User:Apheori/CV

Predominantly a UX designer and MediaWiki developer. I have many projects. Last updated 2020.

Work experience

Wikimedia Foundation

Project Grantee - Timeless/Post-deployment support (2018 - 2019) (report)

• Consolidation of bug reports and user feedback into actionable tasks
• Outreach to relevant stakeholders to prioritise development and better understand audience needs, including RfCs to determine paths forward
• Bugfixes and features development within Timeless, both to increase inter-compatibility with external components and improve the effectiveness of included components
• Development on and documentation of the underlying skinning system in MediaWiki core to better support needs of all skins
• Updates and compatibility fixes across myriad skins and extensions in order to improve compatibility and consistency across the overall MediaWiki frontend ecosystem

Project Grantee - WikiProject X/CollaborationKit MVP (2018 - 2019) (report)

• Extension review and task triage to ensure up-to-date status information
• Resolution of technical debt: style changes, deprecated functions, upstream and cross-compatibility with other extensions
• Determination and resolution of current deployment blockers, including setting expectations for the extension as well as upstream requirements
• Updates and maintenance for onwiki and community outreach channels, including general newsletters and direct liaising with relevant stakeholders

IEG Grantee - Designer and Developer for WikiProject X Renewal (2016 - 2017) (report)

• MediaWiki extension development, design, and review
• Collaboration with upstream teams to fix bugs and implement new features
• Creating and implementing skin-agnostic designs based on earlier prototypes
• Vetting potential new hires

IEG Grantee - Designer for WikiProject X (2015) (report)

• Collecting user stories, and comparing components across successful WikiProjects
• Creating design documents to track existing and potential user workflows
• Prototype layout design and development, testing, and iteration
• Presentations to various stakeholders at conferences

Design intern - Flow (2013) (report)

• Testing for usability problems with the existing interface
• Component wireframes and high-fidelity interactive designs for initial testing
• Design changes to ease transitions between different interface styles

Freelance work

Website development and graphic design (2011 - present)

• MediaWiki extension and skin development and design, with focus on those needing cohesion with other aspects of an organisation's site
• Art commissions and logo design, branding and visual identities
• Website building and updates for deployed platforms

Measured Progress

Scoring Team Leader, Supervisor (2016 - 2020)

• Coordinating with other team leaders and supervisors
• Performing quality assurance to ensure consistency over time
• Managing team(s) of scorers
• Evaluating edge cases and translation issues and determining new rules consistent with existing standards

Scorer (2014 - 2017)

• Consistent evaluation according to standardised rules
• Finding unestablished edge cases

Quest Product Development

General assistant (2007 - 2009)

• Quality assurance testing, database sanitisation, clerical duties, and other tasks

Volunteer work

Wikimedia

MediaWiki developer (2011 - present)

• Skin development, maintenance, and design, especially for mobile, providing distinct visual identities for MediaWiki sites
• Presentations on current work and training sessions walking people through the processes involved
• Extensions and better interfaces for remote authentication and database imports, screenplay formatting, others
• Liaising between volunteer and staff developers in bug reports and discussions
• Adding built-in support for new CSS specs while also supporting fallback options for older browsers
• Mentoring Google Summer of Code participants, as well as other new users
• Filing and following up on tasks for improved usability and accessibility of various interfaces, internal and external

Content contributor and editor

• File uploads and editing, including watermark removal and adjustments for better digital viewing
• Editing Wikipedia and sister wikis
• Organising and facilitating meetups, editing events, and other outreach
• Administrating the mailing list for the Wikimedians in Colorado User Group

ShoutWiki

Head of User Experience (2013 - present)

• General site branding
• Extension and tool design and review
• Skin and extension maintenance and upstream coordination with MediaWiki core projects

Uncyclopedia

Director of Semi-visible Operations (Uncyclomedia) (2013 - present)

• MediaWiki extension and script development
• Interface and tool development in response to changing user needs and upstream changes
• Project management of system and server administration
• Prerelease testing and live deployments
• Community organisation and outreach

Editor and administrator (2010 - 2015)

• Image manipulation, creation, and editing, as well as logo design
• Community management, cat herding, and countervandalism and antispam maintenance
• Article writing, editing, and review

Skills and tools

UX and Design Research

• Data collection: Surveys, interviews, community discussion, testing out and surveying existing content/processes
• Evaluation: Persona and heuristic evaluation, A/B testing, contrast checkers and colourblindness simulators
• Throwing random stuff at the wall and seeing what happens

Software Development

• Languages: PHP, JavaScript, Python, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, LESS, SASS, SVG
• Codebases: MediaWiki, WordPress
• Collaboration platforms: Phabricator, Bugzilla, Gerrit
• Version control: SVN, Git, IRC, email

Graphics

• Raster editing: GIMP, Photoshop
• Vector editing: Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator, Fontforge
• Other: Balsamiq Mockups, Firefox developers tools, pencil and paper

General

• Grantmaking, documentation, reports
• Team leadership, project planning, inter-team collaboration
• Ubuntu and Arch Linux system administration, Nginx, Apache, mdadm

Education

CU Boulder - Bachelor of Science Computer Science (Human-Centered Computing track) - 2013

• Studies in algorithms, computer systems, software engineering
• Studies in psychology with an emphasis on neuroscience and human-computer interaction
• Studies in 2D, 3D, and user experience design
• Studies in startup and business management, basic marketing