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Developer

Skills & Tools

These are the technical skills I've picked up and tools I've worked with in my career. I'm always eager to learn more. That's what I love most about coding.

CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
jQuery
Markdown
MySQL
PHP
React
Contentful
Drupal
Gatsby
Joomla
WordPress
Apache
Babel
Git
Modernizr
Node.js
npm
Sass
Responsive
W3C
Terminal
Codepen
Stack Overflow
GitHub
Aws
Digital Ocean
Figma
Google Analytics
Atlassian
Jira
Google Drive
Chrome
Firefox
IE ☠️
Safari
VSCode
Atom
Brackets
FileZilla
Illustrator
Photoshop
Selenium
Apple
Windows
Linux

Work Portfolio

Explore a glimpse of my work history featuring projects I've either spearheaded or significantly contributed to in their development and ongoing maintenance.

Meta

Analytics Enhancement and Website Maintenance

Screenshot of meta.com.

Built out sections on several pages using Meta's custom XML component sets. Some of the areas of the website included:

  • Quest products
  • Quest Accessories
  • Horizon
  • Meta for Work
  • VR for Good
  • Meta Experiences

Reviewed sections built by others (including Meta staff and my team mates) for design adherence, copy accuracy and code quality. Deprecated old components (built in XHP), as well as old pages, files and directories. Updated, added and removed 301 redirects. Executed similar work on oculus.com and portal.facebook.com, prior to migration to meta.com. Audited page event logging on several meta.com pages, compared to best practices, recommended specific updates, and helped to establish more precise standards for analytics. Implemented these findings upon approval.

  • XHP (aka Hack)
  • JavaScript
  • Custom CMS
  • Tealium
  • React
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • XML
  • PHP
See Project:
meta.com

Codazen

Website and blog maintenance, modifications and improvements.

Screenshot of codazen.com.

Updated pages with React, powered by Gatsby on Node and deployed via GitHub through Netlify (prior to migration). Created new React components. Participated in peer-reviews as required for all work. Added blog posts powered by HubSpot. Became the go-to for Codazen's blog as to it's maintenance and structure and necessary steps for improvement. Provided insight and direction on migration to newer frameworks and platforms, for an improved company website.

  • JavaScript
  • Contentful
  • HubSpot
  • GraphQL
  • GitHub
  • Gatsby
  • React
  • HTML
  • Sass
  • CSS3
  • JSX
  • Git
See Project:
codazen.com

Los Angeles County Parks & Recreation

New modern website for the county's many parks, built with WordPress.

Screenshot of parks.lacounty.gov.

Working at RD Technology Solutions, I contributed to the development of many websites for the County of Los Angeles such as these. Some of my responsibilities included:

  • Responsive web layout
  • Content formatting and styling
  • Accessibility compliance
  • Page element selection and creation

On the LA County Parks website, we needed an entire set of icons to represent the various features available at all of their parks, while adhering to a consistent look. I was provided icons for a few park features, and was tasked to find or create matching icons for the remaining features. Using Adobe Illustrator, I fabricated or drew (from scratch) the remaining icons needed for the project, while maintaining a consistent color palette, stroke weight and size. The client was very happy with the results, as it was exactly what they wanted.

  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Responsive Design
  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Theme
  • Vector Graphics
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
See Project:
parks.lacounty.gov

Los Angeles County Probation Department

New modern website for a county probation department, built with WordPress.

Screenshot of probation.lacounty.gov.

The LA County Probation Dept. needed a new website with modern features.

Problem: They had several categories to feature, but within those categories they had a large amount of subcategories. They wanted to feature all of this on the home page, in a way that is user-friendly and relatively simple, despite the massive quantity of options. They also wanted a large slideshow on the Home page, to follow the modern trend, with friendly colors matching their logo.

Solution: I came up with a feature tile set representing the main categories, placed over a fullscreen slideshow. Clicking on each tile displays its many subcategories, which takes you to the pertinent page. With animated queues, this layout was clear and intuitive.

The client at the LA County Probation Dept. was very pleased with this new home page.

  • Responsive Design
  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Theme
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • PHP
See Project:
probation.lacounty.gov

Los Angeles Acting Coach

New website for an acting career trainer.

Screenshot of losangelesactingcoach.com.

April needed a modern website to market her acting coaching service. After Riafox put this new WordPress website together with a modern theme and fulfilled most of the necessary requirements, they asked me to modify a few of the theme features that fell short. This included:

  • The hero layout
  • The slideshow (for the testimonials)
  • The blog posts tiles
  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Theme
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • PHP
See Project:
losangelesactingcoach.com

Kreizenbeck Constructors

Website makeover, built on WordPress with a modified theme.

Screenshot of kreizenbeckplanroom.com.

The client needed their WordPress website's design coded into the theme. The main objective was to showcase their construction work, so there were many galleries. A plugin waslimited features used for the galleries, but it had limited features that didn't cover the design or informational needs. After I configured and coded adjustments in order to theme the website just as the design portrayed, I added an informational hover effect to the gallery, which did not come included with the plugin. The client was happy with the results and very pleased with the website overall.

  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Theme
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • PHP
See Project:
kreizenbeckplanroom.com

Dental Websites

New WordPress websites, built with a custom theme and plugins.

While working at Gilleard Marketing, I launched many websites for dental practitioners, in states all across the U.S. Since WordPress was the platform of choice at GM, I built a custom theme and several custom plugins to expedite our workflow and support better control over desired end results.

As the web developer, I built these websites according to the designers' specifications, which were provided to me as a Photoshop file.

These are some of websites I built at Gilleard Marketing.

  • WordPress Theme
  • WordPress Plugins
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • PHP

Let's Build Something!

Nothing excites me more than starting a new project or making something better. For 18 years I have worked as a freelancer, serving clients in many industries, and have also worked as a full-time employee at various retail manufacturing and marketing agencies.

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I am currently available for hire! Not for long though, so act fast if you want me on your team! 🙌

Contract me! 👍

I am also open for service as a freelance web developer. Send me your project ideas and I'll help you hash out the web solutions you need. 💡

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