Jacob is available for hire

Jacob Abshire

Verified Expert in Engineering

Front-end Development Developer

Location

Houston, TX, United States

Toptal Member Since

January 27, 2020

Hired during his second year in college to work for a large marketing production firm, Jacob embarked on his career in design and development. Since then, he has helped launch startup companies, including DigitalChalk, and served in creative for organizations like Google, Insperity, and UnitedHealthcare. He enjoys creating interface designs and working to resolve WordPress challenges.

WordPress Design Front-end Bootstrap CSS PHP WordPress HTML5 jQuery WordPress Themes WordPress Plugins PHP MVC Adobe InDesign Sass MySQL Laravel

Portfolio

DigitalChalk

WordPress, MySQL, jQuery, Bootstrap, Less, Sass, JavaScript, PHP...

Insperity

CSS, HTML, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Access, MySQL, PHP...

Experience

Adobe Illustrator - 15 years Adobe Photoshop - 15 years Front-end Development - 10 years Bootstrap - 9 years WordPress Themes - 8 years WordPress - 8 years PHP - 8 years WordPress Plugins - 5 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

jQuery, WordPress, PHP, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

The most amazing...

...thing I've worked on was developing a user interface and marketing platform for a top ten online learning company used world-wide.

Work Experience

Senior Graphic Designer | UI Developer

2008 - PRESENT

DigitalChalk

Designed and developed software user interfaces.
Designed and developed marketing sites, brand identities, and developer support sites.
Oversaw all marketing materials for brand consistency.

Technologies: WordPress, MySQL, jQuery, Bootstrap, Less, Sass, JavaScript, PHP, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Webmaster | Graphic Designer

2002 - 2008

Insperity

Singled-handedly developed the company-wide intranet.
Designed marketing materials for PGA tournament branch hosted in Houston, TX.
Developed processes for department production services and software to handle projects and dispatches.
Developed all marketing sites for corporate as well as customers.

Technologies: CSS, HTML, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Access, MySQL, PHP, .NET, Active Server Pages (ASP)

Experience

Learning Management Software

http://www.digitalchalk.com

I served as the lead UI/UX designer and developer for the online application—working with a team of back-end developers to build the user interface and marketing deliveries. We extended the Bootstrap framework as well as Sass, and JavaScript. The vanity sites had custom built themes and plugins for WordPress.

Garage Door Storefront

http://www.doorson-line.com

I worked with a team of developers to produce a website where customers could build custom premium garage doors for purchase. The interface involved complex conditions for parts and styles respectively, as well as a complex cost builder. The site was built in Laravel.

Flooring Solution Formulator

https://aquaflexinc.com

This project involved a WordPress marketing site for multiple patented products of flooring solutions. I took over the website, rebuilt a custom theme to work with Gutenberg blocks, added custom blocks, added interactive functionalities with Google Maps, integrated the Bootstrap framework, and standardized the styles.

Hebrew College

https://www.hebraiccollege.org

This project involved a college marketing and information site and I was the single designer and developer. I designed the site from scratch based on customer needs and built the site in WordPress with a custom theme, custom blocks, custom post types, custom plugins, and integrated WooCommerce with custom functionalities to allow student enrollment and payment.

Skills

Languages

CSS, HTML, PHP, HTML5, JavaScript, Sass, Active Server Pages (ASP), Less

Frameworks

Bootstrap, PHP MVC, .NET, Laravel

Libraries/APIs

jQuery

Tools

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Access

Platforms

WordPress, WooCommerce

Other

Page Template Design, WordPress Design, Front-end, Front-end Development, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX)

Storage

MySQL

Education

2018 - 2020

Bachelor's Degree in Biblical Studies

Moody Bible Institute - Chicago, IL, USA

1996 - 1998

Associate's Degree in Design

College of the Mainland - Texas City, TX, USA

Certifications

MARCH 2020 - PRESENT

Human Computer Interaction

Interaction Design Foundation

Collaboration That Works

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