Front End Developer

Gerard Willingham

Riverdale, GA ***** • 678-***-**** • *********@*****.***

Professional Summary

Vanilla JavaScript focused Front End Developer that has professional experience in a few different JS frameworks. Seeking to use proven front end JavaScript experience with a growing professional back end knowledge to create scalable programming solutions.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Computer Science B.S.

Skills

Programming

Languages: JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, XML, Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, SASS, React, TypeScript, WordPress

Applications: Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, and Git

Design/Prototyping

Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Basalmiq, Protoshare

Experience

Web Developer January 2024 - February 2024

Purdue University

Made updates to some of their websites using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Acted as a consultant for their Cascade CMS instance

Used Velocity to write scripts that added functionality to static HTML

Wrote scripts utilizing the Cascade API in PHP

Programmed design updates to their WordPress website

Front End Developer July 2022 - March 2023

Plansource

Developed views, controllers, and models in Ruby on Rails for the main application.

Created views and wrote some of the logic for a new mobile app in React that used TypeScript

Connected data from the Rails application to the new React mobile app by creating new api endpoints

Worked on bug tickets, T3 support tickets, and development tickets during normal sprints

Wrote unit tests

Used Git to manage the various applications

Setting up local environments with containers in Docker, Homebrew, Node, and Rails in Mac OS

Used Postman to test the REST API endpoints that I wrote

Lead Instructor June 2022 - Now

ThriveDX

Lead lectures and answered questions about front end development

Taught basic programming concepts as well as introduced more advanced ideas

Qualified to be a lead instructor for CSS, HTML, JavaScript, UX & UI, and a general

Front End Development course

Cascade Developer September 2021 - March 2022

Purdue University

Made updates to some of their websites using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Acted as a consultant for their Cascade CMS instance

Used Velocity to write scripts that added functionality to static HTML

Wrote scripts utilizing the Cascade API in PHP

Front End Developer July 2021 - October 2021

Toolbox No.9

Made updates to client websites using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Sites were hosted in WordPress, had to make updates and learn how to script in WordPress

Handled tickets in JIRA related to front end issues on the client websites

Created new websites from designs and learned how to host them on WordPress

Used Git to update projects

Web Developer May 2019 - July 2021

Decatur Pediatric Group

Made updates to their website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Redesigned their website using Basalmiq to create wireframes

Continued to perform maintenance to their website using standard web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript)

Web Services Developer June 2017 – March 2019

Hannon Hill

Implemented websites into a CMS made by the company using static files

Wrote PHP scripts to automate content migrations to our CMS by accessing our REST API

Used Velocity to write scripts that added functionality to static HTML

Wrote scripts to display alerts on college campuses from RSS, JSON, or CAP feeds

Developed and updated websites for various clients using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Learned various JavaScript frameworks to work with client technology like AngularJS

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