Tvenge Design

R&D Web Specialist

Responsible for investigating and creating value-ad JavaScript-based features, documenting features for Web Producers to implement, continuing to keep development team on the forefront of the web development industry, as well as the front end development of valid html/css on sites in a production environment. Act as a resource for Product, Marketing and Engineering on various web products and business systems.

• Influenced FindLaw to align browser support threshold with the industry from .5% to 5%, effectively dropping IE6 support. Current owner of reviewing industry data and driving browser support decisions for the development team.
• Built and maintain a quality checking tool that crawls sites and returns critical client information errors. The tool is used by multiple teams across the organization. It streamlined the QA process and increases quality overall on FindLaw sites.
• Proactively revamped interim mobile strategy. Streamlined the user experience by overhauling design and navigations through css3 and JavaScript.
• Lead team to drop handheld (feature phone) styling on our sites. This freed up time in fulfillment process to focus on mobile (smartphone) styling.

Web Specialist

Responsibilities include working beyond the Web Producer role to include special projects. These projects include creating versatile html/css/javascript code for engineers to create web applications in addition to collaborating with other teams at FindLaw to work across boundaries, increasing inter-team communication. It is also important to be cognizant of the special projects’ scope relative to production expectations through effective time management.

• Assessed current template development process, identified a need for improvement and proposed creation of a refined process. Presented these findings to management, keeping in mind the business risks and initial time investment verses long-term time savings. Proposal was approved and new process was created, saving 60 hours over the course of a year.
• Represented FindLaw as a member of the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) by regularly participating in speaking and meet & greet events.
• Built relationships outside of the Development Team through collaboration with our internal customers (i.e. Designers & Project Managers), ongoing.

Web Producer

Responsibilities included the development of valid html/css on complex and very large web sites for attorneys. In this role, I was expected to complete sites at a high level of production, coding 5–7 per week.

• Increased leadership skills through html/css training to peers while continuing to meet full production goals.

Freelance work gives me the chance to work freely with other tools and platforms outside of my day job. It gives me the experience of working with a project from front to back.

• Actively using the html5 boilerplate on all projects
• Use css3 in lieu of JavaScript whenever possible
• Became fluent in WordPress
• Participated in “Overnight Web Site Challenge” in 2009 (Global Citizens Network) and 2010 (Tatanka Bluffs Corridor).

The goal at Apple is to enrich lives on a daily basis through great products. As a specialist, my responsibility was to listen and understand the needs of the customer and find solutions unique to them.

• Built extensive knowledge base on Apple products that I continue to use on a daily basis as the “go-to” person at FindLaw.
• Conducted one on one training sessions with customers to find solutions that met their needs.