Zack Philipps
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Zack is a hybrid designer/developer experienced with every single aspect of the website or web application development process. He is a highly skilled and efficient individual, and a pleasure to work with.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Atom, Ubuntu, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a web app that was originally written in ASP. I reverse-engineered it in WordPress and included a lot of AJAX and design/UX improvements.
Work Experience
Development Lead
Element Three
- Implemented instant search and single-page application behavior via AngularJS for Airstream's blog.
- Rebuilt core components of Airstream's WordPress site in Laravel for enhanced functionality.
- Became WordPress Champion, redeveloping the in-house WordPress theme.
- Assisted with DevOps and source control implementation.
- Rebuilt Airstream's Dealer Locator using Mapbox API for a richer user experience.
Executive Director
Tribeswell
- Promoted from intern through to Executive Director in two years.
- Sustained 20% year-over-year growth.
- Created a WordPress theme called Scratch that we used for all of our projects.
- Re-organized the project management system.
- Introduced version control and DevOps via Git, Bitbucket, and Codeship.
- Administrated cloud hosting via DigitalOcean.
- Strengthened skills in graphic design and digital photography.
- Quoted and wrote proposals for all projects.
Experience
Scratch Theme for WordPress + ACF
Scratch starts with the HTML5 Boilerplate. Then, we add our custom SCSS and JS frameworks. After that, our custom Grunt file and Gulp file. Finally, we add our barebones template files and Scratch.php, a very small file that packs a punch.
AspiraCE
https://aspirace.com/course/Airstream Blog
https://www.airstream.com/blogBoyd and Company Construction
As you scroll down the home page, you see the Divisions section. Our designer did a great job with this area and came up with the whole concept for the hover effect. The individual Divisions pages are equally beautiful.
Skills
Languages
CSS3, HTML5, PHP, JavaScript
Tools
Codeship, Bitbucket, GitHub, Adobe Photoshop, NGINX, Git, Apache, Atom, Adobe Illustrator, NPM, Gulp, Composer, Bower, Grunt
Platforms
MacOS, WordPress, Ubuntu
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Velocity.js, Node.js
Paradigms
Responsive Web Design (RWD), UX Design
Frameworks
AngularJS, Laravel
Industry Expertise
Web Design, Photography
Storage
MySQL
Other
Design, Typography, Microsoft 365
Education
Associate of Applied Science Degree in Computer Information Systems
Ivy Tech - Bloomington, Indiana
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