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Asheville, Nc, Us

Fort Mill, Sc, Us

-- Key Responsibilities• Ensure that Red Ventures’ web and mobile assets are accessible to people with disabilities and meet international/industry standards.• Act as a subject matter expert and champion of web accessibility across the organization.• Lead strategic planning for web accessibility across the organization, including the development and management of an internal standard, program, and policy.• Evangelize and educate teams on accessibility standards and form best practices.• Create and deliver educational materials and resources in partnership with internal L&D team.• Partner with Red Ventures’ legal team to assess current legal posture and advise on best practices in the event of any legal complaints.• Leverage data analytics to describe the current state of web accessibility compliance across the enterprise.• Operate and support 3rd party solutions for scanning and identifying accessibility issues.• Advise businesses/teams on prioritization strategy.• Drive remediation progress on each team/business, providing SME support and thought leadership in accessibility best practices.• Improve automated testing frameworks and seek automation opportunities to detect and correct accessibility issues before they reach production (i.e help implement a “Shift Left” strategy).-- Accomplishments• Successfully authored and published an org-wide internal technology standard for web accessibility.• Created and discussed a Web Accessibility Maturity Model with Red Ventures’ Senior Leadership Team, and spoke to the group on the importance of web accessibility in an increasingly digital environment.• Presented to the entire company at an All Employee Meeting, as well as in multiple Tech Summits and smaller groups.• Worked with tech leadership across business units to identify and onboard volunteer Lead Accessibility Champion(s) in each internal department/vertical, and worked with this cohort to drive progress across the organization.

Fort Mill, Sc, Us

-- Key Responsibilities• Drove delivery and daily execution across a functional unit.• Delegated and influenced the prioritization of work across my larger team.• Effectively escalated challenges and recommended solutions to senior leadership and business stakeholders.• Persisted the development of immediate team's Peer Review process; conducted Code Reviews for direct reports and peers alike.• Solicited feedback for direct reports and deliver Mid-Year and Annual Reviews.• Presented and communicated across multiple groups to influence decisions, share knowledge, and solve organizational problems.-- Accomplishments• Helped pilot the adoption of WCAG 2.1 AA compliance standards across the entire Red Ventures organization.• Led process of researching, identifying, and procuring a tool/service for Web Accessibility scanning and dashboard reports.• Led effort to address and remediate issues on public facing applications where Web Accessibility violations were identified.• Became a member of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP), and currently studying for the Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) certification.

Fort Mill, Sc, Us

-- Key Responsibilities• Demonstrated proven proficiency in Front End technologies, and consistent performance when working across an entire system, product, or technology solution.• Co-lead the migration of multiple large, full-scale web application infrastructures.• Contributed to organizational Front End Standards.• Consistently scoped, estimated, designed, and implemented mid-to-large scale projects.• Served as a business/team lead, while additional direct reports began to report to me.• Solicited feedback for direct reports and delivered Mid-Year and Annual Reviews.• Assisted in the continuing development/improvement of team's Peer Review process; conducted Code Reviews for direct reports and peers alike.• Acted as a primary technical liaison to our functional unit's business team, translated business needs to workstreams and technical specifications, and led the efforts to implement solutions. • Contributed to strategic discussions and planning.-- Accomplishments• Became a member of Red Ventures' "Tech Cab" (technical cabinet), functioning as the lead for Web Accessibility.• Evangelized Web Accessibility across the organization, putting on numerous talks/workshops in an attempt to create awareness and promote cultural adoption.

Fort Mill, Sc, Us

-- Key Responsibilities• Delivered fully scoped, moderate projects with limited supervision on-time.• Owned numerous, large feature implementations from conception to completion - including many highly complex, interactive experiences.• Collaborated across business team and functional unit, as well as across organization.• Functioned as a business/team lead and had 2 direct reports begin reporting in to me before becoming a Senior Front End Developer.-- Accomplishments• Became an expert with Web Accessibility guidelines (WCAG), WAI-ARIA, building accessible experiences, testing for Accessibility compliance, and remediation of Accessibility issues at the source.• Led the effort to achieve AA-compliance on an in-house web application (this was the first time a Red Ventures application required AA-compliance).• Participated in Red Ventures’ interview circuit, conducting over 100+ interviews; contributed heavily to the development of our interview process, especially in the addition/testing of new whiteboard sessions.• Contributed to the development of Front End standards used across the organization.• Refactored an existing analytics library used across one of Red Ventures’ ad services.• Served as a mentor in Red Ventures’ Road2Hire mentorship program for 2 years.

• Created graphic materials for digital and print marketing initiatives.• Designed & developed new company website using custom project workflow utilizing WordPress as backend structure, HTML5, SCSS/CSS, Node.js/npm, jQuery/JS, Git, Bower, Foundation, and Gulp.js.• Served as a team leader and manager for our annual, full-scale public event three years in a row; responsibilities included overseeing an average budget of over $5,000 and managing logistics and reservations necessary to host each event

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Challenged to maintain and elevate the quality of digital work at the agency; worked with different departments on the execution of a wide range of projects.• Built full-scale web applications for corporate clients with advanced project workflow utilizing Codeignitor as backend structure, addon JS libraries, HTML5, SCSS/CSS, Node.js/npm, JS/jQuery, Git, Bower, Foundation, and Gulp.js.• Developed bulletproof HTML emails from scratch for clients that displayed correctly in all email clients and devices.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Built and designed professional websites and ecommerce stores both in-house and for clients utilizing WordPress and creating custom HTML and CSS.• Troubleshot and debugged JavaScript and JQuery code; Made edits to theme PHP files.• Assisted with the creation of branding materials and digital strategy for clients; designed websites and ecommerce stores to accurately portray brands’ identities online and effectively communicate values to customers.• Served as Project Coordinator for web team; responsibilities included managing tasks and workflow using project management tools and communicating directly with clients regarding projects.• Repaired and enhanced original WordPress website that had not been updated since 2011.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Built and designed over 50 websites for a broad range of different SMB business types using a Wordpress-based platform, HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, and various SEO tools.• Functioned as the account manager for at-risk clients, overseeing each project and all related materials from conception to completion.• Responsibilities included improving customer satisfaction and increasing delivery efficiency.• Provided customer service and product support for clients via phone and/or screen sharing technology• Built Shopify eCommerce sites from scratch.

Burlington, Ma, Us

• Assisted in updating both the content and design of company’s website using HTML and CSS; contributed to design of marketing materials, and the composition of monthly newsletters and blog postings.• Created an interconnected Social Media Program utilizing Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn; increased unique visitors/month to website by 300% and moved website to top of first page on Google search.• Independently researched industries for client selection and acquisition.