Mike Spencer

Senior UX Engineer with 18 years of experience

I live in Western New York with my wife and two children. I enjoy gardening, birding, hiking, cooking, and reading in my free time.

I've been working in the UX field since attaining a B.S. in Digital Media Arts from Canisius University in 2006. From the beginning, I've had a strong focus on designing and building user-focused and accessible interfaces. I am very well versed in semantic HTML, CSS (as well as SCSS), and JavaScript, but I've done and learned a lot over the years…

Positions

  • Sr. UX Engineer

    Quadrant Biosciences, 2021-2024
  • Solutions Engineer

    HealtheConnections, 2019-2021
  • Sr. UX/UI Engineer

    Pointman, 2016-2019
  • Web Developer, Sr. Web Developer, Web Development Manager, UX Engineer

    Algonquin, 2007-2016
  • Web Designer/Developer

    Deelicious Web Design, 2006

Strengths

Attention to detail, communication, project management, teamwork, knowledge sharing, empathy

Languages

HTML, CSS/LESS/SCSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, XML/RSS, XSLT/XPath, PHP, MySQL

Libraries & Frameworks

Angular, AngularJS, Vue.js, jQuery, WordPress, Bootstrap, TailwindCSS, Material Design

Standards

HTML 5, CSS 3, WCAG 2, Section 508, ADA

Measurement

Google Analytics (Qualified Individual 2x), Pendo, DataDog, Plausible

Testing

  • Browser testing (IE 6+, IE for Mac, Edge, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Camino, SeaMonkey, Opera, Safari, Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi)
  • Accessibility testing (NVDA, VoiceOver, Wave)
  • e2e testing (Cypress)
  • Unit testing (Jest)

Design Tools

Sketch, Balsamiq, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD

Editors

VS Code, Sublime Text, WebStorm, Brackets, Atom, Dreamweaver, NotePad++, Komodo, Text Wrangler, Creatext, BBEdit Lite

(VS Code has been my primary editor for the last 5+ years, but Sublime Text is still my favorite)

Environments

AWS, Azure, Dreamhost, WPEngine, GoDaddy, Bluehost

Version Control

Git (command line), SVN, CVS, VSS