Experience:

2004 - Present

Front-End Engineer Movéo, Oakbrook Terrace, IL

• Constantly optimizing, updating, standardizing and re-factoring new and existing sites we develop to give them strength/resilience, appearance/from, and functionality/interactivity.
• Using different techniques to optimize page-load for a greater user experience.
• Creating sophisticated interfaces for in-browser applications using Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP, REST and more.
• Contributing to the continual improvement of our design and development process.
• Working closely with the SEO/SEM team to implement tracking for comprehensive analytical data and search results.
• Major amounts of hands-on experience during this time in the following:
  1. Writing object-orientated, unobtrusive and event-driven Javascript using the Prototype and Scriptaculous frameworks.
  2. Writing object-orientated PHP.
  3. Using extensive amounts AJAX and JSON to request external data to parse and use on the client-side.
  4. Writing clean semantic HTML and CSS.

2001 - 2004

Freelance: Web Developer / Designer Studio J Design, Chicago, IL

• Headed all design projects from concept to print/web.
• Configured a Colorsync ICC workflow using my extensive color correcting knowledge.
• Designed, developed and maintained company web site.
• Designed clients web sites.

1998 - 2001

Moonlighting

• During this time period I started my web design / developer career, taking on freelance projects to learn as much as I possibly could about HTML, CSS and Javascript.