I’m a frontend WordPress developer with a passion for creating things that are both beautiful and useful. My strength lies in leveraging the intersection of my design background, development skills and analytical knowledge. Every new website project presents me with an opportunity to innovate and to use new advanced functionality to help clients reach their goals.
About Me
Contacts
Address: 2200 Locust St.
St. Louis, MO 63103
Phone: 314.808.8376
Email: me@nickmantia.design
Website: nickmantia.design
Education
University of Missouri – St. Louis
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
May 2016
Qualifications
Google Analytics Academy
Advanced Google Analytics Individual Quali cation
Dec. 2017
Speaker – Wordcamp STL
Presented on WordPress development workflow
May 2018
organizer – wordcamp us 2019
Currently on the logisitcs team for Wordcamp US
January 2019 – present
Experience
emagine
Developer | August 2018 – Present
Building customized wordpress themes and plugins from design comps. Working with external API’s to integrate 3rd party services and create advanced interactions and animations that result in a more engaging user experience.
goBRANDgo!
Design Intern | April 2015 – August 2015,
Graphic Designer | August 2015 – May 2016,
Frontend Developer | May 2016 – August 2018
Since 2016, I’ve worked full-time as a frontend developer, building customized wordpress themes and plugins from design comps. I work with external API’s to integrate 3rd party services, build custom interactive assets, and create advanced interactions and animations that result in a more engaging user experience. I’m heavily invested in every project from idea to whiteboard, wireframe and execution. On top of new site builds, I handle security, updates and ful ll service tickets for goBRANDgo!’s 100+ hosted WordPress sites.
Technical Skills
Softwares / Tools
Adobe Creative Cloud, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Sketch, Media Encoder, Coda 2, Microsoft Visual Studio, MacOS Terminal, Git, Github, Sourcetree, Slack
Languages / Libraries
HTML5, CSS3, J Query, Javascript, PHP 7, Bootstrap 3 & 4, Skeleton, Sass/Scss, AJAX, Vue.js, React, Node, NPM, Homebrew
Data
API’s, JSON, XML
CMS / CRM
WordPress, Hubspot, Shopify, Podio, Sherpa
Project Management
Wrike, Accelo, Mavenlink, Workamajig, Basecamp, Trello
Other
Advancd Google Tag Manager, Analytics and Search Console, Google Maps API, Zapier, SVG animation, CSS Animation, GSAP, Bodymovin, CDN, SSL, MySQL, Sendgrid, Woocommerce, Stripe, Paypal, Shipstation, Xero, Mail Chimp, Constant Contact, WP-CLI, AWS
Additional Skills
SEO Best Practices, Standard Marketing Knowledge, Typography, Branding, Ux Research, Wireframing, Sitemaps, Prototyping