Lynn Stanikmas

✮ Web Developer ✮ Web Designer ✮

Red Oak Hollow, VA, USA
Proven Proficiencies and Demonstrated Mastery: UX / UI / Front-end / Application / Responsive (RWD) / Development + Design • Angular 8 • Angular 9 • Angular 10 • Angular 11 • Angular 12 • Angular 13 • Angular 14 • Angular 15 • Angular 16 • Angular Material • Angular Flex Layout • CDK • Bootstrap • NG Bootstrap • CSS Grid • NGX Bootstrap • ECMAScript • Typescript • RxJS • Firebase • Firestore • CSS / SASS / SCSS / LESS • AdobeXD • JSON • HTML • Javascript • jQuery • jQuery UI / Mobile • Cross Browser Development • SEO • Version Control Repositories • XML • RSS • Section 508 / WCAG 2.0 / WCAG 2.1 / ADA Accessibility Compliance • Requirements Gathering • Photoshop • Acrobat • InDesign • Illustrator • Sauce Labs • Jaws • NVDA • Voiceover • Google Analytics • Maven • CLI • APIs • User Authentication • Permission Based Access Control • Unit Testing • D3 • NGX Charts • AG Grid • GIT • Nx Monorepo

Additional Knowledge + Skills: MySQL • Microsoft Sharepoint • Jira • UXPin • InVision • Redux

Work Experience

DMI

Angular Developer - Contract

For a federal end-client, advise on Angular upgrade methodology and schedule and advise on implementation of accessibility-compliance development requirements.
December 2023 - February 2024 Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

Defense Logistics Agency

Senior Frontend Developer - Contract

Attended daily standups, bi-weekly deployment planning meetings, and developer forums. Upgrade of Angular and Angular Material v10 web application to Angular v15. Updated MatSort component methods and templates on data table components and templates, including data tables nested in expandable rows, addressing accessibility requirements, and child component modifications and testing using Jaws. Developed component and typography themes using SASS partials and advised on the proper implementation of an Angular Material Custom theme. Implemented Section 508 compliance development solutions on UI controls, common components, modules, user interfaces, and data tables. Resolved CSS bugs with architecture modifications. Addressed Section 508 requirements in D3 and NGX Charts components. Evaluated Angular web application for Section 508 needs and served as a resource for accessibility compliance testers and evaluators.
January 2023 - August 2023 Virginia, United States

Capgemini

Sr. Software Engineer - Contract

For a multinational financial services corporation, develop custom parent and child components based on wireframes, leveraging common UI components in an Angular / Angular Material web application. Add optional Angular Material attribute and attribute properties to an existing common component. Style AG Grid data tables. Identify data schemas utilizing Chrome payload data. Add responsive behavior utilizing Angular Flex-Layout. Write successful classic unit tests. Provide documented feedback regarding architecture, security, and ADA-compliance of existing application code base. Provide resources for upgrading Angular web applications. Develop accessibility solutions for an Angular web application.

Additional Work
Self-trained in, and implemented, Angular Material Component Harnesses Unit Tests. Implemented Angular Material components in an Nx monorepo as a shareable Nx library for streamlined performance in a monorepo architecture.
March 2022 - October 2022 Virginia, United States

CGI Federal

Senior UI Developer - Contract

For Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), implement style and accessibility enhancements and NGX Bootstrap UI Components to Angular Micro Frontend from pre-existing Frontend Monolith. Implement WCAG / Section 508 functionality to WCAG 2.0, Level A standards using built-in directives, change detection, and lifecycle hooks. Attend weekly meetings with design team SMEs.
October 2021 - January 2022 United States

Ignite IT

Sr. Angular Developer - Contract

For federal end-client, using Angular, Angular Material, Angular Flex Layout and Angular CDK, develop shareable Web UI Component Libraries (NPM / Node Packages) and publish to a private NPM registry. Working with a data schema, develop CRUD services, data interfaces / models, and methods to integrate the Angular frontend UI / user actions with the backend. Develop and implement an Angular Dialog Box Service. Assure Section 508 compliance, implementing Angular CDK modules. Style UI Components and controls to match existing mockups.

Additional Work
Self-trained in Angular 12 Nx Monorepo. Implemented prototype mono repository to share common services, interfaces, components, SASS stylesheets, data, and image assets amongst multiple Angular web applications.
April 2021 - September 2021 Virginia, United States

Lockheed Martin

Software Engineer - Contract

Develop and design accessibility-compliant Angular 9 application for federal end-client. Develop Angular Material components and custom color palette. Create WCAG-specified mock-ups and assess peer wireframes and mock-ups for accessibility compliance.
April 2020 - August 2020 Florida, United States

Grant Thornton

Senior Web Application Developer - Contract

Develop for federal end-client, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a mobile, responsive, dynamic, HTML5 / CSS, jQuery, jQuery UI, Javascript, WAI-ARIA, and Bootstrap 3.6 prototype from UXPin wireframes for Spring Boot / Thymeleaf application. Design and develop interaction, widgets and user interface controls and compose layouts as needed to augment UX. Write functions to render ADA-, Section 508- and WCAG AAA-compliant UI controls and widgets and implement efficient, database- and UI-driven content, components, user interface controls and widgets. Create color mockups using Adobe Illustrator. Re-touch and generate images using Photoshop. Implement DataTables and FileReader APIs to include complex, custom widgets, Section 508 / WCAG compliance and custom functionality. Using Maven, AWS, a command-line interface, and GIT, implement production-ready Javascript, jQuery, jQuery UI, HTML and CSS from prototype into an application instance and merge into staged application.
November 2018 - September 2019 Virginia, United States

Regions Bank

Front End Developer - Contract

Assess customer and prospect websites for WCAG AAA standards and accessibility best practices compliance. Document findings, make formal recommendations for improvement as needed using HTML, CSS, ARIA, and Javascript. Develop cross-browser compliant web components using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap 4, Pug, and LESS. Collaborate with development team using SourceTree (GIT), BitBucket and a command-line interface.
February 2018 - May 2018 Alabama, United States

Accenture Federal

Web Technology Specialist - Contract

Construct Javascript regular expressions for advanced search and replace tasks in JSON and HTML files. Develop responsive, Section 508 / WCAG ADA accessibility compliant, search engine optimized HTML5 web pages and SVGs for federal client public-facing website and internal communications. Perform database research for export to datasets. Research business processes and functions to conceptualize and develop new web page content. Analyze data to compare and validate Project Open Data sources. Attend federal inter-agency and inter-departmental meetings, keeping minutes for presentation to management. Submit metadata for inclusion in JSON. Keep records of data and web page updates. Maintain web server content with respect to 301 redirecting. Mock-up web UI for conversion effectiveness. Monitor web traffic in Google Analytics.
Accomplishments
Attained organic page one position in Google search engine listings.
August 2017 - December 2017 Maryland, United States

Freddie Mac

Sr. UX Developer - Contract

Develop responsive web pages using HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery and Javascript in a Microsoft SharePoint environment. Develop solutions for cross-browser, multi-device compatibility. Modify Javascript and jQuery that integrate the UI and backend web services to render pages in Bootstrap. Develop Bootstrap responsive websites from designer mock-ups and mock-up mobile / responsive web pages to meet business requirements. Detail Microsoft Sharepoint templates, usability, user interface rendering, web page responsiveness, page load time and layout using CSS and media queries. Design icons to compliment the UI, create custom icons to complement existing sets. Develop efficient and user-friendly jQuery applications to integrate with backend web services and present data.
Accomplishments
Mocked-up UI and developed Bootstrap microsite independently in less than 48 hours while meeting and exceeding client quality expectations.
January 2017 - May 2017 Virginia, United States

Valiant Solutions

UI Expert Designer + Senior Developer - Contract

Produce wireframes, user flow diagrams, flow charts, process flows and mockups that contain details such as information architecture, typography, color, gradients, images, and transparency and communicate all necessary details of the federal client UI, creating multiple mockups for a single page to effectively convey details of the different states. Construct UI front end designs flexible for display across multiple browsers, screen sizes, platforms and devices and focused on user experience (UX), interaction and usability, testing for responsive display effectiveness in a device-specific environment. Translate the UI/UX design mockups to application UI prototypes, bridging the gap between graphical design and technical implementation and taking an active role on both sides to define how the application looks as well as how it works on the front end. Working in two and three week sprints using an agile approach, develop responsive / mobile web pages with dynamic and static content using User Interface industry and Section 508 / WCAG ADA accessibility compliance best practices, WAI-ARIA, HTML5, jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery plugins, DataTables API, Javascript and CSS. Develop faceted search form feature using Javascript and XML. Modify back-end Javascript and JSON. Install Tomcat and configure MAMP to create local testing environment. Draw from experience with GUI design and usability and familiarity with JSP while remaining compliant with official United States Web Design Standards and Principles through use of U.S. Web Design UI Components and/or Visual Styles.
Accomplishments
After performing requirements gathering tasks, including specification of programming languages, wire-framed and mocked-up 70 desktop and mobile UI views using Adobe Illustrator in less than 3 weeks and moved forward with development of prototypes, contributing production-ready code to development of the web application.
July 2016 - November 2016 North Carolina, United States

Staples

eMail Developer - Contract

Optimize HTML5 / CSS responsive emails. Develop responsive HTML5 email template prototypes. Test emails in Litmus for responsive delivery, preflighting prior to deployment. Make on-page organic SEO, brand compliance and eMail development recommendations.
Accomplishments
Developed cross-client compatibility solution to improve email template rendering, deliverability, web traffic, web traffic conversions, and sales. Documented best practices for email development. Developed font-style rendering solution.
April 2016 - May 2016 Massachusetts, United States

Brown University

Web Developer - Contract

Edit and code Alumni Association responsive website and responsive emails. Work from Google documents provided by content writers. Code content, optimize HTML5 / CSS and XHTML emails. Size, crop, color correct and retouch images in Photoshop. Test emails in Litmus for responsive delivery and load into Lyris List Manager. Analyze site design, forecasting potential issues such as live page load times. Design Microsoft Word templates for web publishing of documents. Make story edits to the Brown University Sports Foundation website. Make on-page organic SEO, jQuery and PHP client- and server-side recommendations.
Accomplishments
Completed new website development work ahead of schedule. Developed template design solutions prior to launch to improve live performance.
September 2015 - December 2015 Rhode Island, United States

PureTech Ventures

Web Developer - Freelance

Edit, code and publish responsive HTML5 / CSS, PHP web pages. Develop jQuery application.
February 2015 - March 2015 Massachusetts, United States

Additional Experience

Brandeis University • National Grid • RadioShack • Flagship Bank, New Balance for Pagano Media • Allmerica Financial • Honeywell • Dresser-Rand • Coppus • The Hanover Insurance Company • The Casual Male • BOSE Corporation • Pegasus Satellite Television • Osram-Sylvania for Dever-Frankian Advertising • WearGuard • SAIC / National Defense Department, Division of Education and Training • Camp Fire Boys and Girls, Central Massachusetts Council • Excel Advertising • Worcester Walk for Homelessness • Farrar Press / Farrar Graphics • Saltus Press • Specialized Software • The Energy Federation • Achorn Graphics • Box21 • Chadwick΄s of Boston • Maddash E-media • ITV Direct • Imagitas • The Animation Cafe (now The Memory Collective) • J.D. Associates • Softscape •
June 1994 - October 2010 Massachusetts, United States

Education

Boston University

Certificate in Web Development, Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts

Courses:
HTML + CSS I (WB103)
Javascript and jQuery I (WB201)
PHP and MySQL I (WB206 - WB211)
Introduction to Web Design (WB101)
Tools of Web Design (WB102)
Web Interactivity (WB212)
Developing for Mobile Devices I (WV320)
Developing for Mobile Devices II (WV321)
HTML + CSS II (WB104)
HTML + CSS III (WB105)
HTML + CSS IV (WB106)
HTML + CSS V (WB107)
Javascript and jQuery II (WB202)
Javascript and jQuery III (WB203)
Javascript and jQuery IV (WB204)
Javascript and jQuery V (WB205)
PHP and MySQL II (WB207)
PHP and MySQL III (WB208)
PHP and MySQL IV (WB209)
PHP and MySQL V (WB210)
PHP and MySQL VI (WB211)
Business of Web Development (WV322)
Web Development Portfolio I (WV324)
Web Development Portfolio II (WV325)
Directed Study
April 2013 - October 2014 Massachusetts, United States

University Of Massachusetts

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Major: Visual Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA)
September 1991 - June 1994 Massachusetts, United States

Languages

English (Native),

Awards

College Of Visual And Performing Arts Art Auction Award

CVPA, UMass Dartmouth Faculty. Award based on academic achievement, performance, and artistic merit.

1994

Scholastic All-American National Award

Academic All-American Program. Received in recognition of academic and classroom achievement.

1994

United States Achievement Academy Award

United States Achievement Academy. Nominated by University of Massachusetts faculty. Awarded by the United States Achievement Academy.

1994

Skills

Accessibility Compliance, AdobeXD, Angular, Angular Material, Application Development, Bootstrap, Command-line Interface (C, CSS, Design, Digital Design, Digital Marketing, ECMAScript 6 (ES6), Flash Actionscript, Git, Google Analytics, Google Cloud Firestore, HTML, HTML Email, Illustrator, Indesign, Interaction Design, JavaScript, Jira , Jquery, JQuery Mobile, JQuery Ui, Landing Page Creation, Less, Mobile Development, Mockups, MySQL, Photoshop, Responsive / Mobile, RSS Feeds, SASS, Section 508, SEM, SEO, Social Marketing, TypeScript, UI Design , Unit Testing, UX Development, WCAG, Web Design, Web Development, Web Marketing Management, Wireframing, XHTML, XML,