Create with Confidence!
Whether I am creating websites for clients to help them grow their brand, helping learners discover the joy of coding through play, or engaging with educators to expand their knowledge and create dynamic learning experiences, my goal is to listen to and empower those I'm working with, giving them the building blocks and the confidence to try new things, iterate, and reach further.
I consider Maren Scratch's Swiss Army Knife. She can seamlessly switch between facilitating a session, making curricula and plans on a wide variety of content, designing high-quality collateral be it videos or graphics and posters and move right back into curating a studio of Scratch projects. She is as quick brainstorming about new ideas as she is troubleshooting a teammate's challenges in a whole new field. And she does all this with her energy only constantly going up. Maren has taught me what it means to bring your whole, energetic, unapologetic self to work everyday and raised the bar for what it means to be a colleague and friend.
I've partnered with Maren on several projects, and she is an amazingly talented web designer/developer. Maren has the ability to translate your vision into reality through code, and always considers how designs will look on mobile, which is extremely important for your business. But what makes Maren stand out is her professionalism and her dedication to her clients. She's responsive, organized and solution-oriented. To find someone that's great at coding and great at serving her clients is rare. I highly recommend Maren.
My name is Maren Vernon, and I am a web developer and coding instructor driven to make tech more inclusive and representative of diverse backgrounds and experiences so it can benefit all. Currently, I develop new creative learning resources and engagement experiences for learners and educators as a team member at the Scratch Foundation. You can learn more about my work and see some of the resources I’ve created on my Coding Education page.
As a lifelong learner, I embrace the 4P’s (Projects, Passions, Peers, and Play) and can often be found tinkering on anything from crafts to 3D printing to robots to emerging technologies, along with my favorite pursuit of solving coding mysteries.
Working with Maren Vernon and Codified Concepts was a pleasure. Maren is very professional and patient with her clients. We appreciated her attention to detail and her thoughtfulness with regards to how our new website would not only represent our organization but also how it would work for our users. She was focused on making things operate seamlessly and painlessly and took time to make sure our staff was comfortable with the new site. I highly recommend her!
If you'd like to learn more about me, please see my about page.