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Snowflake Treats produces the finest all-natural desserts. Famous for Pot de Crème, a French dessert custard, they are known for rich bold flavors and cutting-edge recipes. I joined the team to create the Snowflake Treats Brand. This work included scouting out their first retail location. I worked with Building Management, Architects, project leads and health and building departments to design an ADA storefront that met the needs of product safety, customer safety, brand awareness, and product exposure. Built custom Corian counters with electric actuators, designed custom refrigeration, and custom porcelain ramekins and custom pastry boxes and taster spoons and sourced manufacturing worldwide. Designed logos and branding artwork, labels, label production equipment, commercial kitchen production equipment, included CPU controlled heated blenders. Designed the website and extended platform functionality with React JS components to accommodate complex shipping rules. Designed custom cold packaging for nationwide shipping and take out boxes.Keywords: ReactJS/Redux, HTML5, CSS3, Webpack, Node, Adobe, Photoshop, Illustration, AutoCAD.

New York, Ny, Us

Worked closely with a team to consolidate divergent analytic channels to a singular API (Tealium) Work included tapping into Angular JS factories to apply listeners to the view layer. All work was done in ES6 / NodeJS and supported by babel /webpack and many helper libraries. Assisted in QA testing and responded to defects as they surfaced. Keywords: ES2015, HTML5, CSS3, Webpack

Updated a decade old dashboard to a fully responsive dashboard using ExtJS ver.6.5 and the MVVM (Model View / View Model) design pattern. A highly scalable pattern that tightly couples each view to a dedicated controller. Data services incorporated an SOA backend incorporating both restful and state persistent services which were called by the controller. This app included such features as auto-checking XHR responses and re-initiating request to ensure consistent data integrity throughout the many interconnected views of this single page application and defends against XSS attacks with dynamic key validations and packet inspection algorithms. Keywords: Sencha, ExtJS, Javascript, Coldfusion, HTML5, CSS3, Grunt

San Francisco, California, Us

I lead a team of developers that worked closely with business analyst and quality assurance teams to build a new intranet assets management portal. This project is intended to combine multiple legacy systems into one singular platform. Built primarily on Coldfusion 11 and Oracle 11g. The coldfusion code was organized with F/W1 (Framework One). I introduced javascript to the team and implemented a consistent Revealing Module Pattern to build singletons and constructors to enhance client side performance and improve UI/UX. My responsibilities included researching best practices and teaching the team best practices.Keywords:HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, JSON, Coldfusion 11, Coldfusion Builder, Subversion, Brackets, Oracle 11g, Toad, FrameWork One (F/W1)

At apartments.com my responsibilities covered front-end development. Among other things, I was responsible for the current responsive design photo/video/floorplan gallery. (http://goo.gl/hkCevM) This work required a good working command of HTML5/CSS3/OOJS. Additionally, I followed schema.org best practices and lazy loading for low latency for SEO. I worked with Visual Studio and TFS, brackets and Sublime to accomplish my tasks. Additional work included latency reduction, back end experiments with SOLR to improve performance, Bing map api integration including hand drawing regions on a map to select a subset of properties. I was part of a team to introduce Angular JS to the front-end developers. We followed a daily Scrum with two-week sprints. The backend was C# with a cloud-based database. Additional enhance search performance with the Solr search engine Keywords:HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, JSON, UX, Visual Studio, Team File Services, SOLR, Bing Map API, Brackets, Sublime, Responsive Web Design

Seattle, Wa, Us

At Amazon, I reported to two departments both under the Junglee division. (Amazon owns junglee.com) Store ratings and latency reduction. Both departments required that I learn Shell scripting for Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows 7 (Not power shell) and git farm. I was trained in Amazon Apollo and Amazon Brazil. ( The infinite scale engine and related compiler respectively.) My responsibilities under store ratings were to code html5/css3 rating widgets and JSONP/iFrame forms that rendered cross domain and HTML email templates. All code was tested cross platform/browser for UI/UX and performance. (IE6 & 7 are not supported by Amazon). My responsibilities for latency reduction (front end) included identifying slow running code, optimizing image render times, sprite optimization, image caching and separating required assets that loaded in view (above the fold) and assets that rendered below the view. I was also tasked with removing coffee script from the client side code and replacing it with javascript using the module revealing pattern.Skills required to perform my duties were: Shell Scripting, Java, JSP, Eclipse, Aptana, OO Javascript, jQuery, HTML4/5, CSS 2/3/ and SASS.Keywords:HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, JSON, Client-side Latency Reduction, UX, Eclipse, Responsive Web Design

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Developed back-end office tools using Coldfusion 9, MSSQL 2008, jQuery, Javascript (Module revealing Pattern) and created a client-side modular validation engine that was applied to all the user forms within the back office application.Keywords:HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, Coldfusion 9, JSON, MSSQL 2008,UX., Coldfusion Builder, Eclipse, Responsive Web Design

Evanston, Il, Us

Contract Programming Work: (6-month contract)Using Coldfusion 8, Model-Glue, Oracle 11g I developed an in-class evaluation system that integrated with the existing student evaluation engine. Additionally, I rebuilt the Google calendar API integration to accommodate individual student schedules.Keywords:HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, Coldfusion 11, XHR, JSON, Oracle11g,UX., Coldfusion Builder, Eclipse, Model-Glue, Responsive Web Design

Contract Programming Work: (6-month contract)Originally I was hired to rewrite the back-end code for their dedicated shopping cart. In short order, they realized I was very strong in Front-end development and design. I was moved to the Festheadsdivision where I excelled in OO Javascript, HTML5 / CSS3 / UI/UX, and CFC Service Layer development. I completed the Festheads directory and the gamification module (Fantasy Festival Builder) for all popular browsers. During that time I attended Google IO 2011 and the Gamification Summit 2011. Upon completion of these projects I voluntarily left to expand on my knowledge base while servicing individual clients. Additionally, I took some time off to care for aging family members.Keywords:HTML5, CSS3. OO Javascript, jQuery, Coldfusion, PhotoshopCS5, XHR, JSON, MSSQL, UI Design,UX.,Subversion, Git, Coldfusion Builder, Eclipse

I provided both server and client-side programming. My daily duties included server-side programmingwith CFMX 7 and Java 1.4 and MYSQL. Client-side work included, javaScript, jQuery and ExtJS. AtHendricks and Partners I was responsible for establishing a maintainable code base that supportedintranet applications for market reporting and sales support materials. This included the dynamicmanipulation and generation of PDF documents from data retrieved across multiple data sources anddata services. I used the iText library and the Coldfusion server for the PDF work. All my work was tested in IE 6,7,8, FF2.x, FF3.x, Chrome, and Safari. It was a challenge to incorporate XHR Restful standards with older platforms. This included writing custom functions to generate well-formed JSON packets.Keywords: iText, Java, HTML5, CSS3. OO Javascript, jQuery, Coldfusion, PhotoshopCS5, XHR, JSON MSSQL, UI Design, UX, ExtJS, Sencha

I worked on the Coldfusion team that supported Food & Wine Magazine.Most of the work involved supporting existing ColdFusion code and supporting a port over to Ruby on Rails. My programming partner and I also built an experiment EXTJS wine pairing tool that performed better than the Coldfusion wine paring tool. Supported all my work with OO javascript and client side libraries such as jQuery.

Built internal marketing and campaign and management tool for Bottom line Secrets newsletter and online services. Wrote and supported code in Coldfusion / MYSQL and ExtJS and jQuery.Optimized database queries and page load performance. Contract work: Boardroom Inc. (www.bottomlineSecrets.com)At Boardroom I developed both forward facing transactional sites and internal intranet applications aswell as back-end data transfer automation tools. This work included the use of Coldfusion 8+9, Java1.5 and SQL Anywhere 7+8. Client-side work incorporated jQuery, ExtJS 3.x and YUI charts. Myresponsibilities included the development of a rich client-side budget generation tool, A mass emailmanagement tool and automated credit checks based on locale and regional profiling.Keywords: HTML5, CSS3. OO Javascript, jQuery, Sencha, ExtJS, UI/UX Design, Coldfusion,

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Contract work: 6 Month Contract At the State Bar of AZ I migrated their existing back end web application to the Fusebox / MVC framework. This involved reading and improving on the existing Coldfusion code. Optimizing the SQL code for performance and dividing the code into reusable modules that prevent duplication of code and helped to facilitate a lower cost of ownership. Additionally, the internal web applications were moved to a Coldfusion 8 server and were supported with FLEX utility applications.Keywords: Coldfusion, FLEX, FLASH, MSSQL

Chicago, Il, Us

This was a 6-month contract to complete another project that was previously left unfinished and in a state of disrepair. The work was completed on time and included some out of scope features that enhanced the usability of the project. Contract work: I worked under the Center of Professional Responsibility (CPR) at the American Bar Association This work I provided was of a sensitive nature and I have been asked to remove the details of my work performed from this resume. While there I completed an internal application for updating and maintaining internal data that involved many unique and detailed business model rules.Keywords: Coldfusion, Oracle, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Photoshop CS2, XML

Chicago, Il, Us

At Incapital Holdings, LLC. I was responsible for building and maintaining the public-facing websitesand some of the internal Intranet trading platforms and financial portfolio valuation tools. Thesesites included www.incapital.com, www.incapnet.com (trading platform) www.interNotes.com,eu.internotes.com. Additionally, I designed and deployed the ladderBuilder™ Bond portfolio analysistool currently used on the InterNotes.com site. I was also part of a team of developers that createdthe Certamen tournament engine that is currently running all of the seasonal sports challengeson www.structuredinvestments.com. In March 2005 my responsibilities shifted from softwaredevelopment to network administration and security management. These responsibilities included server maintenance and live backups over a worldwide network that included multiple domains across 4 major sites, each connected via secure VPN tunnels with redundant out of network ISPs. Additionally, my responsibilities included network-based voice recording, Televantage TV6-7 IP-based

I taught Coldfusion and CSS at digital boot camp. Mike was a very effective manager for me. He has that perfect blend or focus and direction while standing back and giving me enough space to excel in my teaching.

Senior Allen Bradley SLC Programmer. Developed Robotic Teach Mode and designed related touch screen user interfaces.

Ladder Logix Development.PanelBuilder Development

Chicago, Il, Us

Software developer – My responsibilities included Coldfusion 4.5 / HTML / JavaScript. I worked as thebackend software integrator that connected web applications to the database and flat file storage. I later moved to the Kiosk design department and coded software UI interfaces programming using HTML and LINGO.Keywords: Coldfusion, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, Photoshop5, Macromedia Director LINGO , MicroSoft, SQL Server. MS Access

Knaresborough, Gb

Infrared Direct was a business that I started in 1990. Infrared Direct provided software based industrial control systems for factories running electric and gas oxidized infrared ovens. I developed and sold software and hardware based program logic controllers designed to maximize electrical efficiency and increase control of closed loop temperature guidance systems. Later we introduced software for managing gas catalytic systems that monitored an array of variables to eliminate the possibility of gas combustion. This software is still be used today by Vulcan catalytic and American Catalytic Systems. Infrared direct was purchased in 1999 by Ceramicx, LLC.During this time, I built some of the largest automated thermoforming machines in America.I developed one of the first self-learning machines in the industry. Resulting in highly reliable operating systems that are still running today. Keywords: Rockwell Software Ladder Logix, Allen Bradley PanelBuilder, Autodesk AutoCAD.

Hawthorne, Ny, Us

Thermoforming of polymer sheet up to ¼ “ thick and mold design for specialty toy products. My responsibilities included maintaining QA standards for thermoformed parts and mold making. Basic DC circuit design and development, incorporating SMT (surface mount technology) components. Optimized product production through machine automation using Allen Bradley SLC 150 controllers and homemade controller cards.