David Clark's Resume

I am a frontend developer interested in building useful, usable, well-constructed sites and applications; working with excellent people; and constantly learning.

Proficiencies

Large-scale frontend architecture
React, Redux, and ES2015
Scalable and maintainable CSS, and tooling to facilitate it (especially PostCSS)
Frontend build processes
JS unit testing with tape, Sinon.JS, Mocha & Chai, and more
The principles and practice of responsive web development, accessibility, and progressive enhancement
Fine-tuned attention to detail, in code and in interfaces
Relentless, self-motivated learning
Communication and critical thinking (former-English-teacher skills)

Open Source Work

I actively contribute to existing libraries and create and share my own. These are the personal projects I've been working on lately:

Accessible and flexible React components: react-aria-menubutton, react-aria-modal, and react-aria-tabpanel
Low-level vanilla JS libraries to support higher-level components: tabbable, no-scroll, teeny-tap, focus-trap, and focus-group
CSS linters to help improve consistency, maintain sanity, and avoid mistakes: postcss-bem-linter and stylelint (and a supporting configuration loader, cosmiconfig)
A scalable CSS reading list

For more details and more projects, please have a look at my Github profile.

All of the above can be found through my Github profile: github.com/davidtheclark

Talks

Exploring New Possibilities with PostCSS // CSSDay.io on Dec. 5th, 2015: slides, video
JavaScript-Powered Task Automation // TucsonJS on May 18, 2015: slides

Professional Experience

Frontend Developer

HealthTrio // June 2014–present

Spearhead development of a robust new UI framework to support a suite of healthcare-related web applications. The framework offers a set of components and modules that do heavy-lifting behind the scenes while presenting simple, documented APIs. It enables engineers who are not frontend experts to build UIs that are powerful, consistent, user-friendly, accessible, internationalized, and configurable.
Construct a powerful and modern frontend architecture, involving React, Redux, and ES2015; a Node-powered workflow and build system involving gulp, webpack, PostCSS, and other tools; a systematic, scalable, and auto-enforced CSS methodology; keyboard-friendly and fully accessible interfaces; and complex configuration and theming capabilities, allowing for deep customization.
Thoroughly document UI components in an interactive pattern library.
Maintain comprehensive JS unit tests, and work with QA on black-box integration tests.
Collaborate with the application architect and backend developers on JSON API design.

UX Director and Frontend Developer

Brink Media // 2013–June 2014

Led frontend development, focusing on usability, performance, and up-to-date best-practices.
Established a frontend authoring environment that improved our efficiency as well as the quality and maintainability of our products.
Clarified and communicated project goals by creating personas and use-cases, content plans and information architectures, wireframes and prototypes.
Collaborated closely with graphic designers to create beautiful, functional, and fast interfaces.
Managed competing deadline-driven projects.

English Teacher

BASIS Scottsdale // 2009–2012

Taught 7^th English, AP English Language & Composition, 7^th philosophy, 8-12^th philosophy.
Created web-based resources and tools to encourage professional development and collaboration among teachers, and extracurricular reading and writing among students — the beginning of my interest in programming.

Education

MA in English, Northwestern University // 2008
BA in English, Grinnell College // 2005