April Leone

Seattle, WA, United States

Member since August 21, 2015

April is a senior front-end web developer with over 15 years of experience at companies like Starbucks, Rosetta Stone, and Livemocha. She specializes in building front-ends for JavaScript web applications and has a deep expertise in the nuances of cross-platform development.

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Portfolio

Rosetta Stone
JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, Bower, Grunt, Git
Livemocha
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SproutCore, WordPress
Starbucks
Visual Studio, HTML, Sitecore

Experience

HTML, 16 years
CSS, 11 years
JavaScript, 10 years
WordPress, 10 years
Agile Software Development, 10 years
User Experience (UX), 10 years
Sass, 5 years
AngularJS, 4 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Sublime Text 2, Git

The most amazing...

...thing I've built is a themed web app that could display the user's language left to right or visa versa; this enabled one site to launch worldwide.

Employment

Senior Front-End Engineer
Rosetta Stone
2013 - PRESENT
- Built a language-learning app for Arabic learners in AngularJS.
- Constructed a reporting tool so administrators could see their students' progress in real-time.
- Developed custom AngularJS services and corresponding tests.
- Created custom exact-target email templates and data extensions, and a tool to allow administrators to email users at the click of a button.
Technologies: JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, Bower, Grunt, Git
Senior Front-End Engineer
Livemocha
2011 - 2013
- Helped build the website Livemocha's language-learning platform from scratch using SproutCoreJS (EmberJS 1.0) and a designer mockup.
- Built a custom content-editing tool so that a content creator can create their own language lessons for use in the Livemocha application.
- Created custom CSS animations for a language learning app.
- Integrated an application with a NoSQL database using JSON endpoints and also added a custom font icons for use throughout the application.
- Supported the marketing team with WordPress website issues.
Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SproutCore, WordPress
Senior Front-End Developer
Starbucks
2011 - 2011
- Built custom pages for the Starbucks' website and pages for iOS devices for their store music downloads.
- Integrated Starbucks' pages with a Sitecore content service.
- Constructed the April 2011 day of service portion of the website. This allowed volunteers to sign up to help with various community-service projects worldwide.
- Made periodic updates to the corporate website using an Agile Scrum team.
Technologies: Visual Studio, HTML, Sitecore

Experience

Livemocha.com (Development)
http://learn.livemocha.com
This is a custom language-learning site. It was originally built in SproutCore in 2012, but rebuilt in AngularJS in 2015.

The site uses Grunt/Node for the server, Bower for package management, and custom font icons.

Livemocha has a history of a 11 million users worldwide.

Skills

Languages
Sass, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Tools
Git, Bower, Grunt, Karma
Paradigms
Agile Software Development
Platforms
Mac, WordPress Theme Design, WordPress
Storage
NoSQL, MySQL
Other
PSD to HTML, PSD Slicing, User Experience (UX), Localization
Frameworks
AngularJS, SproutCore, Jasmine
Libraries/APIs
Lodash, jQuery, Underscore.js

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