Ian Cruz Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Pleasanton, Ca, Us

Manages a distributed team of 8 engineers (both frontend and backend) to design, develop and maintain software systems and databases across multiple platforms. Responsible for frontend system architecture and ensuring that projects are accomplished in a timely manner in accordance to design and functional requirements.Achievements include: * Developed easily deployable/configurable data driven applications for 20+ business specific sites. * Blended a consistent, unified build procedure to deploy a custom theme system powering multiple web application stacks, even blending within the same domain when applicable. * Optimized Nolo's lead generation forms with consistent design elements and rapid A/B testing which increased conversion by over 50% and grew the lead generation model from $20MM to roughly $50MM * Standardized CSS and JS development across multiple web applications (Laravel, Yii, Drupal, Magento, etc.) to use Grunt, Webpack, and Node. * Updated the various web properties to use a more modern web design aesthetic and ensured consistent components while developing a three profile, mobile first design. * Established improvements to optimize page performance and to improve SEO page ranking. * Multiple years of actively and successfully mentoring engineers from intern level through senior level. * Developed testing framework for hiring frontend engineering candidates

Pleasanton, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Managed Cisco's Strategic Marketing Organization (SMO) group's internal website publishing and development needs. Responsible for ensuring that all competitive documents were published to Cisco's Competitive Leadership portal in a timely manner. Provided additional creative and development services to promote SMO's Brand.Achievements include: * Increased response times of important competitive document publishing from 2-3 weeks to within 2 days of request. * Created various HTML email communication templates that saved the group over $10,000 by developing them in-house as opposed to sending them out to an agency. * Updated SMO's various Intranet portals to have a unified look and feel, as well as a cleaner and well-formed HTML mark-up. * Utilized EXT-JS and Dojo to expand the functionality of various SMO portals. * Aided in the project management and QA testing of various web development projects for the team.

Marlborough, Ma, Us

Managed and executed Boston Scientific Neurovascular's various eMarketing, web, multimedia, and print programs. Responsible for the marketing group's document control system.Achievements include:* Created various print, multimedia, website, and HTML eCampaign templates for various programs that allowed the group to maintain a consistent brand, and shorten project development time. * Advocated and led the development of multimedia CDs, animation, websites internally that allowed the company to save more than $250,000.* Received several awards for multimedia CD development from industry peers (AAF, MMA, BMA) * Supported the company's market development efforts with various email campaigns, website programs, and multimedia CDs that contributed to an increase in market share.