Work experience

Lead Developer

Sensible Marketer

August 2019 – Current

Lead developer for a small team in a boutique marketing company. Give direction to creative and development team on a project to project basis. Assisting in building basic processes in a startup environment. Assign tasks accordingly to junior developers.

Design, develop, and test mobile friendly email templates compatible with different email clients, HTML based. Understand email strategy documents and collaborate with different teams in a corporate environment. Experience working in Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Pardot, plus other smaller email platforms.

Work closely with several enterprise clients in creation of email programs, and provide training for the programs created.

  • Front-end Development
  • Google Marketing Platform | Gsuite | Analytics
  • Salesforce Email Developer
  • WordPress Developer
  • User Experience Lead
  • Accessibility Standards
  • Project Management
  • Website Launch / transfers / Security
  • QA testing
  • Web project lead
  • Asana, Basecamp, Wrike (prefer asana)
  • SEO Standards
  • Build training documentation
  • Design mockups

Web Development Specialist
Front End Development – UX Design

SAIT

January 2015 to August 2019

Organized enough to prioritize the management of multiple CMS platforms. Worked very independently with minimal supervision relying on limited resources. Always very keen to look for areas of improvement and coworker empowerment. This often means mentoring and teaching coworkers better HTML / UX practises. Help to improve online contributions by building a contributor styleguide and offering professional guidance.

Contributed to the SAIT institutional rebrand, centennial celebration and the completion of responsive rebuild. The development team had a huge part in shaping the overall image and brand of the SAIT institution today.

Very adaptable in branding new software and widgets brought to Marketing department. SAIT library project – Responsible for branding and intergrading existing external site into current CMS. Intergraded several JavaScript widgets, styled JS to SAIT brand, and responsible for all overall testing. Events Calendar project – Responsible for intergrading 150+ instances of JavaScript event widgets on sait.ca, and ensuring everything meets SAIT brand.

The main developer for Pardot Salesforce products at SAIT. Landing pages and lead forms are build to SAIT brand with HTML / CSS / JS layout template customizations. Responsible for all builds, UX design, and improved functionality of automated marketing. Design and build all HTML email templates for current marketing email campaigns.

Created and researched mobile / desktop testing standards for dev team. Use inspect tool for testing and error debugging. Run testing on several browsers, devices, and operating systems on a consistent basis.

Creating Accessibility strategy for sait.ca and leading project.

  • Front-end Development primarily
  • Extensive CMS experience
  • Google Marketing Platform | Gsuite | Analytics | Adwords | SEO
  • CSS3, Variable CSS, HTML, JS, SASS
  • React experience
  • Bootstrap, Material design Libraries
  • GitHub MAC Desktop
  • Gulp, npm
  • Photoshop, Illustrator advanced
  • Best UX / UI practices
  • Content contributors support
  • Mobile first development

Freelance Web Developer/Designer

Independent

2012 – 2019

  • Independent client site builds
  • Maintain existing web properties with updates
  • Google Marketing | Google Adwords | Google Analytics | Search Console
  • Front-end Development
  • Linux cPanel
  • Bootstrap Libraries
  • Photoshop, Illustrator
  • Best UX / UI practices
  • WordPress and other CMS platforms
  • Custom google event tracking

Web Developer

Imagination Dental Solutions

September 2013 to February 2015

Main developer that coordinated closely with in-house designer to redesign the responsive website. Created and maintained Google Analytic and Google Adwords accounts. Built main site using bootstrap and JS libraries. Built custom Mailchimp html templates for bi-weekly newsletters.

  • WordPress Blog
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Mailchimp
  • Bootstrap
  • Press Releases
  • JavaScript
  • Photoshop

Web Designer / Developer

Pixelhouse/CampusNorth

June 2012 to December 2012

This was a six-month contract populating responsive built pages for high school courses. I populated and edited several different modules for growing online school. This was a remote position. I am credited for my work.


Customer Service Experience

Food and Beverage Service, Calgary, AB

2001 – 2019

  • Royale on 17th – Serving
  • CRMR – Serving / Bartending / Supervising
  • Vintage Group – Serving / Casual Fine Dining / Steakhouse
  • Various Other Establishments – Serving / Bartending / Casual / Fine Dining

Udemy

Certificate
React – The complete guide
2021

webmaster

Diploma, CDED
Sydney, NS
2011

web design

Certificate, MRU
Calgary, AB
2010

Media studies / Photography

Courses, SAIT
Calgary, AB
2009


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I am always looking at new ways to network and expand my professional circle.

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