About Me
Hello, my name is Jasmine Tsai and I'm a front-end Web Developer.
The reason I started coding websites is simple. I enjoy making websites beautiful. Due to this, I have strong CSS and HTML skills.
I have had 3+ years of experience in a growing university web services team.
Currently I am also working on learning about web accessibility, responsive images, jQuery and JavaScript.
I am currently attending Collin County Community College as a Computer Science Major. I graduated from The University of Texas at Dallas at the end of 2017 with a Bachelor's in Arts and Technology.
Notable Achievements
- A website redesign I participated in at UT Dallas took Gold in the 2018 CASE District IV Web Redesign category.
- I was 1 of 2 finalists for Student Employee of the Year (2016-2017) at UT Dallas.
Certifications
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I) - Scrum.org, February 14, 2018 (Scrum.org Profile)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO-I) - Scrum.org, June 4, 2018 (Scrum.org Profile)
- Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) - Scrum.org, August 6, 2018 (Scrum.org Profile)
Professional Experience
Ezekiel Center (Volunteer)
Agile for Patriots | Plano, TX
April - August 2018
I volunteered to help work on a website for a non-profit using WordPress and "The Divi Builder" Plugin.
Mentor (Volunteer)
Agile for Patriots | Plano, TX
February 19 - March 1, 2018 | September 10 - September 21, 2018
I mentored a team of military veterans in using WordPress and "The Divi Builder" Plugin in order to help military veterans find jobs in tech fields. This was a 2 week Practicum. During these 2 weeks, I acted as an advisor and provided feedback in design and best practices.
Student Worker
Web Services, The University of Texas at Dallas | Richardson, TX
June 2014 to December 2017
When I began working at UT Dallas, I had only just started working with HTML and CSS. During the 3.5 years I was there, I coded templates for 3 website redesigns for UT Dallas’ engineering school to improve accessibility for mobile users and screen readers and improve search engine optimization and brand consistency.
- One website redesign I worked on won the Gold in the 2018 CASE District IV Web Redesign category.
- Awarded as 1 of 2 finalists for Student Employee of the Year (2016-2017)
- Coded and developed 3 responsive templates for the Jonsson School with improved SEO, mobile accessibility, screen reader accessibility, brand consistency and a sleek modern design to increase web traffic to the Engineering websites.
- Participated in designing and coding 3 websites for the Jonsson School and two of its departments.
- Oversaw and helped maintain over a dozen websites in Dreamweaver and WordPress for the Jonsson School while creating and maintaining new lab websites.
Recent Projects
In my Fall 2017 semester I worked on an Advanced Interaction Design project that attempted to improve on the experience of parking
During the Spring 2017 semester, I created this website.
About this Site
This website was coded by me in notepad++, with a few jquery plugins like the mobile menu and the gallery. The headers and footers were done with php includes.
The header image for the home page uses responsive image techniques found from alistapart. The image will change depending on screen size. This picture uses the HTML <picture> tag and is supported for older browsers through the polyfill known as picturefill. Even without picturefill, the responsive image is already set up to fail gracefully as a regular image.
The mobile menu is a Multi-Level Push Menu created by Mary Lou and found at codrops. The photo gallery is called fotorama and is found at fotorama.io.
This site uses fontawesome for icons and the background images came from subtlepatterns.