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Worked on next generation point-of-sale for restaurants using React/TypeScript, Hooks, WebSockets, MobX, Material-UI, YupSchema, Jest, with Agile team of twenty developers.

Served as the sole Senior Front-End Web Developer on the start-up team, collaborating with UI/UX Back-End Developers to deliver a high-quality product. Developed and established best practices for coding, including naming conventions to organize code, files, and folders, leading to increased productivity and efficiency. Coordinated and mentored a Junior Front-End Developer to create a new website within two months; actively reviewed code to offer construct feedback. Identified patterns across web pages; created standard templates for headers and bodies on multiple pages. Spearheaded and pioneered the mobile-first design process, working from simple to complex to reduce errors.

Efficiently updated password pages to require strong passwords, including special characters, as well as Edit Profile pages to include a new look and features. Utilized various tools and extensions to standardize code in an effort to lessen coding errors. Coordinated with various personnel, including UI/UX, Testing, and Back-End Developers.Key Contributions• Significantly decreased front-page load time by implementing code-splitting to load the home page first.• Designed and delivered high-quality presentations to share knowledge and best practices with other developers.

Developed reusable responsive accessible cross-browser components. Upgraded Media Center, Merchant Services, Careers pages, to new best practices. Tools: Adobe Enterprise Manager, IntelliJ, Git, BitBucket, InVision, Jira. Tech: HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, Flexbox, jQuery, HTL. Collaborated with UI/UX, Testers and Back-End developers.

Project: MyAccount for consumers. Worked with team of twenty top web-developers in an Agile environment. Completed user-stories, fixed bugs including browser-specific and mobile issues, and coded automated tests. Worked on audio/visual captcha, overhauled 50 alerts, optimized SVGs, standardized user-interface for all username/password forms, overhauled all forms to comply with accessibility standards, helped add Agent View, which involved updating Ruby Middleware. Worked on most sections including Overview, Billing, Devices, Users, Services, Settings, Parental Controls, Two Factor Authentication. Worked on React versions of Equipment Swap, Device Returns and Appointments.

Refactored JavaScript code base from 15,000 lines of bloated slow code to 5,000 lines of simple fast code. Converted CSS to SASS. Wrote specification and coded the next generation (2.0) of Interactive Practice Tests. Tutored and mentored co-workers in JavaScript to raise the bar in expertise. Troubleshot and repaired problems in JavaScript HTML jQuery CSS. Recommended and implemented ways to improve service. Coded JavaScript to generate reports to identify problem areas in code base.

Front-end web developer using CSS, JavaScript and jQuery to code prototypes. Led best-practices initiatives to improve testing, optimizing, automation and code reviews to produce scalable, maintainable, readable, modular, reusable code. Created tools to automate tasks reducing days or weeks of work to seconds.

Reference: Mitchell Malpartida (boss) mmalpartida@thetrafficagency.comUpdated mitsubishicars.com from 2009 to 2010 models. Helped upgrade site to CSS Framework Blueprint. Coded using JavaScript Framework jQuery AJAX to retrieve JSON object from SQL via Java app. Worked with XML, Flash, XHTML, fixing problems with CSS and JavaScript. Worked with JSP in Apple Mac developer environment using Apache server on UNIX based OS X. Coded using Dreamweaver and Eclipse with SVN.

Upgraded all of Pirates of Caribbean from HTML to XHTML. Repaired ill-formed HTML and validated pages at W3C. Imported external blog into Pirates of the Caribbean AJAX Framework which required extensive modification to their Javascript framework. Implemented server-side pages in Tea and Java for World of Cars. Implemented complex CSS DIV layouts for Pixie Hollow. Coded complex Javascript to interact with Flash on Pixie Hollow and Pirates of the Caribbean. Created dynamic HTML Email Template generator using Tea and Java. Created dozens of HTML Emails for Pirates of the Caribbean and World of Cars. Worked closely with producers and graphic artist on how to optimize pages for performance.

Reference: Zack Halbrecht (boss) zhalbrecht@gmail.comImplemented ASP.NET/C# course-lookup pages which were localized for fourteen different countries.

Implemented SQL Insertion Attack prevention for fifty of the most used page. Implemented http and https enforcement so pages could enforce their own protocol regardless of what was used to call them. Implemented alert email when shopping cart crashed so sales could follow up with customer to get sale. Reduces daily bugs on site from hundreds per day to about three per day including crashes in shopping cart. Implemented ASP.NET like Master Pages for ASP pages. Overhauled shopping cart consolidating duplicate code, streamlining and improving shopping cart. Implemented AJAX web-service to dynamically populate shipping menu with services (UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc) and prices based on weight and shipping address. Consolidated hundreds of directories with identical code into one directory using IIS virtual directories. Repaired SQL table from SQL Insertion Attack and protected page from future attacks.; Reference: Ben Travis (boss and Chief Engineer) ben.travis@nidiant.comHired and led a team of six developers to create TrueHomeDesignBuild.com. ASP.NET using C# server-side and JavaScript client-side. Design SQL database. Used AJAX to improve performance. Designed and helped create extensive back-end for Administrators.

Developed ASP pages using VBScript server-side and JavaScript client-side with SQL database. Created graphics. Extensive back-end created for Administrators. Implemented Global SQL Insertion Attack protection after repairing entire database from attack.

Reference: Eli Stern (boss and CEO of Radio Channel Networks) eli@radioads.comSole developer and part owner of radioads.com. Coded ASP pages in VBScript which used ADO to access SQL. Coded Cross-Browser JavaScript for client-side. Helped design site and create graphics. Site can be viewed as WML on wireless WAP handheld devices. Extensive back-end created for Administrators and Advertisers. Used GeoIP database to locate users based on IP address and set nearest major radio market based on number of listeners.

Developed Software for testing software. Coded ASP pages to test Client and Server Side ActiveX controls.

Coded in C. Ported several tools from DOS to Windows 3.1 by converting DOS C code to DLLs and creating Visual Basic front ends. Coded using MFC that used VBXs. Worked on Project code named P2 which was to be the next generation of Windows-based Prodigy. Developed prototype for Prodigy Interactive TV which used Visual Basic to display video simulating Interactive TV.

Coded in C. Helped create Virtual Reality Multimedia Educational software which allowed children to walk through a forest or a swim in the ocean examining objects using a transparent interface which included Full-Screen Full-Motion Digital-video, digital-sound and graphics.

Coded in C. Created educational multimedia interactive software using bleeding edge technology of the time. Video on PC was only possible with special hardware. Developed applications that were far advanced the capabilities of average PCs for that time.