Hey, I'm Matt. I've been building websites since before CSS could do layout.
I'm a front-end developer with more than 13 years of professional experience, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. I've worked with companies large & small, building user-focused solutions across a lot of very different industries, from internal tooling for the Department of Defense to marketing sites for one-person businesses.
Programming has been a hobby of mine for over 30 years & I love learning new technology. Each job in my long resume has been an endeavor in learning something new & it's what keeps me grounded in this industry. What sets me apart is my passion for what I do.
I helped build digital menu boards for companies like McDonalds, Popeyes, & Tim Hortons. I led the front-end work on GE Aerospace's Design System Auxiliary, used by hundreds of engineers in their network worldwide. I helped build out Dayton YMCA's network of websites. Whatever the size of the project, the job is the same: dependable work that bridges design & development.
Experience
9 roles since 2013Sites for small businesses like Amy Denae Weight Loss, LUCA Designs, EPIC Art, Chicory Tea Co., and Willows Home & Gifts. Director of Web Operations at E-3 Design, directing other freelance developers and handled client work start to finish. A lot of WooCommerce and Shopify, usually with Stripe, Square, or Moneris wired in.
Ran a 50+ site WordPress multisite for The Connor Group, which mostly meant keeping 50+ sites stable at once. Helped build out the Yardi CRM integrations that handled automated lead submission and real-time tour requests. Utilized deployments over WP-CLI. Built a complex Dynamic Phone Number Insertion plugin feature for tracking multiple phone numbers across campaigns on all sites. Converted all sites from using internally hosted videos on their homepages to externally hosted.
Led design and development on client WordPress builds, from Figma prototypes through QA and launch. The odd one out was a DoorDash-style delivery driver platform I built in Retool for a group of Florida storefronts, held together with APIs and JavaScript. I was also responsible for the unseen parts: Cloudflare DNS, cPanel, and databases across all sites.
Built and maintained the digital menu boards running in McDonald’s, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons locations. Every chain needed a morning, lunch, dinner, and late-night version of the same screens, and all of it had to hold up during a drive-thru rush. I worked directly with brand managers and QA to get each one right.
Held a Top Secret clearance and built internal web applications that made base operations less painful. Worked from Adobe XD mockups through delivery on two-week cycles, demoing to departmental staff and reworking things based on what they told me.
Led front-end development on Auxiliary, the internal design system used across GE Aviation. I turned UX work into shared components and supported the 600+ developers worldwide who had to drop them into new and existing projects. When that many people depend on your components, the documentation matters as much as the code.
A short contract in the RQOC Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, building applications to improve daily base operations on two-week sprints.
Think Patented bought TDH Marketing in January 2017 and rebranded the shop as Bitstorm Connect. Same clients, same work, new letterhead.
My first agency job, and where most of the fundamentals came from. I ran projects start to finish, taking Photoshop and Sketch mockups all the way to production code on Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress. I also tuned markup and graphics for search, trained clients on their CMS, and mentored new hires as the team grew.