Joe Bergantine

Experience

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  The Art Institute of Portland

  Jul 2004 - Sept 2005

  Print Service Center
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  Defacto Industries

  Sept 2004 - Dec 2004

  Graphic Design Intern
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  ID Branding

  Feb 2005 - Sept 2005

  Web & Print Production Artist
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  Knowledge Learning Corporation

  Oct 2005 - Feb 2006

  Freelance Production Designer
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  O'Berry Cavanaugh

  Feb 2006 - Jun 2010

  - Hired, oversaw, and directed the development team in day-to-day operations.- Implemented web standards-based development around custom LAMP-stack and Django-based content management systems utilising the MVC development pattern and version control systems to enhance project efficiency. - Crafted distinctive logo and identity packages, consumer catalogues, product brochures, websites and landing pages, earned media marketing campaigns, and e-commerce platforms.- Supported the account management team by conducting comprehensive SEO audits, guided clients on SEO and SEM best practices, developed content strategies, and integrated advanced Google Analytics for A/B testing, funnel analysis, ROI analysis, and SEO optimisation. Show less

  • Interactive Director

    Apr 2007 - Jun 2010

  • Graphic Designer

    Feb 2006 - Apr 2007
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  MercuryCSC

  Jun 2010 - Feb 2014

  Interactive Producer

  - Performed budgeting, hiring, and day-to-day web and content development team management. Increased ROI of website redesigns by implementing a web design process based on a user-centred design framework grounded in foundational research and content strategy while shifting from a comp-based design process.- Increased development capabilities by introducing MVC-pattern development in Django. This allowed the organisation to win the bid for multiple years to lead web development for State of Montana Tourism. During this time, we developed numerous marketing microsites and applications, including a mobile application to gather user-generated content to promote in-state tourism and the creation of a digital publication for Apple’s Newsstand.- Performed user research, including interviews, field studies, contextual inquiry sessions, competitive research, and content audits; designed sitemaps and wireframes; oversaw content development and copywriting.- Supported the account management and sales teams by performing SEO audits, competitive analysis, data scraping, data analysis, and data visualisation.- Managed web server infrastructure for all internal and client projects. - Lowered IT load and reduced tooling issues by utilising Vagrant and Chef to develop portable, replicable, cross-platform LAMP-stack, Django, and Ruby development environment systems. Show less

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  4c Sports

  Mar 2014 - Mar 2018

  Product Designer

  - Zero-to-one product design as 4th hire for a seed-funding stage startup initially focused on individualising an intervention plan to reduce non-contact injury risk from data gathered via markerless motion capture.- Designed, prototyped, and developed internal and external-facing web, desktop, and mobile applications and services across various fidelities from pen and paper to iOS application design in Swift following a design thinking approach.- Scaled and pivoted MVP: refactored functionality into individual web applications and distributed application environments, implemented a REST API to support new means of data input and output.- Developed the means and parameters for assessing postural stability from force plate measurements and designed ways to make that data available in a meaningful way to medical practitioners. - Provided marketing and graphic design services, including brand and marketing strategy, design of identity, digital and print collateral, vehicle wraps, and presentations. Show less

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  ContentWriters

  Mar 2018 - Jan 2024

  - Designed, prototyped, and validated new features and functionality, utilising a user-centered design process.- Mentored design, development, and product teams on UX heuristics and best practices for developing accessible interfaces; performed design, code, and accessibility audits.- Unified disparate design elements between products, developing a design system and reusable component library utilising Storybook.js as a tool for review, collaboration, and automated testing.- Improved development and QA efficiency by spearheading the writing of Jira tickets as user stories; wrote comprehensive QA test plans for new features and functionality.- Improved user satisfaction and product performance by performing user research in the form of contextual inquiry sessions, surveys, and usability studies and initiating feature and functionality changes from those findings. Show less - Strengthened code quality by championing test-driven development, improving Python test coverage by 30%. - Modernised codebases and ensured compatibility by refactoring from Python 2 to Python 3 and Django 2.x to 3.x. - Transitioned deployment infrastructure from Fabric to Ansible, resulting in increased deployment scalability. - Developed responsive and user-friendly web interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. - Enhanced application performance by reducing 3rd party dependencies in alignment with Google Page Speed requirements, shifting from a mishmash of Django, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, jQuery UI, and Ansible towards a Django + React application. Show less

  • Senior UX Engineer

    Sept 2022 - Jan 2024

  • Senior Developer

    Apr 2020 - Sept 2022

  • Frontend Developer

    Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
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  Massive Studios

  Nov 2018 - Mar 2020

  Web Developer

  Developed responsive websites and WordPress and ExpressionEngine themes for local businesses and non-profit organisations following development best practices.

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  Lead Media

  Feb 2024 - now

  Senior Frontend Developer

  - Implement performant, search engine optimised, user-friendly, and accessible WordPress plugins, custom Gutenberg blocks, themes, and data visualisations using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React.js, Python, PHP, MySQL, and ElasticSearch. - Optimise software development processes by abstracting functionality and code into reusable classes, design pattern libraries, and plugins. - Reduce QA load and ensure consistency by introducing automated testing to the workflow.