Curriculum Vitae

Summary

My name is Simon Borer. I am a Toronto-based web developer and educator specializing in accessibility. I have driven technical innovation for some of Canada's biggest brands, and teach post-graduate courses in Accessibility, Usability, and Database Development.

I like playing Rummikub, scary movies, and my 1986 IBM Model M keyboard.

Skills

• HTML
  • ♛ DOM
  • ♛ ARIA
  • ♛ Semantics
• CSS
  • ♛ SCSS
  • ♛ BEM
  • ♜ CSS Grid
  • ♛ Flexbox
  • ♞ PostCSS
• Javascript
  • ♛ Vanilla
  • ♛ JSON
  • ♛ ES6+
  • ♜ Node
  • ♜ Express
  • ♛ Gulp
  • ♜ Webpack
  • ♛ jQuery
  • ♜ Vue
  • ♞ Jest
• Other
  • ♛ Communication
  • ♜ Documentation/Technical Writing
  • ♜ Linting
  • ♜ SEO
  • ♛ SQL (PL/SQL, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL)
  • ♞ DevOps
  • ♜ Git
  • ♛ Email Development
  • ♜ SVG
  • ♞ PHP
  • ♜ RegEx
  • ♜ Wordpress

Experience

• 2018 to Present
  • Humber College Professor
    • Taught and developed curriculum for post-graduate courses in Accessibility, Usability and Databases (SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres).
    • Developed teaching tool in Node that generates both course notes and (accessible) slides from a single markdown file each week.
  • Humber College Project Manager
    • Shepherding a multi-year student-driven project with a community healthcare partner organization to track quality of life for vulnerable members.
    • Working with technical/ux team and partner organization to deliver tools and assets ahead of schedule.
• 2014 to 2018
  • Bank of Montreal Senior Software Developer / Accessibility Subject Matter Expert
    • Redefined developer workflow, introducing for the first time version control (git), build tools (Node, gulp), unit testing, linting, SCSS, CSS methodology (BEM), mobile-first and more.
    • Developed custom solution for internal style guide - combining both automated code documentation and bespoke technical writing.
    • Instigated and lead meetings to de-silo dev, design, content and app development teams.
    • Developed WCAG 2.0 Level AA compliant campaigns and components, including custom location maps, video players, calculators.
    • Presented on behalf of the development department at international town halls.
• 2013
  • McLaren-McCann Web Development Contractor
    • Worked with clients including General Motors, Pan-Am Games.
    • Developed pages and components, including multi-step contest form in XHTML, CSS3 with custom extensible JS functionality on a Struts framework, with full support for JAWS screenreader (test in-house) and WCAG 2.0 compliance.
    • Built out full site using Bootstrap 3 on top of Apache Struts on a Tomcat server.
• 2012
  • Tribal/DDB Web Development Contractor
    • UI development and debugging for major brands including MacDonald’s and Subaru.
  • Pixel Dreams Web Development Contractor
    • Developed custom Wordpress themes, dealt with malicious SQL injection attacks, consulted on brand development, designed in Bootstrap.
  • OfficialCommunity Web Development Contractor
    • Worked in a fast-paced ASP-driven environment, including creating HTML e-mails & templates, performing design, development and content management on high profile websites including KeithRichards.com, GeorgeMichael.com and BillyTalent.com.

Education

• 2011-2012
  • Humber College Web Development Post-Graduate Program
• 2007-2011
  • University of Toronto B.A. with Highest Distinction