Christina Adams, Cpwa Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Leading a team of digital accessibility experts including consultants and analysts. Developing strategic professional services for our customers to shift accessibility left earlier into the product development lifecycle.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Technical accessibility subject matter expert and thought leader.Leads consultation services with customers and prospects to deliver accessible solutions. Guides teams in inclusive process enhancements to create high quality digital experiences for users of assistive technologies. Delivers heuristic evaluations of user experience, designs and prototypes for product enhancements and new digital assets throughout the product development lifecycle for customers and internal sales… Show more Technical accessibility subject matter expert and thought leader.Leads consultation services with customers and prospects to deliver accessible solutions. Guides teams in inclusive process enhancements to create high quality digital experiences for users of assistive technologies. Delivers heuristic evaluations of user experience, designs and prototypes for product enhancements and new digital assets throughout the product development lifecycle for customers and internal sales enablement tools.Conducts training for enterprise customers around technical implementation of accessibility processes, inclusive design, and development techniques to conform with WCAG 2.0, 2.1, WAI-ARIA, and other technical implementation standards.Develops digital products utilizing modern web technologies that increases sales prospecting conversion, improves sales cycle timelines, customer reporting, and streamlining internal business processes. Leads teams in a discovery processes to define the user experience strategy of new tools and products to enhance the current prospect and customer experience.Utilizes NodeJs, Mongodb, Express, Handlebars, SASS, Docker, Typescript, modern HTML and CSS techniques to deliver high quality, modern software products. Show less

• Developed CSS and front end markup for fully responsive, Web and WCAG 2.0 compliant dynamic web applications utilizing RESTful Web services.• Refactored multiple legacy code bases to eliminate inefficiencies and transitioned code bases into modern development technologies such as Git, Sass and Gulp.• Collaborated directly with Technical Architects and Back-End Developers to craft tools with dynamically generated, data driven content and UI.• Created high fidelity… Show more • Developed CSS and front end markup for fully responsive, Web and WCAG 2.0 compliant dynamic web applications utilizing RESTful Web services.• Refactored multiple legacy code bases to eliminate inefficiencies and transitioned code bases into modern development technologies such as Git, Sass and Gulp.• Collaborated directly with Technical Architects and Back-End Developers to craft tools with dynamically generated, data driven content and UI.• Created high fidelity prototype for major initiatives in the course room experience to increase stakeholder buy-in, expedited the development process, and used to demonstrate the user experience internal and external users throughout the development process.• Refactored standard templates of web assets to incorporate ADA WCAG 2.0 AA standards.• Designed and coded Front-End HTML, CSS and JavaScript custom tools for the Blackboard LMS environment.• Implemented Omniture tracking code into the Blackboard learning management system to gain insight into user activity and technology usage.• Developed custom Sass/CSS system for Peoplesoft Fluid Web applications to provide a reusable front end styling system for rapid development and consistent brand application.• Established code review processes and mentored other developers to ensure quality products and compliance with internal and external standards.• Leveraged existing brand assets across multiple web assets to create a UX pattern library and technical implementation guide.• A member of a cross-functional, company wide group to explore new brand guidelines and interaction patterns to maintain consistency while still creating unique and engaging experiences. Show less

• Developed functional prototypes of large scale web applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.• Assessed and implemented Accessibility WCAG 2.0 AA standards and practices. • Refactored web assets into responsive web applications utilizing Sass/SCSS preprocessors.• Implemented design and functionality patterns.• Contributed to company brand standards and guidelines.• Participated in Agile sprints for new product development.

• Design and develop micro-sites and other web standard compliant online tools, simulations, and resources that are cross browser and device ubiquitous.• Art Director and lead Front End Developer for a large scale project for external clients utilizing a cross functional team of experts. Incorporated responsive design techniques and a content first user experience approach to drive development and cross device compatibility. • Delivered UX concepts and map content hierarchy to… Show more • Design and develop micro-sites and other web standard compliant online tools, simulations, and resources that are cross browser and device ubiquitous.• Art Director and lead Front End Developer for a large scale project for external clients utilizing a cross functional team of experts. Incorporated responsive design techniques and a content first user experience approach to drive development and cross device compatibility. • Delivered UX concepts and map content hierarchy to convey complex and challenging material through user friendly interactive web products.• Create high fidelity prototypes for client approval and user, device, and browser testing utilizing rapid prototyping tools and/or hand-coded HTML, CSS, and jQuery.• Provided art direction and streamlined design criteria for offshore creative development. Drafted feedback and QA reports to offshore and executive partners. Mitigated design and development issues that appeared during development.• Designed and developed an interactive tool to increase efficiency of product revision submissions and streamlined the process significantly.• Collaborate with web developers to produce complex interactive online products utilizing back-end coding systems and database functionality.• Lead brainstorming sessions with clients to generate ideas for engaging, high impact interactive web products that meets and exceeds the needs of the client and external stakeholders.• Critique and provide feedback on the work of peers to ensure the work meets or exceeds the high standards of the department.• Mentor and train new team members on processes, tools, design standard, aesthetics and coding issues. Show less