Work History – 2bitcreative

NYSERDA

Web Producer

Albany, NY, August 2021 – Present

Work closely with the marketing team on creating and editing pages for NYSERDA’s web site Advise the marketing team on optimizing content to address SEO and accessibilityAnalyze current pages for WCAG compatibility and improve content with semantic clarification and ARIA meta-tagging
Create and review pages for appropriate ancillary content for graphs and infographics to accommodate users with assistive technologies
Create and update site CSS to accommodate mobile devices — making all charts, images and other embedded technologies responsive to all screens
Review and advise on color contrasts, text size, iFrames and other issues potentially affecting users with visual impairment

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Web Developer / UX / Producer

Albany, NY, May 2019 – August 2021

Senior front-end web developer for a marketing company that specializes in nonprofits, healthcare, credit unions and local businesses in the New York Capital Region
Created responsive, mobile-friendly sites from Zepplin / Photoshop designs using HTML5, CSS, SASS, JQuery, PHP, Concrete 5 CMS and Javascript preprocessors like Gulp and Webpack
Used best practices in web site optimization, including code minification and concatenation, ARIA specifications, semantic HTML and ADA compliance
Set up and maintained sites on company servers, including hosting hundreds of sites, domain pointing, database migrations, and installation of content management solutions
Maximized marketing potential of sites with appropriate meta-tagging, Google analytics and targeted content to improve SEO
Trained clients on using the Concrete 5 or WordPress content management systems to update their own sites

UX Designer / Front-End Developer

New York, NY, September 2016 – April 2019

Created prototypes of educational software for young scholars using front-end web technologies
As part of the design team, headed the creation of a company-wide design system to create a unified style across departments and create reusable web components
Worked with designers and developers to re-vamp the company’s administrative panel for educators and administrators. I developed web interfaces and functionality that were incorporated into the administrative tool by React developers
Created the company’s Center For Early Education site

Front-End Developer

New York, NY, March 2016 – September 2016

Created responsive web sites for Mediabistro.com and Clioawards.com
Used Flexbox and other responsive frameworks (Foundation and Bootstrap) to create mobile-friendly sites that worked on all browsers
Created full-featured custom WordPress plugins and taxonomies to fit the explicit needs of the organization. Worked with a team of backend developers to optimize performance for web sites and run regression tests on each feature
Created web features from designer comps and specs provided by the product team
Leveraged Bitbucket (Git) to collaborate with other developers and insure proper version control in development and staging environments

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Tech Lead / Senior Developer / UX

New York, NY, June 2014 – February 2016

Created web development infrastructure for marketing company geared toward doctors and medical professionals
Developed and sometimes designed multiple sites (30+) for the start-up company, setting up staging environments, databases, WordPress installations, form structures, SEO and other analysis tools
Created fully-responsive web sites based on designs using SASS and the Bootstrap framework to ensure cross-device compatibility
Developed all sites under industry-standard semantic web guidelines to ensure maximum SEO and relevance in content-based web searches
Leveraged Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google AdWords as well as other tools to develop effective keyword strategy and user-conversion strategies
Set up Git version control for all projects and created development environments for sites Launched sites when completed, handling all domain pointing, MX records and URL forwarding to retain SEO value
Trained staff on using to WordPress to update content on site and wrote technical documentation

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Front-End Developer

New York, NY, March 2012 – June 2014

Front-end developer at the ad / marketing agency for premier clients like BMW, Audi, Goldman Sachs, Chloraseptic, Puma, Justin Bieber and more
Created fully-responsive web experiences for high-traffic sites using HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, SASS, Bootstrap, PHP
Employed knowledge of web best practices — including semantic HTML, SEO optimization, device-agnostic responsiveness, image optimization, use of SVGs, ADA-compliant meta-tagging and aria-tagging, and strategic use of CDNs to accelerate download times
Worked closely with designers, UX specialists, project managers and backend developers to create robust web sites in rapid time
Worked within Agile frameworks, using Github, JIRA and related production collaboration technologies