Hi! I'm Nico.

I build products for the web

I'm a Michigan-based frontend developer and digital consultant of 15 years. I love helping brands build thoughtful, simple, and effective products for the web.

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Featured Work

The Blueprint

During my tenure at Chemistry, I was tasked with managing several of BlueKC's digital presence catalog. The Blueprint was the first site I built from the ground-up.

This project was a massive undertaking and involved communicating with marketing strategists, designers, user-experience practitioners, and project managers. Within a short time frame, I converted complex business logic and detailed Figma files into a Wordpress website with customized editing experiences.

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Features

Wordpress CMS - custom theme
Visually optimized for large desktops, tablets, and mobile devices
WCAG-compliant keyboard accessible navigation
Custom search and AJAX results population
ACF Pro customized editing experience
Custom database queries
Referrer entrypoint-driven content
Configurable filter menus

Brands

Over several years, I've had the pleasure of contributing agency work for some great brands.

Skills

As a former designer, I gravitate toward frontend-focused disciplines but throughout my career, I found myself responding to various business needs.

While I specialize in building websites, I also have deep experience building different types of products such as eNewsletters, CRM integrations, banner ads, and social media campaigns. Being immersed in several sides of the digital space has me a better developer and team player.

Experiments

I've learned a lot over my career, but I'm always learning something new. I enjoy creating sandboxes for new technologies and documenting my findings on my blog over at Hashnode.

Learn More on my Blog

Languages / Frameworks

Bootstrap
ES5, ES6, jQuery
Foundation
HTML/CSS/JS
Next.js
PHP
Skeleton
Tailwind
Wordpress Theme Development

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite
Browserstack
Figma
Github / Git
Google Analytics
Gulp
JetBrains IDEs
Node.js / NPM
SASS, LESS, HAML

Practices

Analytics
CI/CD Pipelines
Cross-browser testing
Graceful Degradation
Performance and Optimization
Progressive Enhancement
Responsive Design
SEO feature implementations
WCAG and ADA Compliance

About

You should work with me because I am...

Passionate

The desire to produce good work comes from my performing arts background. I am no stranger to practice and hard work.

Curious

I'm endlessly curious about how things work. I'm not content with simply fixing a bug, I want to know why it happened and how to prevent it.

Empathetic

My career materialized from responding to the needs of others. I've gained life-long friends simply by being in the trenches with them.

Pragmatic

In an industry with budget constraints and deadlines, there is always give and take. I can identify and articulate quick wins, compromises and trade-offs.

Communicative

A team in lock-step is unstoppable. Which is why I keep my team looped in, even when I'm running into issues.

Present

Whether an all-hands meeting or a one-on-one, I'm listening.

Contact

I'm always looking for new opportunities. If you're interested in working with me, please send me a message.