Sebastian Civarolo

Design Work

Weights + Measures

Weights + Measures is a restaurant, bar, and bakeshop that aims to create a comfortable, sincere, and welcoming place for Houstonians. The 1970s—the golden age of dinner parties and analog computers with punchcard input—serves as the point of inspiration for the brand and space. Studio: CORE Design Studio.

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Weights & Measures hours on glass detail

Weights & Measures signage on steel beam

On Immediacy Lecture Series

Poster for Rice Design Alliance/Rice School of Architecture’s Spring 2014 Lecture Series presenting four international firms whose provocative work addresses the viewr with an increased sense of immediacy. Client: Rice Design Alliance. Studio: CORE Design Studio.

New Commons Lecture Series

This RDA/RSA Lecture Series investigated new practices within architecture that showcased the architect as not merely a respondent, but as an active agent capable of building new ideas and languages as they relate to the city, the environment, and geography. By focusing on these architects and thinkers, the series established a new commons—a ground for forging new and more productive relationships between aesthetics and engagement. Client: Rice Design Alliance. Studio: CORE Design Studio.

New Commons poster detail of speaker list

Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series 2015/16

Promotional materials for the 2015/16 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, which brings award-winning writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Houston every year. Client: Inprint. Studio: CORE Design Studio.

Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series 15-16 brochure cover and spread detail

Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series 15-16 poster

Spot Magazine

Published twice a year by Houston Center for Photography, Spot Magazine features award-winning interviews and commentary on photography and photo-based exhibitions in Texas and beyond. Understated typography lets the photography be the centerpiece. Client: Houston Center for Photography. Studio: CORE Design Studio.

Moody Foundation Biennial Report

This commemorative biennial report celebrates Robert L. Moody’s philanthropic efforts as chairman of the Foundation, while marking the next generation’s commitment to carry on his legacy of philanthropy. Client: Moody Foundation. Studio: CORE Design Studio.

Moody Foundation Annual Report spread and cover

Moody Foundation Annual Report section title spread

Moody Foundation Annual Report interior quote detail

Midtown Arts + Theater Center, Houston

I worked on digital signage interfaces, environmental supergraphics, and donor recognition for the Midtown Arts + Theater Center, Houston (MATCH). The striker patterns on matchboxes serve as the inspiration for the visual identity. Studio: CORE Design Studio.

Downtown Magazine

Downtown is a quarterly publication produced by Downtown District that is part city magazine, part guide dining, bars, and events. Topical editorials and profiles related to Houston's downtown, and a comprehensive dining guide and datebook share info on things to do and places to go downtown. Client: Houston Downtown Management District. Studio: CORE Design Studio.

Downtown Magazine Fall 2016 cover feature title spread

Buffalo Bayou Park Maps

Printed maps and physical signage for Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston, Texas. Client: Buffalo Bayou Partnership. Studio: CORE Design Studio

Buffalo Bayou Park printed trail map detail

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Experience

Prime Health Services

Application Developer Team Lead

August 2022–Present
I currently lead the development team that maintains a bill review application and its supporting services. As a mentor, I prioritize pair programming regularly with the developers on my team to teach them new programming concepts, improve their problem-solving skills, and work on their ability to diagnose and troubleshoot issues.
- Work closely with stakeholders and the compliance and implementation teams to gather requirements for new features and ensure client needs are being met.
- Built an accounting system as part of the bill review platform that calculates fees for the review and pricing services applied to medical bills and generates PDF invoices.
- Architected a process for running background jobs utilizing queue-triggered Azure Functions with real-time progress updates in the UI.
Prime Health Services

Application Developer

April 2019–August 2022
Pushed for the modernization of the company’s frontend applications—advocating for the use of React and Typescript to enable rich user experiences with complex interactions, while improving the developer experience and maintainability of the source code. Put in place the tooling for compiling/publishing these React applications using Webpack and Vite.
- Created a library of React components that became the basis for all new UI development and enabled a consistent user experience across all applications. The library has a documentation site built with Storybook, and includes a suite of unit tests using Jest with React Testing Library.
- Rebuilt two client-facing applications from the ground up with React interfaces, and .NET APIs: a client portal, and a flagship bill review platform that processes thousands of medical bills monthly.
- Implemented a strategy for writing reliable repository unit tests utilizing a SQL database running in a Docker container that is automatically reset between test runs. This also enabled isolated development on a local machine, preventing disruptions to the development database used by other team members.
Nashville Software School

Full Stack Software Developer
Javascript & Python

October 2018–March 2019
Intensive full-time software development bootcamp focusing on full-stack (Python/Django) development fundamentals and problem solving, with the final half of the program executed in a simulated company environment with Scrum methodology.
- Single-page application development with React and with a focus on modern ES6+ features and modular code.
- Server-side development with Python, Django, and SQL utilizing test-driven development.
- Version controlled individual and group projects with Git and Github.
- Project management with issue tickets and Github projects.
- Database planning through entity relationship diagrams to define relationships with a flat data structure.
CORE Design Studio

Senior Designer / Web Developer

May 2011–September 2018
Small, collaborative studio environment with a focus in branding, print, interactive, exhibition, and environmental graphic design. Working on a tight-knit team gave me experience working closely with others and interacting directly with clients to meet their project goals.
- Website planning, design, and development for mostly non-profit organizations and small businesses.
- Delivered over 15 custom-built, responsive Wordpress sites built with PHP and SCSS, and have experience with third-party integrations such as Google Maps, Eventbrite, Mailchimp, and Events Calendar.
- Problem-solving and conceptual design striving for unconventional outcomes that help clients stand out in their field and increase engagement with their audiences.
- Branding/Identity design, signage systems, and environmental graphic design with a strong emphasis on typography and attention to detail.
- Design for print including event collateral, magazines, artbooks, and poster that consistently helped clients expand their audience and increase ticket/table sales for major fundraising events.
- Design/production for a quarterly magazine with a distribution of 70,000.
- Concept planning, design, and production of physical and interactive exhibits for museums.
- Built a touchscreen interactive quiz in Javascript for an educational water museum.
- Highly proficient with Adobe software, including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and XD.
University of Houston

BFA Graphic Communications

August 2007–May 2011

software developer

nashville, tn

Applications

Barkeeper

Digital Work

Feldman and Feldman

Inprint

Kinder Foundation

Logos