Front - End Team Lead Resume
Venice Beach, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Front - End Team Lead
Confidential, Venice Beach, CA
Responsibilities:
I currently manage a team of 6 developers, use JIRA for task management and run status meetings within a continuous delivery schedule. Alongside the development team responsibilities, I help shape the product by working with designers and founders by providing direction on user experience and design. I utilize analytics to help influence product direction and decisions.
Front-End Development manager
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Responsibilities:
I managed a team of front-end developers responsible for the overhaul of Confidential e- commerce site and new development of a B2C site. As a consultant, I developed an excellent rapport with the design/UX team and worked within an agile environment. With the ability to work closely with the UX team and alter the design quickly and deliver on the development side, the front-end team was well received at Oakley. Task management was done through JIRA.
UI Engineer
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Responsibilities:
I worked on a team which focused on the "My Trips" section of Confidential. We developed in a mobile-first environment working in JSP templates and focusing on front-end. My biggest takeaway from Confidential was the GIT workflow process that the organization maintained.
Senior Front-End Developer
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Responsibilities:
Infiniti JX automobile launch site - I worked with the client to discuss technical limitations of the desired experience. The goal was to support a visual tour through the car with a series of video, images and text overlays. We ended up with an HTML5 version of the experience with a flash fallback to support older. Confidential Leaf launch site and owner portal interfacing with services to communicate directly with the Leaf vehicle and activate features within the car. We worked with teams in Japan to have our APIs communicate properly. Worked on a project redesigning Confidential . A large focus of this project was the atomic design methodology. We developed fully responsive modules that were used throughout the Confidential site.
Front-End Developer
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Responsibilities:
I worked on the front-end development for all Tribune properties (newspaper, TV and radio sites) which totaled around fifty sites. Contributed to a large initiative developing a user-friendly interface that sits on top of the content management system making it easier for producers to manage site content. I also spent time traveling to newspaper and TV affiliate offices to review and train users on the new content management system that I helped build.
Web Developer
Confidential, Evanston, IL
Responsibilities:
ColdFusion, SQL, HTML, CSS
Web Developer
Confidential, Des Plaines, IL
Responsibilities:
PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript Sport Content Aggregator and UGC app | Node.JS, Passport To stay current with some new development technologies such as Node.JS I developed an application to create and maintain a database of sports stories pulled from Twitter, RSS feeds, site scrapes, etc that users can view and vote on. Think of a twitter geared directly for Sports teams of your choosing. I was the lead developer bringing the founders vision to life. We grew to a team of about four developers and utilized the CakePHP framework. I would consult with founders on the user experience and technologies they suggested implementing.