[Welcome!]
adamoverstreet.com provides a creative space to promote his skills as a front-end developer, web designer, graphic designer and web performance engineer to prospective employers, friends, and fellow artists.
[Web Performance]
[Education]
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American University
Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design
Spring of 2004
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Boston University
The Center for Digital Imaging ArtsInteractive Web Design Certificate
Summer of 2007
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School of Visual Arts | New York
Advanced Web Languages Course
Summer of 2008
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General Assembly
Intro to Ruby & Ruby on Rails Course
Summer of 2013
[Skills]
Legend
Working Knowledge
Proficient
HTML5/CSS3
CSS Grid and Flexbox
CSS variables
SVG
Sass
Less
BEM
Susy Grid / Breakpoint-sass
Semantic Code
CSS Frameworks
Spectre.css
Tailwind
Bootstrap
Foundation
Materialize
Programming Languages
Javascript / ES6
jQuery / JSON / Ajax
React/Next.js
Typescript
Angular
Vue
Python / Django
Ruby / Ruby on Rails
PHP / MySQL
Performance
Google Core Web Vitals
WebPageTest
Akamai
Rigor Monitoring & Optimization
Splunk Application Performance Monitoring
Blue Triangle (Real User Monitoring)
Chrome UX Report (CrUX)
Google Search Console
Cloudflare Workers
Yellow Lab Tools
PageSpeed Insights
DebugBear
Webpack Bundle Analyzer
Web Performance Budgets
webhints
Accessibility
Accessibility Guidelines
Axe
Accessibility Insights for Web
Accessibility Audits with Google Lighthouse
webhints
Pa11y
Stark Plugin
HTML_CodeSniffer
Semantic Code
Search Engine Optimization & A/B Testing
Google Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Google PageSpeed Insights Optimizely
Persado
Certona
Package Managers/Module Dependency/Loader Manager/Task Runners
NPM
Yarn
Bower
Vite
Parcel
Webpack
Gulp
Codekit
CMS
Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Amplience
Wagtail CMS
Squarespace
Shopify
Wordpress
Joomla
Static Site Generator/Templating Languages
Eleventy
GatsbyJS
Nunjucks
Liquid Templating Language
Jekyll
Panini
Handlebars.js / Mustache.js
Animation
CSS Animations and Transitions
Greensock
VelocityJS
Processing.js / p5.js
Design
Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe After Effects
Adobe XD
Figma
Sketch
Avocode
InVision
Balsamiq
QuarkXpress
Design System
Figma Design System
Storybook
Design Tokens using Style Dictionary
Text Editor
Visual Studio Code
Sublime Text
BBedit
Adobe Dreamweaver
Git
Warp
Terminal
iTerm
Tower
SourceTree
Gitlab/Github
Virtual Machine Software
VMware Fusion
Parallels
Virtual Box
Project Management
Notion
Plan.io
Trello
Basecamp
Asana
Responsive and Accessible HTML Emails
Foundation for Emails - ZURB Email Stack
MJML
Litmus / Email on Acid
Mailchimp
Klaviyo
AWS S3
Oracle Responsys
Miscellaneous
Microsoft Office Suite
Final Cut Pro
[Work History]
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Tapestry
Lead Engineer, Front-End Development
June 2022 - currently
Job Description
- A key contributor within Tapestry's Interactive Development and hands-on development Tech lead/Senior Developer also took on a manager role.
- A mentor and help with the career development of the CMS team.
- Took part of in Program Increment Planning that happened quarterly, where multiple teams would go over plans for future Quarter. We would discuss future sprints and go over what expected work would be needed for the next quarter(s).
- Also participated Sprint Planning in a bi-monthly scrum meetings. I would create Jira tickets for various web improvements for the code base for the CMS team as well as Design System team.
- Also participated in code reviews and merging in code at the end of each sprint.
- Worked closely UX and Design Teams to develop new and exciting components as well as modify existing ones.
- Provided documentation/Confluence pages for best web practices and guidelines for the two teams I was leading (the CMS team as well as Design System team) as well as other teams in the organization.
- Helped develop and maintained the Design System and creating all the design tokens for all the North America, Japan, Europe and German brands under the Tapestry umbrella (Coach, Coach Outlet, Coachtopia, Kate Spade, Kate Spade Surprise and Stuart Weitzman).
Front-End Content Developer | Web Performance Engineer
May 2021 - June 2022
Job Description
- Responsible for creating and maintaining web content with seamless collaboration with cross-functional partners in order to deliver time-critical production updates.
- Perform in-depth quality assurance on both creative materials and technology functionality.
- Collaborated with stakeholders across all parts of the business to help create a performance culture (Product, Testing, Tagging, Engineering, Architecture and Web Producers).
- For each brand refresh, I would run WebPageTest in staging site and analyze the scores and compare to previous refreshes. I would check Google Core Web Vitals, (mainly LCP and CLS) are aligned and under our threshold.
- Analyzed and created performance tickets to improve Google Core Web Vitals and performance metrics and at the end of each month, I would do a comparison review of Chrome UX Report dashboard.
- Used Cloudflare Workers in conjunction with WebPageTest to test performance optimizations and show actual improvements so product can prioritize our tickets correctly.
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thelab
Front-End Developer
October 2013 - October 2020
Job Description
The Front-End Development of web sites, html emails, CMS, building out reuable components and all operational work on existing web sites and internal websites. Working closely with other developers and designers.
All of my work is up to the best standards and practices for the web and I always refer to The Front-End Checklist. -
True North, Inc.
Interactive Developer
March 2010 - March 2013
Job Description
The Front-End Development of web sites, emails, CMS, social networking sites, flash sites, widgets and all operational work on existing web sites and internal web sites. Working closely with developers and designers.
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adamoverstreet.com
Freelance Front-end Developer and Graphic Designer
2004 -
You name it…I can build it or design it!
[Professional Affiliations]
- Member of AIGA, 2003-
- Meetup.com
[Interests]
- Soccer
- Photography
- 3d Printing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Music
- Travel
- Film
- Billiards
- Backpacking
- Board Games
- Backgammon
- Foosball
- Chess