Heather Marmont
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Heather is a web developer with over 22 years of experience in the field. She's been working as a front-end developer for her entire career—building high-quality pages that look great and function as intended using HTML, CSS with Sass/Less, and JavaScript/jQuery on various back-end platforms.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, SourceTree, Sublime Text 2, Sublime Text 3, Photoshop 7, Figma, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Bootstrap
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed was a module to add, track, update, and remove recently viewed and saved vehicles from a user's favorites list on an automotive website.
Work Experience
Senior Web Developer
Netrix Creative
- Built custom WordPress themes.
- Created responsive page designs based on a single viewport mockup.
- Developed a custom-built JavaScript carousel feature handling both image sliding and resizing to correct proportions.
- Implemented requirement reviews and project estimations.
Senior Web Developer
Kelley Blue Book | Cox Automotive
- Created responsive web pages for desktop, tablet, and smartphone platforms using a mobile-first approach.
- Led the front-end development on projects—using HTML, Sass, and JavaScript/ES6 on various back-ends (C#, MVC, Razor).
- Trained and mentored other developers at the associate and mid- levels.
- Took a leadership role within the Scrum team to analyze requirements, identify blocking issues, accurately estimate efforts, and ensure the delivery of all commitments.
- Created JavaScript unit tests using Karma and Chai to increase automation capabilities.
Web Developer
Kelley Blue Book
- Developed production-ready code for KBB.com, using HTML, CSS (Less/Sass), and jQuery on a C#/.NET/MVC back-end.
- Initiated and completed a code quality cleanup project that reduced JavaScript errors by 25%, warnings by 38%, and brought SCSS errors down to zero.
- Instituted and coordinated the Learning Series, regular events where developers taught hands-on class sessions to their fellow team members.
- Worked closely with UX, product, and other developers using Agile processes to deliver on commitments.
Web Developer
IGN Entertainment
- Led the front-end development on the Direct2Drive Germany project and the D2D Casual project—launching two new avenues for Direct2Drive to attract a new audience.
- Led the front-end development on all FilePlanet.com minisites.
- Created a minisite template that reduced the time needed to design each site and greatly increased development efficiency.
- Developed landing pages and web forms using HTML, CSS, and ASP.NET.
- Hand-coded HTML email products and managed content within Silverpop.
Web Developer
Gateway, Inc.
- Contributed to the creation and design of eMachines and Gateway International production websites, including front-end coding in HTML and CSS, database design, and back-end coding in Mason/Perl.
- Managed ongoing updates to all eMachines and Gateway International websites, including quarterly refreshes of all product information and corporate content.
- Used HTML standardized coding to produce cross-browser compatible pages in 12 languages in dialects.
Web Developer
Classmates Online
- Built and maintained web pages on Classmates.com website using HTML and internally-built Perl-based back-end framework.
- Created multiple iterations of upsell process for A/B testing.
- Managed the creation and updating of OAS ad templates.
Web Developer
Tenzing Communications
- Developed the structure, static content, and dynamic content (using both MySQL and Oracle databases) for a company-wide intranet.
- Created dynamic front-end interfaces for production databases (MySQL and Oracle).
- Built the site structure and created pages for corporate and other external websites.
- Collaborated with the digital marketing manager and graphic designer to develop specifications for the intranet's visual design.
- Created all the intranet web pages based on specifications.
Web Developer
McLeod USA
- Developed a back-end functionality using PHP; interacting with Apache Web Server security, file systems, and MySQL and Oracle databases.
- Built the front-end interface for a PHP back-end.
- Designed the database table structure to support customer application and storage needs.
Experience
Windsor Schools
http://heathermarmont.com/portfolio_item/windsor-schoolsNetrix Creative Site Relaunch
http://www.netrixcreative.comA new custom theme was built for them, sporting an updated design and employing newer layout techniques including flexbox. The project also involved creating smartphone and tablet views based on a desktop design.
Catalyst Constellations
http://www.catalystconstellations.com/A custom WordPress theme was implemented and included a hand-coded carousel that dynamically laid out the user-inputted photos, and allowed for sliding functionality that accommodated images of any width.
Trucking Industry News Site
http://heathermarmont.com/portfolio_item/mtga/A fully-responsive site was built from the ground up, using current technology to display images in varying sizes and resolutions based on viewport and screen capability. The site also uses several custom modifications to WordPress plugins to display their data according to the client’s needs.
Personal Portfolio Site
http://heathermarmont.com/Skills
Languages
CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, HTML, HTML5, Sass, Less, PHP, ECMAScript (ES6), Perl, JavaScript 6
Frameworks
Bootstrap, ASP.NET, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), MVC Razor
Libraries/APIs
Flexbox, jQuery, Chai
Paradigms
Responsive Layout, Agile, Database Design, Unit Testing, Scrum
Tools
Sublime Text, Photoshop 7, Microsoft Visual Studio, Sublime Text 3, SourceTree, Git, Mercurial, Silverpop, Apache, Karma, NPM, Sublime Text 2, Figma
Platforms
WordPress, Magento
Other
Responsive Design, Wamp, Open AdStream, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), Google Tag Manager, Unbounce, Agile Sprints
Storage
MySQL, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Cardinal Stritch University - Milwaukee, WI, USA
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