Front-End Developer

Highly passionate designer / developer with an extensive background in creating interactive experiences for online audiences. Vast UI / UX experience in front-end development with a focus on semantic HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Demonstrated history of project management. Dedicated to successful implementations of engaging and usable connected experiences. Lover of all things technical.

• JavaScript / jQuery
• Node.js / npm
• Mongo / Mongoose
• React / Bootstrap
• HTML / HTML5
• CSS / Sass / Scss
• Git / GitHub / Heroku / mLab
• User Interaction Design / UI
• User Experience Design / UX

Professional Experience

• Freelance Developer, Foxhound Digital, Remote July 2018 to Current

  • Developed and integrated a mobile-first service booking widget using JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, and PHP resulting in an over 500% increase in leads, 200% growth in bookings, and a 7-fold boost to recurring revenue.
  • Multiple WordPress sites with advanced CSS animations, mobile-friendly layouts, and MailChimp integration.

• Design Lead, FRONTSTEPS, Denver, Colorado February 2007 to July 2017

  Turn-key CMS websites provided as SaaS for HOAs and their management companies.

  • Wrote over 100 custom JavaScript / jQuery scripts to add customizations to websites for turn-key custom CMS.
  • Worked with both internal and external stakeholders, championing usability, prototyping, and coding pixel-perfect layouts using clean HTML, CSS, and graphic assets for over 50 client-facing interfaces and features.
  • Designed, prototyped and coded over 15 interfaces for an innovative mobile app that made it possible for thousands of Property Managers to easily and efficiently capture HOA violations.
  • Managed an average of 30 simultaneous projects designing and coding the front-end for more than 60 custom websites designs per year ranging from small HOA boards to million-dollar management companies.

Training

• Full Stack Immersive, General Assembly, Denver, Colorado March 2018 to June 2018

  480 hours in-class with 250 hours of outside individual and team projects

  • Find Your Toys – Full stack application that allows a user to search only the best toy stores. Users can sign up and manage their searches. Express, Mongo, Mongoose, Sass, Node, EJS, Bootstrap, JS, Google Search API
  • Movie Beatdown – Mobile game that allows you to sort the American Film Institute’s Top 100 movies using one-on-one battles. OAuth, Mongo, Mongoose, Sass, Node, EJS, Bootstrap, JS, Open Movie Database API
  • Sell Your Toys – Completely decoupled full stack classifieds application with free text search and filterable results. React, Bootstrap, Sass, jQuery, Express, Mongo, Mongoose, SendGrid Email API

Education

• B.S. in Web Application Development from Metropolitan State College of Denver - 4.0 GPA
• B.F.A. in Visual Communication Design with an emphasis in Interactive Studies from New Mexico Highlands University - 3.83 GPA

Extra Curriculars

• Volunteered for Develop Denver, Angular Denver, WordCamp Denver, and attended 50+ meetups in 2018.

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