About Gelid Spade

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About Our Mission

Starting out as a social media coordinator at my first full-time job after college, it was only myself and one other person in charge of our small company’s digital department. I quickly needed to take on a bigger role in order to help with the influx of digital requests from our clients.

At this job, I was introduced to the world of website maintenance. Since then, I have taken it upon myself to research front-end web development with the goal of creating a career out of it. I love coding because I have a passion for learning and creating. I enjoy challenging myself every day and working through problems.

When I’m not coding, I spend time on my other hobbies. These include playing guitar, listening to music, watching hockey, playing video games, skateboarding, spending time with my dog, and hanging with friends.

Technical Skills

  • HyperText Markup Language (HTML5)
  • Cascading Stylesheets (CSS3)
  • SASS (SCSS)
  • JavaScript (ES5 & ES6)
  • Bootstrap (v4 & v5)
  • APIs (Basics of working with JSON & XML)
  • Git (Basic source control commands & workflow)
  • GitHub (Utilizing Git to push/pull to & from GitHub repos)
  • Responsive Web Design (Flexbox, CSS Grid, & Media Queries)
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (ADA Compliance & WCAG 2.1 best practices)
  • Performance Optimization (Image compression, CDNs, lazy loading images, etc.)
  • User Interface (UI) (Axure RP wireframes)
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO best practices)
  • Quality Assurance (QA testing applications/development changes across multiple browsers)
  • Google Resources (Google Analytics [certified], Google Search Console, Google Data Studio, etc.)
  • CMS Familiarity (WordPress, Squarespace, Adobe Experience Manager, Ektron, Kentico, BigCommerce, & more)
  • HTML / CSS Emails (Oracle Responsys & SalesForce Marketing Cloud)
  • Basic Photo Editing (Adobe Photoshop & GIMP)
  • Basic Video Editing (DaVinci Resolve 16)
  • Social Media (Paid & Organic)