Cara Jo Knapp Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO

• Luxury wedding invitation design and production
• Specializing in designing for letterpress printing
• In-house letterpress printing
• Custom fabrication for large scale seating charts and escort displays
• On-site set up and tear down for day of items
• Designed experiences for wedding guests

Englewood, Colorado

Design custom e-commerce solutions.

Greater Denver Area

• Managed the design and development of the sole e-commerce site utilizing the Shopify platform.
• Lead strategy for the web presence of Rachio’s smart sprinkler controller line.
• Lead strategy on how to grow from a single product to a multi-product offering with relevant product upgrades and add-ons.
• Lead design strategy, and development process for a new site that accounted for 5x growth in revenue year over year.
• Iterated and improved checkout experience to reduce support… Show more
• Iterated and improved checkout experience to reduce support calls and increased conversion rates.

Boulder, Colorado

• Girl Develop It is an international organization, certified by the Board of Education, that exists to provide affordable and accessible programs to women who want to learn software development through mentorship and.
• Organized over 200 classes and workshops in Boulder and Denver.
• Organized several events with attendance over 150.
• Maintained excellent sponsor relationships for 5+ years.
• Collaborated with local organizations to provide the best… Show more Girl Develop It is an international organization, certified by the Board of Education, that exists to provide affordable and accessible programs to.
• Collaborated with local organizations to provide the best programming for the community.

Boulder, CO

• Ensured that all Girl Develop Chapters and their needs are expressed to the Board.
• Oversaw new chapter on-boarding.
• Mentor for new chapter leaders in western states.

• Senior Designer
• Designed and built from the ground up DataStax Academy, an online educational platform for Apache Cassandra.
• Developed a browser-based curriculum slide application using Gradle and deck.js
• Created a template-based system for curriculum slides so instructors could quickly and easily write slides for conferences and webinars.
• Maintained corporate brand across multiple platforms.
• Designed marketing collateral for conferences with a large attendance… Show more Senior Designer

Boulder, CO

• Managed all design and development for the marketing sites as well as the user facing web apps.
• Customized web apps on a utility-by-utility basis.
• Worked closely with utilities to ensure their brand was represented in web apps built for them.
• Managed design and development for the Marketplace platform that managed instant rebates and purchase of energy saving devices.
• Assisted in photographing users in their homes.
• Conducted user interviews to learn about their… Show more

Detroit

• Organized classes for Girl Develop It Detroit
• Taught introduction up to advanced HTML / CSS courses to women in the metro Detroit area.
• Assisted with coffee & code nights and workshops.
• Tutored members in HTML/CSS

Detroit

• Designed and maintained marketing website, user portal, and e-mail newsletter campaigns.
• Managed the design of game creation and assist in marketing campaigns.
• Designed swag and customer gift boxes.

Managed design and development of partnership owned websites and marketing campaigns.