Front-End Developer

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February 16, 2015

Ryan Blakeley

Front-End Developer

and Web Designer

with a passion for the outdoors.

Jobs

Reflect Systems Dallas, TX

Writing JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5 for apps and touch screen components. Also designing UI and animation. Projects

include map kiosks in 3D and 2D, and theater showtime boards.Used Three.js for 3D map rendering and JavaScript, CSS,

HTML, and Node.js for menus, product search with a custom touch-screen keyboard, and a ripple button animation that

centers on the touch event.

The Richards Group Dallas, TX

Had a wide focus on front-end development in the largest privately held ad agency in America. Worked extensively with

JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery-UI, CSS3, HTML5, SVG, Git, Ruby on Rails, and WordPress. Lead front-end on new

chuckecheese.com features with touch device support: mega navigation and home page gallery. Lead front-end on new

sites: trainwithcae.com, free.txu.com, and aaa.com/more. Developed html emails and templates for Motel 6, Salvation

Army, and others.

Great Western Financial Services Plano, TX

Lead online strategic planning and learned front-end development. Optimize the company website for SEO, page load,

templating, and content management. I refactored all code for gwloans.com, which included JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5,

and PHP. Also worked on creating and growing the company's social media presence, traffic, and sales leads from the

website grew.

Freelance Dallas, TX

Began learning front-end development, UI, and animation design. Created a couple small professional websites and

worked part-time jobs.

Education

Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

B.A. Economics

Graduated a semester early with a 3.26 GPA and minors in Philosophy and Corporate Strategy. Completed elective

courses in creative advertising, web development, music, and entrepreneurship.

Favorites

SVG, NodeJS, Git, ThreeJS, Socket.io, React.js with Flux, Browserify, JSLint, and Heroku.