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Stephanie Leary

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National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse

2016 | Industry: Government

Among the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s long-term federal contracts was a library of information related to road construction work zones. The site was approximately ten years old and was running in an outdated and insecure version of Drupal. TTI’s web team had long … [Read more...] about National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse

Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Search

2015 | Industry: Government

The Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory is a small state agency that provides diagnostic testing services to veterinarians. The website includes a database of available tests, shipping instructions for biological samples, a reference library, an archive of news … [Read more...] about Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Search

3D Symposium

2014 | Industry: Government

This conference site for IIAD was a delight to work on because the communications team had a design in mind that included a selection of livestock photos they wanted to use for the sidebar background. It was nice to take a break from the minutiae of WordPress APIs and spend a … [Read more...] about 3D Symposium

Texas A&M Forest Service

2014 | Industry: Government

This project was quite unusual for me: the team already had a design, and the in-house developers were working on migrating platforms. The Texas A&M University System had recently mandated that all the state agencies in the system should update their names to include … [Read more...] about Texas A&M Forest Service

FirstCall

2014 | Industry: Government

FirstCall is the helpdesk site for the AgriLife division of the Texas A&M University System. I worked with the in-house team to rewrite the content, reorganize the home page and the site navigation, and design a WordPress theme that reflected the organization's new, … [Read more...] about FirstCall

Texas Transportation Institute

2013 | Industry: Government

After I finished TTI's events site, the group asked me to make the main site's theme responsive. I reworked the slider plugin, rearranged content for mobile, and rewrote hard-coded home page elements as widgets. … [Read more...] about Texas Transportation Institute

Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases

2013 | Industry: Education, Government

The Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, a part of Texas A&M's AgriLife division, is a research center focusing on animal disease. In addition to the usual news and informational pages, the site needed to showcase the Center's research projects, tools (the finished … [Read more...] about Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases

Texas Transportation Institute Events

2012 | Industry: Education, Government

  TTI asked me to help them implement a custom post type for their conferences (essentially an upcoming events system) and to replace the defunct CheezCap plugin they'd been using to manage per-site customizations for their Genesis child theme. I  implemented an … [Read more...] about Texas Transportation Institute Events

Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory

2012 | Industry: Education, Government

TVMDL was moving into WordPress with the help of some very talented in-house people, but they were having trouble getting past their old content. I did a content inventory and helped them implement some of the changes they wanted to make to the AgriLife parent theme. Along the … [Read more...] about Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory

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I’m a front end developer at Equinox OLI, working on open source library software. I was previously a freelance WordPress developer in higher education. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

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