Brent Danley's Resume

2021-01-01

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E-commerce templating using Liquid, CSS, and HTML.
Created Shopify templates for high-volume e-commerce sites.
Performed ADA accessibility compliance audits and performed necessary changes to improve those scores.
Implemented performance improvements including Sass modularization and transpilation, lazy loading, responsive multimedia assets, and a reduction of unnecessary DOM manipulations using CSS Grid and media queries.

Traveled to India to meet with executives of offshore outsourcing companies. Hired a developer to assist with projects.
Lead architecture and development of front-end sites using Drupal 7, Ember, React, and Jekyll.
Recommended tools and processes to increase collaboration across the team, such as Slack, Jira, GitHub, and agile.
Modular Sass, CSS-in-JS, CSS Grid, JavaScript ES6, HTML, GraphQL, React, NodeJS, Express, Apollo.
Built bespoke custom email generator utilizing the SendGrid API and Mustache templates.

Converted all legacy hand-coded CSS stylesheets to modular Sass/Compass workflow.
Configured and began to roll out Zurb Foundation 5, including Bundler for Ruby gem dependency management. Initiated the process of transforming the site from a static, desktop-only experience to a more responsive layout using Foundation’s grid system.
Attended jQuery Conference, Chicago.
Worked within the team during Agile training and implementation to successfully roll out a scrum development process.
Transitioned key areas of the site from traditional synchronous processing to a more modern, asynchronous process.
Subversion, jQuery, Foundation, Bundler, Compass, Sass, CSS, HTML, AJAX, CLI

Implemented a highly modular Sass architecture for improved performance and maintainability of CSS stylesheets.
Integrated CSS sprites and both custom and Font Awesome icon fonts which replaced jpegs and lead to decreased page load times and fewer image assets (HTTP requests) and reduced designer workload.
Developed all site pages in a mobile-first, responsive way using media queries, DOM manipulation with jQuery to provide the best possible experience to users of most devices, with fallbacks for less-able devices and connections.
PHP, MySQL, Mercurial, Compass, SourceTree, Sublime Text, jQuery (+ UI).

Member of a nine-person development team
ColdFusion, FarCry, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Mercurial, CVS, Jira, Sass
Developed and maintained complex international web applications with which clients could rent vehicles online

Managed all homepage content including scheduling, creative assets, etc.
Developed custom PHP Drupal modules to automate routine tasks
Built Drupal 7 site from the ground up, front- and back-end.
Maintained local, development and production site environment version control using git
Built site features using jQuery, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and Drupal modules such as Views
Responsible for YouTube channel, Twitter account, Facebook page and a dozen blogs
Created custom Facebook apps to display Outside TV video content.
Worked directly with industry content providers to acquire video assets for the site

Designed and developed data-driven, search engine optimized, usable web sites for clients using standard technologies including PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, CSS and web content management systems including WordPress and Drupal
Managed all domain registration and hosting
Set up Google Apps, including Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Contacts, etc.
Used popular application programming interfaced (API) including Google Maps, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr

Managed life-cycle of web-based executive dashboard/business intelligence project
Designed SQL Server 2005 database schema, wrote insert and update queries to populate tables with data from disparate and non-normalized data sources, and wrote queries to extract and aggregate relevant data for client-side manipulation and display
Extensively used PHP, CSS, MS SQL, and HTML to develop dynamic web-based interface for displaying high-level charts and data tables of critical business metrics
Developed dynamic charts using JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery’s flot and tablesorter library plugins, and JSON data transfers from server to client
Wrote PHP and JavaScript algorithms using object oriented programming methods wherever possible for reusability and maintainability
Created modular design with interactive, JavaScript and CSS-based site navigation
Worked closely with subject-matter experts and business leaders to understand the organization and project requirements
Documented database architecture, business processes and program logic

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics Minor

CS Courses: Data Structures and Algorithms (I and II), Discreet Structures, Operating Systems, Theoretical Foundations, Assembly Language, Unix, Digital Design, Programming Paradigms, Relational Database Systems, Programming Language Concepts, Software Engineering, Information Delivery on the Internet
Applications and languages: MS Visual Basic, C, Assembly, Modula-3, Perl, PHP, Oracle8i, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, shell scripts, JavaScript

Associate of Applied Science, Avionics Systems Technologies

Southern Maine Web Developer User Group
- Presented on Sass
- Presented on Charles Proxy
Drupal User Group
- Presenter at April 2012 meeting on Features module, gitolite, and IRC as a development resource
jQuery Conference, Chicago - 2014
Acquia Engage, Boston - 2016
DrupalCon, Baltimore - 2017
React Boston - 2018