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Pixel Polished is the personal playground of Aaron Roberson, a JavaScript and AngularJS enthusiast specializing in the development of rich internet applications with a thick front-end. Aaron has been a web application developer since the year 2000 with over 5 years as a team lead, including:

Designing and developing single-page applications using AngularJS.
Developing Object Oriented ColdFusion and PHP web applications using best practices and design patterns.
Extensive use of ColdBox (MVC framework), WireBox/LightWire/ColdSpring (dependency injection frameworks) and CF Hibernate/Transfer (ORM frameworks).
System Application Architecture design including MS SQL Server design and administration as well as MySQL.
Extensive experience using JQuery AJAX framework for interactive interface design.
Cross-browser compliant CSS (and CSS3), XHTML (and HTML 5), XML, XSLT.
Bank of America Merchant Gateway, Google Checkout, Stripe and PayPal implimentations.

Overview

Current

Senior Software Developer at OnFarm Systems
Instructor at Geekwise Academy
Creator/CEO at Pixel Polished

Owner/Co-founder at Helping Hands

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Past

Software Development Manager, Front-end Developer at BLARE Media
Senior ColdFusion Developer at Nonfat Media
ColdFusion Application Developer at Esri

Sole Proprieter, Owner at Innocent Innovations
Adjunct Web and Graphic Design Instructor at Institute of Technology Clovis
Regional Web Manager at US Fish and Wildlife Service
Senior Web Developer at White Horse Media

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Education

University of Phoenix
Fresno City College
Clovis High School

Experience

Senior Software Developer

OnFarm Systems

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry

July 2013 – Present (1 year 2 months) Fresno, California Area

Participate in estimation and execution of project work plans. Direct revisions as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
Participate in software development across multiple teams and phases to ensure that engineering solutions are aligned with business objectives. Minimize schedule and technical risk by foreseeing and addressing obstacles proactively and aggressively.
Full life-cycle application development:
Designing, coding and debugging applications in various software languages.
Software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis.
Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOD and OOA).
Software modeling and simulation.
Front end graphical user interface (UI) design.
Software testing and quality assurance.
Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation.
Support, maintain and document software functionality.
Integrate software with existing systems.
Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation.

Instructor

Geekwise Academy

May 2014 – Present (4 months) Bitwise Industries

Teach Advanced JavaScript and AngularJS at Geekwise Academy (http://geekwiseacademy.com). Course covers JavaScript best practices and fullstack developing using MEAN technologies:
MongoDB
Express.js
AngularJS
Node.js

Creator/CEO

Pixel Polished

September 2012 – Present (2 years) Fresno, California Area

-ColdFusion
I enjoy architecting enterprise applications using best practices and Object–oriented design patterns.
-JQuery
I focus on creating sensable AJAX applications that are more interactive and enhance usability.
-Semantic (X)HTML and CSS
Cross–browser complient, Section 508 accessible and Search Engine Optimized websites that can be viewed in a browser, on a mobile device or through assistive technology.

Owner/Co-founder

Helping Hands

September 2012 – Present (2 years) Fresno, California Area

Owner and co-founder of The Helping Hands Fresno, specializing in communication with individuals facing depression. Our anonymous replies through letters have deceased their isolation and increased their sense of hope. We are here to give you a "helping hand" when life seems to pull you down faster than you can get up.

Software Development Manager, Front-end Developer

BLARE Media

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry

March 2013 – July 2013 (5 months) Fresno, California Area

Manage and assign project tasks to developer teams using Asana task and bug tracking application.
Use Git, Ruby Gems and Tower for source code control.
Develop front-end web application interfaces using JQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Less, Compass, Twitter Bootstrap, UglifyJS, CodeKit, PHP, CodeIgnitor MVC framework and MySQL.

Senior ColdFusion Developer

Nonfat Media

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry

April 2011 – November 2011 (8 months)

Application architecture design. I write code: Coldfusion and jQuery back-end and front-end development.

ColdFusion Application Developer

Esri

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

April 2010 – April 2011 (1 year 1 month)

Working on a team with ColdBox Framework creator Luis Majano and other talented individuals doing ColdFusion, MS SQL Server, JQuery and Flex development.

Sole Proprieter, Owner

Innocent Innovations

2002 – 2011 (9 years)

-More than 7 years of experience working as a Coldfusion Developer/Web Developer/Web Designer, including:
-Experience developing ColdFusion applications using ColdBox (MVC framework), WireBox/LightWire/ColdSpring (dependency injection frameworks) and Hibernate/Transfer (ORM frameworks).
-Experience developing Object Oriented ColdFusion and PHP web applications using best practices and design patterns.
-Extensive experience in Coldfusion, MySQL, AJAX (JQuery, Prototype and Scriptaculous), CSS, HTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, Apache etc.
-Experience designing and administering MySQL and MS SQL databases.
-Implimented Bank of America Merchant Gateway, Google Checkout and PayPal APIs.

Adjunct Web and Graphic Design Instructor

Institute of Technology Clovis

Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry

2008 – 2010 (2 years)

Assisted fulltime Web and Graphic Design instructors in creating curriculum to teach students the fundamentals of graphic design, web development, and interactive web interface design. As a substitue teacher I have taught basic skills such as XHTML, CSS, Adobe Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, social media, and cross-browser compliance.

Regional Web Manager

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry

November 2005 – February 2009 (3 years 4 months)

• Manage 67 websites in the Pacific Southwest Region (California, Nevada and the Klamath Basin in Oregon)
• Provide training, consulting and management to approximately 15-20 local web managers
• Design and administer several MySQL and MS SQL databases
• Convert ASP and MS Access web applications to ColdFusion and MS SQL Server
• Develop ColdFusion applications using ColdBox (MVC framework), ColdSpring (dependency injection framework) and Transfer (ORM framework)
• Redesign the Pacific Southwest Region website providing better usability and UI using JQuery.

Senior Web Developer

White Horse Media

April 2003 – January 2008 (4 years 10 months)

• Setup dedicated and semi-dedicated Red Hat Linux servers with Apache, MySQL, PHP, ColdFusion and Wowza Media Server software
• Setup and administered almost a dozen MySQL databases
• Developed Object Oriented PHP and ColdFusion web applications using best practices and design patterns
• Create e-commerce solutions including shopping carts from scratch
• Use Bank of America Merchant Gateway, Google Checkout and PayPal
• Developed a Custom Content Management System and polling application
• Configured and developed video and audio streaming applications using Flash Communication Server and Wowza Media Server.
• Designed several website and web application interfaces utilizing usability principles as well as Photoshop, prototype and scriptaculous
• Designed Flash animations primarily for website headers and ad campaigns
• Designed DVD jacket covers and disc labels for print
• Designed lower third titles, slides and transitions using Photoshop and After Effects for video
• Periodically operated a studio camera

Projects

Jobminx
- April 2013 to Present
Team Members: Aaron Roberson, Thai Pham, Christopher Martinez, James Morgan

Job application and resume optimization application current under development (See http://dev.jobminx.com ). Overseeing design and development of the entire application. Some of the technologies in use are JQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Less, Compass, Twitter Bootstrap, UglifyJS, CodeKit, PHP, CodeIgnitor MVC framework and MySQL. Wrote technical specifications, outlined sub-task goals, objectives and...more
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ESRI Support
- February 2011 to April 2012
Team Members: Aaron Roberson, Kalen Gibbons, Shelby Seid,

Developed public and internal website applications using ColdFusion, JQuery, FLEX 3 and MS
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• Maintained support website http://support.esri.com
◦ Maintained FLEX 3 application using Cairngorm framework clients with support contracts to submit, track and maintain trouble tickets for product offerrings
◦ Added...more
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Actors Access
- April 2012 to November 2012
Team Members: Aaron Roberson, Steve Gifford, Yury Furman, Kevin Linder, Mike Quach

ColdFusion, MS SQL, Javascript development.
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Stockton FWO & AFRP Application
- June 2011 to February 2013
Team Members: Aaron Roberson

◦ Planned, managed and executed the migration of three ASP and web applications
(AFRP, AIS and DJFM) from the California Fish & Game’s servers to the USFWS
servers.
◦ Planned and performed a complete re-write of the Anadromous Fish Restoration
Program (AFRP) form Classic ASP to Adobe ColdFusion.
◦ Planned, designed and developed a normalized MS SQL Server database and
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Skills & Expertise

AngularJs
MVVM
JavaScript
jQuery
ColdBox
ColdFusion
Web Applications
OOP
MVC Architecture
CSS3
CSS
Doing More with Less
SASS
HTML 5
Twitter Bootstrap
Git
AJAX
Web Development
XHTML
MySQL
MongoDB
SQL
Database Design
XML
User Interface Design
Microsoft SQL Server
CMS
Web Design
Graphic Design
WordPress
User Experience
Web Servers
Object Oriented Design
CFML
CFCs
Agile Methodologies
Web Standards
VSS
Github
Eclipse
Stored Procedures
SVN
System Architecture
Compass
Unit Testing
Node.js

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