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Andrea Vitale
Verified Expert in Engineering
Web Developer
Palm City, FL, United States
Toptal member since February 16, 2018
Bio
Andrea started his career more than twenty years ago as a graphic designer based in Italy. During the last decade, he's become more involved in website development using WordPress and PHP, and he's incorporated his graphic design expertise with his programming skills. Currently, he has a great deal of experience with WordPress themes and plugin development. In 2014, Andrea moved to the US as a website and PHP developer for a major events company.
Portfolio
HDC
PHP, WordPress, Laravel, Vue 2, JavaScript, Web Host Manager (WHM), Front-end
Roar Creative, LLC
Gravity Forms, Laravel, Shopify, jQuery, Sass, CSS, HTML, JavaScript...
Pride Group, LLC
jQuery, Sass, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP
Experience
- WordPress - 10 years
- CSS - 10 years
- jQuery - 5 years
- Objective-C - 5 years
- PHP - 5 years
- WordPress Plugins - 5 years
- iOS - 5 years
- WordPress Themes - 5 years
Preferred Environment
Cloud9, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Atom, Xcode
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed was a website for Pinacoteca di Brera Museum. I'm very proud of this because it's considered one of the best Italian museum websites.
Work Experience
Senior Web Developer
2019 - PRESENT
HDC
- Developed several websites and web apps for different clients in the USA.
- Developed a web app for loan applications using Laravel and Vue.
- Developed AI-based software for image recognition.
Technologies: PHP, WordPress, Laravel, Vue 2, JavaScript, Web Host Manager (WHM), Front-end
Web Developer
2016 - PRESENT
Roar Creative, LLC
- Engineered several websites for different clients around the world.
- Created an iOS app using the WordPress API as a back end.
- Developed Rome's Barberini Museum's website: the museum is one of the most famous museums in Rome.
- Built a website to pre-sell parking tickets for the University of Phoenix's stadium.
- Created an iOS app to scan QR codes and validate tickets using the WordPress API.
- Developed the official website of Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan.
Technologies: Gravity Forms, Laravel, Shopify, jQuery, Sass, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP
Senior Designer | Web Developer
2014 - 2016
Pride Group, LLC
- Developed several website for different clients.
- Built an eCommerce for the company using Prestashop.
- Made a new company website and integrated the standard operating procedures with the site.
- Developed several eCommerce websites using WordPress and WooCommerce.
- Created the Pinacoteca di Brera Website.
- Designed several brochures for promoting the company's business.
- Crafted several CGI videos for promoting events and company-related business.
- Made several social campaigns for the company.
Technologies: jQuery, Sass, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP
Senior Graphic Designer | Web Developer
1999 - 2014
DigitalArt SNC
- Worked as senior designer for a major Italian editorial companies such as Class Editori, Domus, Giorgio Mondadori, and Condé Nast.
- Created hundreds of advertising campaigns and HTML newsletters.
- Designed a promotional video that was shown on national television.
- Developed iOS apps for the Milan Cathedral and the Gate of Paradise in Florence.
- Built and designed several websites and landing pages for company clients.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP
Junior Designer
1993 - 1999
Studio Tabloid SNC
- Worked as a junior designer for major Italian editorial companies such as Class Editori, Giorgio Mondadori, Touring Club Italiano, and Arnoldo Mondadori.
- Designed hundreds of advertising campaigns.
- Created designs for magazines and books.
Technologies: PostScript, Adobe, CSS, HTML
Experience
The Last Supper Website
https://cenacolovinciano.org/I developed the official website of Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan.
Brera Museum Website
http://pinacotecabrera.orgPinacoteca di Brera is the most prominent art museums in Milan and one of the major ones in Italy. Their website is considered one of the best sites for an Italian museum.
I developed the entire website using WordPress as a CMS. The site contains an archive of more than 600 pieces of artwork, and the user can filter the archive by period, style, author, material, and technique.
All the artwork comes with a high-resolution image on the site. On the artwork page, I integrated a JavaScript library (OpenSeadragon), allowing the user to magnify the image up by 300%. Inside this zoom viewer, I added a JavaScript function to recognize the human faces in the paintings and center the image properly. The website also comes with an events section and an online booking system.
The entire website is bilingual (Italian and English).
I developed the entire website using WordPress as a CMS. The site contains an archive of more than 600 pieces of artwork, and the user can filter the archive by period, style, author, material, and technique.
All the artwork comes with a high-resolution image on the site. On the artwork page, I integrated a JavaScript library (OpenSeadragon), allowing the user to magnify the image up by 300%. Inside this zoom viewer, I added a JavaScript function to recognize the human faces in the paintings and center the image properly. The website also comes with an events section and an online booking system.
The entire website is bilingual (Italian and English).
Gallerie Barberini Corsini
http://www.barberinicorsini.org/Gallerie Barberini Corsini is a major art museum in Rome and one of the major ones in Italy. I developed all of the website using WordPress as a CMS. The website comes with an archive of some of the best artwork, news, events, and newsletters.
Pride Group Website
https://pridegroup.us/Pride Group is one of the biggest event companies in Arizona. The company also provides other services like vehicle outfitting and creative designs.
I developed and designed the new company website. The website comes with a reserved area for the employees to submit internal requests such as maintenance, graphic requests, and post-event reports.
I developed and designed the new company website. The website comes with a reserved area for the employees to submit internal requests such as maintenance, graphic requests, and post-event reports.
Pride Outfitting
https://prideoutfitting.com/Pride Outfitting is a Pride Group company that specializes in vehicle outfitting for law enforcement, fire, and utility companies. I developed and designed all of the website and it has a reserved area with an archive containing all the vehicles outfitted by the company. The technician can add on to the front-end of the website new vehicle builds and edit the existing ones. The archive comes with search and filters by vehicle category, year, make, and model. I also built the 3D CGI video for the homepage.
Parking JuJu
https://parkingjuju.com/Parking JuJu is a website for pre-selling tickets for the University of Phoenix Stadium. The website was developed using WordPress and WooCommerce. I also made a plugin to add all the functions needed to use WooCommerce as an event-ticket selling solution. Every generated ticket comes with a unique QR code generated by the website.
I built a custom API which allows an iOS app to connect to the website's database. A user can check then if the ticket is valid and execute the check-in. I also developed the iOS app to read the QR code and, using the API, retrieve the ticket from the database to check if it is valid or already checked in.
I built a custom API which allows an iOS app to connect to the website's database. A user can check then if the ticket is valid and execute the check-in. I also developed the iOS app to read the QR code and, using the API, retrieve the ticket from the database to check if it is valid or already checked in.
Skills
Libraries/APIs
WordPress API, jQuery, Stripe, Vue 2
Tools
OpenSeadragon, Adobe, Adobe Experience Design (XD), KRPano, Xcode, Cinema 4D, PrestaShop, Atom
Languages
Sass, CSS, JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP, HTML, PostScript
Frameworks
Bootstrap, Laravel, CodeIgniter
Platforms
WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), iOS, Linux
Storage
MySQL
Other
Gravity Forms, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Rescue, WordPress Design, Software Development, Front-end Development, Front-end, Web Host Manager (WHM), Cloud9, iOS Mobile Device Management (MDM)
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