About
This site started out as homework for college projects 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 ten years. Working with so many different aspects of programming 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.
A year later I joined Duo Group as the company's sole developer for the next two years. During this time I would set up domains, servers, hosting, and emails. I built custom websites from the designers' Photoshop designs and started making WordPress themes and began using it as the CMS for Duo Group's clients. While here I 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 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 are built to be responsive and cross browser compatible. Tenth Muse Design also has a contract to do the initial work for BloomCU, a company that makes credit union websites. All sites are version with Git on Bitbucket and deployed using DeployBot. We use Laravel Mix, a Webpack wrapper, to compile our JavaScript and Scss and to run Browsersync.
My duties in my current role at Inetz include taking designs and turning them into responsive websites, updating and maintaining WordPress websites, and website training.
An interesting side effect of building websites is that they rarely stay the same for very long. Because of that none my work built before Movearoo, which I finished about 4 years ago, is viewable.
