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Burlington, Vt, Us

Burlington, Vermont Area

Lead user experience initiatives to increase user engagement, discovery, and conversion.Prototype and Develop the Localvore Passport mobile application using React Native.

Burlington, Vermont Area

Localvore connects consumers to restaurants, farmers, producers and businesses in their local area that support their community. At Localvore.co I was responsible for front end development of B2B and customer facing applications and worked closely with the design team and stakeholders to conceptualize product features and interfaces and implement them using ES7, React, Redux, and Immutable.

Burlington, Vermont Area

Responsible for front end development and maintenance of multiple web sites for Vermont Design Works (VDW).+ Lead company in new HTML5 and CSS3 techniques that improve site performance, reduce bandwidth and save on development time for responsive image delivery.+ Build mobile first responsive websites+ Build complex front end components for custom web applications and dashboards driven by statistical, crowd sourced, and user driven data using React JS and Reflux for sites such as Brighter Vermont's Community Energy Dashboard (http://www.vtenergydashboard.org)+ Improve SEO for core platform and client websites by adding linked data to event tools and promoting semantic markup+ Build content strategies and recommendations using Google Analytics to challenge and validate assumptions+ Increase conversion for clients by configuring goals in Google Analytics to measure call to action performance

Walnut Creek, Ca

Own the design, prototyping, templating, development and support of client facing product catalog and search for brands Y​Lighting.com, ​Y​Living.com,​ and Y​Bath.com+ Lead front end effort in response to changes in company strategy+ Migrate from Yahoo Small Business platform to an in house CMS and PHP platform+ Migrate from custom PHP front end and template language to a Symfony (symfony2) MVC, Twig and Doctrine based platform + Migrate from Apache SOLR to component based search driven by JSON from OracleEndeca's API service+ Work with with leadership, business, marketing, design, and contractor stakeholders through product life cycles, responding to feedback and refining requirements+ Promote data driven decisions through multivariate testing and user flow analysis+ Analyze business needs, and make technology choices supporting both business andengineering capabilities+ Develop, debug, and maintain responsive design for desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms+ Develop and support Google Tag Manager tracking and Google Analytics reportingintegration+ Performance and end to end UI testing with Selenium, Neustar+ Manage product release and deployment of catalog and search with Git+ Lead code standards and review initiative

Burlington, Vermont

Help clients create dynamic websites from initial concept and planning to implementation including data schema and content management configuration, artistic and user interface design, search engine optimization and product marketing, development and testing.+ Work with internal and client designers to transform static Quark and Photoshop documents into interactive database driven dynamic online stores and e­commerce websites using XSLT and Perl Template Toolkit languages.+ Produce and maintain XSLT templates for customization of static Yahoo! Stores+ Built and supported multiple data feeds for various product listing in CSV, TSV, and XML forservices such as Froogle, Amazon, Ebay, Shop.com, and Bizrate.+ Perform system administration duties including maintenance of email accounts andconfiguration of client content management software and database.

Simsbury, Ct

Designed and maintained intranet sites.+ Worked with division designers and developers to allow division information to be accessedvia intranet throughout the company.+ Converted internal company forms and legal documents to interactive PDF files for use withinternal and field claims agents.+ Edited and convert analog surveillance videos into compressed digital video for distribution in company websites.+ Converted legacy intranet sites to W3C compliant HTML and CSS specification and 508compliance.+ Trained team designers in use of Adobe Premiere for non­linear video editing and motion tracking for censoring effects.+ Created training manuals for HTML and CSS techniques for W3C and Section 508 Accessibility compliance+ Created training manuals and led training in use of Adobe Premiere video editing software.