Hello, my name is Kevin Kirchner
I'm passionate about empowering people & their ideas to achieve their full potential.
My Strengths (StrengthsFinder 2.0)
- Ideation — I can easily see new perspectives to familiar challenges
- Strategic — I find patterns and plan processes where others only see complexity
- Positivity — I can look at any situation and pull out the best parts for the good of others
- Restorative — I enjoy the challenge of solving complex problems
- Belief — I live and breathe out of a set of core values
My Work
True Frontier
Owner/Founder — Most small business owners have no idea how easily a web app could completely transform their business. In 30 days or less, we build one that will help them make more money using the customers they already have.
Aug 2018 - Present
Classy Llama
Growth Engineer — Helped develop and refine Classy Llama's brand and lead generation (strategies and implementation). Built and managed classyllama.com.
Jan 2017 - Aug 2018
Intrinsitech
UI & Full-stack Engineer/UX Designer — Developed with a wide array of dev tools: React/Redux (ES6, webpack), Nodejs, falcor, MongoDB, Postgres, Docker, Ember.js, Rails, Backbone.js, Magento, and LemonStand. All of these were for large-scale, mobile-friendly web applications and/or eCommerce websites. I also led the design on 4 projects.
Mar 2014 - Oct 2016
InVision
Frontend Developer — Frontend development on the popular prototyping, AngularJS-based web application for InVision. Made screens list to (appear to) load significantly faster when loading 100s of screens at once.
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Classy Llama
Frontend Developer — Primarily as a Frontend Developer, I worked closely with the Information Architect and Designer to develop over 40 eCommerce sites platformed on Magento.
Nov 2009 - Oct 2013
Greenville College
Webmaster — Moved the college's website off Joomla onto a new CMS platform. Worked involved custom development, Flash, and design.
Jan 2009 - Aug 2009
Talent Research
(Freelance)talentresearch.org
UI Developer & UX Designer — Developed and assisted in designing this one-page, responsive, Laravel site for a hiring consultant and life coach.
Nov 2015
Flood Creative
(Freelance)
UI Developer & UX Designer — Work with responsive wordpress frontend development as well as designing a high-fidelity wireframe used for prototyping of a new startup website.
Aug 2013 - Mar 2014
LuckyGunner
(Freelance)
UI Developer & UX Designer — Design and development for several Magento eCommerce websites including LuckyGunner.com, AmmoMan.com and IronDoors.com. Work also involves Wordpress development and responsive development.
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
Food for the Hungry
(Freelance)
UI Architect, Designer, & Developer — Developed a custom-built PHP social networking site for the organization's study abroad program, GoED.
Jul 2007 - Aug 2008
5for15
(Personal Project)kevnk.com/5for15
Maker — Designed and developed a Vue.js PWA for tracking a simple 15-minute workout each day
Jun 2018
MyTDEE
(Personal Project)mytdee.com
UI Developer — Developed a user-friendly, mobile-friendly web-app which now helps around 1,000 visitors calculate their Total Daily Energy Expenditure every day
Jul 2015
Habits App
(Personal Project)kevnk.com/habits
UI Developer & UX Designer — A mobile-friendly, Ember JS web app for tracking your daily habits.
Sep 2014