Will Skora Email & Phone Number

Will is the website administrator at the Cleveland Public Library and is responsible Cleveland Public Library website is meeting the needs of its users. He's also interested in using open data and civic technology as a means to improve local governments' services with its residents. He's the co-founder and captain of Open Cleveland, a volunteer group working with our community to improve local government and through relationships and civic technology projects.

Listed skills include Nonprofits, Public Policy, Blogging, Web Mapping, and 15 others.

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  Web Administrator

  Cleveland Public Library

  Dec 2016 - Present - Cleveland, Ohio, United States

  lead developer of the Cleveland Public Library's website - https://cpl.org Developed web standards, components, and policies to ensure consistency and accessibility in design, quality, and structure of our website's code, markup, and content. (https://cpl.org/web-standards) Created, oversee, and implement web accessibility remediation plan; Created, implemented, and maintain backup procedures for website and its digital assetsDirectly responsible for a server migration that resulted in decreasing our site's TTFB by an entire second; Maintained VPS (apache + cpanel) (Dec. 2016-Oct. 2020)Creating digital exhibits (e.g. https://cpl.org/homes-of-cle ; https://cpl.org/local-african-american-history-directory ) Advise the library on procurement of technical products;Manage technical aspects of space reservation and public event calendar with 2,000+ events across 30 locations annually. Member of the WordPress Gutenberg team on Github (primarily triaging issues, testing pull requests) Using:HTML - proper, semantic HTML should not be underestimated and is the foundation of every website. CSS (BEM)Javascript (Mostly Vanilla, some React)PHPWP-CLI