Profile
Junior Full stack developer with focus in Front End and Platform Development seeking opportunity to continue growth in a new and stimulating career. Always ready for a new learning opportunity, I revel in taking on design, UI/UX and funcional challenges. I am looking for a position where collaboration and development is the lifeblood.
Areas of Expertise
- Advanced front-end UI/UX development
- Agile Methodologies
- Device Agnostic Design
- Platform development and documentation
Technical Skills
- HTML5 (advanced)
- CSS3 (advanced)
- Responsive Frameworks:
- Bootstrap
- Foundation
- LESS/SASS (advanced)
- Cross-Browser Compatability (back to IE8)
- Javascript (intermediate)
- Including:
- jQuery/UI
- Angular
- AJAX/json
- Ruby (intermediate)
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ASP/VB (beginner)
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Java (beginner)
Professional Experience
- Lead Front End Developer - Dealer Spike (April 2014 - present)
- Managed and trained an in-house team of 9 front-end developers, provided training, support and coaching for all departments involved in production including design, project management, support, data-entry and customer relations
- Developed, documented and maintained a responsive platform. Integrated legacy platform functionality as well as created new features for responsive platform. (Bootstrap,LESS,javascript,VB)
- Collaborated with Senior Developers on development, testing, implementation and support of an inline Content Editing tool which is also backwards compatable with legacy platform. (CSS3,JavaScript,SQL)
- Directed documentation of new platform and Content Editing tool for internal wiki
- Trained and Coached satellite office in La Paz, Mexico (remotely and at their location) - trained relevant teams on Bootstrap, LESS, new platform features and Content Editor tool.
- Freelance Web Development (2014 - present)
- Worked on various projects for private clients and other developers needing Front-End support.
- Worked across a variety of platorms including Wordpress, Ruby on Rails and Drupal
- Foreign Language and Music Instructor (2008 - 2014)
- Taught French and Spanish at private schools and in tutoring centers in and near both Des Moines, Iowa (Huntington Learning Center) and Portland, Maine (School Around Us, The New School, Kidz Go Eco)
- Used simple jQuery to make worksheets and exercises.
- Taught violin and guitar on location and remotely to private students.
- Created music theory course using the guitar as a model.
Education
- B.A. French and Spanish culture/language (2008) Central College, Pella, IA
- Interpretation and Translation in French and Spanish, Modern French Culture, Latin-American studies, French and Spanish literature.
- Centro de Lenguas Modernas (2007-2008)Granada, Spain
- History and Culture of Spain, Spanish translation and interpretation, Popular and Traditional music of Spain, two semesters of ESL/ELL.
- L'Institut Catholique (2007) Paris, France
- French History, European History, French Language, French Philosophy
Personal Hobbies and Interests:
- Music Performance (solo/group): violin, guitar, mandolin, banjo
- Foreign Languages: French and Spanish fluency
- Tabletop games