Dakota Chichester
Senior Associate Creative Director
Natick, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDakota Chichester is a Senior Associate Creative Director and veteran web designer-developer with over two decades of experience crafting responsive, interactive web and editorial experiences. At Boston University he leads design teams and builds front-end systems and Gutenberg-powered WordPress products, shaping a university-wide responsive framework used across large-scale sites. Equally comfortable in Photoshop as in hand-coded HTML5/CSS3, he brings deep expertise in JavaScript, SASS, NodeJS tooling, and CMS architecture (WordPress, Drupal). His background spans agency work for lifestyle brands, early mobile and kiosk projects, and mentoring design teams as a former Design Team Lead at MembersFirst. Known for turning complex editorial and product requirements into immersive, longform storytelling and internal tools, he pairs creative direction with hands-on development. Based in Natick, MA, he still freelances selectively, reflecting a longtime habit of independent craftsmanship alongside institutional leadership.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Schoharie Central SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Graphic Design, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Graphic Design, Summa Cum Laude at Southeastern Louisiana University
Github Skills (61)
wordpress10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
plugin9
php8
sass8
css8
wordpress-block8
nodejs7
responsive-design7
dart-sass7
frontend7
nwjs6
javascript6
native-code5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bu-ist/bu-blocks
Oct 2020 - Jun 2026
A repository for storing all BU WordPress blocks for the new WordPress editor
Contributions:13 releases, 52 reviews, 91 PRs in 5 years 8 months
wordpresswordpress-block
bu-ist/block-imports
Jun 2024 - Nov 2025
Standardized set of components that can be used within WordPress blocks.
Contributions:19 reviews, 21 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 4 months
wordpress-block
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