Mario "Kuroir" Ricalde

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Work Experience

  • Web Designer & Front-End Developer · De octubre de 2011 a la actualidad · Koblenz, Sachsen, Germany
    Traveled to Germany to work on the base Front-End of the two flag products. The goal was to make a solid and extendable front-end that could be manageable in the future.
    • Gemeinschaft 4.0 Mockup & Designcon Stefan Wintermeyer
      The previous versions of Gemeinschaft weren’t good enough for the User Experience, so I got the task to make the system easier to use and flexible enough to be adapted depending without much of a hassle. I worked on redesigning: - General Look and Feel of the Application. - Phone Books - User Pages ( Social-like ) - Conference Calls - […]
    • Gemeinschaft 4.0 Front-End Engineering
      Using Haml, Sass, Compass & CoffeeScript. The core features of the Front-End are: - Can be themed to the client liking (everything) - Cross-Browser Support - Can be modified quickly to make it work with different viewports or layouts without a hassle. - Follows the Arrangement for View Assets Pattern.
    • Rails 3.1 Generator
      Worked on a Generator that could do specialized scaffolding for the system providing with internationalization features by default. Also worked on providing a solid way to implement the simple_form styling.
  • Contributor · De agosto de 2011 a la actualidad
    The Sass Way covers the latest news and topics on crafting CSS using Sass and Compass.
  • Lead Developer · De agosto de 2010 a la actualidad · San Francisco, United States
    • Elephant Administration Front-End
      De abril de 2011 a la actualidad
      Will implement a better tagging system from the front-end; which should be reusable to be at one point used by the Community on the CBlogs.
    • Playhem Integration
      De marzo de 2011 a la actualidad
      Integrating playhem with Destructoid.
    • LiveFyre Integrationcon Niero Gonzalez
      Integrating LiveFyre into our Elephant CMS.
    • Elephant Version 2.0con Niero Gonzalez
      Major rearrangement of the Elephant Framework, which was a complete mess. Worked on implementing a organizational paradigm which allowed us to keep our code DRY and have all the sites within the network synchronized with the latest version.
  • Senior Vice President · De julio de 2010 a la actualidad · San Francisco, California
    • TextGirls.com Front-End EngineeringconArmando Canals
      De marzo de 2011 a la actualidad
      Working on the front-end code for the TextGirls Design, and mentoring Armando in the way.
    • Classmate School Supply Deign
      De marzo de 2011 a la actualidad
      Took a concept and improved the design to make it more appealing to the clients.
    • Classmate School Supply Front-End
      De marzo de 2011 a la actualidad
      Do the Front-End and integrate it with an existing ASP Cart system.
    • Site Design and Web Development for Nuklei.comcon Armando Canals
      De febrero de 2011 a la actualidad
      Designed and Developed the Nuklei.com Site.
  • Co-Founder · De abril de 2007 a la actualidad
    Blog related to Anime, Manga, Cosplay, Games, Technology, Humor and anything that can be considered geeky.
  • De enero de 2005 a la actualidad
    • David LeVine Usability Test Site
      En marzo de 2011
      Front-End Engineering with SASS and Compass as a requirement.
    • Wax Center Mobile Site
      Mobile front-end engineering for the Wax Center brand.
    • Amoocon 2011 Sitecon Stefan Wintermeyer
      Reimplement / Redesign the Amoocon Site for the 2011
    • TruckToolBoxes Site
      Front-end Engineering using Sass, Compass, Survival-Kit and CoffeeScript.
  • De 2003 a la actualidad
    Open Source code I’ve written or contributed to.
    • Arrangement for View Assets Pattern
      De marzo de 2011 a la actualidad
      A real specification regarding how and where you should store your assets. That works inside the MVC Pattern.
    • Noticias Hacker
      De marzo de 2011 a la actualidad
      Proyecto similar a YCombinator hacker news pero en español. http://noticiashacker.com/
    • GRRefactor Textmate Bundle
      A bundle to do refactoring on Textmate.
    • SCSS Textmate Bundle
      The official Textmate bundle for .scss format in SASS
  • Front-End Engineer Ninja · En agosto de 2011
    Used my ninja skills for free to help with some problems that the past front-end engineer didn’t fix. Love.
    • Hot Fixes
      Some Hot fixes to the UI. Mostly CSS related.
    • SCSS Evaluation
      Evaluated their Sass and gave them some suggestions about how to improve their experience using Sass.
    • SCSS Refactoring
      Refactor the huge mess of SCSS files, implement Compass and rewrite code to be efficient.
  • Front End Engineer · De enero de 2010 a septiembre de 2010
    Took designs from the designer and converted them to HTML. Optimized for SEO.
  • Front-end ninja
    • Fix bogus front-end code.
      Fixed bugged front-end code that was displaying incorrectly under Internet Explorer 7 and 8.