About Cyrus

Background

I graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in May 2012 with a degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, specializing in Editing and Graphic Design.

From 2013 to 2019, I rose from Design Associate to Senior Designer at the Chapel Hill-based B-Corp Participate Learning (previously VIF International Education), a global education and cultural exchange company. I was instrumental in rebranding the VIF into Participate, which later became two organizations, Participate and Participate Learning.

During this time, I picked up introductory dev experience writing Bootstrap markup for company landing pages and building email marketing templates. It wasn't long until I began to take online courses and experiment with front-end languages by building tools I could use for my hobbies. In 2019, I made a career move and became a front-end developer for Relias, a Morrisville-based healthcare education and workforce enablement solutions company.

With a background as a graphic designer, I naturally learned to enjoy front-end development and the technical detail involved in making web applications look and perform their best. Take a more detailed look at my skills and experience below:

Skills and experience

With more than ten years of professional experience in a variety of professional settings, I am comfortable:

• Writing lean code in standard front-end languages (HTML, CSS, JS).
• Adapting to new tech stacks and learning new frameworks, libraries, and CMS configurations.
• Automating everyday front-end tasks and setting up local dev environments.
• Writing technical and non-technical documentation for different teams.
• Managing Git repositories and deployment pipelines.
• Troubleshooting any issue and staying patient in the face of error.
• Mentoring those junior to me and sharing my knowledge with them.
• Taking direction from those senior to me and accepting feedback from them.
• Functioning as both a developer and a designer.
• Collaborating with teams of any size and working together towards shared goals.

Development

With more than five years of experience as a developer, I've been exposed to many languages, tools, and systems. Some I have used on a near daily basis, others I have used on select projects.

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Design

I have extensive experience creating vector and raster assets, infographics and layouts for web and print. I use Abobe Creative Suite for design work, and I am accustomed to working with many mockup and wireframing tools that UX designers use to deliver prototypes. I also have video editing/animation experience with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects.

Other proficiencies

I've picked up exposure to many other tools and project management systems along the way. I have years of experience working in Agile team frameworks delivering work in biweekly sprint cadences. I can fit in with all kinds of team structures using popular project management boards like Trello or Asana. I am also familiar with marketing automation tools like Salesforce Pardot and Marketo.