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Walter Anaruk

Littleton,CO

Summary

Senior Web developer and designer with over 20 years of deep experience designing and developing complex, enterprise-scale Web applications in HTML, CSS, and Javascript. In-depth experience with frameworks - particularly Vue and Nuxt. Combination of front-end and back-end skills. Expertise in PHP, strong SQL background, and other languages. Long history as a successful remote team member.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Full Stack Developer

Rumours Karaoke Café
2024.07 - Current
  • Re-engagement with Rumours (formerly KaSE Events) to rebuild a web based system for karaoke events I originally built from the ground up in PHP/SocketIO/Node/jQuery
  • Provides subscribers with a way to find venues on any given night, sign up to sing karaoke at an event, as well as save a list of favorite songs to submit to sing
  • Client had a wishlist of new features that warranted enough work that it made sense to port the business logic to Vue3/Nuxt3 using Nitro on Node
  • Ported over Postgres SQL business logic and replaced SocketIO with Firebase.
  • Drove user engagement, creating interactive and dynamic web components.

Front End Developer

VF Corporation
2021.03 - 2024.07

100% telecommuting front end web developer on large-scale white-label e-commerce application

  • I interact heavily with UX designers, and headless CMS developers to create a single Vue Storefront e-commerce platform to production across multiple international brands: Vans, Timberland, The North Face
  • Utilized HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create visually appealing and responsive web pages that met client requirements.
  • Worked closely with UX/UI designers to translate their designs into functional web applications.
  • Increased website accessibility for users with disabilities by integrating ARIA labels and following WCAG guidelines.
  • Daily use of Vue (with Vue3, Composition API, Nuxt 3, Pinia), Typescript, Git, CSS (Sass), Yarn, Pnpm, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, HTML, unoCSS, Tailwind CSS.

Front End Developer

Imarc Agency
2020.03 - 2021.03
  • 100% telecommuting front end web developer on large-scale marketing web application
  • Interacted with designers, and back-end team on several aspects of the large rental management client’s end-to-end business management web application
  • Coded using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to develop features for both mobile and desktop platforms.
  • Daily use of Vue2 (with Vuex), PHP Laravel, Git, CSS (Sass), NPM, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, HTML, PostGreSQL.

Senior Front End Developer

Lulus.com
2015.07 - 2019.12
  • 100% telecommuting front end web developer on an Agile development team
  • Integral part of helping to migrate a multi-million dollar e-commerce site from PHP/MySQL to Vue
  • Worked most heavily in Vue, Nuxt, PHP, HTML and Sass/CSS
  • Interacted heavily with graphic designers, and back end team on new features, account management, enhancements, and break/fix
  • Used Jest to unit test 100% of Vue JS front end pages/components and Typescript back end.

Full Stack Developer

KaSE Events
2018.05 - 2019.08
  • Built a web based system for karaoke events serving almost 5000 users in Denver, CO.
  • Provides participants with a way to find venues on any given night, sign up to sing karaoke at an event, as well as save a list of favorite songs to submit to sing
  • Built a super fast song search for the song catalog database
  • Built a show management interface to allow the show runner to keep singers singing in rotation, manipulate the order on the fly, and see when singer submitted songs - all live with Node Sockets, NPM, jQuery, Gulp, and PHP Socket IO, MySQL.

Front End Developer

The Regis Company
2015.02 - 2015.07
  • Front end web developer on an Agile development team
  • Built an AWARD WINNING online training platform and experience for Lockheed Martin
  • Worked heavily in KnockoutJS, HTML and LESS/CSS
  • Interacted heavily with UX designers, and front-end development team on a home-grown Javascript platform using elements of RequireJS, Knockout, jQuery, and .Net.

Senior Front End Developer

One World Labs
2014.05 - 2015.02
  • Senior front end developer on an Agile development team
  • One World Labs (now DarkOWL) was a startup cyber security firm
  • Worked on the ambitious task of indexing and creating a usable search engine for the Dark Web
  • Worked most heavily in AngularJS and CSS (Sass)
  • Interacted heavily with cybersecurity analysts, UX designer, and Java development team.

IT Software Systems Engineer

Arrow Electronics
2008.08 - 2014.05
  • Arrow Electronics is a multi-billion dollar Fortune 150 company
  • Developed mobile web order search application using jQuery mobile, and Apex 4.0
  • Led executive level dashboard development using Apex charting and SQL reports
  • Integrated jQuery UI layout to give MyArrow (intranet made of over 20 Apex applications) a unified look and feel
  • Data modeled and designed a user interface for an order backlog subscription application
  • Data modeled and built the UI for an order subscription application that allowed users to subscribe to order events
  • Mentored fellow developers and worked across functional groups such as the ERP and Data warehouse groups to accomplish project goals and meet the needs of the business
  • Maintain the Arrow ECS iOS application using Xcode.

Education

BA Communication Arts: Advertising - Major focus on graphic design/campaign strategy and public speaking

University of West Florida
01.1998

Skills

  • Vue.Js (v2, v3)
  • Nuxt (v2, v3)
  • Typescript
  • Jest
  • Sass/Less
  • PHP
  • PHP Laravel
  • JQuery
  • Javascript
  • PL/SQL
  • SQL
  • CSS2/3
  • UnoCSS
  • Tailwind
  • Excellent cross-functional communicator
  • Responsive Web Design
  • UI and UX design principles

Databaseskills

  • Oracle PL/SQL
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • PostGreSQL
  • Firebase
  • MS-SQL

Graphicdesignux

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Figma
  • Adobe XD
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Fireworks
  • Adobe inDesign
  • QuarkXPress
  • Knowledge of preparing files for offset press

Professional Tools

  • Visual Studio Code
  • PHPStorm
  • Oracle Apex (4/4.2)
  • Toad for Oracle
  • Eclipse
  • Oracle SQL Developer
  • Apple Xcode
  • Sublime Text
  • Visual Source Safe
  • MySQL Workbench
  • Git/gitHub
  • Yarn
  • Npm
  • Pnpm
  • Visual Studio.Net 2003 – 2013
  • Microsoft SQL Enterprise Tools

Timeline

Full Stack Developer

Rumours Karaoke Café
2024.07 - Current

Front End Developer

VF Corporation
2021.03 - 2024.07

Front End Developer

Imarc Agency
2020.03 - 2021.03

Full Stack Developer

KaSE Events
2018.05 - 2019.08

Senior Front End Developer

Lulus.com
2015.07 - 2019.12

Front End Developer

The Regis Company
2015.02 - 2015.07

Senior Front End Developer

One World Labs
2014.05 - 2015.02

IT Software Systems Engineer

Arrow Electronics
2008.08 - 2014.05

BA Communication Arts: Advertising - Major focus on graphic design/campaign strategy and public speaking

University of West Florida
Walter Anaruk