Zane Taylor

Creative Web & Mobile Engineer


Website https://zane.im
Phone 417.379.9296
Location Portland, Oregon

Accomplished engineer with over a decade of full-stack and front-end experience building for the public web and mobile devices. As a team member, freelancer, co-founder, and manager, has led and contributed to a wide array of projects for diverse customers and clients.

Advocate of open source tools and the community that supports them, with a deep interest in impactful, mission-driven work that leverages digital technology to elevate causes and organizations whose work is about more than profit.

Profiles


Experience

Alta Planning + Design

Led the development of all web-based projects for both client projects and internal tooling and support. Coordinated and collaborated with both non-technical creative team members and industry discipline expert staff to develop highly custom and technically mature web products to support and advanced a range of urban planning and design projects. Collaborated with civic analytics team to plan and develop in-house data science infrastructure and visualization tools. Established, implemented, and documented web & digital best practices and fostered the growth of the team and its strategic role.

Totally

Conceptualized, planned, and executed digital identity and web projects for brands, businesses, and non-profits of all stripes, emphasizing content- and user- centric approaches to design and development, crafting branded platforms to further clients' business, marketing, and culture goals. Collaborated with clients from concept through final delivery. Managed local and remote development teams, outlined project requirements and delivery standards, performed code and QA reviews, and collaborated with junior developers to address project needs and client feedback.

Total Design Shop

Designed, developed, and maintained award-winning custom websites and applications for a variety of commercial and non-profit clients, leveraging modern front-end frameworks, CMS platforms, build processes, and cloud infrastructure. Produced static mockups, prototyped, and iterated original visual design concepts, incorporating project specs and client feedback, to produce tailored, branded web experiences.

Freelance

  • January 2009 - December 2015
  • Creative Web Engineer

Developed comprehensive web experiences with an emphasis on user experience, mobile-first and responsive design, third party integrations, content + brand strategy, and email + social engagement. Engineered and integrated tailored web and content platforms with back- and front-end frameworks and modern content management systems.


Skills

Front-end Development
Full-stack Development
JavaScript
PHP
HTML
CSS
SASS
Bootstrap
Foundation
Responsive Design
WordPress
Node
Vue
Laravel
SEO
Version Control
Git
Project Management
Creative Direction
Adobe Creative Suite
Sketch
Figma
Accessibility
GIS / Mapping

Volunteer

DeTrash Portland

2020 - Present
Volunteer

Trailkeepers of Oregon

2018 - Present
Trailkeeper

XOXO Festival

2015 - 2016
Event Volunteer

Electronic Frontier Foundation

2014 - 2014
Developer Volunteer

Education

2006 - 2010
Missouri State University
Fine Arts (Photography), English
2005 - 2006
Drury University
Fine Arts, Global Studies

Languages

English
Native proficiency
Spanish
Elementary proficiency
French
Elementary proficiency