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Kevin Leary

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Boston, MA

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Angular Development, WordPress Development, HTTP API Development, Enterprise WordPress Web Development Project Screenshot for TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor hired me as a freelance web developer to build a custom WordPress theme and supporting plugins for a redesign of their official corporate blog.

The theme serves multilingual content to internationalized audiences on 7 different domains, all from a single installation of WordPress. I worked closely with their in-house marketing and engineering teams to scope, plan and build this project, forming a partnership that continues to this day.

Node.js Development, Angular Development, HTTP API Development, Enterprise WordPress, Conversion Optimization Web Development Project Screenshot for MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review hired me as a JavaScript expert to define and build a headless API driven front-end, supporting an extensive new design for technologyreview.com.

The result is a powerful, stand-alone front-end built with Node.js that serves content from a Drupal backend API. The system supports over 2 million monthly visitors without breaking a sweat.

UI Design, Angular Development, HTTP API Development, Conversion Optimization Web Development Project Screenshot for AdDaptive Intelligence

AdDaptive Intelligence is a B2B SaaS platform that helps agencies and large businesses transform real-world, offline data into actionable targeting segments for digital advertising. They approached me looking for a freelance front-end UI designer and engineer to provide a modern UI for their complex platform.

Currently built with Symfony, the front-end of the existing setup was overly complex and difficult to work with. Working with backend teams, I defined the HTTP API and built a new front-end for the platform using a modern single page app (SPA) architecture. Today a static single page app built with Angular powers the front-end of the platform with a Symfony powered RESTful API.

WordPress Development, Angular Development, HTTP API Development, Conversion Optimization, Enterprise WordPress Web Development Project Screenshot for SBLI

SBLI is the Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts, one of the nation’s leading life insurance providers. They reached out to me looking to hire an enterprise WordPress developer in the Boston area to build a custom WordPress plugin, lead generation forms and advanced calculators.

They were in need of a custom WordPress plugin to provide life insurance quotes and full application processing through their website, sbli.com. Using a custom HTTP API, additional MySQL database tables, and an Angular powered front-end we built a series of micro services and mini-apps that handle the entire process. The result for them was a 362% increase in conversions and a drastically simplified lead generation workflow that streamlined the onboarding process for their sales teams.

WordPress Development, Conversion Optimization Web Development Project Screenshot for Not Your Average Joes

Not Your Average Joes hired me for a WordPress development project, building a new custom theme with a goal to simplify the management of their 50+ restaurant locations.

Their existing WordPress theme was poorly built, and made the process of managing restaurant locations overly complex, difficult and cumbersome. The new custom WordPress theme that I built for them drastically improves their workflow for managing content and restaurant locations. The site fully integrates with API's at OpenTable, SinglePlatform and more to automate the process of handling reservations, managing menu updates, ordering online, and finding nearby locations for mobile users with geolocation.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for MIT Arts

MIT Arts needed ongoing support from an expert freelance WordPress developer. They were specifically looking for a freelancer with hands-on custom theme and plugin development experience.

Their website has advanced requirements to support eCommerce, event management, complex content management, and custom integrations and they needed someone that could come in, rapidly understand the existing architecture, and help clean it up and improve upon it.

WordPress Development, Theme Design Web Development Project Screenshot for Pawtucket Credit Union

Pawtucket Credit Union is the largest credit union in Rhode Island with over $2B in managed assets. They hired me as a freelance WordPress developer to design and build a custom WordPress theme.

The new theme makes it easy for in-house teams to manage specific aspects of the website, while automating various other aspects to ensure the highest quality user experience. Fully WCAG 2.0 compliant, the theme supports a number of marketing and advertising initiatives and drives measurable results. Additionally, a custom WordPress plugin connects to external API's to retreive and update rate information in real-time throughout the entire site.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Tufts Cancer Center

Tufts Cancer Center hired me to build a custom WordPress theme to powered the Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Program section of their website.

Built on top of Automattic's _s starter theme, the theme leveraged Advanced Custom Fields for fine tuned content management that is effective, minimal and has proven to be extremely easy for them to maintain entirely on their own. Custom programming in the theme also provides a user registration system complete with social logins and sign-ups, allowing members to access an enrollment-only area. The system includes an account approval system, allowing site administrators to approve or disapprove membership sign-ups.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Swagger.io

Swagger.io reached out to me in search of a freelance web designer to re-design swagger.io and build them a custom WordPress theme that could serve dynamic, open-source powered content directly from GitHub.

Their open-source software product is the most popular API documentation system on the web and is used by companies like Intuit, McKesson, Microsoft, Morningstar, and PayPal. I work with their team in Cambridge, MA to design a new site that supported their existing established brand. I also built out the custom WordPress theme, starting with the _s theme connection in place their large community of developers has the ability to directly modify the API documentation and content that appears on their website.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Premier Research

Premier Research is an international provider of clinical research and monitoring services for pharmaceutical and medical device companies. They hired me as a freelance web developer and conversion optimization specialist to build a registration form connected to SalesForce.

A gravity form receives the information submitted, and syncs the data to a SalesForce CRM backend instantly. They also tasked me with iterating and improving on the conversion rates in collaboration with their internal software and marketing teams.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Remarque Systems

Remarque Systems hired me as a freelance web designer to quickly redesign their existing website on a tight timeline and budget.

A custom WordPress theme was built on top of their existing theme that is fully responsive and optimized to generate inbound marketing leads. The site updates were proven successful with a 459% increase in conversion rates, resulting in more leads and revenue.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Philadelphia Magazine

Philadelphia Magazine Philadelphia Magazine hired me as a freelance web developer to build a custom WordPress plugin to manage annual contests and competitions for prizes.

Using this custom plugin over 100,000 visitors have enrolled in competitions to receive prizes and cash giveaways. When users enroll via a social connection they receive notifications of results and related upcoming prizes. The build this I leveraged social sign-on with OAuth and custom logic for the Gravity Forms plugin.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Boston's Basilica

Boston's Basilica Boston's most iconic church found me seeking a local freelance web designer in the Boston area to clean-up and rebuild a custom theme developed by a local agency.

They needed to simplify the website management and avoid the need for constant code changes. They also had significant performance issues with their WordPress website and needed an audit of the site performance to identify and fix website speed issues. The end result was a clean WordPress theme that loaded in under 500ms, a custom WordPress site that was very easy to manage and a very happy client.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Bossip

Bossip and Moguldom Media Group, the brand behind Bossip, contacted me to provide ongoing maintenance and support for their WordPress VIP hosted website, which receives close to 5 million pageviews each month.

They were in desperate need of a freelance developer with a strong eye for detail and the ability to thoroughly test work and meet demanding deadlines.

WordPress Development, Enterprise WordPress Web Development Project Screenshot for Keryx

Keryx reached out to me to develop a custom WordPress theme for their agency designed public website.

They're a public biopharmaceutical company focused on the commercialization of drugs. The project was a success, and they hired me to a build corporate intranet with SSO using SAML 2.0 and Google Docs integration right after the new site launched.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for DGA Productions

DGA Productions desperately needed a new, professional website design that was easy to update and maintain in-house.

They're a full-service production agency that has produced videos for ESPN, YMCA, PBS and more, yet they couldn't showcase any of this video online at the time. They hired me to design and build a custom WordPress website that would allow them to quickly and easily manage everything on their own. The result was a professionally designed WordPress site with self-hosted, CDN delivered 4k video samples using HTML5 playback for full compatibility with mobile devices.

WordPress Development, Conversion Optimization Web Development Project Screenshot for OpenView Venture

OpenView Venture reached out to me looking for a local freelance web designer and developer that could routinely meet in the Seaport area of Boston to iterate on ideas and concepts with their investment team.

They're an expansion stage venture capital firm focused on technology and software investments. Together with their exceptionally smart team I designed and built a large inbound marketing engine at labs.openviewpartners.com and a professional firm website at openviewpartners.com setup as under a single WordPress multisite network. The project served as a model for their SaaS portfolio companies, and I soon found myself working directly with a few of those companies as well.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Citizen Schools

Citizen Schools reached out to me looking to hire a freelance web developer to build a flexible, robust content management system based on a design provided by their in-house team.

They provide advanced after school educational programs for over 10,000 students in low-income areas across the nation. The result was a powerful custom WordPress theme with advanced learning management capabilities. Built on WordPress Multisite, their in-house team was able to manage independent microsites for over a dozen different locations nationwide. We continued to work together to expand upon the learning management capabilities for over 5 years.

UI Design, PHP/MySQL Application Development, Conversion Optimization Web Development Project Screenshot for BenchFly

BenchFly was looking to partner with a seasoned interface designer who also had a thorough understanding of PHP/MySQL MVC frameworks.

Benchfly is a science video publishing platform helping over 23,000 scientists publish lab protocols online.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Strategic Claim

Strategic Claim reached out to me in need of a modern, highly flexible website management system.

StrategicClaim is a glass claim service provider that partners with car insurance companies like Progressive to provide accurate, automated quotes for glass replacement. Custom WordPress development was the perfect solution, allowing them to update and maintain everything in-house. Have a well-built WordPress theme also allowed their team to easily add additional functionality without bugs, issues or dependency conflicts between plugins.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Jana

Jana reached out to me in need of a custom WordPress theme developed in a very tight timeline for a large international event.

Jana is the world’s largest mobile rewards platform, reaching 3.48 billion consumers around the world. They wanted the ability to manage many aspects of a nice new website redesign, but the development team they had been working with was having trouble delivering. With the help of HTML5 Boilerplate, Bootstrap, CodeKit, and Redis cache a superfast site that loads in milliseconds was born.

JavaScript Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Madico

Madico hired me to build a custom web tool that would simulate the way various window tinting products looked to provide vendors with a realistic preview of tinting sheets on the web.

Madico is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of photovoltaic solar panel laminates and window films. They hired me to design and develop the site, and we've been working on and off ever since for over 5 years.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Conservation Law Foundation

Conservation Law Foundation was in need of a powerful, cutting-edge content management system that would allow them to easily publish and update case studies, initiatives, and blog articles in-house with the need for constant code updates.

Conservation Law Foundation is New England’s largest environmental advocacy organization, solving many of the region’s toughest environmental problems. They hired me to design and develop their website, as well as perform SEO related services for organic online marketing.

WordPress Development Web Development Project Screenshot for Peak Productions

Peak Productions contacted me in need of a professional WordPress website with a custom design to clean-up a poorly designed and developed WordPress theme.

They're a full-service boutique video production studio that works with reputable brands like IBM, WGBH, Millipore, McAfee, Kronos, Avid and more.

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Helping businesses launch mission critical projects with
enterprise level design, code, analytics and support.