๐ฉโ๐ปI am a Software Developer and SEO Technical Content Writer experienced in JavaScript, accessibility/ A11y/ WCAG, design, and UX.
๐ป I have 5+ years experience developing WordPress small business websites, blogs and eCommerce sites, and over 10+ years technical and SEO web content writing.
โฟ Iโm also a former adaptive technology specialist and special educator with extensive professional and personal experience in digital accessibility/A11y, WCAG, ADA, AODA, and the disability community.
I have over 15,000 volunteer hours and am active in the developer and open source communities.๐ซถ Find me on Toronto JavaScript Slack and Discord, and A11yTO events at Microsoft
My stacks include JAMStack,React, Vanilla JavaScript, Next.js, Astro, C#.NET, SQL, WordPress,๐
๐ซ๐ท I've been doing Duolingo French daily since January 2022 and ๐ณ๐ฑDutch since January 2023. I'm also doing daily lessons in ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Welsh, ๐ฉ๐ช German, and ๐ณ๐ด Norwegian,
two university degrees BA and BSc. computer science graduate coursework.
- Health and Medical
- Environmental Science
- Education
- Urban and Environmental Planning/ GIS
- Visual and Graphic Art
- Social Anthropology / UX / qualitative research and quantitative research
- Olympic torchbearer for my volunteer and community work
- Canadian Ski Marathon: 36km in 2 days,no poles, at -53C, age 5
- Lived in a Tipi for 3 months
- Can legally work in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK
- Did GIS on UNIX mainframe in university
- database administrator,
- outside sales for Microsoft Office courseware,
- computer lab technician,
- residence internet manager (supervised team of 12 technicians),
- varsity events supervisor,
- retail sales and store leadership
- Crown land forest regeneration surveyor, and
- health researcher assistant.
- 10+ years part-time retail sales and store leadership. I started in middle school being mentored by an amazing retail manager with 40 years experience, and held store leadership and management positions from high school through university. I always had top sales results from my customer service and product knowledge skills. Iโm looking forward to bringing these skills to customer facing software development and technical content writing positions.
๐งถ "Knitting is at its fundamentals, a binary code featuring top-down design, standardized sub-modules, and recursive logic that relies on ratios, mathematical principles, and an intuitive grasp of three-dimensional geometry. ~ Kim Salazar, KnitList circa 1995