
Front-End Web Developer & UI Designer
Washington D.C. Metro Area

Front-End Web Developer & UI Designer
Washington D.C. Metro Area
My name is Joan Piedra. I'm an UI designer, and passionate Front-end web developer with 5 years of experience.
Web development forum moderator, and tech-oriented article writer of web standards, XHTML, CSS and Javascript for one of the biggest web design and development communities in Spanish.
Speaker at conferences of the National Peruvian Webmasters Association (ANWMP), Cristalab Perú 2007, Garage Flash 2007 1st Anniversary, and massive online events such as Cristalab Online 2, and Cristalab Ozon3.
Contributing member of the Open Source and Free software community, Javascript interaction suite: jQuery UI, web architecture and prototyping framework: BlueprintCSS, content management system: Jaws Project. I was part of the jQuery UI online coding sprint on March 14-15th, 2008.
My portfolio includes the javascript interaction suite’s website: jQuery UI, the biggest newspaper in Peru, El Comercio, Universidad del Pacífico, Proace Technology Services, Laguna Productions, Eye Catcher Media, Rosen, Nestlé, Fundades, Xenical, CircoVIP, Municipalidad Distrital de La Punta, El Brocal, Livfre, Standsure Corporate Advisors, among others.
Hand-coding semantic XHTML, CSS Positioning, Usable and accessible Javascript & AJAX user interfaces, graceful degradation, Cross-Browser web standards, jQuery samurai.
web standards, user interface design, web applications, programming, professional networking, meeting people
jQuery, jQuery UI, ExtJS, Blueprint CSS, Symfony, Jaws Project, Cristalab