SUMMARY:

• Reliable, seasoned, agile creative developer who bridges the gap between the design team and left - brained developersExperienced mentor… always enthusiastic to share and learn
• Known for quickly learning the latest cross-platform IT techniques and tools (a pre-release Leap SDK recipient).
• Award-winning, pioneering developer specializing in fulfillment of fantastic ideas. Skilled Sr. level creative problem solver and idea engineer experienced in interactive object-oriented (OOP) JSON driven data visualization and animation
• HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/Kendo/jQuery/PHP MySQL and Adobe Creative Cloud projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Team Tools: Jira, Git, Citrix VDI, PeopleFluent, PeopleSoft, WebEx, Skype, Media Bin, WCS, MVC3, MVC4

Databases: Experience coordinating with back-end developers as needed and take part in database design/development using Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL, designing JSON and XML structure, wiring up Ajax (Web API and RESTful) with callbacks that bind data into the GUI/UX.

Languages: Dynamic reusable custom coding using JSON, JQuery, Ajax, Javascript, Backbone, Kendo UI, client-side Node, Angular, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, SVG, ASP.NET Razor, C#, Actionscript, XML, SQL, PHP, Leap SDK

Software: Adobe Creative Cloud, Flash, Microsoft Office, Mirosoft Visual Studio, Microsoft WebMatrix, Araxis Merge, Dropbox, Windows Developer Tools, Netbeans, Fiddler, Firebug, Subversion- TortoiseSVN, FormZ, Electric Image Animation, Citrix VDI, RSA, Java, Sublime Text, Git, Sass and Basecamp

Testing: Though my heaviest focus has been on the client-side and my routine has been to test my code for cross browser support as I go I am learning about scripted unit testing for the front end.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working in a Java Environment as a UI/UX Developer - Quickly acclimating and developing in an Agile Backbone.js environment (Set-up system and began contributing first week).
• Doing commits through SourceTree and GitHub. Updating and debugging legacy code with new features. Investigated additional JS frameworks such as React.js and Angular 2 for potential implementation. Compiling CSS using gulp sass:watch.
• Doing command line node.js npm installations, updates and other tasks.

Environment: Angular.js, Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Handlebars.js templating, Data Driven Development, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Sass.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior level front-end, focusing on data visualization projects and wealth management application in a highly secure environment.
• Smoothly integrating Front End content by setting up jsp files, and locally building to test before delivering and merging.
• Maintaining json conctracts.
• Mentoring and orienting others in mobile-friendly client-side development tools and techniques with JSON, JavaScript, Backbone.js, Handlebars.js Underscore.js, Node.js, Maven, JQuery, CSS3 and HTML5. Investigated pros/cons of Angular.js vs. Backbone.js upgrades.

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Responsibilities:

• Mentoring and orienting others away from Flash and into the ways of mobile-friendly client-side development tools and techniques with JSON, Javascript, JQuery, CSS3 and HTML5.
• Delivered a wide range of creative specialty projects and technical UX problem solving, including 3d assets and animation and data-driven GUI… including PHP.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SR Creative UI UX Front End Developer Developed a JSON/Javascript form renderer and a library of reusable object oriented Javascript in an agile .Net Visual Studio MVC environment.
• Key member of a team of developers that was split between Bloomington, MN and Uxbridge, Canada. We communicated throughout the day primarily using Jira, Skype, email and WebEX. The Bloomington office accessed the development environment using an RSA through Citrix to our VMs located in Jersey City.
• The first application, LERPnet, was the Law Enforcement Retail Partnership network.
• LERPnet is a SAS that was requested by the retail loss prevention industry to provide a means for direct networking between Retail Loss Prevention Administrators and Law Enforcement to utilize today’s technology to manage retail theft cases. LERPnet also includes data interaction with Google Maps.
• My position was the dedicated front-end developer, working closely with the UX and Graphic Designers and the back-end focused developers. Because I utilize both sides of my brain, visual and technical, I was a natural bridge between the Design team and the back-end developers. My technology realm was everything on the front… translating Adobe design comps into web content via csthml views or dynamically rendered via the ever growing and expanding reusable object oriented JavaScript libraries using jQuery and Kendo UI, as well as cross-browser HTML and CSS.
• I was the developer primarily responsible for coming up with and writing updating expandable reusable JavaScript methods with parameter object handling, designing the JSON object structures and coordinating the property key names with the back end for data binding. All data was handled via JSON to and from AJAX POST and GET… to and from the back-end realm… and writing callback methods. The team has begun restructuring to utilize Web API.
• In any given day, I met with the design team and product owners to discuss and provide quick proofs of concept, as well as my regular fulfillment of formal agile stories.
• The project structure was MVC Razor C# using Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 with Tortoise SVN. The designer and myself had Adobe Creative Cloud for formatting graphic assets and managing Type Kit Fonts.
• My first task was to build a customizable dashboard. The dashboard could be laid out as an arrangement of 1-5 pods containing data visualizations. The user could drag and drop to rearrange or select from preset layouts, as well as manage the content of each pod… then save the layout.
• The next task was building out a collaboration center, similar to Facebook, where users could form collaborations with other users to discuss cases, post and share evidence, etc.
• The application also includes many other features for setting up and managing other users, suspects, cases, evidence, and a tool for tying everything together to determine relationships and narrow trails of suspicious activity.
• The application that I had been working on since October 2013 is a hub consisting of modules and sub modules, including LERPnet and other future applications. The application is an SAS containing a customizable environment of views primarily containing Kendo Grids, Kendo Tree Views, interactive Google maps and forms. The next phase was switching over to Angular, I was the first to get angular to run within the project… as a POC. The purpose is for retail loss prevention administrators to setup and manage security users, rolls, permissions, companies, nodes, stores, customers, employees, groups etc.
• My initial function was initiating the Visual Studio Project, thinning out the extra content and wiring in the custom content, while the back end developers were busy setting up the database structure.
• Once we had a runnable solution, I began building out the CSS and a custom library of reusable JavaScript rendered JSON driven widgets that reduced the need for hand coded HTML. My next main task was to begin developing a form renderer that would be utilized for the future form designer. Since last year most forms in the application were generated via JSON sent to the form renderer.
• As well as my development tasks, I interviewed other front-end developer candidates and the team grew from 3 in the local office to 8 front-end and back-end developers.

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Responsibilities:

• Supported the design department in production of custom object oriented actionscript special e-learning projects.
• Aided in impressing and securing a high profile client to add a source of funding to the private university beyond student enrollment.

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Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with in-house team to continue and advance development of energy service worker training simulations.
• Object oriented actionscript navigation through timeline based 3D animations with user response tracking and reporting.
• Expanded preexisting engine to support significantly more complex simulation environment scenarios.

Confidential

Front-End Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provided HTML/Javascript/jQuery and Actionscript development services to support the design department in concept and production of new media content for client and internal special projects.
• Expandable development of their internal CPG concept design presentation

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Front End Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• supported the design department through nearly 20 years of IT advancement.
• Developing and maintaining client and corporate new media and internet projects on a project-by-project basis utilizing a variety of tools and scripting languages required to fulfill project scope.
• Built HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/JQuery template by interpreting and merging about 30 Photoshop compositions from multiple designers.

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Front-End Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• supported the design department in production of PHP client web build projects.
• HTML/CSS/Javascript and image/animation asset design, illustration, retouching and formatting.
• Providing efficient quality work and keeping within tight project budgets.
• Filling-in for in-house staff as needed to keep project edits and revisions on schedule.
• Pioneered and expanded the list of IT services and products for nearly 2 decades along with providing troubleshooting consultation for in-house web designers and developers.