Steve Lam

Web Developer

Summary

Front-End Developer with 10 years of experience in an agency environment, creating and maintaining responsive web applications for major brands. Proficient in modern web technologies with an eye for design and proven ability to adapt to self-starting and collaborative environments.

Experience

Rethink

05/2012 - 07/2024

Digital Design & Developer

Developed various multi-language major brand sites in a team environment while adapting to the rapidly changing front-end tech landscape.

  • Helped rebuild existing architecture for A&W sites using modern web practices and testing for AODA compliance.
  • Increased response time and site speed by 30% utilizing various practices (code-splitting / storage db caching / bundle optimization)
  • Maintained site with weekly updates with accompanying Eblast development with React Mail and testing with Litmus.
  • Complete documentation (Prerequisites / Configuration details / Installation tutorial / API info / potential troubleshooting)
  • Oversaw and delegated design tasks to interns for the design and development of Molson Canadian #ThisIsLive music site platform.
  • Building and maintaining Molson Coors sites (Molson Canadian, Molson 67, Coors Light, Creemore Springs, Rickards) utilizing a variety of tooling / CMS’s (Sitecore, Wordpress, Drupal, Grunt, Gulp, Webpack)

Humber College

01/2011 - 01/2012

Web Developer

Redesigned the Humber Student Federation website and developed from wireframe / layout to deployment of production site.

  • Developed custom Wordpress theme utilizing Bootstrap framework and Sass for responsive design.
  • Optimized with Yoast for site functionality and SEO / accessibility.
  • Suggested and implemented SQL backup functionality.

Education

Humber College

09/2010 - 06/2012

Diploma Multimedia Design & Production

Algonquin College

01/2006 - 01/2007

Certificate Digital Web Studio

Awards

Digital Advertising Award of Excellence

Communication Arts 2013

Consumer-Advertising Self-Promo

The One Show 2016 - Merit

Brand Partnerships & Collaboration

Clio Awards 2017 - Gold

Pride Shield

The One Show 2019 -Gold

Marketing Technology

Marketing Awards 2021

Lost Tapes of the 27 Club

Clio Awards 2022 - Silver

Unburnable Book

Cannes 2023 - Silver Lion