SUMMARY

Multi - role developer with over 20 years experience building desktop and web applications in Confidential technologies and languages.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Developer / UX Designer

Confidential, Pheonix, Arizona

Responsibilities:

• Worked Independently for Confidential companies in and around the Phoenix / Gilbert / Mesa / Maricopa / Scottsdale areas in Arizona, USA as a software developer and UX engineer using a wide range of skills and systems

User Experience (UX) Engineer

Confidential, Scottsdale, Arizona

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Confidential teams to help streamline existing applications User Interfaces and developed new flows and User Interfaces for a variety of platforms
• Utilized Confidential frameworks and platforms including traditional ASP.Net/C# MVC, Node, Knockout, ReactJS, LESS and SASS
• Worked in agile teams, making extensive use of scrum and JIRA

Web Engineer, Web Designer

Confidential, Irvine, California

Responsibilities:

• Worked in several departments including Battle.net, Online Technologies and Web & Mobile as a front- end developer, working with Freemarker, Java, JavaScript / JQuery, XSLT, XHTML & CSS
• Developed and enhanced Confidential aspects of Battle.net Account Management systems, including account creation, payment and billing systems, account history and management, code redemption and in-game services for World of Warcraft
• Undertook positions on the Account Rapid Response team and was responsible for identifying and developing solutions for defects in production environments in the shortest time possible
• Solely responsible for developing and maintaining the corporate Confidential website
• With a small team of engineers and designers, worked over Confidential years on Confidential, a support site for Confidential, which includes live streaming video, video-on-demand, live blogging, contests and eSports events
• Worked closely with Marketing and PR to develop various marketing campaigns, pre-sales events and game pre-launch events
• Provided engineering support and produced content on the entire range of Blizzard’s Battle.net suite of gaming sites for World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo III, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone and Overwatch
• Worked on Confidential one-off projects not directly tied to a game, such as Azeroth Choppers
• Began experimenting with more recent technologies and frameworks such as Node, Angular, Jade, LESS and SASS
• Worked in agile teams, making extensive use of scrum and JIRA

Web Developer, Web Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Development and support of web applications built using C#, JavaScript, MS SQL Server, XHTML and CSS
• Primarily responsible for the company’s flagship application which managed a government-funded tax incentives scheme and allowed clients to register for schemes, manage their data and allowed in-house staff to process clients’ financial data
• Tasked with liaising with clients to develop specifications for new web sites and to design visual front-ends in Adobe Photoshop and to construct a finished product in XHTML, CSS and JavaScript

Senior Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As part of a small team of developers, responsible for supporting the Editorial and IT Support teams by creating applications such as help desk support systems, content management systems and remote systems for journalists out in the field
• Developed systems for both the FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics to allow journalists to interactively edit sports results and stories, publish in real-time and provide data to third party clients
• Attended the Microsoft Technical Center in the UK, testing and developing tools to work in conjunction with an unreleased version of MS Office

Technical Support Engineer, Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As part of a 3-person Technical Support team, designed, installed and administered the company’s network file servers and email servers in accordance with very strict government regulations and provided day-to-day support for 50 desktop users
• Assisted various Engineering teams by developing content management systems, project management systems and data validation systems
• Produced 3D visualizations of weapons hardware for various departments using 3DS Max
• Worked with NATO headquarters in Brussels, EU, to develop online project management systems

Technical Support Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• During college, spent a 6-week work experience placement at ITE in the Technical Support department, learning how IT systems worked in the Natural Environment Research Council
• After college, hired by the IT Support department to design, build, install and maintain a brand new PC-based network and to migrate 150 DEC Pathworks users over to it
• Provided training on the new systems and day-to-day technical support for the organization
• Developed in-house help desk support software which included an interactive knowledge base, hardware and software inventory and ticket management systems
• Designed and developed the organizations first Intranet

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Between working for established companies, worked as a self-employed contractor building many web sites and content management systems (both front-end and back-end) utilizing C#, Java, PHP, JavaScript, XHTML and CSS and powered by databases built using MS SQL Server and MySQL