James Atherton
Oro Valley, AZ Willing to relocate! (470) 310-2115 james@james0x57.comObjective
Product Engineer
Senior JavaScript Engineer
TODO:
+ YouTube: 1 video of some of my Zelda hacks has over 87k views
+ Mention how fun OpenGL was in college?
+ LUA Program: Noteblock Studio Player
+ Accio Hacks - C Program running on Wii as homebrew, thousands of downloads
+ Decent at small Pixle Art-- Mario Kart DS gallery
+ Mapping/Level Creation for Red Faction FPS on PC
+ Social media stuff (SE Asia tumblr, @geckocodes, @James0x57, linkedin)
+ YouTube: 1 video of some of my Zelda hacks has over 87k views
+ Mention how fun OpenGL was in college?
+ LUA Program: Noteblock Studio Player
+ Accio Hacks - C Program running on Wii as homebrew, thousands of downloads
+ Decent at small Pixle Art-- Mario Kart DS gallery
+ Mapping/Level Creation for Red Faction FPS on PC
+ Social media stuff (SE Asia tumblr, @geckocodes, @James0x57, linkedin)
Technical Profile
Languages
- JavaScript
- HTML5
- CSS3
- PHP
- ColdFusion
- C++
- C
- T-SQL
- MySQL
- PPC ASM
- AJAX
- AngularJS
- Bootstrap
- DOM
- FusionCharts
- JSON
- JSONP
- jQuery
- OOCSS
- Prototype
- Regex
- RequireJS
- Sass
- SVN
- Templating
- http://james0x57.com/ (my portfolio)
- http://geckocodes.org/freeipods/ (redesign WIP)
- http://geckocodes.org/
- http://gcn.jaytheham.com/
General Profile
Eager and highly driven programmer with experience in multiple programming languages. Able to pick up and master advanced techniques quickly. Expert knowledge of JavaScript and CSS in cross-browser environments. Skilled in debugging and complex problem solving. Maintains clean syntax and adheres to the highest W3C standards. Personal projects include a globally used, multi-admin database for sharing work in legal video game hacking averaging 31,000 unique visitors per month.
Education
Bachelor's Degree, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, May 2010
Major: Computer Science; Minor: Asian Studies
Major: Computer Science; Minor: Asian Studies
Experience
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CRM Product Engineer
Simpleview, Inc., Tucson, AZ
September 2014 - Present- Engaged in daily Scrum meetings for agile development of company's core products with our small team.
- Developed shared, highly functional, directives and entire modules in AngularJS, used and required throughout a brand new extranet and CRM.
- Lead the Sass and Bootstrap development, shaping the user experience for our new Extranet and CRM.
- Leveraged Sass and built additional, uniform, Bootstrap class options to deliver a high-value, rapidly themeable extranet to our clients and their customers.
- Employed npm, Grunt, and RequireJS to maintain, build/compile, and optimize large web applications.
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CRM Support Engineer
Simpleview, Inc., Tucson, AZ
May 2012 - September 2014- Started a trend among the team to share creative solutions with everyone, which was eventually adopted by management to be an official part of monthly developer meetings.
- Built and modified complex reports and aggregate data views in T-SQL and ColdFusion.
- Took own initiative to build several tools that make tedious parts of the job fast and simple, boosting the efficiency of the whole department.
- Engineered and implemented CRM and CMS customizations for lasvegas.com, choosechicago.com, and many other high-profile clients.
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Web Developer
Wick Communications, Tucson, AZ
Oct 2011 - May 2012- Took on important, contracted, development with 3rd party businesses (AutoTrader.com and Impact Engine) to integrate new features into existing platforms.
- Functioned in multiple roles including front-end and back-end programming, professional customer service, design, and training.
- Developed many profitable solutions and widgets using JavaScript, HTML5, and jQuery.
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Web Developer and designer
TownNews.com, Moline, IL
Aug 2010 - Feb 2012- Programmed and designed a fully dynamic, user friendly project with a graphical UI that will be the customer's first interaction with TownNews.
- First one hired to fill a combined developer and designer role in the company.
- Took full initiative to always stay busy.
- Frequently the go-to guy when anyone on the team- including managers- had a question.
- Hacked the CMS locally to add features that helped deliver massive umbrella sites in one tenth the expected time.
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Website Design, Engineering, and Maintenance
GeckoCodes.org
Aug 2008 - Present- Over 19.5 million page views in 4.5 years of Google Analytics tracking.
- Designed user friendly interface to allow administrators to add, edit, and delete any of their own contributions to the database, via secure AJAX, at any time.
- Average session duration has consistently been over 4 min per visit since the beginning and still is today.
- Served over 3,000 unique visitors daily during the peak of its life.