I am a certified digital accessibility leader, automation architect, and front-end consultant who believes that digital accessibility is not a downstream compliance hurdle, but an essential creative discipline that makes software more resilient, flexible, and human.
Holding the industry’s premier credentials—including Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA), Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS), CPACC, and DHS Trusted Tester—I bridge the gap between regulatory requirements, modern software engineering, and authentic user experience.
My journey combines 18+ years of technical quality assurance, laboratory testing, and engineering compliance (Braun Intertec, Golder Associates) with over 4 years of specialized enterprise digital accessibility leadership at QuaverEd. Throughout my career, I have pioneered scalable, automation-driven compliance ecosystems: architecting AI-powered web and PDF crawlers across 17,077 screens and 8,000+ PDFs, engineering localized change-detection databases to eliminate regressions, auditing and providing remediation specifications for complex interactive creation suites in Vue.js, and authoring open-source knowledge platforms to future-proof the industry for WCAG 3.0 and federal mandates.
📊 Enterprise Impact by the Numbers
10M+Students, teachers, and creators impacted globally
28,000Schools supported across all 50 U.S. states and 44 countries
95%Defect backlog reduction achieved in Jira/Asana over 4 years
17,077Individual web screens continuously monitored across 8 curricula
8,000+Complex digital documents and PDF resources remediated to 85% compliance
80%Acceleration in PDF turnaround (from 5 days to 1 day per document) using AI
24Core reusable UI design system components audited and verified
5Cross-functional colleagues personally mentored to earn IAAP CPACC certification
Automated Weekly W3C Sync Pipeline: Custom integration monitoring the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) GitHub repository and pull requests to track proposed changes in real time.
Interactive Audit Calculators & Architectural Shift Analyses: Practical tools comparing WCAG 2.2 vs. WCAG 3.0 scoring, helping institutions future-proof digital assets against the DOJ ADA Title II digital accessibility rule.
An accessible, real-time multiplayer party game and solo training suite for engineering workshops, team meetings, and IAAP CPACC certification prep.
Dynamic Multiplayer Game Modes: Featuring the Hot Potato Syndicate (asymmetric risk delegation with audience social dividends) and the Apex Gambler Grand Prix (100m tactical racing engine with gear shifts and pit stops).
IAAP CPACC Body of Knowledge (BoK): Question bank directly cross-referenced against all three core IAAP domains: Disabilities & Assistive Technologies, Universal Design, and Standards & Governance.
Solo & AI Bot Arena: Train anytime against simulated domain specialists (Ada Alt-Text, Devin Div, Jordan Juris).
Persistent Analytics & Study Hub: Socket.IO real-time synchronization, weekly leaderboards, and an automatic study hub indexing missed questions with full BoK rationales.
3. Automated AI & axe-core Compliance Dashboard
Scale: 17,077 screens, 2,213 lessons across 8 curricula, and 8,000+ PDFs
A full-stack centralized monitoring dashboard integrating axe-core, custom Python crawlers, and AI evaluation models.
Automatically maps enterprise platform architecture and executes scheduled accessibility sweeps.
Continuously evaluates DOM structures, color contrast, keyboard interaction models, and ARIA attributes at scale.
Visualizes platform health metrics for executive leadership and automatically routes priority bug tickets to development sprints.
A custom change-monitoring engine designed to bridge the gap between fast-moving agile releases and accessibility triage.
Periodically sweeps web platforms to detect DOM modifications, layout changes, and newly published content.
Automatically flags updates that bypassed manual accessibility review, ensuring regressions are caught and remediated before production release.
5. Automated Video & Media Accessibility Crawlers
Specialized automated scanners designed to enforce time-based media compliance (WCAG 1.2 and CVAA alignment).
Traverses platform pages to discover embedded video and audio player wrappers.
Systematically verifies the presence and synchronization of Closed Captions (CC), Audio Descriptions (AD), and full text transcripts attached to the page or media container.
6. AI-Assisted PDF Remediation Pipeline (opendataloader-pdf + Python)
Results: Reduced per-document remediation turnaround by 80% (from 5 days to 1 day per document) across 8,000+ assets.
Uses Python and opendataloader-pdf to extract structure, bounding boxes, and reading order.
Automatically generates structural tag trees (<Document>, <H1>–<H6>, <P>, <Table>, <Form>).
Enforces mandatory compliance checks and validates outputs with native screen reader users (JAWS/NVDA).
🎨 Feature Spotlight: QuaverMusic's "Creatives" Suite
Auditing & Accessibility Architecture for Complex Web Applications (Vue.js)
One of my most significant technical achievements was serving as the Accessibility SME and Lead Auditor for QuaverMusic's "Creatives"—a premier suite of highly dynamic, canvas-driven, and interactive web creation tools built in Vue.js. Rather than treating these tools as inaccessible exceptions, I audited each application and delivered actionable remediation specifications, keyboard navigation models, and ARIA architectures for the development team:
🎬 Video Sound Effects Studio (Assistive Snap-to-Points & AD Audio Cues)
The Challenge: Enable blind and low-vision students to choose a video, explore the timeline, and attach sound effects to visual action points.
The Accessibility Solution: Conceived and specified accessible keyboard snap-to-points for visual points of interest along the video timeline, paired with synchronized Audio Descriptions (AD). Blind creators can play the AD track as an authentic reference cue, navigate between key events using keyboard commands, and place SFX with precision.
🎼 Interactive Sheet Music Maker (Score Notation Editor)
Audited and specified accessibility models for a browser-based musical notation editor (similar to MuseScore), defining keyboard schemes for navigating staves, selecting note values, placing pitches, and announcing measures via ARIA live regions.
🥁 Drum Beat Sequencer
Established keyboard matrix navigation (grid navigation pattern) and screen reader audio feedback allowing users to select drum kits, place beats along step grids, and manipulate tempo independently of mouse input.
Defined timeline scrubbing, track selection, and loop layering interactions so creators can arrange multi-track audio projects using assistive technology.
🖌️ Visual Drawing-to-Sound Canvas Synthesizer
Deployed accessible alternatives and keyboard sonification models for a creative canvas where users draw colored lines across musical measures that play back as distinct pitches and timbres.
🔬 Scientific Acoustic Waveform Synthesizer
Audited and established accessible slider, input, and readout patterns for an interactive laboratory where users adjust waveform properties (frequency, amplitude, harmonics) to explore sound physics.
🎸 Guitar Chord & Rhythm Track Arranger
Specified keyboard workflows and semantic landmarks for arranging guitar chord progressions and strumming rhythms onto a playback track.
💼 Professional Experience
Digital Accessibility Manager
QuaverEd | Nashville, TN
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Direct enterprise digital accessibility strategy and governance across 20+ customer-facing digital applications, platforms, and curriculum ecosystems.
Architected and deployed the automated axe-core + AI compliance dashboard monitoring 17,077 screens and 8,000+ PDFs.
Engineered the localized change-detection database and automated scanner to catch unreviewed releases and eliminate regressions.
Direct the accessibility roadmap to future-proof content for DOJ ADA Title II, Section 508, and WCAG 3.0 draft provisions, authoring the codea11y.dev/trackingwcag3 knowledge platform.
Owned accessibility intake and operational backlog in Jira/Asana, achieving a 95% defect backlog reduction over 4 years and cutting critical compliance risks by 75%.
Audited and verified 24 core UI design system components serving 10M+ users globally.
Established structured user research channels partnering directly with screen reader power users and individuals with disabilities in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Accessibility Audit Team Lead
QuaverEd | Nashville, TN
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Directed accessibility evaluations across 3,000+ screens, media players, and online documents against WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508.
Authored customized Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs / VPATs 2.4) across all product lines for state, municipal, and public school procurement.
Designed and led internal accessibility training programs; personally coached and mentored 5 cross-functional team members to earn their IAAP CPACC credentials.
Conducted rigorous manual screen reader audits (JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver) across dynamic interactive media and web applications.
Accessibility Auditor
QuaverEd | Nashville, TN
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Conducted comprehensive manual and automated accessibility testing across 50+ web applications on Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS, improving baseline compliance scores by 18% on average.
Translated complex WCAG criteria into actionable code recommendations and bug fixes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WAI-ARIA.
Prior Technical Quality Assurance & Engineering Career
Field Service Technician (Quality Assurance & Compliance)
Braun Intertec Corporation | Lenexa, KS
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Performed rigorous on-site quality assurance inspections and regulatory compliance evaluations on major engineering and construction infrastructure projects.
Verified technical implementations against strict municipal codes, blueprint specifications, and statutory guidelines.
Authored daily technical compliance documentation and communicated directly with project managers, civil engineers, and regulatory inspectors.
Field Equipment & Warehouse Supervisor / Laboratory Technician
Golder Associates (now WSP) | Atlanta, GA
– (14-Year Tenure)
Managed laboratory quality control, technical equipment calibration, and operational logistics for a premier global geotechnical and environmental engineering consultancy.
Developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and implemented comprehensive audit protocols to maintain strict data integrity and quality standards.
🎖️ Credentials & Certifications
CPWA (Certified Professional in Web Accessibility)
IAAP
Awarded to professionals holding both WAS and CPACC credentials, certifying advanced technical remediation skill and enterprise governance leadership.
WAS (Web Accessibility Specialist)
IAAP
Advanced technical qualification certifying expert-level ability to audit, remediate, and architect web code in full conformance with WCAG and Section 508 standards.
CPACC (Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies)
IAAP
Foundational credential verifying broad multidisciplinary knowledge of disabilities, accessibility law, universal design, and assistive technology frameworks.
Federal qualification recognizing mastery of the DHS Section 508 Trusted Tester testing process for web software, applications, and documents.
JAWS Certified Individual
Freedom Scientific
Certified mastery in advanced screen reader operation, speech parameters, braille display verification, and script/hotkey navigation with JAWS for Windows.
NVDA Expert Certified
NV Access Limited
Validated technical competency in NVDA screen reader auditing, speech/braille feedback inspection, and complex ARIA behavior verification.
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Google / Coursera
Professional training covering user-centered design, inclusive design thinking, prototyping, wireframing, and user testing with diverse populations.
Full Stack Development (MERN) Certificate
MIT xPro
Rigorous program in modern web architecture, MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js, REST APIs, and automated front-end testing.
Associate of Arts (A.A.) in Multimedia & Web Design
The Art Institute of Atlanta
Foundational degree in visual hierarchy, web standards, multimedia development, and digital production.
🛠️ Technical Skills & Competencies
Accessibility Standards & Frameworks
WCAG 2.2 / 2.1 (Level AA/AAA), W3C WCAG 3.0 Draft Tracking, DOJ ADA Titles II & III (State/Local Gov & School Rules), Section 508, Section 504, CVAA, EN 301 549, European Accessibility Act (EAA), WAI-ARIA 1.2, VPAT 2.4 / ACR Authoring.
Figma, Jira, Asana, VS Code, Git, GitHub, Adobe Acrobat Pro (TouchUp Reading Order / PAC 2021).
Methodologies & Leadership
Shift-Left QA Strategy, Inclusive User Research (UAT with Disabled Users), Community of Practice Leadership, CPACC Mentorship, Public Sector Procurement Governance.
📬 Get In Touch
Whether you are looking to future-proof your digital platforms against emerging DOJ Title II and WCAG 3.0 mandates, build automated testing infrastructure, or make complex creative tools accessible to everyone:
