Skills / Proficiencies
- JavaScript ES5/ES6
- jQuery
- HTML5
- CSS3/SASS/SCSS
- VueJS
- Linux Administration
- Bash Scripting
- PHP
- WordPress Development
- WCAG
- NodeJS and Express
- Razor
- Git/Github
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Agile
- JIRA
- MySQL
Sample Portfolio
- Sites Implemented
- Sites Assisted
- Products Assisted
Professional Experience
Front-end Developer / Department Liaison
Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance – Lexington, KY (remote)
2021 – Present
As a smaller insurance agency, we only have a handful of websites we maintain. Most of my work involves enhancing older UI's and creating an acceptable/efficient modern approach to how we work.
Responsibilities
- Ownership and accountability for all UX/UI implementations
- Maintain existing JavaScript applications
- Create documentation for accessibility guidelines
- Document guidelines for UI development (HTML/CSS/JS)
- Assist with creating strategy for UI implementation workflow
- Assist with creating strategy for site architecture
- Communicate product requirements between departments
- Perform any necessary UX/UI development training
- Assist with enhancing JIRA workflow and branching strategy
- Assist with enhancing local development for WordPress
UI Developer
TMP Worldwide (Radancy) – New Albany, IN
2017 – 2021
A large company in which I served in many capacities. We specialized in building user interfaces of career sites for our clients.
Responsibilities
- Create responsive cross-browser W3C valid sematic HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery
- Ensure ADA compliance by striving to meet highest WCAG standards
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
- Implement and maintain enterprise-level projects
- Take lead in development and deployment of higher priority enterprise-level projects.
- Implement and deploy new products for sales and marketing teams.
- Take lead in discussions for standardizing best web practices in our company.
- Provie insight for requests from project managers about new or existing functionalities we support.
- Utilize CSS preprocessors such as SCSS/SASS.
- Test and deploy Google Analytics, Adobe, or other client provided tracking services.
- Serve as backup tech lead on the maintenance team when our current lead developer is out of office.
- Serve as a tech lead for difficult JavaScript and Razor templating issues.
- Optimize sites for performance - including minifiying JavaScript, images, etc.
Data Systems Student
Parkland College – Champaign, IL
2016 – 2017
Responsibilities
- Worked on portfolio of programs in Java as well as HTML and CSS projects
- Designed databases using MySQL
Education and Specialized Training
- Parkland College – Champaign, IL
- Data Systems – 1 year college credit
- Teamtreehouse.com – Front End Web Development Track
- Udemy – Front End Web Development Track