Welcome, Bufferoos

I'm Scott Mathson and I'm a maker.

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This webpage

A landing page using your own styleguide, to accompany my application for Buffer's Marketing Engineer role.

I really enjoyed digging into Buffer's styleguide and front-end code, including a condensed version of Buffer's stylesheets on this page and developing it according to your defined systems and components. I look forward to getting to know these like the back of my hand. ;-)

Built off of a similar structure and framework as the root, my personal site, this static page utilizes Jekyll, Cloudflare, and GitHub Pages. This page is not being indexed in search nor is it optimized for sharing, intentionally. My main website is a newer domain that I haven't really focused on technically or update/maintain very often. It is a good place to learn more about me, personally. Check out the uptime status, too.

Professional projects

At onX as Creative Web Developer—owning web/email design & development, optimization, marketing, project managment, and much more.

2016 - present — Missoula, MT + Remote

Working as the creative-technical developer on the marketing team of this startup has meant working when, where, and however my teams have needed. I've loved continuing to exercise and optimize my variety of skills within onX. I had initially inherited and developed on a legacy, Magento eCommerce system. We've made some monumental changes in the last few years, rewriting everything, from the ground up.

With 50% less pages indexed/published, it seemed an uphill run from the start, yet I worked hard on advocating quality over quantity, gaining us a 120% gain in organic traffic YoY (now with multiple 7 figures unique visitors) while also converting 200% more visitors to signup to try the product, as well as cutting bounce rates nearly in half.

onX website

Developing, managing, and overseeing the onX marketing + eCommerce website.

  • Custom Craft CMS instance (previously on Magento)
  • Amplitude, Kochava, MailChimp, and Leanplum APIs
  • Google Analytics and Tag Manager, AdRoll, and Stripe implementation
  • Designed with Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision, and more

onX Support

Designing and developing a custom theme/template for onX's CS Support site.

  • Custom Zendesk support site theme
  • Handlebars templating + JavaScript
  • GitHub hosted + Git flow, versioned environment

Web, Media, & Marketing Manager at Think Entrepreneurship, LLC / DIY Pete

2015 - 2016 — Bozeman, MT + Remote

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Founder, Web designer and developer at Mathson Design Co.

2008 - Present — Montana + Remote

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Personal projects

Web guy. Designer & Developer. Optimizer—and Musician, Woodworker...

Outside of my daily, professional work, I find time to pursue personal side projects and I truly believe that these feed the soul. Here are some of my personal projects, relating to design and development. Want to see even more side projects? Check out my music or woodworking.

Simpol Theme

Jekyll theme that's all about the content - minimal, clean, simple blogging. Currently at ~900 user downloads.

Atom syntax theme

Atom text editor syntax theme: crisp, vibrant colors, balanced by dark a background and gutter. Currently at ~100 user downloads.

Case-study redesign (static prototype) for a Yelp landing page

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Application extras

Further writing to the questions on the application for the Marketing Engineer role.

Let's put MT on the map again

Just a couple hours south of Jess, I'm excited for the opportunity to be the next Montanan representing Buffer!