Professional Experience
- Senior front-end engineer
- Foot Locker, Inc.
- March 2017 - current
- Work on multiple sprints teams to build and support a new front-end platform for Foot Locker’s multinational brands
- Use React and TypeScript to create UIs and components, and Redux to manage application state
- Focus on web accessibility, including focus management for keyboard interactions, ARIA attributes for screen reader announcements and visual considerations such as sufficient contrast.
- Build isolated UI elements in Storybook
- Build fully accessible common components, including tabs, accordions, tooltips and dropdowns
- Lead refactoring efforts to address technical debt, including cart, checkout, header, forms, product details page and typeahead search
- Assist in localizing the platform to support multiple languages and locales, following best practices
- Ensure UI functions correctly in mobile devices, screen readers and common browsers
- Review and approve the front-end team’s pull requests to ensure quality, consistency and accessibility compliance
- Write unit and component tests using Jest
- Build components that can be managed and configured in Adobe Experience Manager by non-technical teams
- Work closely with UI/UX team to implement new designs aligned to style guides and brand standards
- Participate in all Agile ceremonies
- Senior front-end developer
- Grainger
- December 2014 - March 2017
- Built new features and maintained existing functionality on a large e-commerce website
- Acted as lead front-end developer on a team responsible for improving user experience in searching and selecting products
- Managed front-end development for a major tiered pricing project
- Collaborated with product owners, back-end developers, UX/UI and QA in an agile environment
- Associate front-end developer
- FCB
- July 2014 - December 2014
- Coded and tested responsive HTML emails for a variety of clients in an agency environment
- Created modular email templates to streamline the development process
Languages
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Redux
- HTML
- CSS and preprocessors (Less, Sass)
- Jest unit and component tests
- Familiarity with webpack and build tools
Skills
- Keyboard and screen reader accessibility
- Agile methodology
- Localization best practices
- Highly collaborative with QA and UI/UX
Software
- Git version control
- Bitbucket and Github
- Storybook
- Figma
- Browser developer tools
- Jira project and issue tracking
- BrowserStack and VM browser testing
- Safari VoiceOver
What I've Been Doing Lately
- All the React Hooks — state, reducers, context, effects!
- Discovering the joys of using Hooks for building complex forms with React Hook Forms
- Localization challenges such as pluralization, inserting dynamic values and translating ARIA attributes. (I even wrote a paper about localization as part of my Master's in Translation.)
- CSS in JS — used for this portfolio
export const Container = styled.div` margin: 0 auto; padding: 3rem; color: ${(props) => props.color || '#000'} `CSS in JS code snippet
Education
M.A. Translation, French to English
Concordia University
Montréal, Quebec
September 2019 - December 2021
B.S. Journalism
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
September 2007 - May 2011
About Me
My name is Kim and I'm a front-end developer. I hail from Chicago but now call Montréal home. I love cats , cooking vegetarian dishes and hunting for vintage goods .
What I'm looking for
- A front-end gig using React
- E-commerce companies preferred
- Must use Slack for communication (kidding, sort of)
- Remote work or a hybrid model in Montréal