Check out my portfolio at: http://gbabbitt.info/ Seasoned web developer with 6+ years experience creating compelling, robustly engineered web experiences. I specialize in the front-end of consumer facing sites, but have broad knowledge across all aspects of building for the web, from design and product definition out to deployment and hosting. Specialties: Front-End Web Development, Standards-Based Web Design, Pragmatic & Results-Driven Project Planning, Open-Source Web Technology

Senior Software Engineer @ Helping our 2mil+ subscribers get discounts on great eBooks! http://www.bookbub.com From April 2013 to Present (2 years 9 months) Senior Front-End Developer @ * Made and implemented a series of architectural choices about the site's Rails codebase. The goal was to give flexibility in making changes, while ensuring that critical systems like email delivery and payment were well tested and reliable. * Used Bootstrap to establish a set of front-end conventions. This let us customize pages that were key to the business, but rely on effective out-of-the box behavior for secondary pages. * Managed the systems behind collecting and storing hundreds of artists, and more than 10,000 individual pieces of art. This involved using S3, custom image processing, and an internal admin UI. From June 2012 to March 2013 (10 months) Greater Boston AreaFront-End Web Developer @ * Implemented a redesign of amalur.com. This included building an interactive zooming map with custom jQuery plugins, configuring a drupal content store, and using a ruby-based static site generator to deploy packaged site builds. * Participated in development activity leading up to the launch of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Included integrating sites with Akamai’s CDN to ensure the site remained responsive and functional while receiving 800k monthly unique visitors. From October 2011 to May 2012 (8 months) Senior UI Developer @ * Implemented and launched a successful redesign of Gazelle's consumer electronics trade-in website. The project was built as a rails-based frontend that communicated with a REST API for product searching, trade-in price calculation, and checkout. * Built a themeable frontend for the site's functionality. This was used to work with a number of companies like Walmart, Amazon, and eBay to launch and grow branded trade-in sites. * Spearheaded the use of Ubuntu-based virtual machines for development. This ensured that sites were built against a standard environment and decreased the overhead of bringing new developers onto a project. From March 2009 to October 2011 (2 years 8 months) Front End Web Developer @ From May 2008 to March 2009 (11 months) Freelance Web Developer @ * Built tweenparent.com, integrated the site with a CMS, and configured a LAMP server for its deployment. * Developed a number of enhancements for Class Drive, a rails based online service that helps K-12 teachers plan curriculum and communicate with students. From 2007 to 2008 (1 year) Junior Software Engineer @ * Participated in full life-cycle web development of a ruby on rails online storefront and back-end system for subscription DVD clubs, including the William Shatner DVD Club. * Responsible for design and development of an administrative control panel for billing and shipping processes. From 2006 to 2007 (1 year)

Graham B. is skilled in: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, HAML, SASS, CoffeeScript, Akamai, Linux, Drupal, HTML 5