Erik Phipps Email & Phone Number

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Jersey City, Nj, Us

Responsibilities include including developing new features, fixing bugs and refactoring code to standards on www.puppyspot.com and other properties. Currently working under a three month contract.

New York, New York, Us

• Technologies used: JavaScript, Webpack, Rollup, NPM, PHP, Wordpress, .NET Razor, CSS, HTML, Sass, Redux, React, Java, Postman• Developed website features within the established workflow, stack, and style/patterns• Worked in numerous web stacks including .NET, Java, and PHP• Architected and implemented site structural patterns and standards• Proposed and integrated front-end performance improvements• Facilitated all aspects of the team's workflow to keep things running smoothly• Ran selected agile meetings (such as planning, retrospective, grooming, and daily standup)• Led team learning initiatives through demos, code reviews, etc• Investigated and implemented new technologies, coding patterns and open-source solutions• Logged and fixed bugs in the various web propertiesRecent development:• Recreated proprietary api endpoints in Wordpress to support iOS, Android and Roku apps• Built Wordpress plugin for configuring and serving Break's DFP ad slots– slot configuration added in plugin settings in Wordpress Admin or via shortcode in templates– refreshability, in-view checking, slot variables all set in single js object• Built Front-End portion of longform gallery Wordpress plugin with advanced ad integrations– ads defined and displayed based on user scrolling images into view– ad frequency, ad pre-call rate, scroll debounce time, etc, configurable in plugin settings– built with modular structure (bundled with Rollup) with custom events for layered extendibility• Configured tooling (Webpack/Babel/ES2015) for modular rebuild of Break.com– Heavy utilization of ES2015 modules– Prod, dev and local build configurations– Bundles organized by page-type or loaded on demand based on user interaction

• Built custom UI components from the ground up or leveraging 3rd party scripts• Rebuilt UI views from spaghetti code into Backbone Mustache views• Helped architect internal admin site’s underlying Backbone structure, including models, collections, routing and views • Implemented Require.js module system optimized for both production and development• Established and maintained local development tooling configuration• Researched coding practices for performance including handling Backbone’s memory leaks• Logged and fixed bugs in the proprietary web admin

Berlin, Berlin, De

• Acted as the owner and maintainer of the JDate (and sister sites) UI• Introduced and maintained internal department development blog• Maintained and update internal documentation and training material• Initiated better communications between developers and designers through open dialog• Organized markup, styles and scripting within the constraints of existing .NET structure• Refactored spaghetti code to modern standards for performance improvements• Refactored styling to utilize CSS3 features to reduce images and ease development• Introduced CSS sprites to reduce images and improve performance• Transitioned JDate from table-based layout to current web standards• Introduced code patterns for easier and more efficient UI development• Introduced robust methods for targeting browsers and feature detections.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts, Writing, Literature And Publishing

English Major