Brian Norris
Seniorfront-end developer, Springfield, MO
Work experience
Freelance Web Development
Self
Developing custom websites and applications for agencies and direct clients.
Senior Web Developer and Front-end Team Leader
Marlin Connections
Led front-end development for web products serving the food-service industry. Worked closely with designers and developers to build user-facing features that balanced good UX with sound technical decisions. Guided front-end standards and helped set direction for the team.
Per-Course Instructor
Missouri State University
Taught five courses for design students at the sophomore through senior level, covering design software, production, graphic design concepts, and web design and development. All courses were project-based. Responsible for curriculum structure, instruction, and assessment within a defined range of topics.
Graphic Designer and Web Developer
Schilling/Sellmeyer & Associates
Designed and developed print and web projects for local and regional clients across a range of industries. Owned the full lifecycle of client websites from concept through launch, including hosting and ongoing maintenance.
Lead Designer and Web Developer
Image Works, Inc.
Led design across a wide range of print and web projects, including a quarterly magazine. Assigned work to and directed other designers and interns.
Professional skills
Development
- CSS / Sass Experience and passion for writing sane and resilient stylesheets
- JavaScript / TypeScript Frameworks (Vue, Svelte, Alpine.js)
- UI development Design system and UI kit development
- Performance Performance optimization and Core Web Vitals
- Animation Meaningful and performant animations
- Content management WordPress, Statamic, Craft, Pimcore, Umbraco, Sanity
- APIs RESTful and GraphQL
- Analytics Setup, event tracking, testing, and analysis
- Web accessibility WCAG implementation and site auditing
- AI assisted development Code generation, scaffolding, and AI-assisted code review
Design
- Typography Fluid and responsive typographic manipulation
- Production Extensive experience with graphic, image editing and page layout applications
- Information architecture Hierarchies, taxonomy development, and sitemapping
- User experience User-centered design approach, UX research, site audits
- Interface design Wireframing and prototyping
Process & Management
- Standards Documenting best practices
- Scoping Requirements definition and acceptance tests
- Tooling Creating custom project boilerplates
- Leadership Overseeing junior designers and developers
- AI workflow AI output validation, quality control, and LLM assisted architectural planning
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, Cum Laude
Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri
3.74 GPA on a 4.0 scale