Michael Read
Web Developer at COUNTRY Financial®
Normal, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Read is a web developer with 10 years of experience building and maintaining customer-facing websites and applications from the greater Chicago area. Currently at COUNTRY Financial he collaborates with UX, Analytics, and Marketing to deliver brand-compliant, SEO-focused sites, drawing on deep practical experience with WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and front-end stacks (HTML/CSS/JS, jQuery, Bootstrap). He previously led client-facing CMS builds at Curtis Creative and started in IT support and campus media roles, giving him a strong mix of user-centered design, deployment pragmatism, and troubleshooting skills. An avid curator of developer toolsets, he has contributed to the popular wesbos/awesome-uses repository by adding and refining profiles that document real-world developer setups. Known for turning designer mockups into fully manageable sites for clients, he pairs visual tool skills (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects) with a focus on measurable business outcomes like growth and search rankings.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science: Digital Media, Digital Media: Web Design, Audio Engineering, Bachelor of Science: Digital Media, Digital Media: Web Design, Audio Engineering at Greenville CollegeHigh School Diploma, General Education, High School Diploma, General Education at Princeton High School
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
develop10
html9
css9
frontend8
wordpress4
javas4
springframework4
java4
cordova4
angular4
spring4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wesbos/awesome-uses
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software and configs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to adding and updating profile information within the `awesome-uses` repository. Their commits involved adding new entries for developers, which included descriptions, URLs, social media handles, and technology tags. Further commits focused on updating existing profile data, modifying descriptions, and correcting existing entries within the data file. The overall work centered on expanding and curating the list of developer setups.
gearconfigssetups
mread1208/wordpress-starter-theme
Mar 2016 - Oct 2022
A blank WordPress theme written with Grunt to pre-process CSS and JS.
Contributions:31 PRs, 60 pushes, 18 branches in 6 years 7 months
cssjspreprocesswordpress-themesgrunt
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