Development
web + app
"Consider everything an experiment."
Corita Kent
Web Design & Development:
ThriveCultureCoaching.com
May 2023 – present
This client came to me as a young brand trying to launch a WordPress site with analytics and calendar integration to promote her career coaching business. She had a brand identity cooking and a beautiful logo and photography, as well as excellent copy and content. I created a staging site for her and transferred her site info from clunky etsy templates to a customized Divi child theme and templates and ran testing to ensure her analytics were tracking events correctly. There were a few plugin integrations that needed troubleshooting as well, and an SSL certificate that needed renewal. My work with this client is ongoing.
Full Stack Development:
Community Brands LLC
December 2021 – September 2023
These sites used Divi as a parent theme, but were highly customized to fit the distinct requirements of each site’s branding. Expologic was my first build with this company, and we built from scratch and launched within a month of my arrival. Attendee Interactive used the same basic structure as Expologic, but expanded on it. Each site features custom Javascript and PHP functionality across the site, written both by myself and by co-developer Brian Merrill. Nimble AMS and Pathable were great opportunities to implement custom animations using javascript and css. These sites each have different custom post types and dynamic elements such as a post archive that pulls information based on a tagging system on the back end of WordPress. Design was by Max Kuznetzov and Leah Lukens. I’ve loved working with this team and look forward to more site rebuilds to come. Ask me about analytics for these projects.
Full Stack Development:
University of Georgia
April 2021
This landing page was the primary resource to direct donors to the correct giving forms and inform our audience on the status of different giving challenges throughout the week. It was built using a Bootstrap core and included charts from both Highcharts and Google Maps. Counters in the top right corner fed by json data showed the total number of gifts and dollar amount raised. It also featured donation thermometers via css and jquery that counted up gifts towards each challenge’s goal. The goal for this project for me was to make all of the information accessible and optimize load times and general performance. Ask me about analytics for this project.
Front End Development:
University of Georgia
October 2020
This project was a simple landing page for the Auburn vs UGA Beat Week 2020. Its primary feature is a set of counters showing the number of total donors and student donors from each school, filled via JSON.
Front End Development:
George Washington University Fullstack Coding Bootcamp
March 2020
Job searching isn’t easy, but it doesn’t have to be quite so hard. WorkHQ is a tool designed to assist job-seekers in organizing their job search. WorkHQ is built and deployed using the MERN (Mongo, Express, React, Node) stack. Information is displayed to the user via React. Express and Node handle server-side functionality. User and job data are stored using MongoDB with Mongoose as the ORM. Authentication flow is handled with Firebase Authentication. Users are able to securely log in with Google or anonymously to test features. Project is deployed via Heroku with MLabs (operates with MongoDB Atlas) as the cloud DB provider. My role in this project was to design and develop UX/UI and handle MongoDB integration.
Full-stack Development:
George Washington University Fullstack Coding Bootcamp
February 2020
Recipe Room is a web application for the creation, storage, and viewing of cocktail recipes. You can view basic cocktail recipes pulled via API from The Cocktail DB or add your own to the MySQL database, which can be searched by alcohol type. My role in this project was to design the UX/UI, and build and integrate the database.
Front End Development:
George Washington University Fullstack Coding Bootcamp
January 2020
Busy Bot helps users find events based on location, time, or event type and only displays events from the Ticketmaster API that the user can reach in time based on travel times estimated by the Mapquest Route Matrix API. My role in this 3 person team was to handle styling, button functionality, and dynamic DOM element creation as well as integrating third party libraries, moment.js, Mapquest Geolocation API, and Mapquest Route Matrix API.
Web Design, Brand Development:
Foundation for Family & Community Healing
January 2019 – July 2019
I began at the Foundation as a volunteer, focusing my attentions on developing a brand from first drafts of a logo all the way to launching their site, which was built primarily using WordPress. My responsibilities have also included oversight of interns’ publication of social media posts and other promotional materials.
UX/UI design; Web design:
VirtualKEY
July 2018 – Sept 2018
I began my time at VirtualKEY as UX/UI Designer working primarily on the web and mobile app designs, but quickly took on additional graphic design responsibilities. I used Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign to create printed and digital ads including trade show materials such as banners, fliers, brochure spreads and social media content. After producing several design iterations for the reboot of the VirtualKEY website, I built an entirely new site using a Bootstrap template as a base.
Capstone:
New Media Institute
Aug 2017- Feb 2018
For our senior capstone project, my team was tasked with expanding the ODYSSEY Media Group’s online presence into a mobile app in order to grow their readership and better serve their readers. For this goal, I designed and co-developed an iOS app using Swift and Objective C within the XCode environment, worked closely with the WP REST API and used Javascript to pull JSON data remotely from the client’s existing website. My experience with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro was essential both to the design of the app and in the creation of both digital and printed promotional materials, which included a small informational booklet which folded out to a full-sized poster.