Lisaย Ross
VP, Experience & Tech at Avenue
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLisa Ross is a VP of Experience & Tech with 20+ years blending marketing, design, teaching and technical leadership to build AI-enhanced learning and business systems. She leads technology and experience at Avenue while co-founding Makably to help entrepreneurs scale with pragmatic, context-first AI strategies rooted in real classroom and creator-course insights. A former teacher and long-time web developer, Lisa pairs hands-on front-end contributions (including UX and styling work on notable open-source projects) with strategic roadmaps that prioritize human connection and neurodiversity-friendly design. Sheโs obsessed with using AI for strategic thinking and systems automation rather than surface-level content generation, and has a CONTEXT framework for practical implementation. Known for avoiding cookie-cutter solutions, she focuses on measurable business outcomesโclarity, confidence, cashflow and controlโwithout expanding teams unnecessarily. Based in Barrie, Ontario, she combines educator empathy with product and systems rigor to make AI genuinely useful for real people.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Certification, ITIL Version 3 Foundation, Certification, ITIL Version 3 Foundation at Loyalist Certification ServicesComputer Science, English, Computer Science, English at University of GuelphLandmark Forum, Landmark Forum at Landmark EducationDiploma, Graphic Design Production, Diploma, Graphic Design Production at Georgian College
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Github Skills (7)
css10
documentation9
ui-design9
javascript9
wordpress6
git5
version-control5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
versionpress/versionpress
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Git-based version control for WordPress. Whoa!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Lisa primarily contributed to the front-end styling and user interface of the documentation site. Their work focused on adding, modifying, and removing CSS rules, including adjustments to header and footer styles, code block appearances, and responsive table styling. They also made updates to the JavaScript to modify the behavior of the header drop-shadow. These changes suggest a focus on improving the visual presentation, user experience, and overall consistency of the documentation.
version-controlwordpressversionpressdatabasestaging
lisaross/dotfiles
Apr 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:39 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
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