T-Mobile

Developer for Support and internal websites at the T-Mobile headquarters in Bellevue WA. User interface and experience improvements across multiple websites. Rapid bug fixing and task completion using HTML 5, JavaScript & jQuery, and CSS. Project planning and management with Atlassian's Jira and Confluence. Version control first with SVN then with Git. Command line usage for Sass and Git. Spearheaded and created custom front-end framework for use by dev team on various projects, including a public facing one soon to be released. Creating and maintaining documentation on projects and tools. Training fellow team members on tools and resources. Collaboration with developers, designers, project managers, and customers to ensure proper specs and solutions are agreed upon and results will meet the needs of everyone.

Starting in October 2017 I began working on the T-Mobile Support website re-design project. My job largely involved custom theme work on the content management system using the company Design Resource Guide and design mockups from stakeholders. I created a custom front-end framework from scratch for our team which matches the DRG and implemented it on this project. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Freemarker, and Google Closure are the main programming languages involved.

Curah front-end build

One major project for me at Microsoft was with Curah! front-end development and styling. This was a brand new website and project for Microsoft and needed created from the ground up. I worked closely with developers and designers, converting Photoshop designs into working HTML/CSS/JavaScript templates, which back-end developers built off of for their coding. This website was built responsively from the beginning and works on tablets and mobile phones.

After website launch I was often called back to fix style bugs as new features were added to the website. As final tasks for the project I implemented Twitter Boostrap and LESS for the developers to have better styling tools as they continue to improve the website with new features.

Wordament case study CSS

Styling with CSS for a new page template, starting with Wordament. Care was given to implement this to work and easy to use with a custom content management system, plus making it responsive. This was a new type of page for MSDN, as three-column content like this hadn't been done before.

MSDN Forum UX Refresh

Microsoft brought me in as a contractor in 2013 to help with the UX re-design of the MSDN forums. They needed a CSS expert to help with styling the forums to match the new UX branding for each area: MSDN, Windows Phone, Windows, Visual Studio, Office, TechNet, etc.

My primary responsibility on this project was to make sure styling was made to match design guidelines for each brand, while making sure each forum looked like the others. I worked closely with developers and designers alike to ensure consistency between forums while matching brand guidelines for each website's developer forums.

Amazon.com kindle e-books

During 2011-2013 I was hired on by Amazon to help work on content for their Kindle Fire at the time it was released, then again months later. The team I was on programmed children's picture e-books, comics, cookbooks, and others so they would work right on the Kindle Fire.

Some of the books I helped work on (out of hundreds):

• A Smart Girl's Guide to Manners
• An Awesome Book of Thanks!
• A Christmas Carol (picture book edition)
• Just Being Audrey
• What's So Bad About Gasoline?

Monroeville Indiana

The Monroevile Indiana Chamber Of Commerce needed a new website pretty desperately. Their previous one had been maintained on an old FrontPage build. Yes, really. I got them set up on WordPress so they can make website updates themselves. Settings were configured, plugins were added, the photo gallery was updated, contact forms were added, they got lots of new informative pages about different services and events for the town, and so much more. I still volunteer help maintaining this website as it is my hometown and I have family on the board.

This project involves:

• WordPress setup & maintenance
• Search Engine Optimization
• Contact form
• Image gallery
• Video embedding
• Calendar embedding
• Social media

The Temporary People

This fantastic Seattle-based improv group wanted a new design for their website. I set them up with a new design, new code, a photo gallery, contact form, social media icons, Twitter status widget, SEO improvements, and more. (Site no longer active)

This project involved:

• HTML/CSS
• SEO
• Contact form
• Image gallery
• Video embedding
• Social media

Cove School

This school which focuses on childrens' social and emotional learning wanted an updated look for their website. They already had a WordPress website with lots of content, so with a new theme and help from me getting it installed and the content moved over, plus some content updates, their website looks fresh and clean which should help their customers.

This project is a few years old now and most likely looks differently nowadays.

This project involved:

• WordPress
• Re-design
• Contact form
• Image sliders
• Blog
• Social media

Cornerstone Youth Center

This non-profit received a new WordPress installation and design. The old website was on an old content management system and was no longer functioning properly.

I installed WordPress, transferred over pages, added a Google calendar, configured the WordPress theme, created graphics for the homepage, created random/rotating text on right of home page, added buttons and elements to the header, added the dark wood background image, created a script to hide email addresses from spam bots, and more.

My re-design work was mostly pre-2016. They have a new theme now and are under new management nowadays.

This project involved:

• WordPress
• Re-design
• Google Map embed
• Google Calendar embed
• Image sliders
• Blog
• Social media
• Custom coding

The Seattle Times

I worked for The Seattle Times Company for two years (2009-2011), working as Web Designer for both the news and marketplace websites.

One of the projects I worked on for them was the home page re-design of seattletimes.com. I worked extensively on the new global stylesheet, organizing and thinking through classes and styles that will be used for years onward. I also helped build the structure for the homepage. When we launched I had cut down the amount of CSS (style code) 75% and page load time decreased.