Travis Forden Email & Phone Number

Greater Denver Area

• Manage build and release process for Drupal sites at Denver Public Library.• Support automated testing infrastructure.• Administer our Ansible automation platform.• Build web applications for library customers and staff, enhancing user experience.

Greater Denver Area

On the User Experience team, I built web applications for library customers and staff.

United States

Work with clients to create compelling online products with data visualizations, CMS integrations, and custom development, as well as provide training on web development, CSS, and accessibility. Clients include National Academy of Sciences, Kaiser Family Foundation, Dove Chocolate, and Ridge Road Films.

San Francisco Bay Area

Collaborated with designers and other developers to implement the first iteration of the new Rails-based Treats API, leading the frontend development and implementing several backend features of the customer account portal. Frontend built with Bootstrap, jQuery, and charting tools.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led the frontend portion of the small team doing a complete rebuild of the product site. This included building a mobile-first component pattern library that we used to create the site. Worked closely with product, design, and engineering to implement a fast site for users around the world. Learned Ruby on Rails as part of my work, building views and some controllers. The redesign was met with significant praise from the user community.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Built fast, scalable, and accessible interfaces for clients and internal projects. Codified frontend development standards and best practices, and worked with fellow developers to apply those standards. Led the transition to responsive web design, assisting other disciplines with this migration. Mentored junior developers. Organized weekly knowledge sharing program. Clients included Brookings Institution, Drug Policy Alliance, National Park Service, Planned Parenthood, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Mountain View, Ca

Built the frontend of the initial version of Company Profiles, as well as refinements to the DirectAds, Connections, and Network Updates products. Rewrote the frontend of Network Updates to increase code consistency, reusability, and speed for expansion of update types.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led company-wide transition from table-based to CSS-based layouts. Built fast, scalable, and accessible frontend systems. Led creation of frontend standards for projects. Managed a weekly knowledge sharing program. Clients included Brookings Institution, Civil War Trust, Peace Corps, Planned Parenthood, GAVI Alliance, XM Radio, and the US Senate.

Arlington, Va

Federal Transit Administration:Built a BRT information portal for transportation planning professionals. Researched best practices in the field of web design and transportation planning.FEMA:Created pages for the static site of FEMA's online floodplain mapping service. Provided extensive QA of the web application focusing on SEO and adherence to web-standards.

Baltimore, Md

Assisted in the planning efforts for major transit projects through ridership modeling, GIS analysis and map creation, and websites to provide project information to the public. Notable projects included WMATA's Dulles Corridor rail project; WMATA's Blue Line extension to Largo Town Center; and bus ridership studies for Maryland Transit Administration.

Ba, Sociology

Activities and Societies: BGLAD officer, Co-Chair of the Speakers and Issues Committee Focus on study of gender and sexuality in society.

Urban Transportation Planning

Activities and Societies: Synoptikos The Masters of Science in Planning degree program with a focus on transit planning.