Resume

Jesse Cravens

Boerne, TX 78006 USA

Senior Front End Engineer specializing in semantic markup, cross-browser compliance, CSS, OO JavaScript, Ajax, DOM, JSON, JSP, and Drupal Development; 9 years in web design, and 8 years in web application development.
Educator and Computer Programming Curriculum (Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby) Developer with strong presentation skills
Experience with PHP and MySQL and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) driven content management systems
Experience building social networking applications: Google Gadget specification, Apache Shindig Container APIs, OpenSocial APIs
Experience working in J2EE environment, JSP, JSR 286 Portlet Spec., Liferay Java Portal
Completed several beginner to intermediate level Ruby on Rails applications
Advanced Proficiency with Yahoo User Interface Library
Intermediate Proficiency with ExtJS Library, Dojo, JQuery, MooTools
Experience designing and developing intuitive, fast-loading, cross-browser, and cross-platform web applications
Solid project management skills; proven ability to facilitate cross-functional teams, and lead, motivate on-site and geographically dispersed virtual teams
Hard worker, and team player who leads by example

Speaker: Object Oriented JavaScript, Responsible Enterprise JavaScript, CSS and Web Standards
Corporate Trainer: JavaScript
Proficient on both Macs and PCs
Experienced with web project management and SDLC

USAA

April 2008 – present

Organize enterprise JavaScript libraries and corresponding Standards and Guidance Documentation to reflect best practices.
Educate company's front end web developers through weekly presentations and one on one meetings. (Topics include: Basics of Object Oriented JavaScript, Singleton and Factory JavaScript Design Patterns, AJAX and YUI Connection Manager, YAHOO.util.Dom) Integrate YUI components into existing proprietary J2EE framework.
Rewrite various legacy JavaScript components to be reusable and extensible.
Develop and promote a Paired Programming model to bridge the gap between UI Design and J2EE development communities and to promote W3C web standards.
Build prototypes and content models for usability testing from UI requirements documentation and wire-frames. (consider use cases, scenarios, and flow)
Collaborate with teams of software developers, UX professionals, and business professionals to promote user-centered design, and best practices in usability.
Research and evaluate various client-side technologies for use in internal and external applications and present findings: Yahoo User Interface Library, ExtJS JavaScript Library, JQuery, XSLT, JSDoc, JSDocToolkit, JSLint, Apache WicketStuff (YUI Integration)

TekSysytems

August 2007 - April 2008

Collaborate with teams of software developers, user interface professionals, and business professionals to promote user-centered design, and best practices in usability.
Create new solutions and design patterns to overcome usability issues.
Design prototypes and content models for new features, and new applications.
Promote and follow web standards.
Rescript JavaScript libraries to reflect Enterprise best practices.
Evaluate various client-side technologies for use in internal and external applications.

Thompson Media Group

January 2005 - September 2006

Select and implement software, platforms, publishing tools, and programming languages for the development of Web architecture.
Manage all projects of geographically dispersed virtual team.
Plan, configure, deploy, and theme Drupal-powered websites
Perform cost-benefit analysis of proposed Web implementations, enhancements, and modifications.
Monitor and report on Web site traffic and performance.
Manage and/or provide guidance to junior members of the team.

January 2005 - June 2006

Work with high profile entertainment clients such as: Jackson Browne, CSNY, Angie Ruiz, and the Kentucky Derby
Plan, configure, deploy, and theme Drupal-powered websites
Plan, configure, deploy, and theme ASP.NET-powered websites
Create custom behaviors and features in Drupal
Support client websites
Translate web designs into clean, valid HTML/CSS
Implement complex UI objectives through the use of AJAX, PHP, JavaScript, and related technologies
Meet project objectives,budget requirements and schedules
Meet internal process standards
Manage multiple projects using Basecamp project management platform

Jesse Cravens

Boerne ISD

August 2003 - June 2007

identify employment opportunities in various business environments
differentiate the concepts of integrity and confidentiality as related to technology in the business environment
analyze programming languages and operating systems
solve problems using different types and levels of programming languages
solve problems using analytical techniques
apply procedures for maintaining the security of computerized information