Kevin Powell
Senior Staff Software Engineer
- Role
- Design Tokens W3c Community Group Spec Editor at Design Tokens Community Group
- Location
- Franklin, TN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kevin Powell
ExperienceFor the past 16 years I\'ve been doing web development, primarily focused on the front-end. For the last 8 years I\'ve specialized in architecting and building sustainable design systems. I\'ve worked with many clients, including several Fortune 500 companies and Fortune 50 companies, and created processes and patterns that work across different tech stacks. Companies I\'ve worked as a Principal Design Systems Engineering consultant include: Yahoo, Marriott, Ritz Carlton, NetApp, Morningstar, AmGen, Northwestern Mutual, Liberty Mutual, REI, Target, IDEXX, ServiceNow, and Verizon.SkillsI communicate effectively across disciplines, tailoring the message for developers, designers, or stakeholders. I\'m an expert with CSS and HTML and very strong in Javascript. I\'m familiar with TypeScript and I\'ve built design systems components in React, Vue, Angular and Web Components.I can prototype ideas in code quickly and help others visualize the way a User Experience can be delivered.Career HighlightsArchitected or co-architected 16 design systems in the last 8 years.Currently serving as an editor on a W3C community group to develop a standardized design tokens specification Co-led a workshop on building design systems for SmashingConf in 2020Created the User Experience Design and initial prototype for identitytheft.gov
Experience
Design Tokens W3c Community Group Spec Editor
Jun 2020 — Present
The DTCG’s goal is to provide standards upon which products and design tools can rely for sharing stylistic pieces of a design system at scale. The group is composed of individuals and companies such as Adobe, Amazon, Atlassian, Figma, Framer, Interplay, Google, Marvel, Mozilla, Shopify, Sketch, Specify, UXPin, Zeroheight.
Education
Ball State University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Technology
2002 — 2006
Skills
- Google Analytics
- User Experience
- Angularjs
- Postgresql
- Front-End Development
- Web Design
- Html5
- Heroku
- Html
- Web Development
- Rapid Prototyping
- Wordpress
- Jquery
- Ruby on Rails
- Os X
- Problem Solving
- Php
- Jquery UI
- User Interface Design
- Css
- Leadership
- Front-End
- Responsive Web Design
- Interaction Design
- Progressive Enhancement
- Software Development
- Mysql
- Javascript
- Html 5
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