Jon
Rohan

Experience

1. January 2009 – June 2009
   Front End Engineer,
   Ning Inc.: – Palo Alto, CA,
   Technologies:CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, JSP, Java, Spring, Adobe Flex
   Summary:

   The product team at Ning was responsible for creating and developing new product features for Ning Social Networks. I was responsible for creating HTML/CSS mocks on an Apache PHP server for live mocks. I also was in charge of several Ning chat bar releases since March 2009, which is written using Adobe Flex.

2. June 2008 – January 2009
   Lead Front End Engineer,
   CakeFinancial.com: – San Francisco, CA,
   Technologies:CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, JSP, Java, Spring, Adobe Flex
   Summary:

   While at Cake Financial I was put in charge of maintaining the JavaScript, CSS, and Adobe Flex on the site. I began by working on streamlining the JavaScript library into objects and employing techniques for making the code scale (e.g. dynamic inlining, caching, minifying). I was also in charge of the CSS on the site and made similar efforts in scaling.

3. June 2007 – June 2008
   Associate Analyst,
   AT&T: – San Ramon, CA,
   Technologies: Ant, CSS, CVS, Dojo, Eclipse, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Oracle, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Struts, Tomcat
   Summary:

   While at AT&T I served as the Development Lead and Creative Director on a small project. The assignment was to create a website which kept track of MATREX members and classes. The site also provided photos, resources, news, events, and restaurants.

4. December 2006 – June 2007
   User Interface Development Lead,
   Global Mail Express, Inc.: – Atlanta, GA,
   Technologies: Aptana, Cometd, CSS, DHTML, Dojo, JavaScript, Jetty, JSON, Prototype, Scriptaculous, VSS, XML, XSL, XSLT, YUI
   Summary:

   Developed message based Ajax framework (OnJax) for Global Mail Express, Inc. internal and external web applications. Helped to automate business processes such as automated bar code label printing, package scanning and receiving, job scheduling and user management.

5. October 2004 – August 2006
   Student Research Assistant,
   University of West Georgia: – Carrollton, GA,
   Role:Researcher
   Technologies: CVS, Eclipse, Java, SOAP,XML, XPath
   Summary:

   Developed a WSDL/SOAP Engine using XPack to process requests. Assisted the principal investigator in preparing materials for reports, talks, and presentations on the research.

6. May 2005 – December 2006
   Web Developer Internship,
   Southwire Company: – Carrollton, GA,
   Technologies: Ant, CSS, CVS, DHTML, Eclipse, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Oracle, Scriptaculous, Struts, Tomcat, Vignette, YUI
   Summary:

   Ensure consistent look and feel by promoting uniform fonts, formatting, icons, images, and layout; create templates to assist content authors. Identify, recommend, and prioritize new Web features and applications in conjunction with business leaders and department managers. Develop, code, install, test, debug, and document Web applications using appropriate editors.

Contract Projects

1. Pownce Inc.: – San Francisco, CA,
   Technologies:Adobe AIR, CSS, JavaScript, SQLite, WebKit
   Summary:

   Contracted by the Pownce crew to work part time on updating their Adobe AIR Desktop client. The project is entirely written in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS using AJAX techniques. For offline persistence the project also takes advantage of the SQLite database included in Adobe AIR.