Experience
- 2024 Promoted to Lead II
- 2022 Promoted to Team Lead
- Train and mentor peers in solving challenging front end issues.
- Work with the Director of Web Services to generate assessment of work for prospective clients with focus on providing accurate estimation of hours.
- Got certified as a Scrum Master to assist with transitioning the team to Agile.
- 2020 Hired as a Front End Developer
- Communicate and collaborate cross-functionally with UX Designers, UI Designers, Content Writers, and additional front end and full stack developers to build efficient, high-quality, and responsive websites for clients across a variety of industries while following best practices for accessibility, performance, and SEO.
- Develop reusable components and modules to be used across single projects, and reused across multiple applications.
- Create User Interfaces using Figma mockups and wireframes using clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- Build custom WordPress themes using HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Leverage WordPress plugins like Advanced Custom Fields, Gravity Forms, and Yoast.
- Build custom React/Next.js websites using Strapi as a headless CMS. Leverage various technologies such as styled-components, TailwindCSS, TypeScript, Git, and AI technologies like Claude Code.
- Leverage Strapi’s RESTful API to fetch data for our front end applications.
- Use GitHub to run Code Reviews and manage Pull Requests. Push code through a CI/CD pipeline, resolving merge conflicts and build issues as they arise.
- Participate in the QA process across multiple devices and browsers, log bugs in BugHerd, and troubleshoot findings.
- Perform maintenance on previous projects, updating code written by other developers to debug issues and build new features per client expectations.
- Created a blank WordPress theme and contributed significantly to a front end React starter project to increase efficiency of project work across the team.
- 2018 Maintained the company’s intranet as well as assisted with transitioning their CRM.
- 2015–2017 Bank Teller at Johnson Bank
- 2011–2015 Associate at Marcus Theaters
- 2010–2014 Clerk at MIAD Library
Education
- Associate's of Applied Science in Web Development
- Graduate Scholastic Award Received highest GPA out of the graduating Web Developers
- Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Illustration
- Minor in Communication Design
Skills
Basics
HTML
Responsive Development
Accessibility
SEO
Agile
QA | Code Reviews
Styling
CSS
SCSS/SASS
Styled Components
Framer Motion
TailwindCSS
Front End
JavaScript
React.js | Next.js
Back End
node.js
PHP
REST API
CMS
Strapi (Headless CMS)
WordPress
Tech Tools
Git | GitHub
Visual Studio Code
Figma - Developer Mode
BugHerd