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 OutWEN 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