Buffalo Grove, IL · 42.15°N, 87.96°W

Field survey · Est. 2006 · Chicagoland

Frontend developer & UI designer in Chicago.

I design and build fast, accessible, animated interfaces. 20 years of shipping for startups, agencies, and Fortune 500s. Available for freelance and contract work across Chicagoland and remote everywhere.

Credibility

  • 20 yrs building for the web
  • Published author jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques
  • 46 stars top open-source project
  • 150+ sites on a design system I led
  • 3× Gold ADDY awards

02Field index

Surveyed sites

Selected frontend projects and open-source work

Side projects people actually use. Each one designed, built, and shipped end to end.

TG-03

Topographic Generator

Contour-line art from procedural noise or your photos. Exports PNG, SVG, and GIF.

  • React
  • d3-contour
  • simplex-noise

DB-06

Dashboard

A personal dashboard engineered like a product: live data, drag-and-drop layout, a real database underneath.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase

HT-01

Halftones

A print-style halftone image converter: CMYK channels, a dozen dot shapes, zero uploads.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
  • Canvas

03Field reports

What people say

36

recommendations on LinkedIn

  • 15 teammates
  • 9 colleagues
  • 8 clients
  • 4 managers

Every one of them drifts behind this card, quoted exactly as written.

The surveyor · Buffalo Grove, IL

04The surveyor

Twenty years on the map

Frontend developer and UI designer since 2006

Twenty years ago I hand-sliced PSDs into table layouts. Since then I've led frontend teams, built a design system spanning 150+ sites, and shipped side projects people actually use. I also wrote the book on web animation, literally: Packt published my jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques in 2013. Now I'm doing my favorite work yet: freelance frontend and UI development from the Chicago suburbs.

More about me

05Capabilities

Field services

Frontend development, design systems, and web animation

  • Frontend Development

    React, TypeScript, Eleventy (SSG), or hand-rolled JAMstack: pixel-perfect, fast, and maintainable.

  • UI & Design Systems

    Figma-to-production design systems. I led one that covers 150+ commercial sites.

  • Web Animation

    GSAP, ScrollTrigger, canvas. I literally wrote the book on web animation.

  • Performance & Accessibility

    Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, WCAG 2. Measured, not guessed.

06Blog

Field notes

Notes and guides on frontend development

All blog posts

07Map legend

Let's build something fast.

Taking on freelance frontend development and UI design projects in Chicago and beyond. Tell me what you're making.

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Buffalo Grove, IL
Chicago Northwest Suburbs
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42.15°N, 87.96°W