Jamie SpittalBasic Info
Name:
James SpittalNickname(s):
Jamie, Jimmy, Spits, Spitoon, ect...Date of Birth:
April 15, 1991Current Location:
Vancouver BC CanadaContact:
Objective
To find a career where I can express my love for solid, clean code while keeping to the pace of the ever-changing technological landscape.
Relevant Experience/Projects
Closefox - Modern Web App
Duration:
2014-2015Position:
Lead DeveloperResponsibilities:
Single handedly developed the front-end facing panel in AngularJS. Helped with architecture and development of a Laravel based web-api. Consulted with design, branding and marketing. All while working in a tight knit six person team.Technical Skills Exercised:
Growlerfill - Android App
Duration:
2015-PresentPosition:
Lead Android DeveloperResponsibilities:
Worked from scratch to develop a fully-featured material design inspired Android app that consumes a web-based API.Technical Skills Exercised:
The Stowe - Wordpress App
Duration:
2013-PresentPosition:
Lead DeveloperResponsibilities:
Functioned as part of a two man team to develop an entire wordpress theme for a small e-commerce business. Building upon the extremely popular WooCommerce plugin for wordpress we provided 'The Stowe' with a full-feature online marketplace.Technical Skills Exercised:
Education
Henry Wise Wood High School
Attended:
2005-2009Achievements:
Honours with Distinction
Multimedia Proficiency Award
Art Institute of Vancouver
Program:
Professional Recording ArtsAttended:
2009-2011Achievements:
GPA 4.0!
11 Merit Awards for Strong Performance
Skills
In Relation to One Another
100%
Effectively using Google and websites like Stack Overflow to find answers.
100%
Core Web Technologies
HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, ES6, Jquery, PHP
95%
Angular JS
Coding with Clean architecture, and using popular libraries like Ui-Router.
85%
Android Development
Writing efficient Java while leveraging the Android framework
65%
Polymer
Creating web components to build fast and modern web applications
70%
Laravel
Using this popular framework to create fast and maintainable web apis.
85%
Wordpress
Creating custom themes, or updating and maintaining legacy themes.
Additional Technical Skills
Bootstrap
SCSS
Build systems like Gulp and Grunt
Apache and Nginx server set-up and maintainence
Cloud services like AWS and Google Cloud Platform
Personal Skills
Able to effectively work in a team
Self guiding
Extremely passionate about life-long learning
Alex Mason
Relation:
Founder and CEO of ClosefoxComments:
Jamie worked with Alex for over a year building his idea Closefox from the groundup.Contact:
Matt Hall
Relation:
Business PartnerComments:
For many years Jamie and Matt worked together to create and operate Random Shapes, Growler Fill, Ferries and various other projectsContact:
Pindie Dhaliwal
