User:Apheori/CV
A fragment of the Garden of Remembering
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
