Jason Perkins

Salesforce UX Designer and Front-End Web Developer with 18+ years of web development experience and hands-on Salesforce Lightning experience since 2023. Combines front-end engineering, user-centered design, and Salesforce platform skills to build accessible, high-performing experiences across web, mobile, and tablet. Experienced with Lightning Web Components (LWC), Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS), Experience Cloud, SOQL, and translating business requirements into intuitive solutions.

Strong communicator who presents design rationale and technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders and works effectively in cross-functional Agile/Scrum teams.

Kyra Solutions — Salesforce Platform Developer

Remote | Jun 2022 – Jul 2026

• Led front-end and declarative architecture across Salesforce client engagements, translating enterprise requirements into scalable Lightning Experience and Experience Cloud portals.

• Built 50+ reusable Lightning Web Components with SLDS, cutting future component build time by 70% and providing business units with a standardized UI pattern library.

• Rebuilt the CSS and asset pipeline for the Florida Prepaid College Board portal, reducing page load times by 83% and improving engagement from external users.

• Designed Experience Cloud community portals integrating custom LWC interfaces with enterprise data security, sharing rules, and automated workflows.

• Resolved usability and accessibility defects across desktop, mobile, and tablet views to maintain strict WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.

• Presented interactive prototypes and design rationale to executive stakeholders across 5+ client projects, accelerating approval cycles and reducing revision iterations.

Fort Lauderdale, FL | Sep 2020 – Jun 2022

• Led WordPress architecture and UX strategy, partnering with business leaders to build production environments using Astra Pro, Elementor Pro, and ACF Pro.

• Reduced average page load times by 68% and elevated Google PageSpeed scores from 36 to 96 across high-traffic client sites by developing custom lightweight Elementor Pro blocks, refactoring bloated legacy plugins, and implementing Redis object caching.

• Championed technical SEO and site performance, using WP Rocket and Yoast SEO to improve speed and pass Core Web Vitals.

• Conducted regular security audits and vulnerability patching across all projects to protect site health and client data.

Davie, FL | Nov 2019 – Sep 2020

• Served as technical lead across 34 concurrent client projects, setting code standards that reduced production defects and cut developer onboarding time by 50%.

• Built 27+ responsive web applications with ReactJS, modern JavaScript (ES6+), SCSS, GraphQL, and REST APIs, as well as WordPress, cutting page load times by 90% for 500+ monthly active users.

Davie, FL | Mar 2008 – Sep 2019

• Maintained and scaled university public-facing web systems serving hundreds of thousands of users a year.

• Migrated the primary web domain to a modular component architecture, eliminating legacy technical debt and accelerating content publishing.

• Engineered responsive landing pages, interactive forms, and templates that lifted campaign click-through rates by 25-30%.

USS George Washington (CVN-73) | Norfolk, VA | Dec 1995 – Dec 2001

• Inspected, maintained, and operated nuclear propulsion and electrical generation systems aboard the USS George Washington (CVN-73) to rigorous military safety and quality standards.

• Held Confidential security clearance.

• Awarded the Navy Good Conduct Award, Navy "E" Ribbon, and Sea Service Deployment Ribbon.

Associate of Arts in AA – Broward College