SUMMARY:

I am experienced and comfortable working in an agile development environment. I love the challenge of being given a style guide, Photoshop file or mock and translating it into semantic a markup and LESS/CSS solution. I wish to continue my passion as a front end developer, and am seeking an opportunity to grow with your organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• HTML/5
• LESS/CSS3
• JavaScript jQuery
• Require.js json ajax
• Grunt
• Bootstrap
• JSP
• JSTL
• Hybris e - commerce
• Volusion-CMS
• Jira
• Pivotal
• Agile/Scrum
• ASP.NET
• C#
• ASP
• SQL server
• GIT
• SVN
• Photoshop
• WAI-ARIA cross-browser compatibility w3c valid markup
• Responsive Web Design with custom grids and with Bootstrap.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Front End Web Developer

• Worked in a Dot Net MVC framework, developing and maintaining product specific websites at Confidential.
• Customized a front end build process using Bootstrap, LESS and Grunt to build out custom, responsive, (mobile first) websites using ASP.NET Storefront.
• Built intranet web app that allows users of different security levels to access internal data, help resources, training aids, and various reports. This was built with Bootstrap and LESS as the CSS pre-processor.

Confidential

Web Developer

• Contracted to help with backlog of web development issues that could not be resolved with the current self-taught staff.
• Mentored staff on “Designing in the Browser” using Chrome Developer Tools for rapid prototyping.
• Wrote various custom jQuery and CSS solutions to suit the business needs that Volusion’s CMS didn’t offer out of the box.
• Advised their team of major “page speed” issues they have and how to overcome them: 1) too many HTTP requests 2) render blocking java Script 3) code bloat 4) image size 5) uncompressed files 6) un-cached files, etc.
• Consumed API to add a wholesale pricing view, (for participating clients logged in).
• Cross Browser Compatibility and W3C compliant.
• Created images for landing-pages and Hero-carousel.
• Wrote jQuery script to update the shopping cart total when upselling additional components to the current product.
• Created a better look for the product listing pages using Responsive Web Design/Media Queries, with an emphasis on smaller hand-help devices.

Confidential

Front End Developer

• Update and maintain current website.
• Design and developed a new cross browser W3C compliant website.
• Resolve IT issues in-house and those working in the field:
• Software installation and support.
• Power Point presentations.
• Networking.
• SQL database reporting.

Confidential

Front End Web Developer

• Worked in a Java-MVC/Spring environment using Hybris eCommerce suite.
• A member of the front end team that took Confidential .com to the next level. Created a fully functional Responsive Web Design/e-commerce site.
• Worked closely with BSA’s, PM’s and UI/UX team to analyze design and provide estimates for development based on requirements.
• Responsible for foreseeing what might not work on handheld mobile devices that was proposed by the UI team before starting development.
• Responsible for developing all of the cart pages, checkout pages, Owl Hero Carousel, product listing and product description pages of Confidential using a custom grid system and Bootstrap, media queries, html/5, jQuery, and JavaScript as well as 3rd party libraries.
• Implemented require.js module loader to only load necessary modules per page.
• Used the LESS/CSS preprocessor for:
• Clean and maintainable CSS structure that encompassed heavy use of LESS’s built-in functions.
• Clean nesting, mirroring the DOM.
• Variables for faster performance and re-use.
• Class and operator re-use.
• Namespaces and mix-ins for packaging.
• Used Grunt, (JavaScript task runner and plugins) for: Less/CSS and JavaScript minification as part of the FED development process.
• Responsible for post-production bugs/maintenance.
• Implement additional modules/pages after the rollout of each country and site stabilization.
• In charge of researching and implementing the initial phase of the Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) navigation. This aids website navigation (verbally) for people with various disabilities, utilizing screen readers like Macintosh’s Voice-Over (VO), and keyboard navigation that reads the website contents to the user.
• Maintained all of the custom e-commerce pages, (hybris) content and LESS/CSS.
• Built and maintained seasonal/promotional landing pages and forms.
• Responsible for daily Git version control of branches, rebasing, merging and manual resolution of merge conflicts.
• Cross Browser Compatibility and W3C compliant.

Confidential

Full Stack Web Developer

• Converted Dreamweaver templates to C# / ASP.Net forms for clean separation of content, presentation and behavior.
• Implemented Responsive Web Design to the existing flagship site.
• SQL Database Reporting:
• Counting hits on websites campaigns and landing pages.
• Tracking down form submissions that haven’t been validated.
• On demand custom reporting.
• Keyword searches to aid in future strategical email/landing page campaigns.
• User Agent Data.
• General Trends.
• Established and documented Web Standards for the team:
• W3C validation of HTML/CSS.
• Wrote documentation for html, CSS, JavaScript coding standards to keep the code base consistent going forward.
• Extensive FED cleanup to refactor/undo previous designers in-line styles.
• Formatting HTML emails to a consistent look across the many email clients.
• Website form validation (client and server side).
• Brought the team up to speed teaching the proper use and power of CSS. The lack of understanding of CSS essentials led them to override the main.css files by using embedded styles and in-line styles.
• CSS overhaul to eliminate redundancy and reduce HTTP requests to the many includes that were in place at the time.
• CSS refactor using advanced selectors and combinators to reduce code bloat.
• Refactored many pages that used tables for layout to a CSS based layout.
• A/B Testing.

Confidential

Full Stack Web Developer

• Developed custom web sites for a variety of small businesses and individuals in the community of Dana Point and Laguna Beach. Clients included dog trainers, local bands and the venues they performed, photo labs, artists and photographers.
• Technologies include ASP.NET, C#, SQL server and Flash to produce fully functional administrative websites.

Confidential

Full Stack Web Developer

• Was responsible for building cross browser compatible websites for the Life Insurance Company. Technologies include: HTML, Classic ASP, CSS, jQuery, javaScript and SQL Server.
• Responsible for displaying website statistics by querying a SQL database and using ASP.NET to display the results.
• Was responsible for breaking up .psd’s and converting them to W3C validated HTML & CSS for large email campaigns.