Tyler N. Ford - Resume
Currently
Since June 2022 I've been at Firebelly Design, working with a team of passionate folks delivering beautiful design for socially conscious clients.
Responsibilities & Accomplishments
- End-to-end development of websites built with Craft CMS.
- Regular maintenance and development of new features for existing websites.
- Integrate 3rd party databases and CRMs (Airtable, Neon CRM, Google Sheets).
- Maintain and monitor studio infrastructure for client sites (hosting, security, DNS, etc.).
- Collaborate with strategists and designers to ensure the feasibility of site features within the constraints of budget and timeline.
- Attend client meetings to speak on development processes.
- Participate in weekly/bi-weekly internal and client check-ins.
- Translate loose client requests into concrete deliverables.
- Act as lead developer on projects with external developers, manage project details and delegate work.
- Helped establish a partnership with an external development studio (Southleft).
- Moved multiple legacy sites from hosting with Opalstack and SSH deployments with Git to hosting with DigitalOcean and deployments with Laravel Forge.
- Upgraded multiple projects from Laravel Mix to Vite.
Experience
Clearfire ↗ [Sep 2021 – Jun 2022]
End-to-end development of websites built with Craft CMS. Regular updates and enhancements to existing sites.
Southleft ↗ [Jun 2021 – Aug 2021]
Frontend development of websites built with Wordpress.
Switch ↗ [May 2020 – Apr 2021]
End-to-end development of websites built with Craft CMS. Maintenance of existing sites.
Telegraph Creative ↗ [Aug 2017 – Mar 2020]
Frontend development of websites built with Craft CMS. End-to-end development of small sites built with Statamic and Hugo.
Areas of Interest
- Web standards
- Accessibility
- Modern CSS
- Internal processes, systems, and tooling
- Web components