I am currently employed at REGROUP as Lead Developer. I singlehandedly manage all of the web development for our clients. I wear many different hats as Lead Developer. My roles include building UI (templates/components) with back-end integration (PHP/Wordpress primarily), website maintenance (front-end and back-end), collaborating with our current and prospective clients, and HTML5 interactive ad development.
I landed my first job post-college at Perficient Digital as a UI Engineer. My team and I designed and built dynamic websites for a wide-array of clients. Depending on the scope of the project, my roles included maintaining the front-end on a current site, building UI (templates/components) from scratch, and collaborating directly with clients to establish optimized client-side solutions.
During my senior year of college I worked at Jackson National Life, a top-ranked US financial services company based in Lansing. During my time there, I assisted in the following: maintaining and updating websites for several of Jackson's affiliated companies, establishing customized style guides for specific projects, researching industry-related web standards, producing internal referencing documents, and creating wireframes/mock-ups for supplementary content.
Also while enrolled at MSU, I dipped my feet into a few other professional web development experiences. I got my first gig at SNworks, a partner company of The State News -- MSU's official newspaper. There, a handful of other students and myself designed and built responsive websites for newspapers from major universities (including MSU's). We built these sites around our in-house Content Management System called Gryphon. We maintained our sites (roughly 30) through Agile Workflow using a ticket-based system (JIRA).
I am an alumna from Michigan State University.
I majored in Media and Information with a concentration in Social and Interactive Media and a Minor in Information Technology.
Yeah, I know... quite the mouthful.
Prior to transferring to MSU, I earned my Associate's of Science at Schoolcraft College.
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First web design class at Livonia Career Technical Center.
Earned Diploma from Livonia Stevenson High School.
Earned Diploma Certification of Competency in Web Design from LCTC.
Began community college at Schoolcraft.
Graduated from Schoolcraft Community College. Earned Associates Degree in Science.
Transferred to Michigan State University.
Began employment at SN Works.
Began employment at Jackson National Life.
Left SN Works.
Left Jackson National Life
Graduation! I earned my Bachelor's of Science in Media and Information and Minor in Information Technology.
Began professional Career at Perficient Digital.
Earned Scrum Master certification.
Left Perficient Digital.
Became Lead Developer at REGROUP.