Derek Jordan
Web Developer

Derek Jordan

Specializes in web development, SEO, & graphic design.
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About

Derek Jordan is a web design and developer with five years of experience in consulting with small and medium-sized businesses to build and optimize custom, interactive websites with responsive layouts and proven SEO results. He was a webmaster at award-winning ophthalmology and advanced vision care in Washington, where he built and managed WordPress and Weebly websites such as ncascade.com and cascadiaeyewear.com. His skills include SEO, graphic design, LightCMS, Google Analytics, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, AngularJS, jQuery, PHP, XHTML, and XML, among others.

Employment

4 roles
Feb 2018 - Present 8 years 3 months
Mentor, Web Development
OpenClassrooms
  • Mentored students in the Front End Developer program as they analyze website design projects and create technical solutions, optimize performance, and build responsive interfaces in their work toward a Bachelor’s degree.
  • Handled coursework, including analyzing projects and choose technical solutions; designing technical architectures using UML diagrams; creating web projects with JavaScript; Query databases that use and store information; use of tools such as jQuery to simplify front-end code; implementing unit and integration tests; writing project documentation; optimizing performance; creating responsive interfaces.
Jan 2016 - Present 10 years 4 months
Web Designer & Developer
Independent

Derek has consulted with small and medium-sized businesses to build and optimize custom, interactive websites with responsive layouts and proven SEO results.


As a web developer for SB&C, Ltd.:

  • Designed and hand-coded new business website.
  • Consulted with client to fulfill site requirements.
  • Researched business environment and effectively integrated SEO to sustain the site’s (www.sbcltd.com) first-place results.

As a web developer for a contemporary analyst (www.contemporaryanalyst.com):

  • Hand-coded a client’s personal-professional web portfolio. Project included a secondary PHP/MySQL database and JavaScript interface, as well as SEO.
  • Contributed to LaTeX project.

As a web developer for Boyd Chiropractic:

  • Consulted with client for the need of a website (www.boydchiropractic.us).
  • Designed and hand-coded their first business website.
  • Researched business environment and effectively deployed SEO to initiate site at number seven in Google's regional search results.
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020 2 years 1 month
Webmaster
Cascadia Eye

Cascadia Eye is an award-winning ophthalmology and advanced vision care. 

  • Managed websites of Cascadia Eye (ncascade.com WordPress), and Cascadia Eyewear (cascadiaeyewear.com Weebly).
  • Custom-coded optimized structures and templates, layout, regionally-optimized pages, custom catalog, site search, and site speed performance enhancement.
  • Achieved effective SEO, raising SERPs of ncascade.com from third page to top placement.
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017 2 months
Web Developer
SB&C, Ltd.

SB&C provides customized loss prevention and recovery solutions for clients.

  • Designed and hand-coded new business website.
  • Consulted with client to fulfill site requirements.
  • Researched business environment and effectively integrated SEO to sustain the site’s (www.sbcltd.com) first-place results.

Education

Jan 2016 - Dec 2017 1 year 11 months
Certificate, Web Development
Skagit Valley College
Sep 1989 - Jun 1993 3 years 9 months
BA, Cultural Anthropology/Biology
The Evergreen State College

Portfolio

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