Tiffany France
Data Visualization Expert

Tiffany France

Worked with Google and Capital One.
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About

Tiffany France is a data visualization developer with experience in UX design and front-end engineering. With over 20 years of industry experience, she is an expert in bridging the gap between design and engineering and helping teams establish a design language that results in quality end-user experiences. At Google, she created data visualizations in the company's Access and Energy department. Tiffany also teaches data visualization at various educational institutions and has worked with companies like Capital One and ICF Ironworks. Her technical skills include D3.js, Closure, CSS, JavaScript, SVN, git, GitHub, AngularJS, jQuery, SASS, Gulp/Grunt, and JAVA, among others.

Employment

9 roles
Aug 2019 - Present 6 years 9 months
Professor
Independent
  • Served as data visualization mentor at the University of Chicago, John Tyler Community College, and Maryland Institute College of Arts.
  • Delivered guest lectures across a variety of educational platforms. 
Jan 2014 - Present 12 years 4 months
Data Visualization Specialist
Independent
  • Worked with various clients such as The Brookings Institution, Naked Poppy, Capital One, Indeed.com, Lot 10 Sports, Data Concepts, Supreme Court of Virginia, Silver Chair, and InProfile Recruiters. 
  • Provided expertise in design, data visualization, and front-end coding.
  • Technologies: D3.js, Closure, CSS, JavaScript, SVN, git, GitHub, AngularJS, jQuery, SASS, Gulp/Grunt, and JAVA, among others.
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022 1 year 1 month
UX Product Designer, Data Visualization
Indeed.com
  • Designed and developed data visualizations and data-driven stories; from individual data visualizations to complex web stories and dashboards.
  • Created recommendations regarding visualization optimization, implementation, and testing.
  • Incorporated performance and data quality considerations into visualization planning and delivery.
  • Optimized reports to ensure a responsive solution when visualization vast amounts of data.
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019 1 year
Front-end Engineer & UX Designer
Parsely
  • Helped teams establish a design language that results in quality end-user experiences.
  • Developed and implemented system features and frameworks using advanced JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, and CSS.
  • Recommended and implemented data visualizations and optimized the user experience.
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017 1 year
UX Designer & Software Engineer
Capital One
  • Designed and developed data visualizations and data-driven stories; from individual data visualizations to complex web stories and dashboards.
  • Helped teams establish a design language that results in quality end-user experiences.
  • Recommended and implemented data visualizations and optimized the user experience.
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016 7 months
Front-end Engineer, Data Visualization
Google
  • Served as a UI developer creating data visualizations in Google's Access and Energy department.
  • Created informative, interactive charts and graphs for an internal app. 
  • Technologies: D3.js, Closure, CSS and JavaScript.
Mar 2014 - Sep 2015 1 year 6 months
UI Lead & Software Engineer
Capital One
  • Served as COS lead UI and worked on a new experience for allowing credit card holders to track payments on their accounts. 
  • Developed an accessible datepicker that responds accurately in JAWS or any other reading device and is mobile-friendly as well.
  • Helped to convert portions of the project to an AngularJS app.
  • Added Sass to the developer's workflow using Grunt.
  • Led an initiative to replace thousands of lines of duplicate CSS/fonts/resources with a global library solution.
  • Technologies: SVN, git, GitHub, AngularJS, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, SASS, Gulp/Grunt, JAVA and more. 
Aug 2012 - Aug 2013 1 year
Interactive Developer
ICF Ironworks
  • Developed custom JavaScript for Children’s Bureau and National Adoption Month websites, including an editable (Drupal) interactive timeline for the Children’s Bureau Centennial site. 
  • Built a responsive website for AIDS.gov blog using WordPress.
  • Provided front end work with multiple developers on a Cold Fusion site for a HUD granting site. 
  • Worked on wireframing a commuter app, as well as the UI for a lighting widget embeddable on external websites. 
  • Technologies:  JavaScript and jQuery, jQuery Mobile, CSS, HTML, some Drupal, SASS, LESS and WordPress. 
Jan 2008 - Jan 2012 4 years
Web Designer & Developer
Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Launched approximately seventy projects in OpenText.
  • Conceptualized, designed and tested various websites for the University.
  • Assisted with maintaining Google Appliance for the University.
  • Wrote documentation for various homegrown systems including VCU Events Calendar application.
  • Checked over 500 VCU websites annually for Section 508 compliance.  

Education

Feb 2020 - Jan 2021 11 months
Masters, Data Visualization
Parsons School of Design - The New School
Feb 2019 - Jan 2020 11 months
Data Management, Visualization & Analytics
Maryland Institute College of Art

Portfolio

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