Eric Bogs
Introduction
Eric is a User Interface Software Engineer and Front-End Technical Lead based in New York. Eric's primary strengths are in front-end technology, including web application architecture and design. Since 1996, Eric has recruited, trained and lead teams to build enterprise applications and launch successful online businesses.
His focus has been on comprehensive application design, ranging from user experience and design to back-end systems, database architecture to visual design.
Recent focus has been on web client architecture, mobile design, layered semantic markup, internationalization and localization, accessibility, performance and content management tools.
His formal technical education focused on multithreaded, multiprocessor programming and research. His formal creative education centered on design principles and typographic design.
Experience
Front-End Engineering Lead
Etsy
Details available upon request.
Senior User Interface Software Engineer
Technical Lead within Google Docs, focusing on Google Spreadsheets and Google Forms [more]
Front End Engineering Manager
Yahoo! Sports
Lead team to handle redesign of Yahoo! Sports editorial site, integrating UI and visual overhaul, new LSM site structure, and new module management system. Authored several patents relating to sports data visualization and editorial content/statistics integration. Built Turin 2007 Olympic Site. Developed Flash Gamechannel application and Gamepass Live Video Streaming application. Created Fantasy Profiles.
Web Developer
International User Experience & Design
Lead Web Developer for many properties and projects across Europe. Internationalized Yahoo! Personals across UK, FR, DE. Revamped Yahoo! Mobile UK site (moved to LSM layout, brought in feed content). Redesigned Yahoo! Travel UK, FR, DE sites to integrate with new booking providers and improve accessibility.
Freelance Consulting
Several high-profile projects, including developing country-specific sites for a multinational bank, and a high-end content-managed intranet site for a large multinational corporation. More...
Editor, Web Developer
Print and online editor for XY Magazine, a monthly American culture and politics magazine for young gay men. In addition to print work [from interviews to layouts], managed several drastic redesigns of site and sub-sites.
Front-End Technology Lead
San Francisco & London
scient.com
Global lead for the front-end technology group at eBusiness consulting firm, Scient. Lead project teams to build several successful eBusinesses [eLuxury.com, WineShopper.com], Enterprise clients [Royal & SunAlliance, AT&T, Wells Fargo], as well as critical internal projects. Lead company-wide recruiting and training programs. Scient merged with iXL and SBI to become Avenue A Razorfish and Framfab in London. More...
Freelance Webdesign
Produced and managed a large portfolio of sites using DHTML, Java applets, C-based CGI scripts, rich layouts and various multimedia technologies. More...
Java/CGI Programmer, Web Developer
Summer intern and part-time employee at Paracel Inc., a bioinformatics company that specializes in high-performance genetic data and text analysis systems. Work focused on client/server application design, and graphics-intensive Java applet design.
Java/CGI Programmer, Web Developer
Worked with Cega Ltd., one of the UK's premiere webdesign and internet consultancy firms. Projects centred on Java applets & applications. Cega later became RTSE UK. More...
Expertise
- Javascript, AJAX application design
- graphic design and CSS
- Google Closure, YUI and similar JS frameworks
- All flavors of HTML and browser limitations
- LSM strategy and design
- Java, JHTML, JSP.
- Internationalization & localization issues
- User Accessiblity concerns
- Search Engine Optimization techniques
- PHP, C and C++ based CGI scripting
- SQL, MySQL
- Flash, ActionScripting
- Windows, Mac, Unix platforms/maintenance
- most internet standards and technologies
- Android and iPhone application development
- mobile design/wireless technologies [WAP, WML]
- Perl
- XSLT, XML
- Asp.NET, Interwoven Teamsite
- Flex
Technical Lead at Google.
Front-end Engineering Manager at Yahoo. Managed several high-profile projects with on-time delivery. Developed training programs, recruiting guidelines, community knowledge sharing.
Global lead for webdev group at Scient. Resourced projects, developed recruiting guidelines, training programs. Lead several project teams for large multinational corporate clients.
Managed team of freelance and staff writers and photographers at XY Magazine. Planned issues, editorial budgets, and ensured delivery to printer.
Am thoroughly organized, and always keep a big-picture view of progress and deadlines, whilst focusing on quality delivery. I pride myself on open, honest and realistic team and project management. More...
Experienced and expert in most commercial multimedia packages, including Macromedia Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, Macromedia Homesite.
Publishing experience includes QuarkExpress, Adobe Indesign, the Adobe Acrobat suite and various font- and color-management tools.
Previous focus has been on Flash authoring, including Macromedia Flash, audio streaming, Adobe LiveMotion, SwiffPEG, Swift 3D, ActionClip and Swish. More...
Fluent in electronic music production and mastering (Ableton Live, Logic, Acid Pro).
Strong design, layout and graphic production sensibilities and methodologies, both online and print.
Strong spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation rules.
Creative personal work ranges from deejaying and remixing to party flyers to t-shirts.
Strong editorial skills, style and methodologies. More...
Experience in buildling multilingual sites and content management systems.
Acute awareness of language, content display, content input and character set issues.
Strong language skills. Strong understanding of US/UK language nuances. Conversational German, some Spanish, some French. Well-traveled.
Extensive experience in PHP/JSP/ASP architecture, templating and scripting. Fluent in Javascript and Flash Actionscript, Java, C++, C. Also some Visual C++, Asp.NET. Comfortable with database architecture and design.
More technical specifics here.
Education
Caltech
Bachelor of Science in Engineering & Applied Science [Computer Science] from the California Institute of Technology.
Art Center
Completed several courses at the Art Center College of Design, focusing on Design Principles and Typography & Typeface Design.
References available upon request.
Last updated: 13 January 2010.