Juan Carlos Arias Ambriz

Guadalajara, Mexico

Member since January 22, 2016

Juan has over ten years of freelance UX experience. His projects span a wide variety, but are all rooted in his commitment to always provide the best experience to the user. Juan has developed applications used by high-profile clients and so has learned to commit to perfection of detail in his work.

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Portfolio

Sellution
JavaScript, HTML, CSS
EC-Ideas
CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Flash
Metablocks
ActionScript, JavaScript, HTML, Node.js, CSS

Experience

JavaScript, 11 years
HTML, 11 years
CSS, 11 years
Flash, 7 years
User Experience (UX), 6 years
Responsive Web Design (RWD), 4 years
PHP, 3 years
Angular, 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Brackets, Visual Studio

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed is a framework for SPA where every page is generated from a simple JSON file, significantly simplifying the process of writing an app.

Employment

Front-end Architect
Sellution
2009 - PRESENT
- Created an SPA that acted as a CRM, ERP, and more.
- Developed a framework that can create a page by simply parsing a JSON file. This method helps users with little coding experience develop pages by describing their contents in forms, tables, etc.
- Created a platform for building eCommerce sites with a great deal of customizable content.
- Created a UI to connect to social media outlets such as YouTube and Twitter to help supervise the user's online presence.
Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Front-end Architect
EC-Ideas
2006 - 2017
- Created the logo of the company.
- Developed an app in which you can track vehicles using GPS technology.
- Developed a mobile app using JavaScript and PhoneGap to create schedules.
- Created an app to track the progress and status of game machines set at malls throughout the city.
- Migrated the GPS platform from Flash to JavaScript.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Flash
Web Developer (Freelancer)
Metablocks
2004 - 2017
- Worked on projects that supported US artist web engagement for clients such as Justin Bieber, Jennifer Lopez, and Miley Cyrus.
- Supported a project that created a mosaic from Twitter avatars from posts on a certain topic. The mosaics were often used as album covers. This project was first done in Flash and then migrated to JavaScript.
- Created Instagram-type effects that run in mobile phones at high speeds.
- Created several games which are clones of popular games, like Snake, Flappy Bird, and Candy Crush.
- Created an editor in Flash which can be used to make kinetic typography. The app allowed you to sync lyrics with music and then play it back. The project was used by clients like Paulina Rubio, Neon Trees, and P. Diddy.
Technologies: ActionScript, JavaScript, HTML, Node.js, CSS
Front-end Developer (Freelancer)
Electric Wonders
2004 - 2008
- Brought to life an online catalog by implementing promotional items that blinked.
- Created a flip page app to be used with the catalog.
- Created a custom product app in Flash that allowed you to upload a logo or add text and, see it flash, change colors, and blink at different speeds depending on what was available to the product.
- Built the site for the company from the designs that were provided.
- Created an executable version of the catalog in which you could also customize the product of your choice.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Flash

Experience

Open source library (Development)
https://github.com/striwensko/Striwensko.js
I'm the author of Striwensko.js, a set of classes that provide integral functionality in JavaScript without tying you to a framework. The library is composed of four main areas:
1. JSON Loading (JSON_Loader Class)
2. Animation (TimeLine Class),
3. Event_Dispatcher (Helps maintain modularity)
4. Mouse, Touch interaction (Drag_Touch class)
Example of photo editor (Development)
This is one customization of a photo editor I created which has been used by many clients. This version in particular was customized for Gwen Stefani.
Example of Mosaic (Development)
http://www.tweematic.com/babyface/
This project is a mosaic I created that feeds in avatar photos from Twitter hashtags. Used by artists like Jason Derulo and Jennifer Lopez.
Kiwi-Bop (Development)
https://kiwi-bop.com/
This site is currently in the process of being developed using Angular 4.
Sellution 360 (Development)
https://www.sellution360.com/
Probably the most ambitious project I've worked on is an entire CRM, eCommerce, ERP system which requires the creation of a new framework very similar in concept to what React and Angular would look like if merged together.

This project is a Single Page Application that has a router, an entire suite of components, and a system of loading modules separately to ensure enhanced loading speed.

It's core relies on my open source library and the entire system was developed to be configurable via JSON, which makes adding new pages to the system extremely easy.
Front-end Frameworks: Solutions or Bloated Problems? (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/javascript/are-big-front-end-frameworks-bad
Modern front-end frameworks constantly require you to download an entire development environment, complete with dependencies, and compile your code before even trying to view it on your browser. Is this something good? Is it the problem we are building more complex sites, or the frameworks are complex on their on own and they introduce an unnecessary level of complexity.

Skills

Languages
HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ActionScript 3, ActionScript, PHP
Tools
Flash, Shopify Plus
Other
PSD to Shopify, SVG, Text Animation, Animation, Shopify Customizations, User Experience (UX)
Frameworks
Angular
Libraries/APIs
Twitter API
Paradigms
Responsive Web Design (RWD)
Storage
MySQL

Education

Engineer's in Electronic and Communications Engineering
ITESM Campus Guadalajara - Guadalajara, Mexico
2000 - 2004