Experience
Nansen
Senior Frontend Web Developer
2012-Present
- Build accessible, performant and responsive sites using a variety of Frontend frameworks.
- Develop sites using headless as well as traditional CMS.
- Collaborate with clients, creative team, developers and managers to help gather requirements and provide estimates.
- Leverage testing tools to ensure critical parts of the site function sprint after sprint.
- Help onboard and mentor new hires.
- Integrate personalization tools to A/B test features.
- Helped develop internal projects: Worked with a group to create a scaffold CSS framework for use on some of our sites. Helped to standardize internal project documentation.
- Created various types of animations using both CSS and JS. From small micro-animations to full screen user interactive animations.
Main sites developed
American Eagle
Frontend Web Developer
2010-2012
- Built new sites while maintaining existing for 50+ clients.
- Supported clients by investigating bugs and documenting new feature requests.
- Collaborated with team members in order to identify and solve clients problems.
Chicago Public Schools - IT Department
Web Designer
Frontend Web Developer
2003-2010
- Designed interfaces and iconography for internal and public web sites.
- Integrated designs into static HTML/CSS.
- Generated wire frames, designing comps and functional mockups.
- Interface with clients and backend team to determine site requirements and to develop project scope.
- Gained beginning experience in backend C# .NET programming.
- Ensured sites met Section 508 accessibility compliance.
Certification
- Contentful Certified Professional- Expires 04/26/25
- Optimizely Web Developer Experimentaion- Expires 11/23/26
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Multimedia and Web Design
April 2003
Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago
Accolades
- Accidentally small talked with popular web teacher, Wes Bos, and I had no clue it was him until a few hours later when he did a presentation.
- "King for the day" in kindergarten. Got to bring in my favorite toys and snacks to share with the class for the day.