Senior Angular Engineer
2018 - PRESENTBovitz- Developed two large-scale customer-facing Angular applications.
- Implemented a Firebase back end from scratch, utilizing user authentication, Firestore database, and cloud functions.
- Readied the code for initial launch deployments, and continued adding new and enhanced features for further deployments.
- Added customized Keen tracking, triggering special conversion events via an Angular service.
- Debugged and fixed any bugs that arose during development and supported the application beyond launch.
Technologies: Lodash, Angular Material, HTML, TypeScript, SCSS, Firebase, AngularWeb Master
2016 - 2019Mile High Paragliding, Ltd.- Led front-end development on a brand new customer-facing website.
- Took desktop designs and implemented mobile and tablet responsive layouts without further design input.
- Designed and built animations and interactions for the UI.
- Completed a basket UI, implemented using AngularJS with checkout via PayPal express checkout.
- Developed an Umbraco-driven CMS website using Razor templates.
- Wrote highly scaleable code for this fast growing company to take forward with them.
Technologies: jQuery, Sass, CSS3, HTML5, Umbraco, AngularJSSenior Angular Engineer
2017 - 2018My Shipping Post- Built a B2B, customer-facing shipping application with the latest Angular 4 tech.
- Took an existing codebase, updated the technology, and refactored most of the code to bring it in line with Angular best practices and DRY strategies. Also created new sections of the application and restructured the existing section.
- Built an intricate UI driven by user interactions.
- Developed a complex SPA interaction model using layered UI: pages, modals, tabs, and alerts, with data manipulation and view nesting at each level.
- Worked closely with the back-end API to integrate billing and store/read DB objects to create and update the UI.
- Created complex navigation using user types and permission levels.
- Developed data-driven UI using status and various flags to position content in the correct views and to enable user interaction.
- Created a complex data-table component to make interaction with the data easy and precise throughout the UI.
Technologies: JSON, JavaScript, SCSS, HTML, AngularSenior Front-end Developer
2017 - 2018Juno Digital- Built a full-scale consumer-facing ng4 web application.
- Integrated payments, registration, login, and accounts with the back end.
- Integrated tracking with Google Tag Manager (GTM).
- Built complex SCSS animations for clear and engaging user interaction.
- Supported the application through UAT to production.
- Created coupon management for user-specific price offers throughout the application.
- Worked closely with the back-end team to ensure DRY development strategy.
Technologies: JavaScript, SCSS, HTML, AngularLead Front-end Developer
2017 - 2017eDea- Created the MVP web app for the client using AngularJS.
- Supported the web app through testing and UAT to production.
- Integrated the front end with a back-end API. The website consisted of external landing pages plus login/account area with data input forms and analytics charts.
- Worked on a low budget to a high standard, taking care to plan and prioritize features accordingly.
- Provided QA and general debugging of the front and back ends.
Technologies: Jira, Swagger, JavaScript, SCSS, HTML, AngularJSLead Front-end Developer
2016 - 2016Enveil- Led front-end development for an application, created in Swagger, that communicated with a REST API.
- Conducted testing. Communicated frequently with those on the client side implementing the back-end.
- Designed solutions for clean, well-made code. Implemented a brand new front-end.
- Implemented real-time notification retrieval via the API and rendered out to the UI.
- Redesigned some of the UI and implemented visual sanitation.
- Created a clean codebase from scratch using AngularJS to build out isolated factories and services that communicated with the REST API independently from controllers, keeping any data manipulation from retrieval or update.
- Implemented user login via the API including error handling.
- Constructed dynamic menus by retrieving all the items available for the current user and keeping this list updated if items were added/removed in another session.
- Executed routing using Angular's Ng-route, performing user validation checks before loading in the appropriate content and retrieving any required data to passed along to the view controller.
Technologies: HTML5, SCSS, CSS, AngularJSLead Front-end Developer
2016 - 2016One-stop Doctors- Developed a large-scale CMS-driven web application.
- Tested and deployed several releases in iterative cycles.
- Created re-usable Sass mix-ins and a defaults library for use by other developers in the company.
- Implemented a complex series of CMS-driven menus, which adapts a user's journey through the site.
- Ensured that everything was cross-browser tested and backwards compatible to IE8.
- Created very adaptive styling, forgiving of any content entry mistakes. This meant making each area as a component that could be added or removed without affecting the areas either side of it.
Technologies: Umbraco, Razor, Model View Controller (MVC), jQuery, CSS3, Sass, HTML5, AngularLead Front-end Developer
2016 - 2016MSD- Integrated the front end of the registration, account management, and login pages, using Angular controllers to pass information between the server and the view.
- Wrote test-driven Angular controllers through Jasmine. Worked with an in-house back-end API.
- Created over 20 custom property editors for Umbraco using Angular.
- Handled interaction design, animating the user interface to make it responsive and helpful. I created directives and jQuery plugins to handle most of the triggers while keeping the animation itself mainly in CSS.
- Oversaw solution design and was integral in problem-solving throughout the project.
- Used Velocity where complicated animations were required.
- Created a reusable Gulp file to ready the solution for live deployment. This file has been adopted across the company for other projects as well.
- Provided post-launch support and hyper-care, fixing any bugs immediately and making weekly redeployments of non-critical changes. This included daily conferences with the client.
- Took an Agile development approach with daily Scrum sprints and iterative release cycles.
- Worked closely with an in-house designer, making the site look identical to his designs and come back with suggested workarounds when something was not possible.
Technologies: Jasmine, Umbraco, Sass, HTML5, jQuery, AngularJS, RazorLead Front-end Developer
2015 - 2016The Gym Group- Created a highly interactive join journey, feeding the user through different choices based on selections already made and passing the data through to a .NET controller to be stored in the database.
- Developed a dynamic menu system that varied the choices available based on location and login status, aimed at simplifying a very complex site map.
- Carried out solution design and proof-of-concept studies prior to project commencement.
- Developed my own JavaScript library, called AbleJS, available now on GitHub.
- Designed and implemented the interactivity of the UI.
- Implemented a mobile-first development flow within the team and laid down the guidelines for this across the team.
Technologies: Jasmine, Umbraco, Razor, Sass, HTML5, jQuery, AngularJSHead of Front-end Development
2012 - 2015Creator- Built over ten large-scale fully mobile-responsive websites, both customer-facing and internal company portals for digital agency Creator.
- Managed a team of ten developers and trained clients on software I developed. Wrote and presented JavaScript and Umbraco training workshops for my team.
- Developed an AngularJS library of reusable directives and services to be used across the company for web projects.
- Developed three analytics portals, which consumed an external data source and displayed various charts, graphs and diagrams to illustrate trends.
- Developed two transactional websites as well as redeveloped the company's own website.
- Developed and implemented my own responsive framework to build HTML emails.
- Designed solutions for front-end development. This included meeting with heads of departments throughout the company to identify and eliminate potential issues as well as decide the best approach to a project to achieve the desired result.
- Worked in Agile development cycles. Hand-coded thousands of mobile-responsive HTML emails, tested across all common platforms.
- Carried out an Umbraco migration on their site from v6.0 to v7.2.
- Developed a white-labeled Sass grid using Susy, which is used on all of their client website builds.
Technologies: Jira, HTML Email, Razor, Umbraco, Sass, CSS, HTML, AngularJS, jQuery