Web Portfolio of Russell Kirby Front-End Web DeveloperAbout
This site started out as homework for college projects in 2008 and has since matured into my professional portfolio. Each new project, educational and professional, has taught me something new. I love to learn and try new things and have gained extensive skills as a Front-End Developer over the last eighteen years. Working with so many different aspects of web development has given me adaptability and capacity to apply my knowledge to new situations and projects.
Professionally, I began as a Front-end Developer at Utah State University in 2010. There I started building sites from designers' Photoshop files. My skills base expanded, especially in CSS and jQuery, to meet the challenges and demands of professional web development.
I then joined Duo Group as the company's sole developer. While there, I would set up domains, servers, hosting, and email accounts. I built custom websites from the designers' Photoshop designs, built custom email templates, started making WordPress themes, began using it as the CMS for Duo Group's clients, and started learning about and building responsive websites.
In the five years I worked at Clearlink, I built and maintained responsive websites in their custom CMS built with php. Those sites were versioned with SVN and more recently Git. I first started using a NPM build process, SCSS, JSON, and Foundation's grid while there. I also started learning and writing vanilla JavaScript.
I then worked as a WordPress developer for Tenth Muse Design. I built custom designed WordPress themes from their designers' designs for clients using a base theme and Advanced Custom Fields. Sites were built to be responsive and cross browser compatible. Tenth Muse Design had a contract to do the initial work for BloomCU, a company that makes credit union websites. Sites were versioned with Git on Bitbucket and deployed using DeployBot. We used Laravel Mix, a Webpack wrapper, to compile our JavaScript and Scss and to run Browsersync.
While at Inetz I took designs and turned them into responsive WordPress websites, updated and maintained WordPress websites, and trained clients on how to update website content.
In my time with National Powersport Auctions I was hired to build Motorcycle Buyers from a custom design in WordPress, update and maintain Powersport Buyers, and improve the accessability for National Powersport Auctions.
My current duties at TCN include taking Figma designs and turning them into responsive webpages or components in WordPress or Salesforce Account Engagement templates. I have been rebuilding, updating, and maintaining the corporate website's WordPress theme. I also built and continue to maintain custom email templates.
One consequence of working in web development is that websites rarely stay the same for very long. Because of that, very little of my work built before 4 years ago is currently an active website.
