Portfolio

Mobile & Responsive Sites

Half Pint Technologies homepage Roll With It Sushi - Austin

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Mountain Grand Lodge homepage Fast Cash Homes Dever homepage Bulldog Hot Shots homepage

Wordpress Installations

Prestige Economics homepage fitGather homepage Memory Tenders homepage

Full-Time Employer Sites (Contributor, not sole creator)

Easy Canvas Prints homepage Blue Moon homepage JSTOR homepage

Mobile Sites

BuildASign Mobile homepage

Accessibility Analyses

BAS logo JSTOR logo

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Resumé

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Professional Experience Toggle Heading

  • Lead Front-End Developer, BuildASign.com Austin, TexasSeptember 2011 to Present

    Leading front-end development team at a rapidly growing, boot-strapped custom printing start-up

  • Co-Founder, Austin Web Developer Lunch Meet-up Austin, TexasDecember 2011 to Present

    Hosting a monthly lunch meet-up for Austin-area web professionals

  • Software Developer, Blue Moon Software Austin, TexasMay 2010 to September 2011

    Website Development and Maintenance for Residential Leasing and Record Management Web Applications

  • Interface Developer, JSTOR Ann Arbor, MichiganSeptember 2008 to April 2010

    Responsibilities include maintaining the existing user interface, implementing the user interface for new products, selection and implementation of Content Management Systems,leading HTML email development, and deploying pages to the public site. I work primarily a with team of developers translating complex business requirements to implement enterprise-scale applications and sites.

  • Web Content & Maintenance Intern, JSTOR Ann Arbor, MichiganJune 2008 to September 2008

    Responsibilities included updating existing and creating new static pages for the JSTOR site, maintianing the JSTOR News project, and contributing the projects for the Interface Group. Duties included implementing transalated HTML files in 8 foreign languages, and conducting a site-wide Accessibility Analysis.

  • Freelance Web Developer January 2008 to Present

    Website Design, Development and Maintenance on a Contract Basis

Education Toggle Heading

  • Bachelor Of Science

    • Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan September 2004 to June 2006
    • Concentration: Political Science
    • Minor: Business

  • Continuing Education

    • Washtenaw Community College Ann Arbor, Michigan January 2008 to July 2008
    • Area of Study: Internet Professional
    • Austin Community College Austin, Texas January 2012 to Present
    • Area of Study: Project Management
    • In process of becoming a PMI Certificated Associate in Project Management

Skills Toggle Heading

Development

  • HTML5 and XHTML
  • CSS with enthusiasm for CSS3
  • JavaScript (W3Schools Certified)
  • Emphasis in jQuery library
  • .NET framework
  • PHP
  • XML and XSL
  • Java Server Pages
  • HTML E-mail Development
  • Front-End Development in Ruby on Rails framework

Design

  • Graphics and Logo Creation
  • Photo Editing and Retouching
  • Color Palette Creation
  • Mood Boards & Theming

Usability

  • Accessibility & Testing
  • Accessible Coding Practices
  • Assistive Device Testing
  • Color Contrast Analysis & Color-blindness Simulation
  • User Testing
  • Competitive Analyses

Content Management Systems and Version Control

  • Git
  • SVN
  • CVS
  • WordPress
  • Drupal
  • Serena® Collage
  • dotCMS
  • browserCMS
  • Movable Type

Software Suites

  • Adobe Creative Suite (3-5)
  • Eclipse
  • Microsoft Office
  • OpenOffice
  • Apple iWork

Operating Systems

  • Mac OS X
  • *nix distributions
  • Windows

Project Management

Conferences Attended Toggle Heading

2012

  • MongoDB Austin
  • South by Southwest Interactive

2011

  • HTML5 Texas

2010

  • South by Southwest Interactive