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Victor Jackson
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Passionate about creating exceptional experiences (digital and physical) that blend innovative design with functional development. Let's bring your vision to life by getting the right brain to talk to the left.
Get to Know Me
Passionate About Creating Digital Experiences
I'm a creative technologist and cultural strategist with a passion for building thoughtful, accessible experiences across both digital and physical spaces. As a creative director, I’ve shaped projects that live at the intersection of art, memory, and design. As a full-stack web and software developer, I specialize in building tools that are not only functional but also emotionally intuitive—especially for nonprofits, cultural institutions, and community-led organizations.
My background in archival work informs everything I do: I believe storytelling is a form of infrastructure. Whether I’m building an internal dashboard, curating a digital archive, or leading a collaborative mural project, my work is rooted in preservation, accessibility, and future-thinking design.
20+
Projects Completed
5+
Years Experience
5
Work in Countries
Specialization
Art/Archival Projects & Web/Software
Development
Experience Level
Mid/Senior Professional
Education
Political Science, UCLA
Languages
English, Arabic
Resume
My work bridges code, creativity, and culture. From building custom software solutions and digital archives to leading design strategy for community initiatives, I bring a wide-ranging toolkit and deep intention to every role I take on. Below is a summary of my experience across development, design, and leadership.
Professional Summary
Creative technologist and full-stack developer with a focus on building tools that serve communities, tell stories, and scale with intention. I bring a unique blend of software engineering, creative direction, and archival strategy to every project—designing solutions that are not only technically sound but socially meaningful.
Skills & Capabilities
Languages & Frameworks
Backend & Data
Tools & Practices
Design & Strategy
Leadership
Professional Experience
AI Engineering Fellow
FEBRUARY 2026 - PRESENT
Resilient Coders - Remote, Boston, MA
- Contribute to the fellowship's flagship Multilingual AI Document Assistant, a privacy-first document assistant built with Next.js, zero-retention architecture, stateless API routes, and browser-based persistence through EntityDB.
- Support Q&A/RAG infrastructure by working on conversation-state storage, query validation and preprocessing, and context-builder/token-management flows for a more useful document chat experience.
- Contribute to translation-data research for multilingual AI workflows, including legal-domain corpus research, parallel-text segmentation strategy, EntityDB client-side storage patterns, and compliance-aware considerations for sensitive medical and immigration-related documents.
Web & Archive Design Consultant
MAY 2026 - PRESENT
The People's Media Record - Remote, Philadelphia, PA
- Lead website redesign and archive experience improvements for a community media organization, focusing on clearer navigation, stronger visual hierarchy, improved readability, and a more cohesive public-facing identity.
- Consult on archive presentation strategy, helping organize media, collections, and historical materials into a more accessible web experience that supports browsing, discovery, and storytelling.
- Develop short-term design improvements using WordPress, Elementor, and custom CSS while shaping a long-term roadmap for a more flexible full-stack archive platform.
Web & Archive Experience Designer
NOVEMBER 2025 - PRESENT
Thread - Remote, Philadelphia, PA
- Design and develop a web-based archive experience focused on helping communities preserve, organize, and share cultural records, media, oral histories, and digital collections.
- Build the product direction, content model, and user experience for a living archive platform, including collection pages, media cards, contributor context, metadata structures, and search-focused browsing.
- Lead the technical and creative strategy for turning scattered community memory into a usable digital system, connecting archival thinking with modern web design, accessibility, and storytelling.
Instructional Software Engineer
JUNE 2024 - 2026
Tree House Books - Philadelphia, PA (Remote)
- Designed and built an in-house universal dashboard application using Node.js, MongoDB, and React, eliminating reliance on third-party services and saving approximately $5,000 annually in software fees.
- Developed internal tools featuring real-time analytics, data auditing, and volunteer management capabilities, streamlining operations across all staff and volunteer levels.
- Provided direct mentorship in digital literacy, coding, and professional development for over 30 teens, increasing technical skills proficiency and engagement within the organization.
Transcriber/Cultural Content Consultant
JUNE 2022 - 2025
Poetry Foundation - Chicago, IL (Remote)
- Transcribed and edited 50+ podcast episodes, ensuring cultural accuracy, inclusivity, and accessibility to diverse global audiences
- Provided strategic cultural consultation, guiding episode content toward equitable representation of marginalized voices in poetry and literary discourse.
- Collaborated closely with podcast hosts and production teams to align content strategy with contemporary social justice themes, increasing listenership engagement.
Curriculum Developer/ Software Engineer
JANUARY 2024 - MAY 2024
ONJA - Tamatave, Madagascar
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive frontend development curriculum for 20+ Malagasy students, significantly improving coding proficiency and career readiness.
- Mentored students through intensive workshops, fostering mastery of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and responsive web design best practices.
- Enhanced curriculum accessibility and effectiveness by integrating culturally relevant content, boosting student engagement by over 40%.
Lead Software Engineer
MAY 2023 - DECEMBER 2023
University of Pennsylvania Health System - Philadelphia, PA
- Led a small team of 3 engineers on the technical implementation of University of Penn’s ImpactHub platform
- Solved 50+ bugs inside internal Moodle LMS
- Redesigned automated community health workers certification process for account management team by developing internal SQL query generating tool using Python, SQL, Hive, and Scala, thus avoiding false certification competition saving the company ~$100,000 annually .
- Defined specifications for internal administration dashboard and developed it using PHP and Javascript, resulting in a new tool managing multimedia content for over 10,000 community health workers in the Tri-State.
Software Engineer/Mentor
MAY 2022 - MAY 2023
Resilient Coders - Philadelphia, PA
- Worked with/in teams of software engineers and designers to train, peer review and build applications
- Designed proposals and briefs for executing projects from concept to implementation
- Worked with/in teams of 10+ software engineers and designers to train, peer review and build web applications
Lead Software Engineer/Co-Founder
APRIL 2019 - MAY 2022
Ourchive - Philadelphia, PA
- Led a small team of 5 on the technical implementation of Philadelphia’s first digital based open archive for art and activism
- Designed cloud based system storage system using AWS/MongoDB for the digitalization of physical works
- Designed translation middleware and algorithm using Node, MongoDB, React, and Python making translation of audio archived available in 200 languages and archive capable of learning non-traditional words (slang).
- Conducted comprehensive quantitative and qualitative data investigations to assess youth involvement and engagement, resulting in valuable insights for program enhancement and digital campaigning.
Program Manager/Digital Outreach
APRIL 2017 - MAY 2018
Artwell - Philadelphia, PA
- Led a team to execute four successful campaigns promoting art therapy for disenfranchised youth, reaching 1.3 million digital users in one year.
- Developed engaging and strategic programming to achieve enlistment goals, enhancing program experience and expanding regional reach, resulting in a 40% increase in institutional membership.
- Crafted advocacy plans aligning with organizational mission and ideals, leading to successful policy changes within the Philadelphia School District. These changes established art wellness as an option for addressing institutional harm.
Campaign Lead and Program Coordinator for the Philly Youth Poetry Movement's Hip Hop and Social Justice Initiative
APRIL 2015 - MAY 2018
Urban Affairs Coalition - Philadelphia, PA
- Guided a team in orchestrating a compelling campaign advocating for artist expression as a means of social justice for disenfranchised youth, reaching 700,000 digital users within a year and culminating in 50,000 attendees at the 2013 Brave New Voices Festival.
- Created educational programs and campaigns elucidating the intersections of environmental racism, social injustice, and hip hop, resulting in a 20% increase in parental and youth membership/involvement.
- Formulated a dynamic community outreach campaign and program focused on gathering narratives and testimonies from residents aff ected by both climate change and hazardous conditions in public buildings resulting from insuff icient ventilation or insulation. This initiative successfully amassed over 100 compelling stories from diverse communities spanning every district within the city of Philadelphia..
- Conducted comprehensive quantitative and qualitative data investigations to assess youth involvement and engagement, resulting in valuable insights for program enhancement and digital campaigning.
YFC Fellow|
2011 - 2013
Juvenile Law Center - Philadelphia, PA
- Led a targeted campaign focused on enhancing the quality of life within foster and group homes.
- Established partnerships with local and state organizations, including the Philadelphia Department of Human Services, Pennsylvania Council for Children, Youth, and Family Services, Support Center for Child Advocates, Achieving Independence Center, and Youth Advisory Board, to garner feedback and endorsement for the Teen Success Agreement.
- Advocated for caregiver support and commitment to help youth achieve their goals, echoing Florida's "Teen Normalcy Plan" framework.
- Conducted comprehensive quantitative and qualitative data investigations to assess youth involvement and engagement, resulting in valuable insights for program enhancement and digital campaigning.
Education
Bachelors of Political Science,
2017
University of California, Los Angeles
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
2023
Google Cloud Professional Architect
2022
Project Portal
Enter the project portal: a guided map through the civic tools, community systems, archives, emotional interfaces, creative experiments, and privacy-first AI systems I've built.
Contact
Interested in civic technology, archival systems, or creative collaboration? Reach out—I respond to project inquiries, consulting requests, and community partnerships.
Contact Info
Based in Philadelphia, I work with nonprofits, cultural institutions, and mission-driven teams building tools that are technically sound and socially meaningful.
Location
Philadelphia, PA