Ja Front-End Engineer & UI Designer

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jahan@jahanaddison.com
Front-End Engineer & UI Designer
Jahan Addison
Talented Front-end programmer with a large range of professional abilities
as a fully-capable designer, systems and full-stack developer. Extensive
knowledge-base of profound software patterns in Object-Oriented design,
FP, and software integration to build innovate solutions; proven ability to
see a project from start to end with an excellent solution.
Experience
Employment History
Media Matters for America
2013-2014
Front-end and mobile-web developer, UI designer, and UI/UX expert of a progressive
conservative misinformation research, analysis, and corrective company. Built solid
interactive and real-time tools to visualize research analysis with D3js based on complex
relational queries; research and development into predictive and semantic analysis using
Natural Language Processing; designer of elegant-looking UIs, projects, and mobile web
experiences, branding and logo design.
The World Bank
2012-2013
Full-time on-site consultant working on large full-stack applications with powerful UIs for
data entry, aggregation, and statistical analysis. Developed robust interface for survey
and questionnaire management in tree-structured indicators, concept, and question data
with extensive use of jQuery and jQuery-UI; Stata DLL plugin applications for bridging
Excel APIs in C.
Notable Outside Project Roles
Gridpaste
2014
Learn to Program
2014
Core software architect and designer of an innovative online mathematics tool to save
and share constructions, transformations and intuitive proofs on the geometric plane.
Comprehensive code coverage and software integration with state-of-the-art
methodologies; strong software stack with use of RxJS, JSXgraph, Browserify, Mocha,
Grunt with impressive Object-Oriented and functional patterns.
Lead designer and to-be lead developer of an academic web application to teach
computer-science, OS architecture, and programming through the x86 assembly
language and architecture. The application’s core content is by the open-source PGU
book by Jonathan Bartlett; preparing students by providing a ground-breaking
knowledge-base and for developing real-world applications.
Freelance
2009-2012
Project lead of developing the web presence and comic-engine for a comic team
known as Bottomless Pit Studios; developing custom WP theme with a custom design.
Designed a multitude of high-quality, beautiful web designs and mockups for clients
Administrated with a team of designers, developers, and system administrators for a
version-controlled, security website on a jailed FreeBSD environment and maintained
progress, database, code security, and design; developed highly-configurable code
@_jahan_
+1 240 505 4749
Skills
Software design
Software architecture
Design
Branding
UI/UX
RWD
Mobile Web
Prototyping
SPA
Languages
Javascript
HTML5
CSS3
C
PHP
Perl
Ruby
x86/LC86k
Architecture
MVC, MVVM, MVP, MV*
Windows
Linux
*BSD
PaaS/IaaS
Mac OSX
Node.JS
Rails
Libraries & Tools
EmberJS
KnockoutJS
D3js
AMD/UMD Patterns
jQuery
SASS/SCSS
LESS
Grunt
Bower
Yeoman
PhantomJS
Mocha + Karma
Photoshop
Illustrator
Sublime Text
Vim
Travis CI
GIT