Candidates About

Summary

An organized, creative, self-starter with over 17 years experience in the industry. Specializing in the design, development and maintenance of a brand and its assets to increase awareness, trust, loyalty and retention in the marketplace. Proficient in the design of marketing materials and corporate identity packages across print and digital mediums. Turning new and existing assets into press and screen ready deliverables and hand coding static images or content into lightweight, fast, responsive code that is SEO/AMP optimized.

Experience

web consultant

Manchester, NH 2015 - Present

Accomplishments

▪  Maintain websites, maintain SEO and consult on marketing strategies

▪  Computer and electronic repair, service and custom builds

Front End Web Consultant, granite state management and resources

Concord, NH ­ 2015

Accomplishments

▪  Managed​ ​multiple​ ​websites​ ​in​ ​charge​ ​of​ ​rebuilding​ ​and​ ​refactoring existing​ ​web​ ​presences​ ​to​ ​work​ ​with​ ​HTML5,​ ​CSS3,​ ​and​ ​Bootstrap. Worked in multiple IDE’s debugging automation, and writing tests against work

▪  Refactored​ ​and​ ​organized​ ​code​ ​for​ ​SEO,​ ​and​ ​508a​ ​compliance.

▪  Worked to make all web presences adaptive and responsive based on the usage reports from Google analytics

▪  Built and designed internal interfaces for employee profile management system

▪  Worked with the design team to create marketing pieces in Adobe Premiere and After Effects for the Careers in the 603 campaign.

▪  Responsible for rebuilding NHCOLLEGECLUB.com to be responsive, and 508a compliant as well as designed to be better suit parents and the middle school target audiences.

Front End UI Developer, Thunderhead Inc.

Manchester, NH — 2012 ­ 2015

Accomplishments

▪  Played an integral role crafting and maintaining the style guide and pattern library used across multiple teams

▪  Worked in multiple IDE’s debugging automation, and writing unit tests

▪  Helped craft responsive and adaptive assets such as custom icons and logos using LESS and SVG

▪  Salesforce.com was interested in buying our product and they wanted to see it integrated with their product.

·    Responsible for mission critical proof of concept of our new product in a mock that was successfully presented, in real time, to 150,000 attendees for dreamforce, the annual salesforce.com conference.

Lead Developer, Children’s Museum of New Hampshire

Dover, NH — 2012 ­ 2013

Accomplishments

▪  Developed an iPad application to assimilate a visual story guide for special needs audience

▪  Built user interface and interaction within the iOS application and connected with a SQL database using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and JQuery

▪  Assisted artist to integrate graphics icons, adhering to brand standards

▪  Performed user testing using phone gap framework and XCode

UX Developer and User experience architect, Genius Switch

Dover, NH — 2011 ­ 2012

Accomplishments

▪  Educated teams on current technologies and how we may best take advantage

▪  Responsible for hand coding UI, interaction and tools for client facing websites and applications

▪  Implemented UI and UX features and built tools and frameworks to simplify development

▪  Communicate with cross functional teams in an Agile/SCRUM environment; Interacted with overseas development and QA teams

▪  Design new accessibility tools for education technology sector which addresses standards for special education children

▪  Created and maintained style guides and graphical user interfaces that engaged and resonated with users across all platforms.

President, Lead Designer & UX Developer, VIVA la PIXEL

Manchester, NH — 2003 ­ 2011

Accomplishments

▪  Lead Project Manager for new and existing web projects from inception to delivery

▪  Hand code PSD files or transform a static image into a semantic, fast, responsive, w3c validated, mobile first HTML5 and CSS3 web page

▪  Designed websites, logos, and corporate identity packages from concept to creation to properly brand and market a product and/or service

▪  Created marketing strategies across all user touchpoints using methods like design mock ups, wire frames, user interviewing, fact finding studies, card sorting, and heuristic reviews of existing systems to ensure measured results so current and future efforts are cohesive with the voice and strategy of the brand.

▪  Researched market competitors and created strategic marketing plans for SEO and SEM to ensure the maximum ROI and ensure all business requirements have been met.

Education

BFA | Endicott college | 2002

▪  Major: Visual Communications

MS IT | Southern New Hampshire University | 2019 

▪  Major: Web Application Development

Certifications

SOLOLEARN

▪  2017 : CSS3, HTML5, Java, JavaScript, JQuery

▪  2018 : SQL

Skills

Web Development

▪  XHTML, XML, HTML5, CSS3, LESS, SAAS, SVG

▪  Java, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL, Bootstrap 3.x

▪  Single page web application development

▪  508a, WCAG 2.0 compliance

User Interaction UI / User Experience Design UX

▪  User experience design and interface implementation

▪  Interaction design research / prototyping skills

·     Task flows, user object models, wireframes, mockups

·     User research , usability testing, card sorting, contextual inquiry

·     Qualitative and quantitative analysis

Marketing / Design / Branding

▪  Branding

▪  Public relations and event planning

▪  SEO, SEM, social media

▪  Graphic Design for both print and web

▪  Marketing plan creation and execution with iterative reporting to measure ROI

Software

▪  Creative

·    Adobe Creative Suite

·    Photoshop / Lightroom

·    Illustrator / Fireworks / InDesign

·    Premiere / After Effects

▪  Web Development

·    Atlassian : JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, Bitbucket

·    Version Control: Git, SVN, AccuRev

·    Eclipse / IntelliJ / Webtorm

General

▪  Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills

▪  Agile/SCRUM/SDLC experience