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A senior-level web developer/designer with over 15 years of experience in web development, interaction design and information architecture. I have a background in journalism and specialize in the production and design of rich internet applications, with a focus on news, finance, social media and e-commerce. Specialties: User-experience, web development, interaction design, information architecture.UX Developer @ Frontend development, user-experience and web-product development. From March 2014 to Present (1 year 8 months) Toronto, Canada AreaPrincipal @ Complete design and development of cloud-based POS/CRM software for Ontario wine-industry sales. Built using a responsive-design frontend, Angular MVC JavaScript framework and SASS CSS pre-processing. Backend technologies include a custom RESTful API layer on top of a PHP-based MVC (Symfony) and MySQL backend. This system has processed over $2+ million in sales since launch in 2012. Current active customers include three of Ontario's top wineries, one craft brewery and one large-scale wine agency. From August 2012 to Present (3 years 3 months) Toronto, onDeveloper, News Projects at GlobalNews.ca @ I use technology and design to help journalists tell their stories. This typically means working with data, drawing maps, creating interactives, and generally designing and building a lot of new products and features in a fairly short amount of time. Most recently, I have focused on the development of a new responsive-design user-experience on top of a highly-customized WordPress CMS. From February 2011 to February 2014 (3 years 1 month) toronto, canada areaEngineer @ Frontend engineer for social media pioneer Delicious (del.icio.us). Also worked on Yahoo! Search, MyWeb, Bookmarks and Autos. • Focused primarily on rich internet application development using the latest JS, CSS & HTML; • Extensive use of the YUI JavaScript library; • PHP development using the Symfony MVC framework • Pixel-perfect translation of Photoshop design comps into standards-based HTML & CSS; • Functional test creation of the user-interface using Selenium; • Internationalization across Yahoo! Search global properties. From July 2004 to December 2010 (6 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaUX Developer @ I worked as a contract developer between 2003 and 2004 on the Adobe and Eli Lilly accounts. • Dynamic, XML-driven, Flash application development; • Pixel-perfect translation of Photoshop design comps into standards-based HTML & CSS; • Integration of content and visual designs into the Interwoven CMS. From 2003 to 2004 (1 year) san francisco bay areaDirector of Technology @ • Managed all aspects of server- and client-side Web development on various projects; • System architecture and database design; • Information architecture and product design; • Pixel-perfect translation of Photoshop design comps into standards-based HTML & CSS; • Writing functional and technical specifications for approved projects. From 2001 to 2003 (2 years) san francisco bay areaUX Developer & Information Architect @ I worked as a senior-level developer and information architect for OVEN Digital, a small boutique web design agency in San Francisco and Toronto. • Web development using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, ASP, JSP, and JHTML; • Information Architecture and product design; • Pixel-perfect translation of Photoshop design comps into standards-based HTML & CSS. From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaDaily Reporter, Editor & UX Developer @ I worked as a reporter and editor: wrote daily technology news on CNET Canada and a weekly financial column on Quicken.ca. In 1999, I transitioned to the Engineering team to work on Quicken.ca doing user-experience development. • Daily technology beat-reporting for C|NET Canada • Weekly columnist for Quicken.ca • Web development on Quicken.ca using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP & Perl; From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) Toronto, Canada AreaDiploma, Journalism, print @ Sheridan College From 1996 to 1999 High School Diploma @ Smiths Falls DCI From 1992 to 1996 De Geer Gymnasiet From 1994 to 1995 Nathan Arnold is skilled in: Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Web Development, User Experience, User Interface Design, User Interface, HTML, CSS, PHP, Photoshop, User-centered Design, Web Design, Front-end, JavaScript