Eduardo Fuhrken

Front End Engineer

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Summary

9 years experience in desktop and mobile web application design, development, and optimization. Avid advocate of open web standards, progressive enhancement, and performance best practices. Particularly interested in JavaScript, and cutting edge web technologies. Dedicated to staying up to date with the latest technologies, and always using the best tool for the job.

Experience

October 2011 - September 2012

Front End Engineer - Storenvy.com

• Worked closely with UX team to implement a sitewide redesign.
• Revamped Storenvy's Theme Editor application to feature full client-side rendering and instant live previewing.
• Developed an embeddable store widget for use on third party sites
• Single-handedly maintained all pre-existing front end properties while simultaneously developing new features

April 2010 - November 2011

Lead Front End Developer - Digital Operative

• Developed the front end for two social networks, working closely with the senior back-end developer (sponduu.com, livebydesign.com)
• Managed a team of 4 developers
• Created and maintained a code style guidelines document
• Integrated Wordpress and Magento to create highly customized e-commerce sites (stussy.com)
• Developed an interactive brochure site (northcity.co)
• Collaborated with UI designers to achieve optimal user experience
• Quickly developed prototype applications
• Often filled in the gap between design and development
• Added various features to the company’s proprietary CMS, and refactored for stricter adherence to MVC

October 2009 - April 2010

Web Developer - Drink Your Drink

• Built a happy hour finder for the San Diego Area
• Implemented a membership system to allow updating daily specials by bar managers
• Developed a realtime drink special/bar rating system

2007 - 2009

PHP Developer - Freelance

• Developed several e-commerce sites for clients, using a custom built PHP framework, Authorize.net integrations, and PayPal checkout
• Applied performance best-practices to various client sites, and greatly increased page responsiveness
• Converted designs from PSD to high fidelity HTML pages

Education

BSc Web Design And Interactive media, Art institute of California - San Diego

Skills

JavaScript

jQuery (plugin dev, jQuery UI), Prototype, Node.js, Backbone, JavaScriptMVC, CoffeeScript, HTML5 APIs, QUnit, contributed to the JavaScript port of the Liquid Templating Language

CSS

CSS3, OOCSS, SASS, Less, Stylus, cross-browser compatibility, responsive layouts, graceful degradation

Server Side

Ruby on Rails, PHP, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Wordpress + plugin development, Python

Version Control

git, Subversion

Other

Apache, *NIX, MySQL, bash, zsh (the best), Photoshop, Titanium

Personal Profile

JavaScript enthusiast, late night hacker, write tests for everything, steadfast problem solver, known to lose sleep over performance issues. Strong opinions, loosely held.