Eric Rocha Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Consult for small businesses, non profit organizations, and individuals to develop or modify their web site to suit their individual needs.Previously developed sites for small businesses using the WordPress framework including custom options pages, custom home pages, and custom fields. Examples and more information listed in portfolio. Install and configure setup of framework. Develop custom themes and recommend, install, and configure any plugins needed to expand functionality. Previously contributed to the open source community via free WordPress themes including having two featured in the theme directory (https://wordpress.org/themes/author/bogeywebdesign/) which had been downloaded thousands of times.

Worked as part of the team building out a style guide and pattern library of front end components used throughout the digital presence of MassMutual, a Fortune 100 company. We built on top of the Bootstrap and React Bootstrap libraries providing CSS and React components including documentation on how to implement and customize them, as well as answering questions in dedicated library Slack channels.I served as a senior developer setting coding standards and best practices, mentoring junior developers, and paying down inherited tech debt on a team of around a half dozen UX developers.Utilized SASS variables, placeholders, mixins, extends and maps to make the code extremely modular and easy to edit and read. This allowed us a lot of flexibility in building our component library as well as keeping the terminology between design and development teams similar.I also concurrently served on multiple other teams (1-3 at a time in addition to the design system team), consuming the library, as well as building application specific patterns for those teams. My last team built out one of the major agent portals allowing them to service their book of business and support their clients including, but not limited to, transactions like claims and beneficiary updates. On previous teams I helped build customer tools like calculators, a robo advisor, and customer authentication forms.

Responsible for building out the UI for the next application iteration including component library, CSS, and semantic markup.

Front end developer for a suite of electronic review sites. Converted site to responsive design with tablet and phone break points. Using Brightcove API constructed video page include filtering by category, pagination, and parameter based interface adaptability. Using Mailchimp API and JQuery cookie built multiple mailing list signup UIs. Built template for Mailchimp HTML email blasts. Built style guide JQuery plugin that would take in properties and dynamically output CSS rules. Multiple other UI projects built using varied technologies including SASS, Bootstrap, JQuery, Ruby on Rails and CoffeeScript.

Somerville, Ma

Waltham, Ma

Responsibilities include defining corporation wide style guide built into framework used by multiple development teams in the company. Hand coded style guide and prototypes using HTML, CSS3, responsive design, progressive enhancement and JavaScript.

Andover, Ma

Hand coded HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Prototype & jQuery) with web standards, search engine optimization, cross browser compliance, semantics, progressive enhancement, and usability in mind.

Front end developer on a major employment advertising site specializing in niche market. In short time period there updated front end code from mainly table based design to tableless design using web standards and CSS. Significantly lowered page weight and simplified markup while increasing semantics and organic SEO of the site.