Skills & Experience

 

The following charts detail my years worth of experience working with the skillsets, programming languages and graphic design software that I use when engineering Web site interfaces…

Skills, Experience levels & Abilities

Skill Years of experience Abilities
HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript Engineering 18 years
  • complete desktop browser and platform layout compliance (Internet Explorer 8 - 11, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Windows XP - 8.1, Mac OSX)
  • expanding mobile touchscreen browser and testing devices (iOS 8 (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch), Android 4.1 - 4.4 (Samsung Galaxy S5, Nexus 6, Nexus 9)
  • can write backwards compatible JavaScript, CSS and HTML to make Web pages fully A.D.A. (American’s with Disabilities Act) compliant
  • can write jQuery syntax and implement DHTML DOM scripting visual effects
  • can work within Facebook’s Developer app. in order to write and style Facebook app. interfaces and Fan Page Tab content
  • can create interactive touchscreen visual effects using the new onTouchstart, onTouchmove and onTouchend touch event triggers to activate CSS3 animated @-keyframes sequences
  • can conceptualize and develop custom parallax scroll-animating engines to create bleeding-edge and very popular visual effects triggered when the user scrolls
  • familiar with MVC architectural patterns and can read/write AngularJS Web applications
Exploration, Documentation 9 years
  • can investigate and find solutions to page content, style and behavior challenges
  • able to write easy to understand best-practices/how-to documentation detailing the “what”, “why” and “how” of a front-end engineering technique
  • can create fully commented HTML templates (with attached CSS and JavaScripts) of common layouts for junior engineers to quickly swap content into
Former Professional Graphic Designer 19 years
  • has full understanding and a keen eye for what makes for good typography, colour and page composition

Front-end Languages

Languages Version compliance Years of experience Proficiency
HTML/XHTML 5/1.1 18 years 100% semantic, A.D.A. compliant mark-up; specializing in HTML5
CSS 3 14 years 100% knowledge, CSS3 @font-face, transitions, transforms and @-keyframe animation skills
JavaScript 1.8.5 18 years 100% DOM scripting abilities, Ajax content retrieval and page updating abilities, JSON, Object Oriented coding skills, mobile/ touchscreen event detection abilities
jQuery 1.11.2 or 2.1.3 6 years 100% knowledge
Sass + Compass 3.4.7 2 years 100% knowledge
LESS 2.1.1 2 years 100% knowledge
AngularJS 1.3.8 0.25 years 50% knowledge, recently learned
D3 3.5.2 2 years 100% knowledge
Zepto 1.1.6 3 years 100% knowledge

Engineering/Design Software

Software Version compliance Years of experience Proficiency
Sublime Text 2.0.2 2 years 100%
Grunt 0.4.5 1 year 100%
Adobe Photoshop CC2014 19 years 100%
Adobe Illustrator CC2014 19 years 100%