Timothy Tucker - Web Development Consultant

Web Development

I am a veteran web consultant with over 20 years of hands-on experience in development and content creation. I am a technical professional directly executing design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance tasks for my clients and stakeholders.

Over the past 13 years, I have run my own web development business serving a variety of business and nonprofit clients. As a result, I have handled every aspect of my work from project management and fulfillment, communications, customer service, and all facets of small business management.

I have worked throughout the development life cycle directly with clients from individual stakeholders to entire software teams. I have developed projects of varying complexity from small brochure-type websites to 200,000-word online User Help systems.

I have extensive experience in:

WordPress
Responsive Frameworks
ADA Accessibility/508 Compliance
Information Architecture
SEO
Browser/Platform Testing
Google Analytics
GitHub
Social Media Integration
Setting up and managing sites on third-party Apache servers

Programming

I have developed and managed sites and applications for businesses, nonprofits, and higher education using:

HTML5
CSS
Sass
PHP
MySQL
JavaScript
jQuery
Bootstrap
Third-party code libraries

Technical and Copywriting

I have 20 years of writing experience, and am a skilled communicator translating technical concepts into clear, effective language. I have extensive expertise, including:

Generating website content for businesses, nonprofits, and higher education, including: information architecture, navigation structures, and search engine optimized headers and copy
Writing marketing copy for digital and print media for business and nonprofit clients, including: brochures, website sales copy, email newsletters, and landing pages
Creating documentation and information libraries for reference, training, and public access, including one project where I coordinated, produced, and edited a 200,000-word User Help system for a nonprofit software package

Portfolio

MoreThanData

This WordPress site uses a responsive framework with significant custom CSS. MoreThanData, Inc. creates custom, nonprofit management software for Habitat for Humanity Affiliates.

Example app: Annual License Calculator — a JavaScript app that allows customers to estimate their software license cost. The table formula automatically updates it allowing for what-if scenarios.

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Autism Parents Creed

This single-page inspirational story for autism parents uses HTML5, photos, and text within a responsive CSS framework.

The CSS was generated using Sass to make the media queries, break points, and other elements easier to generate and customize.

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I Am An Autism Parent

This WordPress blog uses a responsive HTML5 WordPress framework with custom CSS.

Example app: The “Inspiration Generator” (http:// iamanautismparent.com/ inspiration-generator/), which is a jQuery app that allows visitors to click a button as many times as they like and get inspirational quotes. The app pulls quotes from a separate JSON file.

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Latin American Choral Music

This custom WordPress site provides the ability to search numerous, curated databases related to Latin American Choral Music. These are large MySQL databases (up to tens of thousands of records) that researchers and visitors can access using several PHP search pages.

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MTD Keystone Help Library

The Keystone Help Library is a 200,000-word Help system for Keystone, a comprehensive, custom, information management software package for Habitat for Humanity Affiliates. I developed, wrote, coordinated, produced, and edited the system and content over the past several years. This required extensive use of information architecture and technical writing. It was developed in MadCap Flare.

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HTML5

These are HTML5-based mini-sites that, in these cases, involved taking some of my written work and reinterpreting them as much more visual pieces using HTML5, CSS with media queries, and some JavaScript.

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