Dan Cruzat

summary

Seasoned Interactive Engineer working with teams, outfits and agencies. Experienced remote resource based in Portland OR, available for tasks domestic and distant. I am strongest in layout, interactive and styling code, a good fit for a team needing a solid FED with a focus on CSS, polish and presentation.

Let's make things as pretty as we can.

skills & experience

regulars [ HTML, JS, CSS, PHP { Sass, Twig, WordPress [ACF, Native Blocks, Elementor], Craft, React, Vue, ES6, JQuery etc { NPM, NVM, GIT, Valet, Composer, WordPress.com, GitHub, GitLabs, Bitbucket, WP Engine, Trello, Browserstack

occasionals [ Pantheon, Local, Docker, Statamic, Next, Nuxt, Typescript, Webflow, Slim, Gatsby, Bootstrap, Jira, Asana

formers [ ActionScript (AS2/AS3), Grunt, Gulp, Angular, CoffeeScript, Foundation

extras [ Team Support, QA Support, Sound Design

agencies & organizations

Aquent, Babcock & Jenkins, BASIC, The Beauty Shop, Centric Park, ConnectiveDX, creative FEW, Daylight, DXM, Emerge Interactive, EOLA Amity Hills, EY Design Studio, Greystar, Hanlon Brown, ILTS, Mindjet, MIT, Monumental, Opus Creative, The Other Agency, Periscope Creative, Polymer Studios, Razorfish, Rose CDC, Shirtspace, StudioLabs, Vitamin T, Webtrends

brands handled

Adidas, AT&T, Audi, Autodesk, Best Buy, BikePunk, Cascade Brewing, Coca Cola, Comcast, Corelight, Gildan, IBM, Icon Tires, Intel, KFC, LinkedIn, Marchex, MGM Studios, Microsoft, Nike, Pacvue, PELICAN, Providence Healthcare, Qwest, Riot Games, Rose City Rollers, Sitepoint, Sock It To Me Socks, Sony, Sterling Communications, TrustEngine, The Union Wine Company, VTech, Yum

projects & positions

The Beauty Shop : Senior WordPress Engineer

2024-current : WordPress, Elementor, Gutenberg / Native Blocks, SCSS, GIT, WPEngine, WordPress.org, GitHub, ACF

Maintenance and upgrades for retainer clients
New feature development for inherited sites
CSS optimization & refactoring
Bespoke block dev in Gutenberg / Native and Elementor

Centric Park : Senior Engineer / UX Strategist

2024 : WordPress, React, SCSS, GIT, WPEngine, WordPress VIP, GitHub, Bitbucket, ACF

Maintenance & new feature production for retainer clients
Block-based theme development in WordPress
Retheme work and new component development in React
Site performance and optimization work

Unisyn Voting Systems : Senior Interactive Engineer / UX Strategist

2023-2024 : React, SCSS, GIT, GitLab, NPM

Developed layouts for software products
Built UI component library for future products
Coordinated UX requirements with software engineers
Troubleshooting and triaging user flows

Daylight Studios : Senior Interactive Engineer / UX Strategist

2021-2023 : WordPress, Craft, SCSS, GIT, Pantheon, GitLab, Bitbucket, ACF

Resident duties incl maintenance & feature production
Managing multiple site instances through Pantheon
Regularly partner with 3rd party agencies on production
Team Coordination / Dev Lead / QA Support

StudioLabs : Lead Developer / WordPress Specialist

2021-2022 : WordPress, SCSS, GIT, WP Engine, Bitbucket, ACF

Update inherited themes with house standards
Implement new features / requests for overhaul relaunch
Problem-solve and patch legacy issues in themes
Team Support / QA Support / Remote Coordination

Emerge Interactive : Lead Developer, Theme / UI Developer

2021-2022 : HTML, WordPress, SCSS, Docker, ACF

Project lead on KIT build, layouts pre-theme
Layout dev for custom post types and global frame
Team Support
QA / bugfixing / browser testing

ShirtSpace : Senior Web Developer

2021 : Slim, SCSS, JS/ES6, JQuery, Lighthouse

Audit site for web core vitals optimization, esp CLS & LCP
Custom UI enhancements using forward-facing ES6
UX strategy, userflow and engagement
QA / bugfixing / browser testing (incl IE legacy)

BASIC : UI / Front End Developer

2020 : React (Next, Gatsby), StorybookJS, SCSS

layout / interactive development for food delivery app
layout / interactive development for brand merch store
element work for library
QA / bugfixing

creative FEW : Front End Developer, Support Developer

2017-2020 : React (Next, Gatsby), Angular, WordPress, ACF, HTML, PHP, SCSS, Gulp, Docker

full stack dev in WordPress
layout / component / front end dev in React, Angular
static HTML development
QA / bugfixing

Industrial Commercial Electric : Lead Developer, UX Support

2018-2019 : WordPress full stack, PHP, ACF, SCSS, JQuery, Gulp

custom responsive theme dev w/ 7 layouts
custom employee portal dev incl login logic
custom timecard reporting system
QA / bugfixing / browser testing

Modern Adventure : WordPress Specialist, Team Support

2018 : Trellis, Vagrant, SASS, JQuery, PHP, CMB2

paired w/ inhouse dev to meet org needs
client portal minisite layout templates
built blog/magazine layout templates
bugfixes and UI assistance

+Citizen (now EY) : Front End Developer, CSS Specialist, QA Testing

2015-2017 : AngularJS, SCSS

worked on team of 10-15 building enterprise customer portal
layout / interactive / component development
QA Tester / UI problemsolver

ancient history & trivia

PDX since 06, Chicago expatriot : lifelong Doctor Who fan : sampler and strangler of sounds since 199? : once pulled caper with Pete Wentz & Jody Minnoch : once cussed out by Dan Aykroyd