Nicholas J. LaPrell 9979 E. Skyward Way Tucson, Arizona 85730 520-979-1615 Nick@LaPrell.org SUMMARY End to end web application developer experienced with both client and server-side scripting and architecture. Extensive experience with jQuery and jQuery UI for cross browser reliable AJAX driven UI. Proven ability to improve work flow process to reduce maintenance and design time. Adaptable to new technologies and frameworks and eager to apply new knowledge. Comfortable with both self-directed and templated design, working within a group or solo. Experienced in training and mentoring colleagues on new technologies and establishing standard operating procedures. Skills include: jQuery CSS API Design PHP Java UI Design JavaScript Apache W3C & Section 508 SQL IIS (X)HTML MVC EXPERIENCE i2 Inc, an IBM Company - Tucson, Arizona (2009 - Present) Internal Systems Developer Accomplishments: * Designed and implemented a robust project management task system with detailed task dependencies and prioritization, including a highly configurable workflow language and detailed user interface. * Created a database migration test harness application for controlling remote services and running detailed integrity checks. * Built a gang member information mobile application used by the Tucson Police Department for entering report data into a remote database from the field. * Designed and deployed an MSSQL audit system for tracking changes to data, including changes made by users via the web based GUI. * Created a component to intercept and log all server and client based errors and warnings for maintenance and troubleshooting. Jupiterimages - Tucson, Arizona (2007 - 2009) Web Developer/Designer Accomplishments: * Integrated the jQuery JavaScript library and designed a plugin platform, drastically reducing design time while increasing site performance. * Increased SEO page-rank by applying meta data and designing a user and search engine friendly category page. * Designed an AJAX solution for username availability and validation during the registration process. * Designed an extensible JavaScript form validation routine for order forms, portable to all sites. AOL, LLC. - Tucson, Arizona (1999 – 2007) Senior QA Software Engineer (2005-2007) Accomplishments: * Designed a new user-friendly tool to build XML driven public facing forms to collect project feedback data and publish them to the AOL Beta website. Time required to publish feedback forms was further reduced from 20 minutes to 3 minutes (average). * Optimized the page load time of the site using industry standard optimization techniques reducing 56K page loads from 45 seconds to 15 seconds. QA Software Engineer (2000 – 2005) Accomplishments: * Designed a content management system to reduce the time and technical knowledge required to publish content, resulting in an estimated annual budget cost savings of $300,000. * Designed a tool to build public facing data collection forms, reducing the time required to publish forms from an average of 4 hours to 20 minutes. * Trained the department on HTML and CSS required to publish project pages, creating a greater number of resources capable of publishing and enabling the department to more easily handle a larger number of projects. Customer Service Consultant (1999 - 2000) Accomplishments: * Maintained a customer satisfaction rate above 95% and a first time fix rate above 90%. EDUCATION B.S. Information Technology University of Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona ADDENDUM An online portfolio including sample code is available at: http://nick.laprell.org/portfolio.