Gerry Alvarez

Experience

• Front End Web Engineer
  Abercrombie & Fitch, August 2022 to Present
• Application Developer
  Purdue University, September 2015 to August 2022

  • Led front-end design, development, and support of 15+ web applications, websites, and mobile apps, including single-page and multi-page applications
  • Employed technologies including React, jQuery, REST APIs, Sass, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, Material UI, ASP.NET MVC, webpack, GitHub, and Cascade CMS
  • Delivered accessible solutions by meeting WCAG 2.0 requirements, performing accessibility testing, and fixing hundreds of accessibility issues
  • Authored documentation for over 35 projects, tools, and standards
  • Developed reusable, modular, progressively enhanced, and lazy-loaded widgets
  • Improved customer satisfaction by resolving 200+ support tickets
  • Improved user experience by conducting card sorting and usability testing
• Web Designer
  Purdue University, February 2014 to July 2015

  • Led front-end design and development of 5+ responsive web applications, including an offline single-page application, using technologies including ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Angular, Bootstrap, Less, and Subversion
• UX Designer
  Formstack, October 2013 to February 2014

  • Improved user experience of web application by designing, prototyping, and testing critical user interfaces in a collaborative Agile environment
• SEO & SEM Specialist
  Hollywood Collectibles, March 2010 to February 2012

  • Increased e-commerce website traffic using AdWords and search engine optimization via website content, articles, blogs, and social media posts
  • Increased click-through rates of AdWords ads by over 100%

View more experience on my LinkedIn profile.

Skills

• HTML, JSX, Razor, Velocity
• CSS, Sass, Less
• JavaScript, React, jQuery
• JSON, XML
• GraphQL, REST API usage
• Next.js, Gatsby
• Node.js
• Jest, React Testing Library
• ASP.NET MVC
• Cascade CMS, Netlify CMS
• Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, React Bootstrap, Material UI, USWDS
• Utility-first CSS, BEM, ITCSS, SMACSS
• webpack, Babel, ESLint, PostCSS, Browserslist, Husky, Grunt, RequireJS
• npm, Yarn, Bower, NuGet
• Git, GitHub, GitFlow, Subversion
• SemVer
• WCAG 2.0
• Netlify
• Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
• Interaction design, information architecture, design research, design testing

Projects

• Browserslist GA Export
  Creator and maintainer, 2018 to Present

  I created and maintain Browserslist GA Export, an open-source Node.js module that has over 150,000 npm downloads and is part of the Browserslist GitHub organization. Building on the Browserslist-GA tool, this tool offers a CLI that lets users generate a Browserslist custom usage data file based on one or more Google Analytics custom report CSVs.

Education

• M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction Design
  Indiana University, 2013
• B.A. in Psychology, Philosophy, and Criminology
  University of Miami, 2009

Profiles

• LinkedIn
• GitHub