Juan Garcia

Frontend Developer

Summary:

A resourceful Frontend Developer with extensive experience in web technologies, programming languages, frameworks, and CMS systems. Renowned for problem-solving and debugging expertise, mentoring junior developers, and collaborating closely with creative teams to deliver projects exceeding client expectations. Passionate about creating seamless user experiences and tackling challenges with innovative solutions.

Qualifications:

Proficient in project lifecycles, including requirements gathering, business rules, legal submissions, client approval, and quality assurance, ensuring bug-free syntactic code.

Expertise in frontend development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with creating custom JavaScript libraries.

Skilled in writing responsive, cross-browser-compatible code with a focus on accessibility and SEO.

Experience in developing desktop applications using NW.js and Electron and mobile app development for both IOS and Android devices with Cordova.

Skilled in using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to edit and enhance creative assets, including SVG graphics, for web applications.

Leadership experience mentoring junior developers to enhance team efficiency and skill sets.

Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to work in a team environment along with working with UX and creative designers early in the design process to develop an exceptional user experience
Experience with CMS systems like Wordpress, Drupal, and AEM
Worked extensively on Veeva projects for a number of years and was Veeva Certified in the past
Graphic Design and Photo Manipulation experience using the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, and Affinity Designer
An absolute willingness to explore, learn, and immerse myself into any new challenge. For me, the best way to learn something new is the pressure of client needs to complete a given project

Experience:

Freelance Web Developer

October 2024 -Present

Wordpress Theming, custom PHP
Banner ad creation with Google DoubleClick
Interactive header animations using GSAP and jQuery
Trade show kiosk using Angular and Electron

UI/UX Designer, WisEngineering, Picatinny Arsenal NJ

February 2024 - September 2024

DoD contractor designing user workflow and experiences with Icons8 Lunacy using Material design patterns and aesthetics to be built with Next.js

Lead Digital Developer, Ogilvy Health, Parsippany NJ

December 2009 - October 2023

While at OgilvyHealth, I led a team of developers that oversaw every HTML/CSS Javascript that came to dev. Code reviews helped my team grow their own skills. These reviews helped the speed and quality of their work
A HTML/CSS/Javascript mentor to the entire dev department. Imparting my knowledge of all things web to my team of junior developers as well as other dev members
Over the course of 5 years, worked on a number of Veeva projects producing interactive and engaging content, animations, and calculators
Created a javascript library that we use in our projects that require device gestures other than simple taps. It was created to help with the disparity between IOS, Android, and desktop browsers and across multiple input hardware touch screens. The disparity between touch capable devices and screens that emulate mouse events created a need to be able to utilize one library that addressed all sorts of input types.
Created a standard template for trade show applications using NW.js. A starter kit of javascript and HTML/CSS files that is used as the basis for a number of our touchscreen projects. This kit made legal submission, editing, debugging, and user interaction easier and standard. This library led to faster deployment, easier updates, predictable and reliable event tracking and smaller QA sessions.
Helped create the current OgilvyHealth website using a headless Wordpress installation working within a Laravel project. This allowed us to quickly deploy/build new features into the site without affecting the Wordpress blog.
Tasked with creating a map utility app built with Cordova for IOS and Android. A PHP/MySQL backend was utilized to help users find not only common areas like bathrooms and conference rooms, stairways and exits - but also to each others’ desks. Our operations crew was given access to place employees on the map.

Awards:

Full Tuition Scholarship, The Art Institute of Houston

Education:

A.S., The Art Institute of Houston

Mt Tabor, NJ

862.812.4094

juan-garcia.dev

Hello@juan-garcia.dev

Skillset:

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

PHP

Python

Node

Laravel

Bootstrap

NW.js

PIXI.js

GSAP

jQuery

React

Wordpress

Drupal

RESTful API

Crownpeak

Veeva

Skura

Cordova

UX/UI Design

ProofHQ

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe XD

Figma

Sketch

Icons8 Lunacy

GIT