About
Hello! I'm Julianne, a front-end web developer residing in the Cleveland area. My focus is on creating maintainable, fast websites with delightful user experiences.
I'm skilled at discerning requirements from people who are clear that they want something, just not exactly what. I love collaborating with designers to translate their static mock-ups into animated, responsive websites. I work closely with back-end developers; we make compromises together to ensure our finished product fits into the existing system. I can even take over project management in a pinch. I have experience working with several CMSs, like Drupal, Sitecore, and Sharepoint. I've coded extensively in the Angular JavaScript Framework.
I'm also an entrepreneur — as the co-founder of CSA Helper, my goal is to make CSA membership (where you get a box of produce each week directly from a farm) more convenient.
When I'm not at work I can be found reading (Michael Pollan is my favorite author), scrapbooking, or cooking up something new.
Work
SolarCity
I worked on a cross-functional team, which was split between designers and developers in Cleveland, Denver, and San Francisco. I led the front-end development of a complete redesign of the main consumer-facing pages of the site in a matter of weeks to be ready in time for the solar roof product launch event. See it live
Cleveland Clinic
While I was at Cleveland Clinic, I worked on a team of in-house developers and an external firm to replatform the site from Sharepoint to Sitecore. I provided day-to-day support for the Clinic's hundreds of internal CMS users. As the only front-end developer on staff, I coded all the HTML/CSS/jQuery for new features requested on the 10,000+ page site. Toward the end of my tenure, I wrote the front-end requirements for the upcoming redesign, as well as found and introduced the agency that was ultimately selected for the redesign of the site (which was completed after my departure). See it live
CSA Helper
My own entrepreneurial project is csahelper.com I designed everything except the logo. I developed it in partnership with my co-founder, with my focus being the CSS, HTML, and some of the Angular data interactions. I also conducted customer research, usability testing, product, and project management for this project. See it live
juliannedilorenzo.com
A screenshot seems a bit redundant, since this is the site you are currently browsing. Here are the technologies this site was built with:
- ARIA roles for accessibility as well as a skip navigation link for non-sighted and sighted keyboard users (refresh then tab to see it appear)
- Sass for CSS pre-processing
- BEM Methodology for organizing CSS class names in a maintainable way
- Normalize stylesheet to ensure a matching visual starting point across all browsers
- Gulp to build and run tasks such as browserSync for automatic browser refreshing, imagemin for smaller images, cleancss for minified css, and eslint/concat/uglify for compressed, error-free JavaScript delivered in one file
Let's Talk
Contact me with comments or questions. Or find me on LinkedIn.