Hello! I'm a designer and developer looking for my next role.
Does your organization have a web application that is constantly enhanced with new features for your customers? Or maybe you have a vision where you're still working out the details? In either case, I am someone you want on your team.
I can bring a lot of value to your organization by accelerating the development process with my intertwined design and development workflow.
Once we're up and running, I'm an effective leader who can manage projects and guide a team efficiently. And I can pitch in wherever it's needed: development, design, operations, analytics, presentations.
Please reach out to me and I'm happy to share my thoughts and experience, and listen to yours.
Highly Recommended
“Jason is the perfect complement to any business or entrepreneur with a vision. He excels at taking big concepts and grand objectives and quickly transforming them into a detailed, functional application. During our time together at Peerless Network, Jason accomplished this first as a solo designer and developer and then shifted gears to leading a team that handled multiple projects simultaneously.
Jason's well-rounded skill set—coding, interface design, graphic design, and even copy-writing—combined with his can-do, helpful attitude ensure that any project he is involved with will be a success. I highly recommend Jason for your team!”
EVP, Products & Technology
Jason's boss“I had the pleasure of working with Jason for 5 years. During that time, he simultaneously carried the responsibility of project manager and team lead, all while being a daily contributor to the code base.
As a team lead Jason ensures that the team is always moving forward and that the product is always improving. He is constantly looking for ways to improve a code base and never hesitates to make himself available when a team member is struggling to overcome an obstacle.
The effectiveness of Jason's leadership and his willingness to dive into any challenge our team faced allowed us to grow a prototype application into a core component of our company's business operations.
Jason would be a great asset to any engineering team and I am thankful for having had the opportunity to work with him.”
Software Engineer
Jason's team memberSkills & Tech
Application Design
I often work directly with stakeholders to collect requirements and learn about the systems and processes the new application will integrate with. I express my design with screenshots, Figma presentations, HTML mockups, or JS-coded functional prototypes.
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Prototyping
I create prototypes to test early ideas and discover obstacles. I quickly spin up operational prototypes with a JavaScript framework and database. I've used Figma to present and share ideas, but I find it an unnecessary step when I can code something just as quickly.
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UX and UI Design
I collect as much information about users as I can before designing the user experience. Often the information is anecdotal and the only hard data comes from CRM platforms or legacy applications.
The ideal user experience is intuitive, fast, and risk-free (meaning the user can always go back, undo, or delete). The user interface is informed by that philosophy - the process and controls should be so obvious that the need for instruction or documentation is almost redundant (but should stil be present!).
With my marketing background, I understand and appreciate brand identity and standards. I have experience branding all sorts of assets, including applications. I'm careful to make sure the UI design represents the brand without interfering with the connection between the user and the application.
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Application Development
Today I am a JavaScript developer. Recently, I've focused on React with the Next.js framework. Prior to that, I worked with Vue.js and the Laravel PHP framework for several years. And prior to that, I worked with Bootstrap and jQuery.
As a team leader, I'm experienced in version control and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery. I've worked with GitHub Actions paired with Laravel Envoyer for deployment and BitBucket with Jenkins. For JavaScript tests I've worked with Cypress and Jest. For PHP I write phpunit tests.
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Artificial Intelligence
AI is now necessary to application development. An effective developer uses an AI coding assistant constantly. I excel at providing AI prompts that deliver specific, accurate code. To this end I've used Copilot in VS Code, the Cursor IDE, and of course ChatGPT.
I've experimented with the OpenAI API (see the Role Matcher) and AI image generation. My recent HAL9000 project was a deep dive into voice model training, vocoder optimization, and working with LLMs.
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Languages and Frameworks
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Typescript
- PHP
- Python
- Vue
- React
- Next.js
- Jest
- Cypress
- jQuery
- Tailwind
- Bootstrap
- Laravel
- phpunit
- WordPress
- MySQL
- Git
- Ubuntu
- Bash
- RESTful APIs
- SOAP APIs
Tools
- Visual Studio Code
- ChatGPT
- TablePlus
- Adobe Creative Suite
- AWS
- nginx
- GitHub
- Salesforce
- Mailchimp
- Microsoft Office
Experience
Senior UI Designer / Developer, Peerless Network
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I led the design and development of the Peerless Portal, a customer-facing order automation platform.
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I started with a blank canvas and deployed into production with customers in 3 months.
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This opened up a completely new customer market that was previously not profitable with a manually serviced approach.
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As we added thousands of customers, my team grew to 5 team members dedicated to the Portal project.
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Millions of dollars in revenue flowed through the Portal each year, with almost no work required by the voice engineering team.
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I wore the hats of team lead, designer, and developer. I worked closely with the voice product team, customer management leadership, and technical support to design features to support customers and business units across the company.
Marketing Automation & Technology Manager, PGi
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I managed PGi's marketing technology, including marketing automation platforms (primarily Eloqua, but also Hubspot and Marketo) and content management systems (primarily WordPress). I also extended our marketing capabilities through heavy JavaScript and PHP development, and leveraging APIs.
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This included integration between platforms (marketing automation, CRM, online chat, email, reporting, WordPress, webcasting, video), realtime asset deployment through API calls, web and email personalization, interactive web content, custom reporting dashboards, and custom partner data sharing portals with OAuth-managed access.
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I implemented front-end frameworks to rapidly develop branded, responsive, interactive, usable, and aesthetically pleasing front ends to these capabilities. I also provided clear, illustrated, web-based documentation.
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My work was so effective and efficient the company canceled plans to add two more technology managers to the team.
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The result was a sales pipeline with increased leads volume and more visibility into the customer journey.
Systems Designer, Dynamic Marketing Systems (now Truelio)
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I started as a designer and implementer of print ordering and automation systems. I grew into an automator of all kinds of marketing - from print to email nurturing to sales support.
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I started managing our print ordering system, a project that required database management and HTML and CSS development.
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Then I managed all kinds of projects, which included helping designing business processes for our fledgling company.
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My day could include pitching business to clients, creative-directing a website, copy-writing and coding an HTML email, and preparing traffic reports with analysis.