Mike Dixon

Senior Front -End / UI Developer

Portrait of Mike

Husband, father, technologist and educator. Living outside Philadelphia, PA. Fortunate to have worked with several amazing teams, building cool things with code for 12-ish years.
Detail oriented, self-motivated, infinite energy.

Skills

  • Semantic HTML
  • Maintainable CSS/SCSS
  • Advanced JavaScript
  • React
  • Git
  • CMS Theming

Portfolio

BSD Education App and Curriculum

From May 2016 to Sept 2021, I helped to grow the edtech startup from 0 to 120+ school partners, 2.6k+ teachers and 50k+ students. Key highlights:

  • Facilitated 1000s of hours of live instruction (virtual and in-person) for students and teachers
  • Spoke at ISTE 2019, PETE&C 2019, 2020 conferences
  • Authored explainer videos (see embedded example), support articles, teaching resources and professional development program
  • Designed and implemented customer feedback pipeline

BB-8 Doodle

Single day personal project using HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Stats:

  • No images; pure CSS
  • Featured Pen on Codepen
  • Sits in the top 10 most popular "Star Wars" pens. 26k+ views, 500+ likes

See the Pen BB-8 by Mike Dixon (@mdixondesigns) on CodePen.