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Senior front end developer with 12+ years of experience developing high traffic consumer facing websites and 8+ years of experience leading web development & design teams. Passionate about new technologies, standards-compliant coding practices, mobile-first responsive web design, accessibility, performance and user experience.
Skills
| HTML5 | Ajax | UX/UI | Dreamweaver |
| CSS3 | JSON | Responsive Design | Photoshop |
| JavaScript | XML/XSLT | SEO | Fireworks |
| jQuery | PHP/MySQL | Mobile | Illustrator |
Summary
- Experience in development lifecycle including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance
- Delivered 15 new site launches and 18 site redesigns
- Increased new membership registration by 17% and member retention by 19%
- Site launches and redesigns contributed to annual revenue growth from $120 to +$400 million
- Reduced average bug resolution time to two days by administering front end codebase reorganization
Experience
FriendFinder Networks, Sunnyvale CA, July 2003 – January 2012
NASDAQ publicly traded international operator of +40,000 niche personals network sites with +528 million registered members
Senior Front End Development Manager, June 2005 – January 2012
NASDAQ publicly traded international operator of +40,000 niche personals network sites with +528 million registered members
Senior Front End Development Manager, June 2005 – January 2012
- Managed and mentored 15 developers and designers maintaining 30+ international dating sites serving +500 million members
- Reviewed company objectives and goals in weekly status meetings with executive management team
- Wrote project specifications, set deadlines and administered all project meetings from conception to delivery
- Coordinated development goals across cross-functional departments in an agile development environment
- Advised on user experience and design decisions increasing customer satisfaction ratings by 22%
- Directed development of new internal tools reducing project task completion times by 13%
- Managed $15,000 budget for continued developer training and education resources
- Promoted to lead of 6 developers and designers
- Allocated development resources to ensure project completion and launch
- Hired and trained seven new developers and interdepartmental transfers
- Established new coding standards, documentation and training procedures
- Fostered positive team morale and a cooperative work environment
- Hand-coded HTML, CSS and JavaScript in a Perl-based front end template CMS
- Collaborated with programmers, project managers, designers and QA on projects in an agile development environment
- Resolved coding, graphics and translation bugs using JIRA bug tracking system
Interactive Developer, Pearson & Company, Campbell CA, May 2000 – August 2001
Full-service marketing agency that works with major companies like HP, Yahoo and numerous startups
Full-service marketing agency that works with major companies like HP, Yahoo and numerous startups
- Developed product marketing websites that adhered to corporate branding guidelines
- Hand-coded HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Perl and edited graphics using Photoshop/ImageReady
Web Programmer, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto CA, September 1999 – May 2000
Non-profit that conducts research and development for the electricity industry
Non-profit that conducts research and development for the electricity industry
- Maintained corporate site content using HTML and Perforce CMS
- Interacted with product managers to gather project requirements
Education
- B.S. Program Courses - Computer Information Systems (Web Development & Administration). DeVry University. Fremont, CA.
- B.S. Psychology. University of California, Davis. Davis, CA.
- Webmaster Certification. California College of Communications. Campbell, CA.
- Leadership Development Training. Knowledge Resources Group. Palo Alto, CA.
Contact
Email: quando09@yahoo.com
Mobile: (408) 316-3777
Mobile: (408) 316-3777