Thomas Henocque

As a seasoned front-end developer with over 15 years of experience, I believe I could be a great new team member at your company. Throughout my career, I have honed my skills in creating complex and visually stunning user interfaces that deliver exceptional user experiences. I thrive on collaborating with cross-functional teams and have a passion for mentoring junior developers. In my current role as Senior Software Engineer, I have successfully delivered projects within tight deadlines while ensuring code quality and maintaining a high level of client satisfaction. I am excited to bring my skills, experience, and passion to your team and help drive the company's success.

Senior Software Engineer – CNET Group / Red Ventures (Dec 2019 - Present)

• Day to day maintenance and development of new functionalities for CNET.com, Download.com, Roadshow.com
• Development of special marketing events feature pages (latest being 84 days of Holiday with a revenue of over $1M)
• R&D on modern platforms Vuejs/Nuxt, Optimising Revenues with better Ad Deployment, Video Players Speed Optimization, Accessibility and Best Practices. Properties with Several Millions PV per month.
• Key role in migrating 3 major websites in our Vue/Nuxt framework. Tvguide and Download, CNET (Remote work since Jan 2020).
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and develop user-friendly, responsive web applications using React and other front-end frameworks.
• Led the development of various web applications from inception to deployment, ensuring code quality and adherence to best practices.
• Developed and maintained internal and external facing websites, ensuring that they were optimized for web accessibility, performance, and SEO.
• Collaborated with back-end developers to design RESTful APIs and integrate front-end code with server-side code.
• Worked with project managers and other stakeholders to plan and execute development sprints using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Contributed to the development and implementation of coding standards and best practices.

• Deliver technology solutions that improve efficiencies and address business challenges for high traffic properties such as CNET.com, Chowhound.com, Download.com, Roadshow, Metacritic, and TVguide, with several million page views per month.
• Introduced modern JS framework, optimised page speed and ranking
• Improved accessibility and implemented best practices for better user experience, and streamlined workflows and deployment processes.
• Lead FE full redesign of Chowhound in 2017
• Collaborated with a team of developers to design and develop responsive, mobile-first web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Worked with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into user-friendly web applications.
• Participated in code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Contributed to the development and implementation of development workflows and tools.
• Mentored junior developers and provided technical guidance and support.

• Led the front-end development of Fansided.com, a sports news website with over 30 million page views per month and an Alexa rank of 1500 in the US, and optimised the site for front and back-end speed and performance.
• Built a breaking news functionality and Google Analytics plugin for each author/article, and implemented a responsive navigation bar inspired by Mashable.com, giving a fresh look to over 300 sites in the Fansided network.
• Developed new modules for analytics, social sharing, teams, schedules, and featured articles, and integrated Google Analytics and various social APIs within the site for reporting and analysis.
• Improved the PHP backend by 30-40% through the use of JSON files, parallel-processed crons, streamlined database queries, and caching.

• Led the UX development of WallStreetSurvivor.com, a stock market simulator and learning platform with over 700,000 users, 4+ million page views per month, and a 50% YoY growth.
• Optimised the code and built fast APIs with C# developers, resulting in a faster and more responsive website, and implemented best front-end development practices using Wordpress, Angularjs, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Postscribe.js, JQuery, and Bootstrap Js/Foundation.
• Created a new Wordpress plugin to track user progress and a responsive version of the site, and developed a complete analytics admin section for the courses.
• Streamlined workflow and deployment processes using CSS/JS generation on the fly/Grunt/SASS, and created a Statistics/Analytics plugin to help the marketing team analyse user interactions with the site.

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