Chris J. Ƶähller
Full-Stack Developer · Norman, Oklahoma
About Me
I’m a web developer with decades of experience. I specialize in performant, accessible design.
Work Experience
Senior Developer (remote contractor)
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Techbridge Inc.Atlanta
Created, overhauled, and maintained multiple existing and new websites for Atlanta-based nonprofit Techbridge. Duties include serving the needs of various departments within the organization as well as their external stakeholders. The stakeholders further fall into several categories, each with their own requirements.
Developer (remote contractor)
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Buzzbizz MediaAnchorage, Alaska
Responsible for design, build, maintenance, and error-correction of dozens of agency’s client websites.
Owner, Developer, Designer
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Messenger Web Design LLCNorman, Oklahoma
Freelance web developer and designer, providing website, UI, and UX design; branding (including logos and brand marks); and front- and back-end development.
Photographer
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Woody Guthrie Folk FestivalOkemah, Oklahoma
Official photographer for the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival.
Education
Technical Certifications
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Moore–Norman Technology Center Norman, Oklahoma
Earned CompTIA® A+, Microsoft XP+, Linux+, and Cisco Systems® CCNA certifications (CCNA valid through September 2006).
Bachelor of Fine Arts
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University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma
Earned BFA in metal design.
Skills
- Web Dev
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6), PHP
- SASS/SCSS
- JSON
- UI & UX design
- React
- Git, Subversion (SVN)
- Static website builders (Eleventy, Docusaurus)
- Nunjucks
- WordPress, WP-CLI, WP i18n
- Page builders (WordPress Block Editor, Elementor, Beaver Builder)
- Node, Grunt, Yarn
- cPanel, PHPMyAdmin
- IDEs (VSCode)
- Networking/Server
- Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)
- CLI via SSH & SFTP
- Apache2/OpenLiteSpeed
- mySQL
- PHP
- SSL via Certbot
- HTTP/3 (QUIC)
- Shell scripting (Bash)
- DNS
- RSync
- Nano
- CDN (Cloudflare)
- Design, Illustration, & Layout
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Figma
- Canva
- Photo Editing & Wrangling
- Adobe Lightroom
- Adobe Photoshop
- Cloud Computing
- Google Cloud
- Amazon Web Services
- Vultr
- Vercel
- Administration
- Quickbooks
- OpenOffice
- Adobe Acrobat
- Google Docs
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Trello
- Writing
- Publisher, editor, copy-editor, writer, interviewer
- Technical writer
- Former editor & writer at Oklahoma Home Improvement Magazine
- Well-versed in AP Style & Chicago Manual of Style
- Other
- Technical support (as plugin maintainer)
- Customer service
Open Source
wp-foft-loader
A WordPress plugin to load web fonts efficiently.
5 stars
0 forks
Five-Star-Ratings-Shortcode
A WordPress plugin to display star ratings.
1 stars
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conditionally-load-cf7
A WordPress plugin to load Contact Form 7 scripts and styles only when necessary.
4 stars
0 forks
teekee-deebee-by-seezee
github.com/seezee/teekee-deebee-by-seezee Tiny Paper Umbrella, a tiki database.
1 stars
0 forks
zahller.me
My online résumé. You’re looking at it.
1 stars
0 forks
techbridge-docs
Internal documentation for Techbridge, Inc., built with Docusaurus + React. NOTE: Techbridge Docs’ GIT repository is private, so my stats are not included below. As of my commit count for this repo is 831.
1 stars
0 forks
Technical Writing (Select)
Interests
- Publisher, editor, & copy-editor at Mercury Photo Bureau
- Photographer (film & digital) at Mercury Photo bureau
- Amateur mixologist
- Bibliophile
- Melomaniac
- Cinephile
- Gastronome
- Turophile
- Antiquarian
- Gearhead
- MINIac