About Me

• Contributed to the development of over 100 highly custom websites for destination marketing organizations, ensuring alignment with user experience, brand consistency, and code resiliency requirements
• Contributed 72 merged pull requests to the company's proprietary React component library, built using Storybook and TypeScript, enhancing scalability and code reusability and utilizing agile software development methodologies; wrote automated testing for each component build using Jest
• Contributed over 200 merged pull requests to the company's foundational code repositories, improving quality of life and performance of every client's codebase and becoming the Operations department's top contributor on GitHub
• Championed accessibility across all web projects, ensuring compliance with WCAG standards and enhancing overall usability
• Demonstrated mastery of web languages, libraries, and frameworks like HTML, CSS, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Vue, and NextJS, and a comprehensive grasp of coding best practices
• Optimized web pages and code repositories for maximum efficiency, performance, accessibility, and speed

• Designed and built dozens of websites from scratch for a wide variety of clientele using the Umbraco CMS, with an emphasis on customer satisfaction and quality user experiences
• Learned how to code on the job and was promoted twice for demonstrating quick learning ability and high proficiency
• Created a full suite of branding and marketing materials, including illustrations and a website, for software product Theater Toolkit
• Contributed to the development of modern SaaS products and participated in all aspects of the software development life cycle, from concept and design to deployment

I wrote and illustrated an original story titled Ivory and Sinew for the comic book anthology New Nebula Volume 1.

• Revitalized Zarpara's brand with illustrated wine labels, ensuring consistent brand messaging and visual appeal
• Created illustrated print marketing materials, optimizing design for maximum visual impact and brand recognition

• Helped maintain multiple large-format printers in a demanding, fast-paced environment, troubleshooting technical issues as they arose
• Edited digital files to ensure optimum print quality, demonstrating a keen eye for detail
• Collaborated with a team to handle a steady flow of customers and coordinate over 20 custom print jobs per shift

Contributed over 200 pull requests to Simpleview's base client repositories, which are used as foundational code for every Simpleview client website project. Reviewed and revised code for maximum performance and scalability.

Contributed 72 merged pull requests to Destination Design Kit, Simpleview's proprietary React component library, which was heavily researched for user experience and accessibility, and built for scalability with atomic design principles using Storybook, TypeScript, and Jest for unit testing.

Designed, illustrated, and built the marketing site for Theater Toolkit, a custom website product for independent theaters, complete with a POS-integrated checkout process. Created a variety of illustration, design, and marketing assets. Attended tradeshows to promote the product, demonstrating excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Designed, illustrated, and built the Captive Content marketing site, and delivered a variety of illustration, design, and marketing assets, ensuring consistent brand messaging.

I have 11 years of experience working with a variety of web languages, libraries, and frameworks, including HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS, Vue, and NextJS, and contributing to cross-functional teams. I am extremely proficient in writing readable, reusable, accessible, and scalable code, and optimizing for maximum speed, performance, scalability, and accessibility.

I have amassed a comprehensive and multidisciplinary body of work in print media, web design, brand design, and virtual marketing. The primary focus of my education was illustration, and in particular I excelled at digital illustration. Presently, I use this background to enhance my design and communication skills.

My skills are widely varied. I am extremely proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.), Figma, Procreate, Visual Studio Code, and GitHub and Git-based source control programs.

• Graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's of fine art, emphasis in visual communication
• Completed a 5-week study abroad program in 2012 to Orvieto, Italy

Earned an associate's of fine art, with an emphasis in figure drawing