Maintain and expand the native app, build and design web prototypes, write colorful words in terse paragraphs, and present the company's offerings to interested parties
Build front-end interfaces using pixel-perfect design, scaffold and customize Ruby on Rails apps, follow both agile and waterfall workflow processes on small- to medium-sized teams, build open-source projects
Work with professional clients to create websites, designs or campaigns that satisfy marketing goals. Have worked with dozens clients, ranging from VML to Westport Ale House
Create websites from scratch, draw sitemaps and wireframes, fix or adjust retainer sites, write copy, and digitize designs from PDF mock-ups for the marketing group's clients
Funded by a Knight Foundation grant, LarryvilleKU.com is a website that displays hyper-local news on a map. Manage technical elements and site design
Oversee all technical maintenance of the website, develop the native mobile app, and build other digital products for the ad or editorial sides of the digital extension of the student-run KU newspaper
Unify the UN's presence across social networks and express message of Secretary's office more effectively; responsible for redesign campaign and interactive Facebook page elements
Corrected website errors, digitized print forms and redefined the strategic message of housing.ku.edu in 2011 with interactive features and a site redesign
Bachelor of Science in Journalism
strategic communication emphasis
High School Diploma
When I'm not slaving behind a hot laptop, I enjoy a bowl of Lucky Charms, running, slapping the bass and finding a clean pair of jeans. Portland via Kansas via Massachusetts via Milwaukee via Chicago. That's not my dog.
Babel/ES6, Backbone, Docker, Gulp, Hubot, Jasmine, jQuery, Karma, Middleman, Minitest, Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, Rspec, TravisCI, webpack, WordPress
Designer of the Year, 1st Place
National High School Journalist of the Year (Runner-up)
Co-Editor of 1st Place Best in Show, Newspaper, 17+ Pages
Editor of 2nd Place Best in Show, Website
Kansas State High School Journalist of the Year
Two Scholastic Gold Key Awards: Personal Essay, Journalism
Eagle Scout Rank