One Month Rails

Understanding and Supporting ADHD Colleagues in the Workplace

Virtual Experience Program Participant

Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Media Training

Planning a Career in User Experience

Transitioning to Product Management

Learning Vue.js

Hiring and Supporting Neurodiversity in the Workplace

Open Water Diver

CSS: Flexbox First Look

JavaScript: Patterns

Learning SOLID Programming Principles

Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap

PHP: Object-Oriented Programming

Intro to Generative AI Course

Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Thinking Machines

I encouraged new web developers and shared resources with industry initiates.
https://301DaysofCode.com

Community Manager / Founder

Resume Review: Front-end Web Developer (Waqar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQftUukf7A

Content Creator

♦ Optimized and maintained 50+ client websites, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability with React, Vue, PHP, and WordPress.
♦ Conducted 100+ technical SEO audits, resolving indexing issues, enhancing site speed by 40%, and boosting rankings.

Senior Full-stack Web Developer

♦ Created and maintained ADA-compliant landing pages and career websites for talent acquisition campaigns with WordPress (CMS), PHP7, SASS, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS, and Javascript (ES5. ES6).
♦ Created new developer onboarding documentation and training videos to help jr developers joining the team.
♦ Assisted Sr developer with implementing security headers and CSP for attack vector reduction.

Used: PHP 5 & 7. Wordpress ACF (Advanced Custom Fields), Bootstrap, SCSS, HTML 5, GitHub, Lity.js, Slick.js, Asana, Monday, jQuery, Gulp, Hub Spot CMS, CSP, HubL, ADA-compliant web development, site speed optimization.

Full Stack Web Developer

♦ Worked with PHP 7, the Yii Framework, CSS, HTML, and Bootstrap to redesign, and develop the internal facing staff portal user interface (UI). 
♦ Identified, troubleshot, and fixed numerous bugs affecting the operation of the online school, such as student trimester GPAs that were miscalculated.
♦ Administered, and maintained containerized Docker instances hosted on an Azure dev environment.

Worked with:
HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, PHP 7, SQL, Docker (Usage), GitHub, Jira, Yii 1.1 and Yii 2.

Full Stack Web Development Contractor

Contracted to help with a backlog of updates for employee-facing e-learning systems.

♦ Troubleshot & created workarounds for legacy -  Internet Explorer 11 compliant - browser support.
♦ Transitioned legacy Flash content to HTML5.

Used: XML, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Powershell, Greensock Js, Adobe Captivate, Federal Financial Regulations, DSLC, Internet Explorer 11, Legacy Browser Support, GIMP, Inkscape, OneNote, Notepad++, VSCode, Skype for Business, Outlook.

Web Development Contractor

Contracted to help setup & run A/B split tests with Adobe Target and JavaScript.

♦ Extensive experience writing & troubleshooting Javascript, DOM manipulation, cross-browser CSS, XHR response timing for Adobe Target tests.
♦ Developed object-oriented JavaScript web applications for high transactional sites that earn over $17 Million in revenue per week.
♦ Knowledge in performance profiling & tuning of OO Asynchronous JavaScript & network responses with Google Lighthouse.

Used: Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), A/B Testing, Vanilla Javascript (ES5 - ES6) jQuery, HTML 5, CSS 3, Webpack 4, Adobe Target, Adobe Tag Manager, Jira, SmartSVN, Virtualbox VM, Red Hat Linux, User Interface Design, Usability Testing (Sauce Labs & Browserstack), Adobe Photoshop, Project Management.

UI/UX Development Contractor

Managed the transition project from a pre-existing buggy code base to a production ready e-commerce website that assists the company in earning millions per year. 

♦ Sourced potential outside contractors for the subsequent phases of the project.
♦ Managed development sprints with outside contractors & reported to key stakeholders.
♦ Wireframed and redesigned the front-end UI to be more user-friendly & with a higher conversion rate.

Used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Django, Angular, Python, Beautiful Soup, Digital Ocean, Apache, Nginx, PHP 7, Wordpress, WooCommerce, VSCode, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Ubuntu (16.04, 18.04), AWS.

Technical Project Management Contractor

Currently sun setting a micro SaaS PopTask.me

Co-Founder

Web application consulting & contracting.

♦ Worked with notable companies: Red Clay Interactive, Park National Bank. 
♦ Performed: UI/UX reviews, website maintenance, front-end development, MVP creation, technical SEO (Site speed and indexing), IT leadership, team building and Digital marketing

Used: Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Wordpress, Slack, Trello, BitBucket, Agile/Scrum, Jira, jQuery, PHP.

Front-end Web Development Consultant

Startup experience. Worked with clients: Mr Scratch Off, 4 Rivers & Gallaher Edge & Iron Hack.

♦ Performed SEO & UX audits to address site speed & SEO performance issues.
♦ Performed Front-end development for Gallaher Edge’s new join & home pages. 
♦ Created Facebook & PPC advertising campaigns to generate new leads for clients.

Used: Asana, Funelytics, SERP Book, SEMRush, Mail Chimp, Zeplin.io, Bootstrap, Gulp, HTML, CSS, Wordpress (PHP), Slack.

Digital Marketing/Web Development/Client Services Contractor

Technically the founder, but most of my day to day responsibilities were in the scope of a MERN stack developer, software manager & scrum master.

♦ Sourced, interviewed, and mentored a core team of 3 fully remote, multi-time zone, jr developers, many of whom landed better full-time roles after working on the project.
♦ Developed a REST API in Express (Node JS) for the job board CRUD actions with a MongoDB backend.
♦ Coordinated the design, and development of the React-based responsive UI components with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript ES6. 
♦ Provided product & sprint planning leadership using Agile Methodology, and SCRUM best practices. 

Used: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript ES6/7, Bootstrap, Node.js, Discord.js, Data Mining(Puppeteer API), Headless Chrome, MongoDB, React JS, Agile Methodology, SCRUM, User Interviews, UX Research.

For more information about CodeCareer's former team composition Ajea Smith eloquently describes it in detail: https://medium.com/dev-genius/working-with-a-startup-li

Ben Spak

Web Dev