I’m a front-end developer with a passion for UX design.

My past life of 10+ years in HR has built a foundation in designing materials such as handbook website, benefits websites and collateral, applications, applicant portals, policies and more, that are simple, clean and easy to read for the best user experience.

Navigating difficult conversations and showing genuine empathy is no easy feat. I guarantee with my years of experience, there is no situation you could send my way that I haven’t had to navigate in the past.

It’s not often you find a developer with business acumen, strong communication skills and HR experience.

Portfolio

UX Case Study – TimeBank

A fictitious product where a user can share their expertise to earn hours.

UX Case Study – Project Coffee

A walk through of Project Coffee (Personnel Action Form) from idea to eventual reality.

Planet Argon – State of the Community

Visualization of survey results for a local non-profit
HTML, CSS, SASS, Bootstrap, Javascript, JQuery, Chartjs, D3 (though we ended up not using), & Sketch

TheDL-Sinatra

Update a small application that displays a list of downloads
HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Sinatra, Ruby, DataMapper, & Heroku

Project Coffee

People Action Form
HTML, CSS, Javascript, & Figma (design tool)

Project Blue Ribbons Review

Two week live project portion of The Tech Academy courses working on client projects from Prosper IT Consulting.
Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Razor, SQL Server, Entity Framework, MVC, ASP.NET, & Team Foundation Server

PDX WIT Job Board

Improve PDX WIT Job Board
HTML, Word Press, Google Analytics, Google Data Studio, & PHP (small amounts)

Project Strawberry

ToDo List
ASP.NET, Knockout.js, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, & Javascript

Project Avocado

Rock, paper, scissors game
Python

Blog

Well Designed Websites

November 2, 2018

We’ve all used websites that just don’t make sense. A great example is BuzzFeed where the site is so busy, you don’t know where to look: It can be difficult as a user to navigate if we as designers don’t make the process super simple and draw the eye. What… Read more

Creating Wireframes

September 11, 2018

I’ve always had a special place in my heart for creating things. Just ask my husband about my craft “corner” that’s really sprawled across our whole house. One really cool part of creating things, is the idea phase. Last fall, while still working in HR, I was building our benefits… Read more

Playing With A New Toy – Figma

September 6, 2018

I felt a bit spoiled during my internship because I was using a mac as part of my development setup. This also allowed me to try Sketch for a bit. As the internship wrapped up though, and I returned to my Chromebook, I felt frustrated that I didn’t have a… Read more

Dipping into React

August 30, 2018

I really enjoyed doing my front-end internship and was exposed to React while I was there, so I figured I’d give it a try. So far, so good. Nothing really to report on other than I’m working through Wes Bos React For Beginners course. I actually started to go through… Read more