Here at Slalom we get asked alot, "should I go with WordPress or Drupal for our next site" Drew at Pantheon has a concise overview of the pros and cons of each platform. His takeaway is essentially mine as well - each has strengths and weaknesses, but more importantly you...
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UX Designer,
UX Design & Front-End Web Development
- 5+ years experience with front-end web development
- HTML/HTML5
- CSS
- PHP
- Experienced in wireframing and UI mockup/creation
- WordPress
- Bootstrap and Responsive Design
- JavaScript/JQuery
Experienced in Agile Software Development Methods
- 7+ years experience managing website development teams.
- 5+ years working in Agile teams (UX lead, UX Designer roles)
- Managed project budgets.
- Capable of operating in a self-directed fashion.
- Managed designers, photographers, copywriters and developers.
- Presented regular updates of site progress to upper management and key stakeholders.
- Angular, WordPress, Big Commerce, Joomla, Kentico, Static HTML/Bootstrap
Visual Design
- Create original, strategic design solutions from concept to completion.
- Sketch, Adobe UX, InVision, Craft
- Life-long Mac user with 10+ years experience using Adobe Creative Suite.
- Experienced in wireframing and UI mockup/creation.
- Typography nerd.
- Experienced in planning responsive design layouts.
Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Lead digital marketing efforts for clients.
- Worked with team-members to write briefs, develop integrated communications plans and establish KPI’s.
- Work with teams, sub-contractors and clients to ensure all aspects of programs are on brand and employing best practices in digital marketing.
- Manage multiple Google Analytics accounts for client and lead efforts to gain understanding of user behaviors and trends.
- Constantly push the boundaries on digital marketing efforts.
- Experience using: MailChimp, Constant Contact & Google+ for Business
Creative Agency Operations and Management
- Full P&L responsibilities including overseeing agency-wide billing and vendor management.
- Final decision maker on customer and vendor escalation issues.
- Lead efforts to transition company to 100% cloud-based systems: Basecamp Project Management, QuickBooks On-Line, Freshbooks and Google Apps.
My Toolbox
- MacBookPro
- Sketch
- OmniGraffle – site/page wireframing
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- MAMP – local development
- Espresso IDE – /text/css/js/html editor
- GitHub – version control
- Transmit – FTP
- OmniPlan/Basecamp – project management
- Pantheon.io for hosting
- Cafe Vita black coffee
Recent work
Here’s a peek at a few of the latest projects I’ve completed. I specializing in WordPress web UX/UI, strategy, design and front-end coding. I also have experience implementing Big Commerce, Joomla, Kentico, as well as standard static HTML/Bootstrap.
Global Adventuress
UX, Brand and development for a WordPress based website. Nominated for the USA Today New Media Award – Top 20 Travel Destination Blogs
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Planning and UX for new, WordPress/BuddyPress based, pediatricians collaboration site
Chief of Staff Expert
WordPress/BuddyPress website planning, design, build and deployment
The Washington Council
WordPress website planning, build (working with Slalom UX team) and deployment. Custom events calendar and location maps
Beizinger Jewelry – freelance project
Brand development, Woo Commerce website and product catalog development
Eagle Eye Painting – freelance project
WordPress website planning, design, build and deployment
Clients I’ve worked with
- Alaskan Dream Cruises
- Allen Marine
- Angus Brands
- Beizinger
- Brace Point Pilates
- Canyon Point Energy
- Crosspoint Academy
- Diane Stone Art
- Digux
- Era Living
- Fairplay Funding
- Family Resource Center
- Gene Juarez Academy
- Global Adventuress
- Hatton Godat Pantier
- Idea Spectrum
- INetU Managed Hosting
- Invicta Law Group
- Issaquah Highlands Council
- Madison Park Greetings
- Microsoft
- Netstar
- Nonprofit HR Solutions
- Northwest Career Colleges Federation
- Paccar
- Parkside Papers
- Persnickety
- Point It!
- Quorum Review IRB
- Tim’s Barber Shop
- Safeco Insurance
- Seattle Parks & Recreation
- Sleeps 5
- Smokey Point Distribution
- Starbucks Coffee Company
- Together Center
- White River Credit Union
Personal life and interests
I’m a born-and-raised Seattleite, and a North Capitol resident for the past 14+yrs where I live with my wife Tina and our twin boys. Our neighbors rock and I couldn’t wish for a better place for my kids to grow up. We got bit by the international travel bug many years back and are always on the look for a new destination. I enjoy: live music, Grandma’s home-made Pho, the Seahawks, Twitter and Plants vrs Zombies with my boys.
I’m proud of the charitable contributions we’ve been able to make over the years, both personally and with Slalom Consulting.
Thanks for taking a look.
Take care, Eric.
Sometimes I Blog
Always good to refresh yourself on the basics of WP. Here's a good article from the folks at WPBeginner. [button color="accent-color" hover_text_color_override="#fff" size="large" url="http://goo.gl/MbjHT2" text="Read the post" color_override=""]
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With all the hype about the iWatch, iPhone 6 and Apple payments, you might have missed some fairly substantial design changes to the apple.com site. In general terms it looks as if they are embracing Jonny Ive's iOS 7 esthetic. Adieu gradients and boxes, perhaps we'll meet again another day.
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I get asked all the time "What do you recommend for a WordPress site backup plan?" I've had very good luck using Amazon Web Services S3 storage combined with a plugin called UpDraft. It takes less than an hour to setup and configure a very robust backup system using these...
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Did some proof of concept stuff for a potential client. They're looking to do some landing pages for an adwords/banner campaign. It's a B2B play, so the primary audience will be landing from desktop browsers, hence the video for impact. There would be a image fallback for mobile and older...
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The folks at ReadWrite really deserve kudos for their homepage design and overall user experience. They get so many things right here; a clean readable layout, typography, proper placement of ad space.
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Nice setup walk thru http://buff.ly/1jIUl9s via @wpmudev
Video Aéreo realizado en Cerro Ramaditas Afectado por Incendio de Valparaíso. from Skyfilms on Vimeo.