New Jersey Freelance Web Developer

who am i

I'm Brianna, and in case you don't know yet I'm an awesome web developer from New Jersey. I work with Wordpress on a daily basis, and I'm an official plugin author. I build responsive themes for Wordpress and Drupal, and so much more.

I started designing and developing websites with my childhood friend and my passion grew stronger with each project. At only the young age of 26, I have been bringing websites to life for over 13 years and counting.

I absolutely love what I do.

I love coding. I learned everything I know through trial, error, and Google. I didn't have any formal development training until college (which I have to say was a complete waste of time). Everything that I had taught myself over the years was way beyond the web development curriculum in college. I think I knew more than the professors did!

I can't complain about the less than stellar education, because I received the NJ STARS scholarship for graduating in the top 15% of my high school class. I attended 2 years of school for free. I like free (and who wouldn't)! I graduated from Bergen Community College with an AAS degree in Web Development and Management.

I'm more than just an awesome web developer.

I have been dancing since I was just 3 years old. I love all different types of dance: hip hop, jazz, lyrical, contemporary and tap. I almost pursued dance instead of web development as my career choice. I realized that teaching dance wasn’t what I wanted to do. I like performing way too much, so I decided to keep dancing as a full-time hobby instead of a job.

I also love hiking, video games, tattoos, laying on the beach, and spending time with friends and family. I’m also a huge Eminem fan and proud of it!

My Awesome Skills

I’ve learned a lot over the last 10+ years. Here are just a few of the skills I’ve mastered!

Web Development

I absolutely love bringing designs to life. Making sure designs look pixel perfect, and integrating smooth animations are what I do best. I utilize preprocessors and have my own starter frameworks that help to jump start my projects.

Responsive Design

Smartphones, tablets, phablets, oh my! It's important that your website adapts to every possible screen size. I make sure every website I develop looks beautiful on all screen sizes and devices.

Client Interaction

I worked in-house for a web design & marketing firm for over 7 years. I communicated with clients on a daily basis via email and phone.

Clients always seemed to love me. I was the only one in the office who constantly received flowers and chocolate from grateful clients.

PHP Development

I absolutely love to code, and back-end development is just as fun as front-end. I love building custom plugins and modules for CMS like Drupal and Wordpress. I’m also capable of patching any existing PHP application.

Drupal Development

Drupal is great for any type of website. It is extremely flexible and can handle pretty much anything!

I can help you maintain an existing installation or build and theme a new one.

Wordpress Theming

Wordpress is a popular, easy to use content management system for small to medium sized websites.

I work with Wordpress on a daily basis. I can easily create custom themes and plugins for any Wordpress website.

my skills

My Resume

Looking for my formal resume? Here it is!

Experience

re:think - Web development & SEO firm
Web developer
July 2010 - October 2017

Duties include:
- Static website changes
- Converting designs to HTML, Drupal, Wordpress
- Drupal & Wordpress development & theming
- Wordpress plugin development
- Responsive design
- Interacting with clients

Volunteer Work

AMA Animal Rescue - Animal Rescue Organization
Web Developer
January 2016 - Present

I’m volunteering in my spare time to help AMA in their efforts to save animals. I maintained their existing Wordpress website before completely redesigning and redeveloping the entire thing to make it much more modern, flexible and user friendly.

I developed a few custom plugins to allow them to list their pets that are currently up for adoption, and anyone can apply to adopt/foster the pet directly from the website. They also have a self-hosted donation form and a WooCommerce store as well.

Education

Bergen Community College - Paramus, NJ
Full 2-Year NJ STARS Scholarship
AAS.IT.WEB - Web Dev & Mgmt, 6/2012.

Courses:
- Fundamentals of Programming – C++
- Web Development Using HTML – XHTML/CSS
- Advanced Web Development – Javascript, PHP
- Java Programming
- Advanced Java Programming
- Applications Development – Visual Basic

Service Learning

Group project: Organ Donation Website
Web Development using HTML course

Objective: Create a website promoting organ donation using information provided by the Biology class.
Result: My group was chosen out of 6 groups (3 students per group) as the best website. An article was written about our project in the Paramus Post.

Skills

HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, Sass, Grunt/Gulp, PHP, MySQL, jQuery, AJAX, Version Control (Git & SVN), Responsive Design, Drupal, Wordpress, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, PHPStorm

resume

Want to contact me?

Whether you’re a designer that doesn’t like to code, or a business owner that needs help getting their website up and running, I’m sure my awesome skills will come in handy.

Contact me today!

About Brianna

About Me