Maren Vernon
Learning Resource Designer at Scratch Foundation
Camas, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaren Vernon is a learning resource designer and WordPress-focused developer with a decade of experience blending creative design, curriculum development, and front-end web skills. At the Scratch Foundation she designs and iterates multimedia curriculum used by millions, co-led a $1M AT&T-funded video and lesson initiative, and co-designed resources with LEGO to reach tens of thousands of children. She pairs Adobe Creative Suite and responsive web design expertise with hands-on WordPress theming—contributing styling and structural improvements to a Skillcrush WordPress child theme—and teaches coding to youth and adults. Formerly a publishing editor and manager, she brings strong copyediting and instructional design chops to technical projects, making complex concepts accessible. Based in Camas, WA, Maren is drawn to the intersection of code and pedagogy and thrives on turning technical work into engaging learning experiences.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Publishing Institute, Summer Publishing Institute at NYU School of Professional StudiesWordPress Developer, Mobile Web Designer, Web Developer, and Visual Designer Blueprints, WordPress Developer, Mobile Web Designer, Web Developer, and Visual Designer Blueprints at SkillcrushBA English/Literature, BA English/Literature at Western Oregon University
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
wordpress10
front-end-development10
website-design9
flexbox9
site-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skillcrush/203-accelerate
Jul 2017 - Jul 2018
Skillcrush 203 WordPress child theme
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 46 PRs, 5 branches in 11 months
Contributions summary:Maren primarily worked on styling and structure within the provided WordPress child theme. Their contributions focused on modifying the `style.css`, `sidebar.php`, `front-page.php`, `page.php`, `index.php`, `content-blog.php`, `content.php` and `single.php` files. These changes included grouping CSS media queries, adding flexbox, and adding time and navigation HTML5 tags.
wordpress
skillcrush/103-skillcrush_starter
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
Skillcrush 103 WordPress starter theme
Contributions:74 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year
wordpress
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