Working as a developer and consultant for interactive design and full stack development of web and internal infratructure solutions. Offering skills in latest development trends in front-end and back-end developments abiding by best development practices. Demonstrating the ability to be versatile and applying relevant coding or architectural principles in a variation of project requirements. This is accomplished with an understanding of when complex dynamics and abstractions are required for larger data driven projects and when it really is just making sure a static creative UI works as the designer intended.

Director / Developer

  Lead front developer for Mobile first React application, and React Native application for both IOS and Android.  Responsible for directing requirements and working with product owner to realise best UX experience and application flow whilst meeting business and feature requirements.  Solely responsible for architecting solution that provides a build architecture for both React and React Native applications with reusable modules that comply with both build responsibilities. This was accomplished using a Redux data model layer that provides REST API communication for both build view layers. 

  Contracted Front-end Developer 

  Lead of architecture and design for theme templating solution and SDK with full i18n support and Grunt procedures for validation of all i18n, partial and helper references.  Solely responsible for themes front end development and architecting separation of front and backend development with modular NPM development workflow.  Developed theme sensitive SPA administration application with Backbone extension layer following strict REST principles and applying optimistic view strategy to deal with CQRS and AKKA backend architecture.  Responsible for redesign of company identity and brand.  Played a major role in brand protection and story for introduction video sequence and then implementing online solution for playback utilising MPEG-DASH. 

Front-end Developer and full stack support

  System analysis, bug fixing, and feature enhancements to business logic and message cue adaptors of previously reverse engineered training management J2EE application. 
Research into possibilities of porting systems to non-relational NoSQL data source from current MySQL for scalability and the use of search technologies such as ElasticSearch and Solr. 
Mavenisation of multi module G2 Red5 Java project utilising internal Nexus Maven repository. This was a conversion from a complex build using ANT.  Review and developments to exception handling in business logic and AMF service layers in G2 Java e-learning platform to improve error logging, user experience and therefore product support. 
Assisted developments of design and development of modular support portal application following Micro Architecture principles to improve G2 product support. Developing full stack utilising Angular modules and true REST JAXRS API. Introduced front end build management using Node packages Grunt, Bower and CSS pre-compiler SASS.  Design and build of training scheduling application prototype for e-learning platform. Responsible for full stack development utilising an Angular front end with Java JAXRS REST services.
 Produced a series of documenting videos showing the details and procedures required for internal DevOps. This was supported by a number of written documentation papers on systems architecture and requirements.  Provided new Javascript layer to delegate to existing framework from third party SCORM compliant Actionscript 2 applications to REST API of G2 e-learning platform. 

Full stack web development

  Assisted business critical reverse engineering project of monolithic central training management system with a stack of The JBOSS J2EE, Mule ESB, JSF. Discovery required to understand relational patterns in the object lead data model both in MySQL and Java Entities, model abstractions, logic. 
Continuous developments to Java back end and Actionscript 3 front end of G2 e-learning platform alongside reverse engineering project to correct modelling and logic issues. 

Full stack web developer

  Scheduled bug fixes and implementation of feature requests and improvements to the full stack of G2 e-learning platform. Included Flex front end, Java backend AMF services and application logic, PXE build procedures, and Ubuntu OS configuration and BASH scripting.  Investigations into TinCan ( Experience API ) project and possibilities of implementing coherence into Videotel products and API compliance into back end systems.  Development of new online e-learning platform replicating the off-line G2 e-learning platform utilising AWS S3 and Cloudfront for secured delivery of static and streaming content.
  Development of the G2 e-learning platform. This was a primarily Flex, HTML, and Javascript  front end development of bug fixes and major new feature developments. Additional tasks for this project included working with the PXE build operations and assisting back end developers extending the Data Model, business logic and AMF service layers.
  Development of custom ANT task in Java that would create a SCORM complaint package for any one of Videotel's e-learning products produced from their custom Actionscript 3 framework. Reading from the applications XML configuration the task would create the required bundle with manifest representing the courses structure including SCORM 2004 navigation features. 

  Working with existing Actionscript 2 timeline based e-learning applications bug fixing, and replacing timeline code and creating new features with reusable object orientated code.  Development of Actionscript 3 abstracted e-learning application framework. The abstracted service layers and environment detection algorithms allowed one SWF application to operate in all Videotel deployment environments.  Designed and developed NVOD e-learning deployment platform for Videotel's e-learning library and the stack consisted of a Ubuntu, Red5 ( Java container / media server ), and a Actionscript 3 application for material navigation. 

Full stack developer

Building API's that abide by the RESTful specification have been a substantial part of all of the projects I have been a part of for the last 7 years. It surprises me that even today that some backend developers still do not really understand the Representational State. I have been responsible in these projects for designing the API to ensure logical representation of the domain model and enforcing REST principals during implementation of design. The REST specification was conceived with respect to the HTTP specification and so should be implemented utilising the HTTP Methods and response codes and consequently URI's should really just be a representation of collections and resources with NO VERBS.

After working with Javascript for many years it has been a delight to see the evolution in recent years of ECMA specification and to see more of a cohesive and speedy implementation of the specification across browsers. I have been using ES6 for all of my projects with incremented levels of babel presets for a number of years and have been excited to see features like Generators and Destructuring. The introduction of Arrow functions has been long awaited, lexical this and clean and elegant reading of more complex higher level functions such as currying is a must for all developers, and their use with callbacks is a given.
I am not going to go through all of the new features of ES6 here because when you know what they are and when to use them the benefits are obvious and I am happy to teach these with the best practices.

I have ben using Javascript and following the ECMA specification throughout my career

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Gary L.

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