Eric Mikkelsen Resume

Certified Web Accessibility Specialist and web developer focusing on what makes things easier for humans, whether it's accessibility, web performance, or just being a decent human being.

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Education

  • Bachelors in Interactive Multimedia Columbia Chicago
  • Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) Certification – IAAP (2023)

Skills

Languages & Frameworks:

  • 11ty
  • Astro
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • NextJS
  • Node
  • PHP
  • React
  • SCSS
  • Svelte
  • SVG
  • Twig
  • TypeScript
  • Vue

CMS Expertise

  • Sanity CMS
  • WordPress

Tools

  • Git
  • LLMs
  • Tailwind

Specialty

  • Web Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 and below)
  • Web Components

Work history

Boldium

Web Developer, UX Engineer, Lead UX Engineer

I joined Boldium with one React project under my belt and left fluent in most major JS frameworks. My biggest impact came from making accessibility and performance the default, and giving non-dev stakeholders real ways to contribute.

  • Built WCAG 2.2 into our design and dev workflow with automated tooling and code review checklists, saving real time and money we'd otherwise spend on rework.
  • Led the move from WordPress to Astro for marketing sites, lifting Lighthouse scores 30% and pulling SEO wins along with it.
  • Rolled out sprint cycles and code reviews (covering compatibility, accessibility, and carbon output), which kept regressions from slipping into production.
  • Matched the right tool to each project: WordPress when clients wanted more autonomy or were blog focused, Astro when they needed performance.

Sprout Social

Web Engineer

At Sprout I worked on the marketing properties and I was part of the Accessibility Advisory Board working with the marketing design department to maintain the accessibility for our designs.

  • Planned and shipped an ADA/WCAG remediation pass on the marketing properties in my first month.
  • Co-founded the Accessibility Advisory Board, giving accessibility a standing seat in design and marketing reviews.
  • Pushed the marketing dev team to treat performance as a first-class concern alongside features.
  • Contributed components and patterns to the marketing design system used across sproutsocial.com.

Mightybytes

Web Developer

At Mightybytes, I built websites in Wordpress, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. I learned best practices such as tooling with Gulp, version control with Git, LESS & SCSS preprocessors, and templating through Twig.

  • Built a modular page-building system in WordPress that let content authors compose pages from a library of components, no developer required.
  • Partnered with the content team to make sure CMS workflows were easy for clients to maintain after handoff.

Tribune Publishing

Web Developer

I started at the Tribune doing Wordpress theme customizations for smaller clients, but when I left I was doing custom development for larger clients, while also developing sites that were internal to the Tribune parent company.

  • Shipped the agency's largest internal project, tribunecontentagency.com, as the primary developer.
  • Led the shift from WordPress theme-remixing to custom development, opening the door to more complex, higher-revenue enterprise work.

Starbucks

Barista, Shift Supervisor, Assistant Store Manager

Prior to my dev career, I spent 13 years brewing coffee, training people, managing profit & loss, and smiling at 5 AM