Paul Gendek

Paul Gendek is a senior web developer from Orlando, FL

Location: Orlando, Florida Area
Industry: Information Technology and Services

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Current

Drupal Engineer at Double Prime, Inc.
Advisory Board Member at International Academy of Design and Technology
CEO & Founder at Gendek Creative (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

Drupal Themer, UI & Design at Bluespark Labs
Front-End Web Developer at XOS Digital
Lead Web Developer at Bonnier Corporation

Web Designer at TV4 (Stockholm, Sweden)
Web Developer at AKT Enterprises
Web Developer at EuroRSCG

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Education

Valencia Community College
Autodidact

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Senior Web Designer & Lead Front-End Architect with 6+ years of experience that emphasizes accessible, user-centered design; semantic, standards-compliant HTML; cross-platform, pixel-perfect CSS; and progressive enhancement with JavaScript to produce responsive, future-proof results

Passionate about web standards, code as art, personal productivity and workflow, minimalism, and forward-thinking ideas

Currently working with PHP, MySQL, XML, RSS, BrightScript, Git, Object-Oriented JavaScript, Adobe Edge

Git, Drush, SASS, Compass, SCSS, Features, Omega theme framework

Specialties: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, SVN, W3C standards, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, UI/UX, SEO, Drupal, WordPress, LAMP

Drupal Engineer

Double Prime, Inc.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry

September 2012 – Present (9 months) Remote

Development for all Estée Lauder Companies worldwide, including all language layouts.

Git, Drush, SASS, Compass, Drupal 7, Features, Omega

Drupal 7 site build and theme for the American Institute For Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (AICPCU) Society

Advisory Board Member

International Academy of Design and Technology

Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry

July 2009 – Present (3 years 11 months) Web Design and Development

Assisting in planning, designing, and developing of course structure for Web Design and Development department

Giving feedback on emerging technologies and industry standards for updating degree program course work

CEO & Founder

Gendek Creative (Sole Proprietorship)

Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry

September 2006 – Present (6 years 9 months) Orlando, Florida Area

All-around consulting for many independent small businesses, web programmers, and entrepreneurs

Co-founder and webmaster of The Apparatus, a thriving niche music community since 2006 that's currently using phpBB3, but has been a custom PHP CMS, WordPress bridged with phpBB2, and Joomla at previous iterations

Created seamless themes for Metal Injection's massive bridge between WordPress, vBulletin, Gallery, and ClipShare

Designed logos, business cards, t-shirts, stickers, flyers, posters, and other marketing materials for clients

Worked on PHP, ASP, JSP, Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, DotNetNuke, vBulletin, phpBB, ClipShare, Gallery, Smarty, and other proprietary frameworks

Installed, setup, and networked all of the computers at Bank of America in Ocoee, Florida

Volunteered to theme Transition Orlando's Drupal site

Volunteered to create a WordPress site for Junior Achievement of Central Florida

Drupal Themer, UI & Design

Bluespark Labs

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

June 2010 – June 2012 (2 years 1 month) Freelance

Drupal theming for Dodson & Ross, Scott James Online, Sandusky Radio, Princeton University Art Museum

Front-End Web Developer

XOS Digital

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Sports industry

July 2011 – October 2011 (4 months) Orlando, Florida Area

Designed and created DotNetNuke skins and graphics for college sports conferences, such as PAC-12, Big East, SEC, MAC, TOR, NCAA Football, and other XOS Digital products.

Created graphics for XOS Sports and SEC Digital Network Roku TV apps

Implemented, configured, and maintained Mantis Bug Tracking system into new agile SCRUM development initiative

Lead Web Developer

Bonnier Corporation

Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry

October 2008 – June 2011 (2 years 9 months) Winter Park, Florida

Led the front-end team, of up to 4 other developers, to create and maintain the websites for over 40 magazine brands

Worked directly with PHP, Java, and Drupal developers to ensure proper DOM output of CMS-generated templates and reusable Drupal modules

Mentored, guided, and brainstormed with up to 20 other developers in best practices, development workflow, design patterns, coding standards, naming conventions, error handling, troubleshooting, and scalable solutions

Integral to ensuring the company's vision and goals were maintained in planning meetings and discussions of future projects

Maintained shared platform Subversion repository for plugin and module reuse through SSH in the command line

Practiced agile development while working directly with product owners, graphic designers, project managers, QA analysts, DBAs, and development managers on multiple Scrum teams at a time

Created pixel-perfect, cross-browser (IE6+) PHP, JSP, and Drupal themes from scratch, with a focus on accessibility and SEO, for massive communities and editorial aggregators while adhering to a strict QA process

Wrote custom JavaScript/jQuery plugins to manipulate AJAX/JSON responses, provide more interactivity, and enhance the user experience

Worked on mobile versions of some brands, and a web-based interactive magazine for tablets

Wrote a lightweight, custom touch-scrolling plugin for touch-enabled devices that showed scrollbars on desktop browsers and hid them if touch was detected

Created own CSS method of floating two containers next to each other without using additional elements to 'clear', where the left side can be empty and the right side fills the full width, that works in IE6 and above

Adhered to YSLOW! and Google PageSpeed standards as best as possible, given the environment

Upon first annual performance review, was double-promoted from web developer, through senior, to team lead

Was selected out of 150 candidates to work at TV4, in Stockholm, Sweden for 3 months

Web Designer

TV4 (Stockholm, Sweden)

Public Company; 201-500 employees; Media Production industry

February 2011 – May 2011 (4 months) Stockholm, Sweden

Worked directly with video distribution companies to acquire logos and press photos for use on TV4's streaming web service, TV4 Play

Cleaned up non-transparent logos, and color-corrected press photos, to be used on promotional banners in image carousels and for thumbnail grids

Updated all previous graphics and logos to meet current standards for the latest version of the site

Web Developer

AKT Enterprises

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

May 2008 – November 2008 (7 months) Orlando, Florida Area

Worked in the StudioAKT division where I completed over 50 cross-browser (IE6+) web projects, mostly MySpace layouts, within 6 months for various recording artists, record labels, YouTube celebrities, and clothing companies

Notable clients: Eulogy Records, Miami Tattoo Expo, The Almost, District Lines, Staind, Chris Crocker, Metal Blade Records, Ernie Ball

Web Developer

EuroRSCG

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HAV.PA; Marketing and Advertising industry

July 2008 – August 2008 (2 months) Freelance

Created cross-browser landing pages from scratch, from client-provided mockups, for Charles Schwab and OppenheimerFunds

English
(Native or bilingual proficiency)
Portuguese
(Limited working proficiency)

Valencia Community College

2012

Grade: 4.0

President's Honor List

Autodidact

Web Development, Programming, Design

2003

Self-taught web developer. Always reading and learning.

Activities and Societies: A Book Apart, Yahoo! Press, Smashing Magazine, NETTUTS, CSS-Tricks, A List Apart, Six Revisions, Tuts+ Premium, Stack Overflow, TED Talks, Khan Academy, iTunes U: Stanford University Programming Methodology (CS106A) - Professor Mehran Shami (2008), Lynda.com: Foundations of Programming: Fundamentals

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smart design, technology, internet, the future, lifehacking, food, complex music, reading, cycling, hiking, camping, kayaking, nature, productivity, learning, astronomy, strategy games, deadpan humor, scifi movies, TED Talks

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