I have a passion for helping people communicate and enjoy building fun, helpful things. Along with coding, management, and cross-functional business application knowledge, I am an artist and web developer (20+ years’ experience) with many years teaching, mentoring and coaching college and adult learners as well as advanced knowledge of SEO/SEM techniques.

Web Application Skills

UX & Design Patterns, design apps (Sketch, Adobe XD Suite, Invision, Figma, etc.), Web development (PHP, Ruby, .NET, Javascript), Analytics/SEO/SEM, SCSS, HTML, JS(ES5&6, jQuery, Angular 2+)

Experience

Modus Persona (Remote) 6/2022 -

UX Architect

• Translate research findings and analytics into sitemaps, product maps, user flows, wireframes, and prototypes and full websites
• Champion and evangelize the UX discipline and advocate for the user
• Lead PHP and Wordpress Development
• Digital Accessibility A11Y UI Development

Arrow Electronics - (Denver, CO) 4/2018 - 6/2022

R&D Sr. UI/UX Designer / Sr. Front-End Developer / Lead UI/UX / Sr. UX Designer /

• Lead front-end architecture planning with hybrid offshore/in-person team.
• Enterprise-level Agile SAFe Project Management using Atlassian + Git
• Provide project documentation and analysis with GA, GTM, and automated user testing, led workshops on multiple UX subjects.
• Development in Angular 8 within Sitecore CMS (Typescript, backbone.js)
• Built scalable SCSS Framework for SPA application
• Agile SAFe Project management inside enterprise legacy environment using Atlassian suite + Git
• UI/UX Brand Management and Design Lead for remote development team (using Invision, Adobe XD, Balsamiq, Figma, Sketch, more)
• Lead PHP/Wordpress Developer for multiple divisions
• Development in Angular 6+ within Sitecore
• Building front-end architecture for multiple divisions and coding languages

Contract / Freelance

Project Manager / Web Developer / Custom UI/UX Design / PHP / Wordpress / Shopify / Angular / Volusion development for E-commerce companies

• Manage and lead offshore and remote dev team for projects
• Development in PHP / CSS3 / HTML5 / JS, Ruby, .NET, Mobile (Phonegap, Xamarin)
• Custom themes and development for e-commerce platforms (Shopify, Volusion, Big-Commerce)
• Dashboards using REST principles with APIs in XML, JSON and CSV
• Branding and Digital Asset Management (using Brandfolder, Bynder and others)

Petersons.com (Denver, CO) 9/2015 - 6/2017

Front End Developer : Creation of web and iPhone apps for Angular based college search engine

• Creating desktop/mobile apps with Ionic, AngularJS and vanilla JS
• SCSS/CSS3/HTML5/Jquery with basic .NET development
• Wordpress development for new branded blog theme

Faction Media (Denver, CO) 7/2013 - 7/2015

Senior Web Developer: Development of sites, SPAs, marketing platforms and more.

• Web / App / SPA / Email development
• CMS Development: .NET (Sitefinity, Kentico), PHP (Wordpress, Drupal), Java (AEM/CQ5) and custom CMS (Ruby, NodeJS)
• Automated marketing development with Eloqua, Marketo Silverpop

Examiner.com (Denver, CO) 6/10 - 3/2012

Sr. Developer (3^rd tier): Helped build site to top 20 visited website in 2010

• Team lead for multiple projects, including dev, design and UI/UX.
• Work with senior management, development, QA, product and design teams to solve high-priority issues with HTML/JS/PHP, Adobe SiteCatalyst, Drupal, Coldfusion, MySQL

Examiner.com (Denver, CO) - 3/07 - 6/10

UI Front-end developer and 5^th Employee at company

• Front-end developer working with contributors for Drupal 7
• UI/UX design and development for custom Coldfusion CMS

Photobucket inc. (Denver, CO) 1/06 - 2/07

Developer / Sr. Web Designer: 9^th employee pushed site to top 5 destination October 2006

• Development, design, Codecs and API development
• >Flash animations, custom video player for Tinypic.com

Adjunct / Fulltime Instructor - Art Institute of Colorado / Westwood College / ITT Tech / Emily Griffith Opportunity School (Denver,CO) 6/01 - 2/07

Instructor: Multimedia, Visual Arts and Animation

• Taught UI development, Adobe suite (Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects), color theory, acting, animation, cinematography, audio/video editing and academic courses
• Trained students have received both national and local awards for work

All Encompassing Webmastery 1995 -2001, 2015, 2017

• .coms – Overtone, Gotrax, Internet Classifieds, Chaco Design, more
• Agencies – Big Mountain Multimedia, Tosch & Assoc., SOF Inc., more

Education

10/1997 Vancouver Film School - Vancouver BC.

3D Computer Animation and Digital Effects

6/1995 Fort Lewis College - Durango, Colorado

Bachelor's Degree - Communications/English with emphasis on multimedia production