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WEB Development
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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UI/ux
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VR/AR
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Interactive design
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interpretive media
Story + Form + Function
I design and build digital experiences that balance all three. The best experiences come from a compelling narrative, a considered aesthetic, and well-crafted features working together. For 13 years at the Folger Shakespeare Library, I transformed the library’s unique content and collections into tools people could explore and learn from. Today I bring the same approach, along with project management, UX design, and end-to-end web development, to teams and clients building their own digital presence.
Story
What will your story be? Effective storytelling has the ability to engage your visitors, produce an indelible impression, and build a connection. A compelling story has a well-documented power to drive sales and make lessons stick with a learner for life.
I combine my background in narrative theory and literature with extensive brand storytelling and project management expertise to bring your story to the surface, highlight what really matters, and make it unforgettable.
Form
How will your message make visitors feel? Energized? Powerful? Cared for? Motivated? With a well-designed aesthetic, you decide. Thoughtful design goes beyond giving a visitor confidence in an experience or brand to creating a space they will remember and want to come back to.
Creating an aesthetic is both an art that I perform, with over a decade of experience designing lively and engaging digital experiences, and a craft that I practice, with extensive expertise in industry-leading design tools for print, web, audio, video, and even 3D and virtual reality.
Function
What superpowers are you going to give your visitors, and yourself? Functionality helps drive your message and support your story: from processes that make a digital experience feel effortless to engaging interactions that invite the user to sit up and take notice.
With deep knowledge of trusted frameworks and tools as well as the skills to expertly build new functionality from scratch, I create experiences that come to life while also being stable, secure, and cost-effective.
Let’s bring your stories to life
Hiring?
Looking for someone with deep experience and an unusually wide range of skills? I’d love to hear about your team.
Roles I’m open to:
- Full-stack and front-end development
- UX and interface design
- Digital project and product management
- Web platform and digital services leadership
- Digital collections, scholarship, and publishing
- Learning technology and interactive experiences, including games, XR, and makerspaces
Core Skills:
- Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, MySQL, WordPress, REST and GraphQL APIs, AWS
- Design and UX: Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, user research, usability testing, WCAG accessibility
- Digital collections: IIIF, TEI XML, digital asset platform migrations
- Interactive and emerging technology: Unity, WebXR, AI-assisted development
- Project leadership: planning, stakeholder facilitation, documentation and training
Where I do my best work: libraries, archives, museums, universities, education, publishing, and mission-driven organizations
I’m located in the Greater Toronto Area and am open to on-site, hybrid, and remote roles.
Don’t see your role here? Much of my best work has happened in the space between job titles. If you have a problem that needs someone who can research it, design it, build it, and see it through, I want to hear about it.
Have a project?
Maybe you’re launching a new venture, rebuilding a site that’s been lost or has fallen behind, or turning your research into a digital tool others can use. Whatever the case, I can help at any stage.
How I can help:
- Build your new project from idea to launch, and beyond.
- Consult on existing story, design, functionality and offer paths for improvement
- Fix a stubborn problem
- Reconstruct a site following a loss
- Bring an existing site up to modern standards
- Keep a new or existing site running smoothly and securely
You’ll have one partner for strategy, design, and development, and a site or experience that’s built to last, using the technology that suits the job best.
Let’s talk about your project. Reach out to set up a free 30-minute consultation.
projects
A featured selection of experiences, tools, and resources that I’ve created, or co-created with partners, at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
publications
Nowadays I prefer to explore my ideas through prototypes, but every once in a while someone convinces me to write, and I’m grateful that they did. Here are a few I’m particularly proud of.