Senior Web Developer
2020 - PRESENTDigital Strike- Tasked with developing and maintaining an in-house base theme to allow for rapid WordPress development of websites that are beautiful, accessible, and performant with a solid technical SEO foundation.
- Set up CI/CD integration with gitlab for all of our projects.
- Collaborated closely with agency leadership in the formulation of web development strategy and implementation.
- Provided ongoing guidance to content writers, project and account managers, and designers to streamline internal web development processes.
- Worked closely with small to medium-sized businesses from the initial planning phase of their web projects, through design, build, and launch.
Technologies: NPM, Git, Sass, CSS, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript, PHP, Sage, WordPress Optimization, WordPress, Docker, SCSS, Gulp, WordPress REST API, Webpack, PhpStormFull-stack Developer
2019 - 2020Firefly Partners- Co-developed a base them for all website projects that allowed clients to easily update the content on their websites with the flexibility in how it is displayed by utilizing a flexible module based page-builder.
- Introduced the team to SEO best practices. Implemented several technical SEO improvements to existing client websites as well as trained team members on best practices relating to technical SEO when developing websites.
- Implemented continuous deployment to bot staging and a production version of client websites.
- Refactored many websites to bring them up to today's standards for SEO (speed, layout, etc), accessibility, and flexibility for the client.
Technologies: NPM, Git, Sass, CSS, HTML, MySQL, jQuery, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress Optimization, WordPress, Docker, SCSS, Gulp, WordPress REST API, Webpack, PhpStormWeb Developer
2017 - 2019Abstrakt Marketing Group- Co-developed custom framework and series of plugins to expedite the development of fast, lightweight and SEO-rich WordPress sites in a high-volume environment.
- Received "Developer of the Month" award three consecutive months for my ability to get client projects completed on time while also improving internal processes and training junior developers.
- Reduced client site development time by over 60 hours within the first 30 days of employment by refactoring our processes from design to deployment.
Technologies: NPM, Git, Sass, CSS, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, WordPress Optimization, Vue, SCSS, Gulp, WordPress REST API, PhpStormWeb Developer
2016 - 2017Switzer Creative- Moved over ten client sites from bare metal server to WP Engine.
- Worked closely with small to medium-sized businesses from the initial planning phase of their web projects, through design, build, and launch.
- Developed, managed, and maintained dozens of WordPress websites.
Technologies: NPM, Git, Sass, CSS, HTML, MySQL, jQuery, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, WordPress Optimization, SCSS, Gulp, PhpStorm