Matthew Smith
Design Lead at iBec Creative
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Smith is a Design Lead with 13 years of experience crafting mobile-first user experiences and front-end implementations from Portland, Maine. He blends visual design and hands-on front-end development, guiding end-to-end projects from wireframes to production while ensuring development best practices across teams. At iBec Creative he progressed from Mobile Web Designer to Lead Developer and now Design Lead, driving cross-functional coordination, design reviews, and hiring. He introduced and evangelized responsive and mobile-first approaches within teams early in his career and has deep CMS experience, particularly with Drupal-based platforms. Matthew pairs an MFA in Print/Media with a BFA in Printmaking, bringing a strong conceptual art background to pragmatic product design. Notably, he balances creative leadership with technical mentorship, regularly liaising with operations and engineering to translate client needs into polished, maintainable sites and apps.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, Print/Media, MFA, Print/Media at Cranbrook Academy of ArtBFA, Printmaking, BFA, Printmaking at Montserrat College of Art
English
Github Skills (7)
jquery8
javascript6
3d-printing1
cnc-controller1
python1
autodesk1
autocad1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
akselkreis/mediaWrapper.js
Apr 2013 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 17 commits, 9 pushes in 7 years 11 months
javascriptjquery
akselkreis/cssappicons
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:60 commits, 2 PRs, 62 pushes in 2 years
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