SUMMARY:

Full - stack, platform agnostic Web Engineer with more than 14 years of industry development experience with both large public-facing portals and small brochure sites, intranets, and Facebook Tab and widget development for high-end clients.

CORE COMPETENCIES IN AND/OR EXPERIENCE WITH:

Object-oriented JavaScript, JavaScript Libraries, JavaScript Design Patterns, Node.js (jQuery, Dojo, grunt, require.js)

Popular JavaScript Frameworks: BackBone (proficient), Angular (adequate), Ember (familiarity)

Unit Testing and Unit Testing Libraries

Mobile/Responsive Design (BostonGlobe.com, PhoneGap

Social/Open Graph API Integration (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc), Oauth authentication

Site and CMS Architecture Requirement Gathering, Needs Analysis, Functional Design, Page Decompositon, Testing, and Build-out

Project Planning, Level of Effort Determination, Assignment Delegation and Code Review, Process Improvements

Establishing and documenting standard coding practices

JSP/JSTL

XML/XSL

CMS Implementation (including Wordpress, Drupal, EidosMedia Methode, Interwoven TeamSite, ModX, Joomla)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Laurel, MD

Senior Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assist with design, analysis, implementation, maintenance, and unit and end-to-end automated testing of software
• Code, debug, and test routine web applications
• Research emerging trends and in corporate new tools and frameworks into existing systems Install and test routine software packages or complex application systems
• Build in-house Web Applications to help ensure site reliability (one recently shown to executives at the White Hose) in Meteor.js and Mean.io
• Refactor code so that it is more efficient, more maintainable, less complex
• Mentor junior developers
• Work on public facing site: html, css, heavy JS in backbone and angular

Confidential, Arlington VA

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Followed my supervisor at Confidential to Confidential, where, as a full-stack developer, I helped to build Confidential 's next generation CMS.
• Architected and implemented front-end framework and enterprise-level JS framework with simple API for easy use by multi-disciplined development team.

Technologies include: PHP, Composer, Symfony2, Vagrant, mySQL, mongodb, node.js, grunt, jsdoc, quint, backbone.js, bower, require, git, continuous integration environment.

Confidential, McLean VA

Senior Platform Architecture Developer

Responsibilities:

• Manage JS- and python-based ad delivery framework, using Google DFP as main provider.
• Architect and implement 3rd party integration solutions using server-side and front-end MV+ frameworks (DJANGO, backbone.js) into entire Confidential platform architecture that underlies USA Today as well as 100+ local broadcast, newspaper, and partner sites.
• Create nimble API abstractions for 3rd party integrations so that our team and other developers can easily build into robust modules that serve as the building blocks of all Confidential family of sites section fronts, asset pages, etc.
• Work directly with 3rd party vendors (Google, Poll Daddy, mind share) to actualize Product Managers' visions of vendor product site integration.
• Document code using JsDoc as well as document solutions and implementations inside of wiki.
• Work with make, python packaging, and node.js (grunt.js, etc) for automated build and testing; python (DJANGO), javascript (jQuery, backbone.js, require.js, and other popular libraries); HTML5 (including push state, browser local storage); CSS3; command line tools and bash scripts; JIRA for epic, story, and bug management; git and github as VCS; gitflow for code merging; quint for JS unit testing; test-driven development and agile/SCRUM methodologies with daily stand ups and sprints.
• Helped complete local relaunch, bringing the 100+ local broadcast, newspaper, and partner sites into the latest platform architecture and site redesign

Confidential, Reston, VA

Senior UI Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Front-end and PHP back-end build out of interactive Facebook apps for LG US that included YouTube video integration, Facebook widget integration with mobile alternative pages, as well as front-end and JSP buildout of LG landing pages
• Drupal integration for Hamptonality.com with build out of custom modules to fetch social feeds (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TripAdvisor) and bring them in as content items and send through a workflow for moderation and potential publication to a Pinterst-like front-end home page.
• Front-end implementation of responsive/dynamic masonry grid (think Pinterest) with filtering capabilities as well as javascript-based widgets to schedule stays at Hampton, view more information on pinned items, and comment to Facebook on Facebook pinned items. Heavy use of Backbone.js to integrate commenting.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Interactive Developer

Responsibilities:

• Front-end build-out for the Confidential ’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition Confidential redesign, including set up of overall js and css architecture.
• JS buildout of responsive carousels, integration of social media, including YouTube, Flickr, Twitter feeds and Facebook Like buttons.
• Used JS templating with underscore.js for all feed displays. Server-side build out of YouTube and Flickr feeds using a rudimentary MVC that I built in PHP.
• Helped with in corporation of new Confidential into Confidential CMS.

Web Developer

Confidential, Boston, MA/Burke, VA

Responsibilities:

• Front-end build-out of for thetruth.com responsive design framework and registration/login pages, using HTML5, CSS3 (w/SCSS), javascript (jQuery)
• Form validation and front-end integration with Facebook Login and WordPress CMS template integration.

Back and Front End Architect and Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Front-end build-out of site, using XHTML, CSS, javascript (jQuery). Integration into ModX CMS.
• Back and Front End Architect and Developer
• Freelance for Confidential for multiple websites

Confidential, Boston, MA

Lead CMS Developer

Responsibilities:

• CMS and Web development projects: Assist in planning, documenting, and implementing web-based initiatives, coding templates, using XHTML/CSS, XML and XSLT, JSP/JSTL, JS/JQUERY, working with the award-winning.
• Assist in the migration to new CMS and web portal by building new JSP-driven templates and configuring configuration files.
• Boston.com Migration to Methode CMS (java) from Bonsai (python)
• Translated previous CMS templates into Methode templates.
• Built article and gallery pages.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assist in planning, documenting, and implementing web-based initiatives; coding templates, using XHTML/CSS, XML and XSLT, JSP/JSTL, JS/JQUERY; train and mentor junior Methode/CMS developers; identify, define, and execute major technical architecture and process improvement projects; provide support and maintenance for newly launched TWP site; develop and consume data feeds.
• Re-architectured XHTML, CSS, and JS for entire site, translated comps and wireframes into code templates.
• Built section fronts and the more than 70 modules that will comprise the new site. Built JS-powered calendar, modal, tooltip, story carousel, photo slideshow, tabbed interface, accordion and other Web 2.0 widgets.
• Architected and coded modules/widgets across site and incorporated them into the new CMS. Heavy use of JSTL, XSL and light use of Java.
• Facilitated standard coding practices and rapid development by writing custom tags (using Java and JSP logic) and participating in code-normalizing decision making.
• Significantly contributed to the architecture of key configuration files that supplied structure to many widgets/modules and the CMS application overall.
• Developed frameworks for key dynamic pages that render specific content on the web. Frameworks also used to generate feeds for third-party vendors and mobile devices.
• Developed bridge between relational data gathered in DJANGO framework and content objects in new CMS.
• Delivered results timely under extremely short deadlines.

Confidential

Senior Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in planning, documenting, and implementing Section-508 compliant web-based initiatives, coding templates, using XHTML/CSS, XML and XSLT, JSP/JSTL, DOJO/JS, atg e-commerce application.
• Brought page load times down from 10-20 seconds to under 3 seconds after extensive reworking of JavaScript
• Built 508-compliant widgets, including: modals, calendars, tooltips, data validation, etc.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Web development projects: Assisted in planning, documenting, and implementing Section-508 compliant web-based initiatives, creating comps and wireframes and coding templates, creating CMS (Interwoven TeamSite) GUI forms
• Web Application Building: Gathered requirements from customer; work with functional team to storyboard Web-based User Interfaces; provide team members with direction on how to best implement each aspect of the system; design UI as well as parts of back-end using Dreamweaver CS3, XHTML, JavaScript, VBScript and ASP.

Confidential, Arlington and Alexandria, VA

Principal Web Developer, Technical Writer and Acting Team Lead (

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in planning, documenting, and implementing web-based initiatives and providing technical guidance to the Web liaison.
• Gathered requirements from the customer; worked with functional team to storyboard Web-based User Interfaces; provided team members with direction on how to best implement each aspect of the system; designed simple UI as well as parts of back-end using Dreamweaver 8, XHTML, JavaScript, and JSP; and assisted with Operational Support and High-Level Architecture and Communication plans.
• Planned, developed, published, and delivered end-user documentation pertaining to information technologies and system development life cycle (SDLC) management for the USPTO Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO).
• Used Microsoft Visio and worked closely with the OCIO Chief of Staff to develop flow diagrams documenting USPTO processes and procedures.
• Developed and designed telework set-up posters.