I prioritize accessibility for both users and clients, ensuring that every web presence I create is inclusive, user-friendly, and easily maintainable. With a Full Stack Web Development Certification from the University of Pennsylvania's intensive coding program, I'm trained in both front-end and back-end development. In combination with my Bachelor's degree in Art History from Temple University, I have a unique perspective on design and aesthetics, allowing me to direct or assist the creative process for a web project. By leveraging agile methodologies, I collaborate closely with clients to deliver optimized and impactful websites.
I'm always open to new & interesting projects - let's work together to bring your vision to life online!
Lead collaborative project to revamp website for a large makerspace in South Philadelphia. Elements include animation, filtered tenant directory, events calendar, and multi-layered navigation.
Year: 2024
Scope: Project management, development, design assistance
Design: Kelley Garrard
View site: Bok <>
Ongoing development needs for the existing site of a boutique hotel and shop in Philadelphia. Notably built booking widgets for hotel page and post-launch quality assurance.
Year: 2023 - Current
Scope: Development
View site: Yowie <>
Solo development and design project for a boutique hotel and event space in Philadelphia. Lead the client through thoughtful exercises to determine valuable areas of improvement in order to increase room & event booking, user exposure to diversity of services, and brand awareness.
Year: 2023
Scope: Project management, development, design
Branding: Kelley Garrard
View site: The Deacon <>
A user-friendly website for a small business campus in Providence, Rhode Island. The priority of this site was to attract new businesses by conveying the creative community's expressive culture through fun design, while maintaining a efficient usability, even with complex functions, that keeps the user's attention.
Year: 2024
Scope: Development, design assistance
Design: Kelley Garrard
View site: 50 Sims <>
A contemporary but accessible website for a new apartment building in South Philly. The site functions as a marketing tool for attracting and informing potential renters, as well as a tool for residents to easily connect with the company.
Year: 2024
Scope: Development, design assistance
Design: Kelley Garrard
View site: The Parker <>
Lead collaborative project to revamp website for a seasonal rooftop bar in Philadelphia. User experience design reduced an overwhelmingly high volume of phone and email questions to basically zero.
2022
Scope: Project management, UX design, development
View site: Bok Bar <>
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Squarespace revamp for a fashion e-commerce site to help drive online sales and perform as a portfolio for the company's owner + designer. The project began with UX exploration to inspire thoughtful design. Custom accessibility additions include a language translator tool from Google Translate and an accessibility tool from UserWay.
2022
Scope: Project Management, development
View site: Amazulu Collections <>
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Found creative HTML + CSS solutions for this retailer's Shopify site so it could reach the client's vision for design + functionality, espcially to overcome areas where Shopify limits design. Included Flodesk integration and small cosmetic adjustments.
2022
Scope: Development
View site: Minimal Chaos <>
A quick 2 week turn around for this site that needed full design and Squarespace development with existing branding. Custom code elements included original fonts, icon replacement for default cursor, and rotating marquees.
2023
Scope: Development
View site: Wes' Rib House <>
Designed and developed a single-page, animated site for a temporary World Cup event space at the historic Armory in Providence, RI. To increase accessibility for all intended users, prioritized a language selector from Google Translate and an accessibility tool.
2022
Scope: Development, design
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Creative solutions for an artist portfolio that doubles as two seperate e-commerce brands under one Squarespace subscription. Primary challenges included UX design for a multitude of brands, as well as custom code to create seperate headers, navigation, branding, and menus.
2023
Scope: Development
View site: Ben Peterson <>
Replicated the antiquated Wordpress homepage on Squarespace and expanded on design and content for additional pages. Project began with a collaborative consultation to explore various revamp options and host-sites.
2022
Scope: Development
View site: My ND <>
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Replace Weebly site with an expanded new Squarespace site; including eight pages, Acuity Scheduling integration, and new branding. Designed + developed entire site prior to equipping business owner with the tools to continue expanding format and design.
2023
Scope: Development
View site: The Pottery Gym <>
There's always a way to conquer Squarespace's limitations- I suggest you never settle, no matter how minor the feature. CSS code injections allowed for names + roles to be revealed on hover.
2022
Scope: Custom improvements
Design: Fink Creative
Customized breakpoint for the nav bar on this client's site to solve the issue of overlapping nav elements. Created a responsive design for desktop, tablet, and mobile views.
2022
Scope: Custom improvements
Design: Fink Creative
Lead front end + back end developer for an original e-commerce trading site with experimental concept primarily using Node.js, Express.js, and MySQL.
2021
Scope: Development, design
See more: Bottom Drawer Marketplace on Github <>
Lead UX design and front end development for MooLah, an original tip-tracking browser app with advanced features like account security, a RESTful calendar, data graphing, and the NYT API.
2021
Scope: Development, design assistance
View site: MooLah on Github <>
Lead the redevelopment of the website for an adaptive-reuse maker space in Philadelphia, in collaboration with a graphic designer. Lead UX design, assisted with the rest of the design process, and build the site on Squarespace, adding on almost 1k lines of custom code, a filtering widget, and custom multi-layer navigation.
Post-development with another agency, I assist this client with all development needs, which has so far included the addition of a booking widget to their hotel page, announcement bars, pop-ups, static buttons, and cosmetic edits like spacing and positioning.
Worked solely on the redesign and development of a boutique hotel and event space's website, which had existing branding and graphics. Developed on Squarespace with the addition of custom fonts, custom header/footer/mobile navigation layout, and animations.
Currently in development for a modern but accessible website for a new apartment building coming soon to South Philly. The site functions as a marketing tool for attracting and informing potential renters, as well as a tool for residents to easily connect with the company. Full site coming soon!
Found creative HTML + CSS solutions for this retailer's Shopify site so it could reach the client's vision for design + functionality, espcially to overcome areas where Shopify limits design. Included Flodesk integration and small cosmetic adjustments.
Worked between a graphic designer and the client for a full refresh on the bar + event space's website. Sourced all content, lead UX design, and assisted with custom code during Squarespace development.
Squarespace revamp for a fashion e-commerce site. The scope of this solo project included UX exploration, design, content sourcing, and development. Custom code included a language selector tool from Google Translate and an accessibility tool.
A quick 2 week turn around for this site that needed full design and Squarespace development with existing branding. Custom code elements included original fonts, icon replacement for default cursor, and rotating marquees.
Replicated the antiquated Wordpress homepage on Squarespace and expanded on design and content for additional pages. Project began with a collaborative consultation to explore various revamp options and host-sites.
Replace Weebly site with an expanded new Squarespace site; including eight pages, Acuity Scheduling integration, and new branding. Designed + developed entire site prior to equipping business owner with the tools to continue expanding format and design.
Creative solutions for an artist portfolio that doubles as two seperate e-commerce brands under one Squarespace subscription. Primary challenges included UX design for a multitude of brands, as well as custom code to create seperate headers, branding, and menus.
Edited HTML + CSS to customize breakpoint for the nav bar on this client's site. This site already had custom ordering of nav components but as the screen size reduced, elements overlapped. The code solution broke the nav into mobile layout at a much larger screen width.
Lead front end + back end developer for an original e-commerce trading site with experimental concept primarily using Node.js, Express.js, and MySQL.
Lead UX design and front end development for MooLah, an original browser app with andvanced features like account security, a RESTful calendar, data graphing, and the NYT API.
