Chris Merpaw-erickson
Owner at Grackle Lacquer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Merpaw-erickson is a bilingual (English/French) web developer, designer, and entrepreneur based in Ottawa with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience building user-focused digital products and marketing assets. As owner of two small businesses and a longtime freelance digital artist, he blends hands-on front-end development, 3D and graphic design, and branding with practical promotion and tech-support skills honed in public-sector roles. His government experience includes program and tech analyst positions where he wrote SOPs, designed training materials, performed QA, and coordinated incident responses—demonstrating an ability to translate technical processes into clear documentation and stakeholder-ready deliverables. A Carleton IMD graduate who admits “I code for the dopamine,” he brings opportunistic learning, team leadership, and a personable, creative approach to projects that straddle design, development, and communications.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, 94, Ontario Secondary School Diploma, 94 at Brockville Collegiate InstituteBachelor of Information Technology, Interactive Multimedia and Design, Bachelor of Information Technology, Interactive Multimedia and Design at Carleton University
English, French
Github Skills (11)
fitbit9
clock7
minecraft6
smartwatch5
forge5
solve5
exhaustive4
player3
unity3d3
currency1
observe1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cgguardian/circles
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
cgguardian/IMD3901A_A3
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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