I'm comfortable across the full stack. I spend most of my time developing in the front-end or designing layouts and interfaces in Figma.
My strengths include rapid prototyping in the browser with semantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Tailwind CSS. I'm comfortable performing UX research and user testing. I've used tools like WordPress and Squarespace to help small businesses and teams find creative solutions, and I use data from a variety of sources to make digital strategy recommendations.
Occasionally I'll use Python for dissecting data.
I'm a Digital Content Coordinator with the University of Alberta's Digital + Creative Centre of Expertise team (under External Relations). Think of Digital + Creative as the university's in-house digital agency; here, I use tools like Figma, Bootstrap, and Cascade CMS to rapidly build webpages and sites to support the university's faculties, departments, and research groups in achieving their strategic marketing goals.
I designed and built a new web layout for the University of Alberta's Embedded
Undergraduate
Certificates.
Tools: Figma (design), Cascade, Bootstrap
(development)
I put on my 'developer-who-designs' hat to help a U of A affiliated research group display
their
scientific data in a more user-friendly way.
Tools:
Cascade + Bootstrap (design + development)
Even when marketing plans change and your landing page designs don't make it to deployment, it's
still a lovely experience to design that could be used in later work.
Tools: Figma
(design)
A more thoughtful way to interact with Champions League match data for your favourite
team.
Tools: JavaScript, OneFootball API, Tailwind CSS (development)
A new way of thinking about Alberta Elections "Who's My MLA?" tool.
Tools: React,
Tailwind, Vercel, Python
I worked as a technical Digital Marketing Specialist for Breathe Outdoors where my main role was building out custom landing pages for brands carried in store as well as special sale periods. My role here was a mix of browser page development (using Magento CMS, CSS, JavaScript, and the occasional Python script), design thinking and strategy for digital marketing campaigns, and finding inventive solutions to inspire a diverse demographic with the love for the outdoors.
I was a software development intern in early 2020 with the Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALT Lab) before becoming a full time frontend UX developer with the team. In my time with ALT Lab, I worked in an Agile manner to help build a redesigned version of the Itwêwina Cree-English Dictionary. My design tasks had me performing UX research and design ideation with pencil and paper sketches, the occasional whiteboard demo over Zoom, creating low-fidelity mockups, and building high-fidelity mockups in Adobe XD. As a frontend developer, I used Cypress, Django, Python, and JavaScript for testing and development in order to create a new visual experience for the dictionary's search results pages, word entry pages, and the audio playback feature for word entries.
A redesigned interface for a Cree-English dictionary.
Tools: Adobe XD (design),
Python, JavaScript, Web APIs (Audio) (development)