity, Gartner, Marriott, Microsoft, New York Times, SAP, StubHub, Time, the US EPA, Vanguard, and Walgreens.Over 140 talks, keynotes, and workshops delivered globally.Previously:Helped build web projects for Aetna, American Idol, Delta Airlines, Gartner, Guinness, IBM, Intuit, Major League Baseball, Participant Media, Scholastic, Spalding, WikiHow, and many more.

New York, New York, Us

One of a select group of experts that work through Rosenfeld Media to offer industry-leading training and consulting for user experience disciplines.

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I was a technical editor on staff with A List Apart for six years. I have also tech edited the following books:• Learning Web Design, 4th Edition (O’Reilly)• Practical Prototype & script.aculo.us (Apress)• Designing Web Navigation (New Riders)• Learning Web Design, 3rd Edition (O’Reilly)• Bulletproof Ajax (New Riders)• Transcending CSS (New Riders)• Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition (O’Reilly)

Helping this group streamline their process of gathering and organizing volunteers by building them a proper website, overhauling their intake forms, and piping data through to the right places.Tech used:* Eleventy - static site generator* Hylia - Eleventy starter kit* Netlify - hosting* Netlify CMS - content management* Zapier - data processing, automated emails, etc.* Google Sheets - data storage

Got the COAs finances in order by getting a better handle on expenditures and individual owners' responsibilities; investigated and addressed for causes of excessive utility use; planned, financed, and completed an exterior renovation project for two buildings.

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

* JavaScript Task Force* Small Business Task Force

Lead web development on boltpeters.com and ethnio.comDesigned, architected and developed JavaScript-based controllers for the Ethnio product (JavaScript provides hooks for the C++ application to populate and manipulate static HTML files compiled into it)Provided a pro-con comparison of PHP vs. Ruby on Rails for re-architecting and building the web component of EthnioEvaluated existing software base for security, scalability, and server load and made recommendations on how to remedy the existing coding problems

Glastonbury, Ct, Us

Lead web designer/developer on all accounts including: Baronet Coffee, Bertucci’s, Caremark, Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles, Connecticut Department of Transportation, Connecticut Energy Conservation Management Board, Connecticut Lottery, Digital Federal Credit Union, Garelick Farms, Konica Minolta, Keurig, Liberty Bank, MDF Systems, Middlesex Hospital, Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration, NAPA, Northeast Utilities, Pfizer, TriZetto, and Vytra Healthcare. Participated in new business pitches to Connecticut Department of Transportation, Garelick Farms, Sirius Satellite Radio and Victorinox/Swiss Army Brands in both a strategic and presenter capacity; in all instances Cronin either won the business or made it to the final round of competition.Developed XHTML and CSS-based websites for Bertucci’s, the CT DOT, CT ECMB, Garelick Farms, Konica Minolta, Liberty Bank, Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration, NAPA, and Northeast Utilities.

Provided web-based work for the following companies for varying durations (if through an interactive/advertising agency, it is marked in parentheses):• Aetna• American Skandia• Deloitte & Touche• Delta Airlines (via Modem Media)• Dime Bank (Online Design)• Gartner• General CologneRe• Guinness (via Colangelo Synergy Marketing)• IBM (via Modem Media)• Kemper Financial (via Colangelo Synergy Marketing)• Moore Medical• Spalding (via Colangelo Synergy Marketing)• Scholastic PublishingRoles included Web Designer, Sr. Web Designer, Sr. UI Developer, Web Developer, Flash Developer, and Team Lead.

Bradenton, Florida, Us

I produced the online version of the newspaper by pulling stories from Quark and dropping them into Dreamweaver templates. Oh, and I pushed them to the server using Fetch. Ah, the good old days.

Ba, Media Studies / Contemporary Popular Culture

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