Richard Lock Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Oversee and inspire the development team to be at their best while driving 9thCO to be a staying technology leader in the agency space that provides substantial tangible value to client businesses.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Architect, build, and theme an intensive consumer-facing React and Typescript Web Application with unit tests that consumes multiple data sources and APIs to showcase interactive and customizable 3D renderings of thousands of products for a large-scale Canadian and American furniture manufacturer• Develop new and maintain existing client websites of various scales and features (front and back-end) using static and CMSs ranging from Drupal, WordPress, PHP frameworks, Static Site Generators, and various build tools including Docker, Webpack, etc.• Audit client websites for performance and web accessibility issues and implement optimization improvements and fixes• Implement A/B testing through Google Optimize and investigate Tag Manager implementation issues• Work in a fast-paced development team and oversee team resourcing• Architect project development strategies and processes for the team• Determine project requirements, scoping, and estimates

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Lincoln, Ne, Us

• Face-to-face consultation with clients to gather user and project requirements• Maintained 32 small to large scale Drupal websites including redesign and develop them from mock to completion using industry best practices and web accessibility principles• Utilized UX design principles in UI and website development leading to decrease in bounce rate and even dropped support calls by 60% after theming two vendor products • Provided in-person training to content managers• Assisted in the development of the University framework’s next major release including code contributions to the theme and writing new functionalities and plugins in JavaScript• Led effort to evaluate build tools for a brand-agnostic web framework and subsequently develop the build process for it and writing JS plugins for the framework• Advocated use of latest CSS and JS standards and proper coding patterns which led to adoption of ES6, SASS, CSS Grids, etc.

Lincoln, Ne, Us

Drupal CMS & CSM Administrator:• Maintained and developed new content for department's website in Drupal• Redesigned and developed Career Services website in the university’s new web framework and was nationally recognized as one of the Interesting Career Center Websites in 2014 by the National Association of Colleges and Employers• Managed user and system administration in Drupal CMS • Provided user and system administration for Symplicity's web-based Career Services Manager (CSM) product• Themed and implement new feature updates in CSM using HTML and CSS •Presented at NACElink Symposium 2013 on CSM Annual System CheckupIT Administrator:• Maintained and enhanced department's Access student database and assist with report creation and data manipulation using VBA and SQL• Developed an event check-in Access application that led to university-wide adoption• Provided hardware purchase recommendations and maintenance• Administered users and computers rights and privileges through Active Directory within the university network • Provide desktop support; troubleshoot and debugging

M.A. In Business, Specializing In Management Information Systems

Bsc, Actuarial Science