Jonathan Sousa Email & Phone Number

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Working with a small, highly-skilled, distributed team to build Poply and support BirthdayAlarm. I am technology lead for Poply—a beautiful reinvention of online invitations—, coordinating development across backend, front end, iOS, and Android.In taking Poply from original idea to 60,000 members and growing, I’ve successfully tackled system architecture.

San Francisco, US

• The sole Front End Engineer among 25 industry leaders selected by Michael and Xochi Birch—the founders of Bebo—to be part of their private start-up incubator. This group invented disruptive technology products, built.
• Rebuilt the front end of the 12-year old BirthdayAlarm website to work on mobile as well as desktop while not disorienting 55 million habituated users. Mobile use soared and membership decline was reversed.
• Implemented HTML5 video on an extensive array of mobile devices, in some cases piping the content through Canvas. Product presented to the press at 2014 Launch Festival.
• Re-architected the team’s approach to JavaScript, utilizing a custom application of require.js and Backbone integrated with our Fabric deploy scripts. 12 HTTP requests reduced to 1.
• Built a showcase website for the founders’ major project, The Battery.
• Worked extensively with responsive design, custom icon fonts, SVGs, event tracking, progressive enhancement, python django templates, embedded mobile webviews, A/B trialing, and solutions for compartmentalized front.

• Managed all aspects of a successful technology consulting business developing superior websites for the private sector, non-profit, and academic worlds.
• For dozens of clients I handled server configuration, database architecture, back-end programming, front end development, custom CMS modules, multilingual sites, and more.
• My goal was always to find and build the creative, appropriate, on-budget solution for every client’s particular needs. Result: clients recommended me and returned for future projects.Services I offered included:
• Website architecture and standards-based development
• Expert Drupal and WordPress programming
• Database design and development

• I was brought in to take the LibQUAL+ project from a rough pilot to a worldwide effort to measure library service quality. The core of the project was an extensively researched web survey administered to library users.
• During my tenure, over 500,000 people completed the survey in six languages.
• I created administration and reporting tools that built a research project into a friendly but powerful turn-key solution for libraries.
• Technologies used include object-oriented ColdFusion, structures and procedures in MS SQL Server for statistical analysis, SPSS, Crystal Reports, CSS, XML, and web services.
• On several occasions I was a featured speaker at major library conferences.

US

My duties as Lead Developer encompassed meeting with clients to plan their online projects, creating technical specifications for their vision, planning and building the database systems they would use, managing a team of developers implementing my specifications, and programming key portions of the sites.I took $750,000-projects from initial idea, to.

Washington, DC, US

As part of a two-person team, I planned, created, and maintained the Georgetown University Law Center web site, with over 1000 static pages integrated with two dozen databases.

As Tinted Industries, I provided hardware and software support to individuals and businesses.

Charlottesville, VA, US

I acted as computer specialist and head of technical support for the Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library. My duties included maintaining all of the department's 45 networked computers and their diverse software packages; troubleshooting Macintosh, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Unix systems; planning and implementing hardware.

Charlottesville, VA, US

I served as computer specialist and assistant manager for the Digital Image Center, an independent electronic center at the University of Virginia dedicated to exploring new imaging technologies. My duties included design work for the Web; creating a database and search engine to serve images to the Web; maintaining a public computer lab; teaching patrons.

I worked as Forecaster for Global Duty Free Europe’s pilot program during the Implementation phase of Seagram’s Reengineering Project. I developed a technique of forecasting and data collection for 15 major customers utilizing spreadsheets and sophisticated reporting macros. My work involved close collaboration with Boston Consulting Group, Key Account.

M.A., English Literature

B.A. With Honors, English Literature