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Joe Geringer

Frontend Web Developer
Elmwood Park, IL

Experience

Nansen

Senior Frontend Web Developer
2012-Present

  • Build accessible, performant and responsive sites using a variety of Frontend frameworks.
  • Develop sites using headless as well as traditional CMS.
  • Collaborate with clients, creative team, developers and managers to help gather requirements and provide estimates.
  • Leverage testing tools to ensure critical parts of the site function sprint after sprint.
  • Help onboard and mentor new hires.
  • Integrate personalization tools to A/B test features.
  • Helped develop internal projects: Worked with a group to create a scaffold CSS framework for use on some of our sites. Helped to standardize internal project documentation.
  • Created various types of animations using both CSS and JS. From small micro-animations to full screen user interactive animations.

Main sites developed

American Eagle

Frontend Web Developer
2010-2012

  • Built new sites while maintaining existing for 50+ clients.
  • Supported clients by investigating bugs and documenting new feature requests.
  • Collaborated with team members in order to identify and solve clients problems.

Chicago Public Schools - IT Department

Web Designer
Frontend Web Developer

2003-2010

  • Designed interfaces and iconography for internal and public web sites.
  • Integrated designs into static HTML/CSS.
  • Generated wire frames, designing comps and functional mockups.
  • Interface with clients and backend team to determine site requirements and to develop project scope.
  • Gained beginning experience in backend C# .NET programming.
  • Ensured sites met Section 508 accessibility compliance.

Certification

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Multimedia and Web Design

April 2003

Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago

Accolades

  • Accidentally small talked with popular web teacher, Wes Bos, and I had no clue it was him until a few hours later when he did a presentation.
  • "King for the day" in kindergarten. Got to bring in my favorite toys and snacks to share with the class for the day.