SUMMARY:

• Senior IT professional with 12+ years of experience in developing web applications.
• Engineering modern web applications with MVC Javascript, Ruby and RESTful APIs, and noSQL databases, Backbone, Knockout, Spine, Node, Sinatra, Mongo, Redis, and CouchDB.
• Lead Javascript engineer with excellent knowledge of design patterns, test - driven development, and behavior driven development with Qunit, Jasmine and Mocha
• Lead UI Engineer with excellent knowledge of front-end best practices, HTML5, CSS3, pixel perfect cross-browser, Responsive design, IE browsers, Polyfills, jQuery, Zepto, Sencha and Dojo
• Experience engineering mobile web applications and native mobile apps, Rhomobile, Appcelerator, PhoneGap, and M-project
• Lead server engineer developing web applications with MVC frameworks on the server, experience with Zend, Symfony, Cake, and MySQL
• Expert in CMS development best practices and developing custom modules and extensions with open source frameworks Drupal, Wordpress, Modx, Silverstripe, and CMS Made Simple

TECHNICAL SKILLS & CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Linux, Bash, Vim, OSx, PC Windows, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, PHP, Apache, Ruby, Rails, PythonJava, .NET, ASPX, IIS, ExtJS, MySQL, jQuery, YUI
• Software Architecture Web Architecture Technical Lead Director of Technology
• Web Application Engineer SysOps and SysAdmin High Performance Web Applications Infrastructure as a Service Platform as a Service Agile Software Development Design Patterns

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

Senior Tech Lead / Senior Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built SPA's and Microsites with progressive enhancement and graceful degradation
• Pioneered the adoption and implementation of Responsive design and Distributed version control systems with automated deployments and environment configuration
• Wrote custom server and client scripts to automate template production code, create versioning repositories, and facilitate development and scoping for feature implementation
• Engineered mobile web apps for android and ipad

Lead Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Engineered web applications and front end interfaces for pre-existing web applcations for various clients including IBM, Ikea, Pfizer, Nestle Wonka, Raisinets,
• Developed custom Wordpress plugins and coded custom themes for multiple sites as the only experienced Wordpress developer at the time
• Wrote custom bookmarklets and implemented infinite scroll and cross-browser HTML5 video gracefully degrading to flash in older IE browsers

Consulting Javascript Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote methods and functions within an object-oriented script, to add new features and improve existing application interface and usability
• Worked on-site and remotely with a team of Engineers and Designers at Confidential, to launch a social mapping application for receiving donations and sharing personal news

Lead Interactive Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Resolved known issues in outdated browsers and contributed to new development efforts in research and development with Ruby on Rails
• Worked within the constraints of Java content management systems, to quickly produce HTML, CSS, and Javascript cross-browser solutions
• Coded solutions to resolve serious interface and functionality bugs in existing web applications.
• Consulted with a small team contributing to the research and development efforts at Bloomberg and provided insight into high performance and optimized interfaces with HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript.

Lead Interface Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created the front end code with HTML5 and CSS3 for a global engineering firm, creating JavaScript objects and abstracting related functionality into external files, and consorting with a team of backend developers to integrate the code.
• Wrote a script to access information on Facebook through the Graph API, return relevant Tweets for display on page, and a custom script to power a form that queries an xml file for results.

Senior User Interface Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a customized theme for Site Administrators to manage content, designing custom JavaScript Libraries and auto-suggest search features.
• Assisted in providing expertise and research in viable CMS alternatives for managed shared content across domains, and commencing the development of a new CMS with Apache Maven.

Senior Front End Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built new features for highest visited pages on BudgetTravel.com.
• Explored CMS considerations across all languages and worked with team to gather information.

Lead Web Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Produced the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript required for an administrator and for the public site, according to design requirements and specifications, for a portion of the Confidential Lounge.

Senior UI Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built the user interface for members to access account information, order new services, view promotions, and submit forms for Confidential Latin America domain names.

HTML Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prototyped proposed lightbox implementations cross browser for proof of concept at priceless.com.