About Me
What I Do
DESIGN
I design cutting-edge applications and websites. As a previous founder of a music tech company, I led our design to create engaging user-experiences that translated seemlessly into development processes.
DEVELOPMENT
With extensive experience in both front-end and back-end applications, I’ve managed, built, and developed everything from the simple WordPress website to the complex integrated application.
MUSIC
Music is in my passion. I’ve personally been involved in multiple records and have my own recording studio here in Redwood City, CA.
Work Process
DISCOVER
IDEA
DESIGN
DEVELOP
TEST
LAUNCH
Fun Facts
Born in United Kingdom
WordPress Plugin Author
Shopify App Author
Resume
WORK HISTORY
July 2023 – Current
Shopify Webmaster
Dwarven Forge
Dwarven Forge produces the world’s finest hand-sculpted, hand-painted, modular gaming terrain. My role currently includes building, updating, and maintaining the Shopify environment, coordinating with external stakeholders to improve web experience, uploading and maintaining databases, organizing product listing and collections, provide general Shopify and web expertise.
Sep 2022 – Current
Shopify Developer
Sleepless Media
Sleepless media is a leading Shopify Plus expert building eCommerce stores for clients worldwide. Clientele includes Levi’s, Yale, Knockaround and more. My responsibilities include: client assessment and needs for their solution, recommending application solution functionality, transitioning client requirements into the development process and participating in the managing the project to client deployment.
Jan 2022 – Sep 2022
Web Developer
Heartland
Heartland is the US business for Global Payments Inc; one of the largest international payment processors. As a web developer, Luke worked closely with marketing and sales to provide all required services and updates to multiple corporate websites, while recommending user interface design to help optimize a positive customer experience. Projects involved end-to-end product lifecycle management, schedule management through sprints, deployment, enhancements, and obsolescence through migration to alternative platforms.
Mar 2021 – Feb 2022
Front-end Engineer
eHouse Studio
eHouse is focued on strategy, creative design and innovative technology to make beautiful, meaningful eCommerce experiences. Work included Shopify web development, application integration, and providing clients with solutions to fit their business needs.
Feb 2020 – Jan 2021
Front-end Engineer
The Taproom
The Taproom specializes in delivery custom eCommerce solutions. Leveraging ReCharge subscription, Luke worked directly with numerous clients to oversee modifying and launching multiple projects.
Dec 2016 – Oct 2020
Co-Founder, Lead Designer, Lead Developer
SoundVent
As Co-Founder Luke design, developed and provided go-to market strategy for the company’s PaaS. Highlights from the work included developing target audience and markets, UI/UX design, identifying user pain points and opportunities, effectively communication technical concepts to stakeholders, and architecting, designing, and developing the flagship PaaS software.
EDUCATION
2011
Bachelor of Arts in Music Industry & Technology
California State University, Chico
2006
High School Diploma
Scotts Valley High School
Skills Summary
Luke is an ambitious designer and developer with a background managing complex UI/UX systems. Experienced in delivering web and application services, Luke’s passion for quality software ends by filling multiple roles in project management, UX/UI design, engineering and marketing. Experience highlights include:
- Strong communication and writing
- Excellent problem solving abilities
- Project leadership and management
- Analytic approach
- Goal oriented workflow
Coding Skills
Shopify
WordPress
CSS3
jQuery
PHP
MySQL
Design Skills
Sketch/Figma
Photoshop
Illustrator
TESTIMONIALS
Ewa Zwonarz
Cyber adAPT
Working with Luke has been a wonderful experience. The fact that he stays current with the newest design trends and tools helps us maintain our competitive edge and allow our users to have an optimal experience discovering who we are and what we do.
Elijah Free
Earth Friend Herb Co.
Luke is a dream to work with. He is not only extremely knowledgeable in his field, he is a wonderful professional to work with. Since we have worked with Luke, we have just completed our best month ever.
Davis Wright
Grom On Board
I couldn’t be happier working with Luke on my project. The overall experience was top notch; We now have a beautiful website to launch our brand on and an online presence for our customers. The whole process really couldn’t have been any easier.