EMBL is Europe’s flagship laboratory for the life sciences and employs hundreds of developers to deliver online scientific services. We've created reusable front-end tooling to speed development, reduce cost and improve UX. It's been especially interesting for the breadth of technology and wide range of user needs and developer backgrounds.

I lead the creation of this tooling, the Visual Framework, and serve as its lead advocate to help developers and product designers to utilise and implement. I also ensure the Visual Framework adapts to those needs. This is an expansion of my role for the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).

• Grow, evolve legacy projects into pan-EMBL solutions
• Sass, Nunjucks, Lerna, Fractal, npm, yarn, eleventy, component systems and many more
• Information architecture and component tooling for EMBL web content, design systems
• Architect abstracted web content platform, navigation
• Facilitate collaboration between UX, developers and content teams
• Foster design system growth, adoption by coordinating with development leads

Major technical tooling and processes: HTML/JS/CSS, Sass, GitHub, GitLab CI, Visual Studio Code, Google Analytics, Gulp, npm, Eleventy, Fractal, Drupal, Continuous integration, Kanban

• Lead information architecture and design tooling for EMBL-EBI web content, design systems
• Facilitate collaboration between UX, developers and content teams
• Foster design system growth, adoption by coordinating with development leads
• Drive for reusable patterns in web interfaces
• Close gap between web analytics and content effectiveness
• Improve intranet information architecture to focus on user activities

Major technical tooling and processes: Content modelling and architecture, HTML/JS/CSS, Sass, Adobe Creative Suite, Atom, MapBox, Google Analytics, GitHub, Gulp, npm, Jekyll, Foundation Framework, Drupal, Travis, Continuous integration, Kanban

• Manage user-focused efforts (UX, research, metrics) for company web projects
• Website project lead for a Drupal platform to support more than 150,000 user accounts, provide e-commerce tools
• Information architecture and infographics for business proposals, strategic planning
• Numerous intranet-style websites to manage contacts, resumes, documents by consuming JSON and XML feeds for custom dashboards and processing
• Create and implement software projects with multi-company team members in the U.S., Europe and Middle East

Major technical tooling: Drupal, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bitbucket, Agile, Amazon EC2, Route 53, Google Analytics

I co-founded TheDigitel.com way back in 2009 to help advance newspaper methodology in the age of websites. This broke down barriers in collaborating with the public and created a more efficient and highly-networked data model of hyperlocal news.

• Lead team of eight staff and an array of freelancers and volunteers to report, market and implement web features
• Lead community editor outreach with physical, online, podcast events
• Help our students grow through our intern partnership with the local college
• Pioneer use of Twitter hashtags for local media community reporting
• Dynamic Advertising: a new advertising model powered by social media
• Speak at events for the creative community about code, reporting, startups
• Refine Drupal UX, content editing experience for community collaboration with staff editors
• Raise funding, manage investors, expand TheDigitel to three cities

Major technical tooling: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Drupal, LAMP hosting optimisation, daily briefing newsletter automations, reverse proxy caching, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Analytics, Google G Suite admin, A/B testing, Google AdSense and AdWords, podcasting

• Newspaper infographic design and reporting
• Produce daily deadline-driven information graphics based on news reports
• Create interactive HTML and Flash information graphics for the Web
• Process geographic data to create maps (GIS)
• Design and produce newspaper pages
• Photo management and copy editing

Major technical tooling: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, QuarkXPress, Flash, ArcGIS, Modo 3D modelling, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Mac OS

• Newspaper infographic and page design
• Produce daily deadline-driven information graphics based on news reports
• Help lead the visual design of newspaper pages
• Work to educate staff on photo cropping, type kerning, general principles of visual structure and directing the reader's focus

Major technical tooling: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, QuarkXPress, Mac OS

• Newspaper pre-press production, advertising
• Pre-flight and technical management of daily newspaper pre-press production
• Lead production of in-house creatives for advertising clients
• Manage pre-press team of 4 individuals

Major technical tooling: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, QuarkXPress, Mac OS