About Me
Hello there, my name is Jaime Garcia a Front-End Web Developer. I am interested in bridging the gap between creativity and technology. During my time at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) I had the chance to collaborate with talented creatives and software engineers to develop solutions that everyone can benefits everyone. Feel free to explore my site and download my resume.
Education
California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
- Bachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic Design
- Minor in Computer Science
Skill Sets
Knowledge
- Front-End Web Development
- Content Management System (CMS)
- Responsive Web Design
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Wireframe Prototyping
- Client-side Form Validation
- Design Systems
- Conducting Stakeholder Interviews
Web Development
- HTML & CSS
- JavaScript (ES6)
- Command-Line Interface (CLI)
- WordPress
- Shopify
- Git
- SCSS
- Vue
- React
- Node
- NPM
- Handlebars.js
- PHP
- Yarn
- Gulp
- SQL
Design Tools
- Figma
- XD
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Photoshop
Work Experience
Turn7.io
January 2023 — Present
- Translate wireframe prototypes into production level WordPress and Shopify websites.
- Proposed and implemented a CI/CD workflow for delivering high quality bespoke Shopify sites.
- Wrote and maintained technical documentation that benefits the organization.
IntersectLA
August 2021 — January 2022
June 2020 — May 2021
- Lead the development of a design system which lead to the creation of over 100 wireframes and counting.
- Mentored more than 12 colleagues on the fundamentals of Interaction Design, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards, and Web Development.
- Rewrote over 50 CSUN web pages to meet high HTML semantic standards. Leading to improved web accessibility and SEO rankings.
- Collaborated with professional creatives with non-technical backgrounds.
Autonomy Research Center for STEAHM (ARCS)
February 2022 — December 2022
- Develop a research framework to find the most common issues that people with disability face in their daily lives.
- Audit over 1000 video clips featuring people with various disability.
- Presented research findings to Human Computer Interaction and NASA researchers.
NASA Ames Research Center
June 2021 — August 2021
- Design and executed internal stakeholder interview campaign. Synthesized and analyzed stakeholder interview results for management to make informed decisions.
- Created proof-of-concepts technical demos with Grafana and Plotly JS to help informative UI/UX decisions.
- Wrote and maintain Confluence pages to inform team members about design decisions and best practices with implementation details.
META+LAB
January 2018 — June 2019
June 2016 — July 2016
- Develop custom web applications in a scrum agile environment.
- Participate in code review sessions to ensure team members were delivering a high quality product.
- Ensure web applications were WCAG compliant and mobile responsive.
- Leverage Vue and SCSS to build scalable and reusable Application components.
- Mentored a high school student about the fundamental skills of Front-End Web Development.
