Front End Development Lead
Waltham, Ma, Us
Front-end technical lead for the eBusiness division of the Life Sciences Group. My roles involve the following:- Leading a team of other front end developers- Training our other teams on using our pattern library and developing with good coding practice- Working closely with our UX team to ensure that projects get delivered to spec- Working closely with the business to ensure that projects are delivered on time and meet our needs- Cross browser compliance (IE7+) and debugging- Integration with our various back-end systems such as Comergent/Sterling Commerce, OAM, Adobe CQ, Apache Solr, Endeca, and Microsoft FAST- Helping with production support for a large website with many complex moving parts- Leading front-end performance efforts by analyzing page speed, dependencies and references and optimizing scripts on the site and leveraging various forms of caching- Omniture and other tracking integrations from simple page views to lots of small interactions in single-page applications- Helping applications move to a services-based architecture rather than rely on server-side generated pagesI've been a major part in moving us over to newer technologies while keeping our older pieces of functionality in play - these include Bootstrap, AngularJS, jQuery, and helping drive us into the mobile/responsive territory.On top of this, I get to use and train others to use tools and technologies like Fiddler, Charles, Ant, Gulp, and a other tools of the trade.