Profile
I help the companies that I work with understand the benefits of an accessible, semantically-sound approach to their design and development efforts. I believe that the user experience extends beyond the browser to numerous devices and contexts and that accessible, inclusive design works everywhere.
Experience
Accessibility Consultant, Level Access:
Accessibility testing and auditing for several major US and CA clients using JAWS, JAWS Inspect, ZoomText, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack to test against WCAG 2.x A/AA Success Criterion. Manual and automated testing suite included AMP (Accessibility Management Platform), manual code inspection using browser development tools, and other internal proprietary tools. Authoring of Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) using Level Access and client-specific Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs). PDF auditing using Adobe Acrobat accessibility testing tools.
Accessibility Engineer, The Paciello Group:
Accessibility testing and auditing for several major US and CA clients, using JAWS, JAWS Inspect, ZoomText, NVDA, and VoiceOver to test against WCAG 2.0/2.1 A/AA Success Criterion. Manual and automated testing suite included ARC Toolkit, aXe, Colour Contrast Analyser, and internal proprietary tools. Worked on the marketing website providing major updates to a custom WordPress installation using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), JavaScript, Google Analytics, HubSpot integrations, CSS3/Sass, and PHP. The marketing website also required strict WCAG 2.1 AA testing requirements.
UX Developer, Navy Federal Credit Union:
Website development on NFO (navyfederal.org) using PHP, Java (Adobe Experience Manager), JavaScript, React, HTML5, CSS3/Sass, and Gulp. Strict ADA testing requirements.
UI Developer, Quality Support, Inc.:
Application user interface (UI) design and development using JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3/Sass, and Gulp.
Lead Web Developer, Fornetix, Inc.:
Website user interface (UI) design and development using PHP, WordPress, JavaScript/jQuery, HTML5, CSS3/Sass, Gulp, and Jekyll.
Senior Front-End Developer, Intersections, Inc.:
Website and application user interface (UI) design, custom theme/plugin development, and JavaScript development using PHP, WordPress, JavaScript/jQuery, HTML5, CSS3/Sass, and JSON/REST API Development. Primarily focused on UI design and JavaScript development on the Identity Guard® product.
Front-End Developer, NJI Media:
Website and application user interface (UI) design and JavaScript development using PHP, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, and Adobe graphics programs (Fireworks and Photoshop).
Front-End Developer, Symplicity Corporation:
Website and application user interface (UI) design and JavaScript development using PHP, Ruby/Sinatra, ColdFusion, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Adobe graphics programs (Fireworks and Photoshop), and OmniGraffle (wireframes).
Lead Designer, Recurly, Inc.:
Brand development, Website and application user interface (UI) design, illustration, and graphic design using Ruby/Ruby on Rails, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Adobe graphics programs (Fireworks, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator), and OmniGraffle (wireframes).
Education & Acknowledgements
- N.A.P.E. Engineering Courses, Basic Electricity and Electrical Maintenance, 1991
- Technical reviewer for “Sass and Compass in Action” by Wynn Netherland, Nathan Weizenbaum, Chris Eppstein, and Brandon Mathis, from Manning Publications Co. (ISBN: 9781617290145), 2013
Skills
Graphic:
- Adobe Creative Cloud graphics software (Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop)
- Print, Graphic, and Logo Design, Branding, and Illustration
- Prototyping and Interaction Design (Sketch, InVision, Adobe XD)
Front-End Development:
- HTML
- CSS: Hand-coded, OOCSS, BEM, Responsive Web Design, Sass, LESS
- JavaScript: Plain vanilla (ES5/ES6), jQuery, TypeScript, Node.js/NPM, Gulp/Grunt (task runners)
- Progressive Enhancement and Accessibility (WCAG, WAI-ARIA)
- UI and UX
Back End Development:
- PHP: WordPress, Laravel, CodeIgniter, CakePHP
- Ruby: Jekyll, Sinatra, Rack, ERB, RJS, Haml, YAML
- REST/XMLRPC, API Design and Development
- MVC (Model View Controller)
- SQL: MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL
- NoSQL: Redis, CouchDB, MongoDB
- SCM: Git, Mercurial, Subversion, MKS
- UNIX/Linux administration: FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian
Accessibility:
- WCAG 2.0/2.1 A/AA Success Criterion
- Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs)/Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs)
- ARC Toolkit
- aXe
- WAVE
- JAWS, JAWS Inspect, and ZoomText
- NVDA
- VoiceOver