Jeremy Spitzberg
Technical and business-savvy front-end web developer with over fifteen-years experience.
Works well with developers, designers, user experience professionals, product and program managers to conceive and construct great things.
Please feel free to contact me via any of the following:
jeremyspitzberg.com/resume/jspitzberg@yahoo.com
858.945.6835
Skills
- HTML (HTML5)
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS3)
- Sass
- Compass
- LESS
- Bootstrap
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- Angular 2
- Velocity Template Language
- Rapid Prototyping
- Git
- Github
- SVN
- Perforce
- Content Management Systems
- Search Engine Optimization
- Responsive Web Design
- Agile Development Methodology
Experience
Daybreak Games Company
Senior Web Developer April 2017 - Present
Web developer for Daybreak's Platform team, supporting the marketing of, and community around, the company's family of games.
- Working with the company's in-house content management system, built marketing sites for esport tournaments, including:
- Launched Just Survive, which was formerly a sub-site alongside H1Z1.
- Various web updates to support marketing initiatives and product launches.
GoPro
Senior Front-End Web Engineer July 2015 - March 2017
Front-end developer dedicated to building the user-interface layout and UI components for GoPro's Quik for Desktop application.
- Built HTML/CSS (Sass) screens for the application's UI. Major components including:
- Complex layouts with fixed, responsive, and layered elements, for media management, playback, and editing
- Modals
- Drop-down and contextual (right-click) menus
- Custom form elements: inputs, ranges, sliders, progress indicators
- Drag and drop elements
- Animations and transitions
- Architected, wrote, and compiled, the application's HTML and SCSS code.
- Prototyped new UI interactions and features with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, for the benefit of product owners, UX designers, and other developers.
- Focus on code and element reusability, and UI performance - perceived speed, and user feedback.
Brightscope
Senior Front-End Web Developer July 2013 - July 2015
- Redesigned enterprise reporting dashboards to be responsive to screen size and device capabilities.
- Converted CSS code base of an enterprise-scale application using Sass/Compass.
XIFIN, Inc.
Staff Engineer, UI/UX Lead April 2013 - July 2013
- Performed usability reviews of current and in-the-pipeline products.
- Built functional prototypes, including one for a document management application.
The Active Network
Associate Manager, Software Engineering January 2012 - April 2013
Front-end architect tasked with creating standards, patterns, best practices, and reusable components for the company's many consumer web properties.
Accomplishments include:
Style Guide
Developed a comprehensive style guide and pattern/component library for the Active Network's consumer web properties in conjunction with the company's brand relaunch. Sites that are using the guide include:
Responsive Web Development
- Created a responsive, mobile-friendly look and feel for WannaDo.com.
- Through discussions and presentations, worked to convince upper management of the need for Active.com to be a responsive site in its next iteration.
- Consulted on the development of redesigned Active Advantage with pages that are responsive to the user's browser/device dimensions.
- As a hackathon project, developed a mobile-friendly game, "Active Monkeys", to encourage an active lifestyle and healthy eating habits among children.
Development Manager December 2009 - December 2011
Responsible for Web UI Development team across all of the Active Network's consumer-facing properties, content newsletters, and advertising emails.
Web Developer November 2000 - December 2009
Accomplishments include:
Active.com Optimization
- Member of the cross-functional team that led design and development of the successful effort to optimize Active.com for registration conversions.
- Lead developer on the Active.com property - coding and overseeing major redesigns, minor tweaks, and everything in-between. As a ColdFusion developer, also maintained the site's publishing tools for both content and commerce.
iHoops
Front-end developer on iHoops.com, a high-profile youth basketball site, built in partnership with the NBA and NCAA, and backed by a national promotional campaign.
Third-party Integrations
- Built What's Your Active, a photo and video sharing community, on top of the FileMobile platform.
- Sony Run Group, a community for runners, was built out on the ONESite social platform.
- Active.com's community platform, which included forums, blogs, wikis, and integrated profiles, was built using Jive Software.
Advertising Solutions
- Demonstrated the social media landing page concept to internal stakeholders, and developed it for a major advertising client as Make It Pink!, promoting Susan G. Komen for the Cure events.
- Prototyped and developed the use of the AOL Rising Star "Project Devil" placement for Active.com, which became a significant new revenue source.
Aperio Technologies
Web Developer July 2006 - January 2007
- Redesigned the corporate site for aesthetics, ease-of-use, and search engine optimization.
- Developed annual meeting registration process using ASP, JavaScript, and with PayPal integration.
- Customized open-source forum software for a customer support message board.
Booz Allen & Hamilton
Senior Consultant February 1998 - October 2000
- Lead Developer on several web-enabled database applications using ColdFusion, HTML, and JavaScript, with SQL Server or Oracle databases, for clients including the Food and Drug Administration and the US Navy.
- Software Development Manager for Capability Maturity Model Level II effort; wrote plans and standard-operating procedures for software development activities.
- Presented detailed design documents for a knowledge management system to the firm's senior leadership.
Education
Washington University in St. Louis
1990 - 1994
BA, Economics
English Literature minor