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St. Louis, Mo, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

As a Design Technologist on the Kite Design Systems team, my key contributions included:Contributing to maintenance and improvements of the design tokens library: • Refactored web component tokens for improved scalability. • Created design tokens documentation for use on consumer-facing documentation sites.Contributing to maintenance and improvements of the vanilla component library: • Aligned the vanilla component styles with updated design tokens. • Introduced new component variants and documentation. • Replaced outdated styles with modern CSS using design tokens.Maintenance and release of the Kite Design System documentation site: • Monthly releases of the design systems specification. • Managed bug fixes and supported contributing designers.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

• Developed design system architecture for 13 unique brands sharing the same codebase with ability to scale as needed, continuing to maintain;• Led the development of a design tokens extractor tool from Figma (design tool) using Node.js and Style Dictionary;• Established weekly team-driven working sessions to improve DX and led weekly design systems meetup with designers and developers;• Groomed, estimated, and wrote user stories for new feature work;• Interviewed candidates and mentored junior developers.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

In addition to previous responsibilities, my role expanded to take on additional leadership opportunities on the front end web development team. • Front end project lead for two year project to migrate 13 eCommerce sites to Sitecore eCommerce platform. Contributed key development features, including: site theming, BOPIS (buy online, pickup in store) cart options, e-gift card, ApplePay third party payment, critical bug fixes and site performance improvements.• Front end project lead for integration of a private label credit card signup into site platform and checkout experience;• Front end project lead for rewards customer account experience refresh.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Developed and maintained websites, web apps and emails for 10+ eCommerce web properties using front end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). Notable contributions:• Adding and enhancing features to eCommerce web sites that align with business value;diagnosing and fixing critical bugs;• Estimating and grooming feature requests;• Contributing to the development of the front end team through mentoring, leading documentation efforts, and interviewing and onboarding new team members.• Planned and executed web development community meetups hosted at Caleres.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

In addition to previous responsibilities, I provided technical strategy for new projects and facilitated communication between client IT teams and non-technical project stakeholders.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Developed and maintained websites, mobile web apps, and emails for agency clients, including many high profile Fortune 500 and Fortune 10 companies often under tight deadlines. Responsibilities included: • developing front end of responsive websites across wide range of platforms: WordPress, Sharepoint, Adobe CQ5, Sitefinity;• partnering closely with back end developers, designers, project managers and account executives throughout project lifecycle;• QA testing and bug fixing to ensure backwards compatibility with all browsers supported by client;• ensuring web projects were developed and shipped on time to meet client deadlines and budgets.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Developed websites and emails for departments across the university, including main university website serving as introduction for prospective students, parents, faculty and staff. Responsibilities included: • sole developer for main university website, responsible for daily maintenance and multiple site redesigns;• partnering closely with designers, content authors and project managers to create a unified brand standard for web properties for first time in university's history;• developing front end of websites for departments across the university on multiple platforms, including Sharepoint, WordPress, and static sites;• developing HTML emails compatible with a wide range of email clients, including Lotus Notes.

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Created interactive content to supplement news stories online for daily newspaper. Responsibilities included:• producing a daily webcast from start to finish: story selection, script-writing, anchoring webcast, video editing and posting to website by 3pm each day;• designing and developing Flash experiences to host videos and interactive story-telling content to enhance news features on web; • designing and maintaining 37 community micro-websites aimed at delivering "hyper-local" news for the newspaper’s readership communities within McHenry County;• moderating news article comments.

Columbia, Missouri, Us

Created visual graphics to supplement news stories for daily newspaper. Responsibilities included:• identifying stories where graphics were appropriate to help explain key information or complex data subjects;• creating maps, photo illustrations, and information graphics for print and online;• developing interactive Flash experiences for online.

Produced biographical profiles of researchers at the University of Missouri - Columbia for an online publication. Responsibilities included:• conducting interviews with researchers about their work;• writing and editing profiles highlighting individuals’ research;• shooting and editing video of interviews to accompany articles on the web.