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Member of the board, serving on the development committee and soon to be established Marketing subcommittee.

Board Member

Help out at Genius Bars, Community Planning meetings and presentations.

WordPress Birmingham Volunteer

Bachelor's of Science

Master's

Supported over 300 active, primarily WordPress client websites and added new features and functionality to existing client websites. Converted older websites to WordPress and/or responsive designs and tackled all project overflow from production team. Clients included Coca-Cola United and Tazikis.
■ Blazed a trail for staff adoption of SASS/SCSS and orchestrated move from Hybrid theme development to a proprietary Underscore theme build.
■ Built numerous WordPress websites from various stages of design and development to production deployment and beyond.
■ Teamed up with other support and production staff to whitelist 3rd-party plugin use, brainstorm project workflows and educate on new coding techniques and solutions.
■ Balanced multiple development projects against incoming support tickets weighted by estimated turnaround and urgency.

Web Developer - Client Services

Primarily developed very highly scrutinized and legally reviewed websites for the ViiV brand of GlaxoSmithKline. Responsible for completing self-management chores that aided project managers, including working in Jira, connecting Git commits to tickets, and deploying code via the same commits in Jenkins. Created in-house solutions to streamline project workflows within our SOC2 compliance. Used libraries and tech stacks including Ember, Vue, Express, Axios, lodash, React and Redux.
■ Developed websites for prominent brands including GSK, Little Debbie, the SEC, The Civil Rights Trail, Schönox and Brasfield & Gorrie.
■ Helped bridge project managers with partnering agencies such as McCann to better understand project goals, time tables and limitations.
■ Highly leveraged GTM (Google Tag Manager) to track a myriad of events, ad conversions and external analytics scripts.
■ Consulted with co-workers outside my department to help with deployment, analytics and UI/UX.
■ Used site generators

Senior Web Developer

Embedded UI/UX (User Interface / User Experience) partner on SAFe Agile team responsible for modernizing all digital account origination in an omni-channel solution built primarily in React with Redux/MobX.
■ Product design and product management
■ Early front-end developer responsible for creating React-based UI form
components as well as some stateless functional components.
■ Helped bridge strategic partners, solution experts, UI/UX, legal, risk, compliance, product owners, scrum masters and other stakeholders into formation of approved prototypes through direct leadership, communication, problem solving and teamwork.
■ Delivered designs meeting all regulatory and policy hurdles, and ready for development and production release.
■ Crafted product designs including interactive prototypes for new products and application flows primarily in Sketch and Invision.
■ Attended product demos, stand-ups, backlog refinements, retrospectives and ensured development stayed true to the look and f

VP User Experience Interaction Design

Worked with a small team within the marketing department of ECA which handled design and development of all the web properties in-house for the websites of Virginia College, Culinard, the New England College of Business and Ecotech.
■ Lead designer and developer , Ecotech and Golf Academies of America websites.
■ Created design wireframes, mock-ups and interactive designs for websites, responsive sites and microsites.
■ Worked within ECA’s tech stack which relied heavily on Adobe software, including ColdFusion.
■ Completed design for digital advertising and social media ads and posts.

Web Designer

Provided creative and art direction, talent recruitment and web app development for a holding company housing numerous digital properties including over a dozen digital magazines and a real-estate cloud marketing SaaS application.
■ Crafted service offerings around content marketing packages.
■ Established project workflow protocols to seamlessly execute client jobs.
■ Built a team of highly talented designers, copywriters, marketers and IT professionals from the ground up.
■ Directed the design of high-profile outdoors and sports magazines for Okuma and Mossy Oak.
■ Built an internal intranet and company sales portal with supporting sales collateral in WordPress.
■ Managed over a dozen web properties and their corresponding social media presence.

Creative Director and Senior Web Developer

Not iT Labs is creating Not iT, a free smartphone app that helps groups of people who work, live or play together to delegate real-world tasks in the confines of a "gamified" environment. We're taking a concept from social contract to social media, using smartphones as the vehicle. The overarching idea: "Get stuff done while having fun."

Founder

As Linq's inaugural full-time designer and pivotal early team member (#17), I've had incredible impact on the company. With my skillset, vision and leadership, in less than two years I've helped Linq:

• Build out a world-class design and experience team. My team is consistently praised and regarded as top-performers indispensable to the company. I write job descriptions, review applicants, interview candidates, create and administer design challenges.

• Quadruple our ARR (4.5x 📈)—in under 2 years, and during a time when most start-ups were shifting from "growth at any cost" to "default alive" strategies, constantly proving the ROI of good UX design.

• Craft the first version of our design system. Provide engineering with AWD (Align with Design) cross-functional collaborative feedback. Document and train team on design system use and iterate improvement. Create a scalable and replicable product aesthetic grounded in the Linq brand. The results of these efforts are highly cohesive ex

Experience Design Lead

For historic, I created everything from the ground up. The brand, the colors, the copy and product design—all of it new. The majority of this work was done within 60 days as part of an X project for Linq.

UX / Product Design

I started Huebris in 2009 as a local, brick and mortar-less, design and development studio. Over this time we've produced studio-grade results for clients ranging from start-ups and non-profits, to Fortune 200 companies.
- Branding, logo design and corporate identity.
- Product design and user experience.
- Design, development and maintenance of websites, mobile apps, code repos and widgets.
- eCommerce design and development.
- Social media marketing and advertising.
- Computer animation, motion graphics and architectural visualizations.
- Consulting and strategy.

Working diligently ... one party at a time.

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