Experience
Senior Developer, ZAG Interactive
Glastonbury, CT (2017–)
Full-stack responsive website and blog development for multiple concurrent clients, primarily banks and credit unions. Websites are built in Kentico CMS (ASP.NET Web Forms, .NET Core), include custom features (rates tables, financial calculators, branch/ATM locators, etc.), and are fully accessible (ADA compliant).
Lead Front-end Developer, The Proactiv Company
El Segundo, CA (2015–2017)
Developed digital acquisition campaigns for leading acne and beauty brands such as Proactiv, X Out, WEN by Chaz Dean, and Meaningful Beauty by Cindy Crawford.
Built responsive landing pages, banners, and mini-sites using HTML5, SASS, jQuery, and Foundation on top of a Demandware-based ecommerce platform
Worked with the Creative department to establish a common grid system and breakpoints for responsive builds, leading to faster turnaround time and fewer defects for new campaigns
Led a department-wide effort to implement retina (2x) images on both new and existing campaigns
Built responsive emails compatible with all major desktop and mobile clients
Front-end Web Developer, CÜR Media, Inc.
Glastonbury, CT (2012–2015)
Worked with a small team to create the web client for Raditaz, a personalized Internet radio service, and its on-demand successor, CÜR Music.
Completely redesigned the front-end for Raditaz to incorporate major new features such as a visual station browser and improved search
Built a standalone web app for CÜR Music using Node, Express, and Handlebars templates populated with JSON data
Front-end Web Developer (contractor), Lot18
New York, NY (2012–2015)
Built responsive landing pages and emails for Lot18, an online wine seller, and its associated membership club, Tasting Room.
Front-end Web Developer, Vertrue, Inc.
Norwalk, CT (2010–2012)
Maintained and improved FreeScore.com, a highly trafficked product website, and built associated landing pages to drive signups from search results and TV leads.
Coded a new “Dashboard” page for FreeScore users to access and manage their membership benefits
Updated FreeScore’s login and account management process with a new design and jQuery-based live form field validation
Converted Photoshop mockups into standards-compliant HTML and CSS
Web Developer, Mercedes-Benz USA
Montvale, NJ (2007–2010)
Assisted in the launch of the new MBUSA.com.
Rebuilt Flash-based pages with standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Updated numerous internal websites to current standards, and created a reusable template to aid development of new internal sites
Corrected rendering inconsistencies between browsers
Production Assistant, Wiredset Digital Agency
New York, NY (2006)
Worked alongside lead production coordinator to create and manage websites and promotional pages for numerous high-profile clients.
Managed websites for Danity Kane, Jamie Foxx, and Peter Cincotti
Designed and created promotional landing pages and banners for Apple (iTunes Store), Armani Exchange, Now That’s What I Call Music, Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis, and SXSW
Development Skills
Example projects available on GitHub
https://github.com/daGUY
Active member of Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/users/778581/daguy
Kentico Xperience 13 Certified Developer, December 2022 – December 2024
https://www.kentico.com/services/certification?utm_campaign=certification_exams&utm_content=cert_badge_developer
Certified ScrumMaster, February 2016 – February 2018
https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/profile/jscariati
CSS Dev Conf 2015 attendee
http://2015.cssdevconf.com
Proficient in various web technologies, tools, frameworks, and platforms, including:
.NET Core
ASP.NET Web Forms
Bootstrap 3/4/5
CSS3/Less/Sass
Demandware
Git
Gulp
Handlebars
HTML5
JavaScript/jQuery
JSON
Kentico CMS
MVC
Node.js
Razor
Responsive design/development
Sitefinity CMS
SQL Server
Umbraco CMS
Visual Studio
XML
ZURB Foundation
Education
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY
BS Digital Media, 2007
Certificate in Art & Advertising Design, 2007