--------------- Max Starkenburg =============== - Portfolio: - E-mail: **What I can do for you:** Translate your conceptual goals into digital deliverables by building intuitive interfaces made strong by clean, robust code and aesthetic visuals. **I can be counted on to bring my:** * strong advocacy of user needs * collaborative, detail-oriented, and holistic approach to problem-solving * two decades harnessing the capabilities of HTML, CSS, JS, and related web technologies I will proactively seek out the appropriate solution to each problem, be it with an Illustrator design, a Bash script, or anything in between, to give you a successful product and satisfying user experience. Work Experience ====================== George Washington University | Web Designer ---------------------------- Libraries & Academic Innovation (GWLAI), 2.5 years * Led or guided all steps of the lifecycle of GWLAI's Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 websites, with the aim of easing content editors' ability to promote student resources while reducing development bottlenecks, unknowns, and costly retrofitting: * Requirements gathering and project scoping * Production of interactive and responsive mock-ups for use in usability testing * Site configuration and evaluation of contributed modules * Custom theme development using Sass/CSS, Twig, JS/jQuery, integrating 3rd-party libraries and APIs, reviewing for accessibility compliance, and light PHP development * Participation in code review, debugging, and QA, and streamlining of our Git workflow * Maintenance of site via Drush, backup script coding, and server migration consultations * Built interactive SVG floor maps improving user experience by linking from library catalog results to the book's exact location on physical shelves * Collaborated with colleagues across the organization to meet their content-creation needs, consulting on accessibility best practices, incorporation of CSS and JS, and special features * Taught workshops for students, staff, and faculty on Adobe Illustrator and HTML/CSS * Produced artwork to advertise workshops, lectures, exhibits and other events OERPUB | Interaction Designer ------ Open educational resources (OER) initiative, 2.5 years * Scripted high-fidelity functional mock-ups from scratch that drove the development direction of an online WYSIWYG editor that allows novice faculty authors to edit professional-quality textbooks * Quantified the relative success of interactive features by conducting multiple usability studies using the mock-ups themselves * Created original open-source vector-based icon set, designed logo, and made plug-in and theme customizations for the initiative's WordPress site Rice University | Designer and XSLT Developer --------------- Digital Scholarship Services, 1 year * Customized the university’s digital scholarship repository in DSpace using XSLT to provide seamless branding and intuitive navgational access to thousands of research items * Fixed XSLT errors and added requested features to the output of 500 XML documents Rice University | Web/Graphic Designer --------------- Connexions (now OpenStax CNX), 10.5 years * Led visual design on an open educational repository and authoring environment of over 18,000 pages, 2,000 users, and 1.6 million monthly visitors * Iterated over design ideas (2,200 mock-ups in total) as needed by the team for new features such as search/browse interface, social media plug-ins, co-branding designs, user profile pages, authoring interface, homepage redesign, and tag editing/display * Assured high quality of software by conducting thorough tests each release cycle Education ====================== Rice University | BA, Architectural Studies | 2003 Additional Experience and Info ====================== - **Conferences:** Attended DrupalCon 2018 and 2019, Drupal GovCon 2018 and 2019, AccessU 2019, and regularly attend DC-area Drupal Meetups - **Courses:** Enrolled in half-day to multiday trainings on ES6, Composer, and PHP development - **Languages:** Upper intermediate proficiency in Spanish, both written and oral (ILR 3, CERF B2) - **Cross-cultural experience:** 2 years residency and remote work in Chile and Mexico (2015-16) - **Residence:** US citizen, currently in Washington, DC, open to working relocation and remote work * LinkedIn: * StackOverflow: * GitHub: