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Helping students learn UX Design and Web Development: HTML, CSS, Javascript, React

Design and development for marketing websites with Javascript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, React, NextJS, WordPress, and various headless CMS.

San Mateo, California, Us

Building Skydio.com with 11ty and Sanity CMS.

San Francisco, California, Us

Enabling the Marketing team to work faster and make technology get out of the way!- Rebuilt blog in NextJS resulting in a 20% increase lighthouse performance score (77% => 97%)- Simplified CMS fields resulting in faster content entry for Marketing content managers (25% reduction in content entry field options)- Simplified the number of content types in CMS resulting in simpler user experience for Marketing Team (56% reduction in number of content type options)- Optimized Marketo form implementation to utilize fewer forms vs one off forms- Facilitated periodic CMS trainings to ensure Marketing owned content publishing

San Francisco, California, Us

- Built microsites for DroneDeploy Conference- Researched and Implemented A/B testing on key pages (Optimizely)- Facilitated CMS training to allow marketing to be self-sufficient with content creation- Implemented and maintained a component-based design system- Content migration to Prismic (headless CMS)- Promoted to Senior Frontend Engineer

New York, Ny, Us

Working remotely on the growth team utilizing Vue.js to build high conversion, performant, and component-based marketing site pages. • Worked collaboratively with team to build out a global redesign on a tight timeline (before acquisition by Chegg in 2019)• Work closely with the design team to QA & ship early and often• Maintained and ensured adherence to internal design systems• Implemented Contentful CMS to help engineers focus on building and marketing to focus on content creation• Implemented a/b testing using optimizely allowing for marketing to rapidly iterate copy on key pages

New York, Ny, Us

Managed and quickly scaled a large remote team of educators focused on grading student assignments.• Established hiring criteria & interview process for potential hires• Created on-boarding and training processes for new team members• Fostered efficient team communication & morale via async communication and meetings• Developed internal tooling (chrome extensions) to help increase grading consistency and efficiency

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Teaching students in the design track program. Topics included user experience design, user interface design, front-end development, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.• Mentored a roster of 10+ students at a time• Created tools & processes for grading student assignments at scale• Contributed to the frontend portion of the curriculum• Promoted to grading team managerBloc was acquired by Thinkful in 2018

San Francisco, California, Us

Frontend & WordPress developer working on high-traffic consumer-facing marketing pages. Focus on building a performant and accessible marketing site that converts visitors to customers.

Des Moines, Ia, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Contract Front-End Developer for several large scale responsive websites.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Instructor for several part-time and fulltime classes: Intro to HTML/CSS, Intro to WordPress Theming, Photoshop 1 & 2, Adobe Illustrator 1 & 2.

Boston, Ma, Us

Art directed, designed and developed WordPress powered websites.

Boston, Ma, Us

Designed and developed a variety of CMS powered websites for various clients.

West Des Moines, Iowa, Us

Re-design of website using HTML/CSS/Flash. Developed virtual tours. Assisted with information architecture and search engine optimization. Illustration for promotional materials. Implementation of a secure online payment system.