Self-taught web developer with over ten years of personal, freelance, and agency experience and a wide range of technical, creative, and professional skills.

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Professional Experience

WordPress Engineer

Aug 2020-Present (Kanopi Studios — Remote)

Full-remote WordPress engineer in distributed WordPress agency.

  • Support several long-term projects with WordPress updates, feature development, bugfixes, and general website maintenance
  • Perform code reviews and quality assurance on others’ work, communicating issues and fixes clearly and quickly
  • Perform accessibility work according to WCAG 2.1 criteria, including remediation and fix recommendations
  • Use tools such as pointing, retrospectives, stand-ups, Gitlab, and Jira to coordinate work between up to 15 project managers and developers
  • Own (organize, write, edit) 20+ pages of documentation, including a site matrix for all web properties
  • Onboard and support new developers through multi-step access protocols, local development setup, sprint and ticket workflows
  • Engage in mentorship program with a junior developer

Front End Designer

Oct 2018-Nov 2019 (TelTech/InterActiveCorp — South Amboy, NJ)

Developer in acquired start-up for major privacy mobile apps RoboKiller, TapeACall, and TrapCall.

  • Recreated public web app of geographical, categorized, and hierarchical robocall data
  • Developed presentation for nationwide news broadcast of charted, live-updated robocall data
  • Created experimental homepage in lightweight code (56KB) in place of video (2MB)
  • Performed accessibility analysis and addressed compliance issues for numerous projects
  • Collaborated with marketing team on conversion experiments via Google Optimize
  • Selected documentation vendor and created 75+ knowledge documents, enabling internal access to all brand assets

Web Developer

Mar 2016-Apr 2018 (JK Design — Hillsborough, NJ)

Developer in an agency responsible for development and documentation of 30+ varying size projects.

  • Reduced average WordPress set-up time by 75% with command-line WP-CLI installer
  • Developed lighting manufacturer site with geographical search and flexible, editable templates
  • Maintained medical software site including several redesigns and complex blog overhaul
  • Developed cat sanctuary site with donation workflow and detailed administration panels
  • Created employee informational site for acquisition with multilingual and protected content

Web Developer and Designer

Jan 2015–Nov 2015 (X Factor Digital Media— Kenilworth, NJ)

Developer in an agency responsible for design, development, and upkeep of 65+ WordPress sites.

  • Registered 30+ new freelance authors in 3 months with development of content site
  • Increased average visit time by 2 minutes following site redesign and redevelopment
  • Developed interactive application representing 20+ medical procedures on a patient body

Web Developer and Designer

Jun 2013–Dec 2014 (Stylus — Linden, NJ)

Developer and designer in-house for clothing manufacturer.

  • Developed e-commerce site with 1,000+ sales in 6 months
  • Increased traffic 25%+ in 3 months with SEO-focused web development

Web Developer and Designer

Dec 2005-Intermittent (Freelance Consultant)

Developer, designer, and project manager for a variety of freelance and personal projects.

  • Developed interactive web game with 120+ players, 4000+ page wiki, 30+ themes

Education

  • Certified Oracle 9i DBA OCA, Microsoft Office User Specialist & CompTIA A+ Hardware/OS

    • Union County Academy for Information Technology, Diploma

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