👩💻I am a Software Developer and SEO Technical Content Writer experienced in JavaScript, accessibility/ A11y/ WCAG, design, and UX.
💻 I have 5+ years experience developing WordPress small business websites, blogs and eCommerce sites, and over 10+ years technical and SEO web content writing.
♿ I’m 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.🫶 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,📚
🇫🇷 I've been doing Duolingo French daily since January 2022 and 🇳🇱Dutch since January 2023. I'm also doing daily lessons in 🏴 Welsh, 🇩🇪 German, and 🇳🇴 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. I’m looking forward to bringing these skills to customer facing software development and technical content writing positions.
🧶 "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