Bryan Yurasits

Skills

Concepts:

• Interaction design
• user interface design
• user-centered design
• icon design
• prototyping
• Object-oriented Programming
• prototypical inheritance
• rendering optimization
• responsive design
• progressive enhancement
• web standards
• Agile / scrum / kanban

Technology:

• JavaScript
• jQuery / jQuery Mobile
• CSS2 / CSS3
• SCSS
• Compass
• HTML4 / XHTML / HTML5
• YUI
• RequireJS
• Underscore
• regEx
• Ruby on Rails
• PHP

Software:

• Git
• SVN
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Splunk
• TextMate
• Sublime Text

Professional Experience

1. Web Developer/Software Engineer

   Comcast Interactive Media

   Philadelphia, PA
   Jul 2008 - Aug 2015
   • Responsible for delivering high-quality features on my.xfinity.com for 125 Million unique monthly visitors
   • design and implement all missing interactions between design comps
   • Build technically complex features while balancing rendering performance, responsiveness, accessibility, business objectives, design specs, and technical limitations
   • Create prototypes (look/feel, role, implementation) to aid in planning phase of projects as well as interaction design
   • Leveraged as an expert to assist other teams with conceptual, usability, and UI performance concerns
   • Produce valuable intellectual property (with several patents pending)
   • Design and implement interfaces for high-profile initiatives for various properties
   • Conduct feasibility reviews of designs with UX and Product teams
   • Research emerging web technologies and techniques to drive the evolution of the group's best practices
   • Collaborate with usability team to design innovative solutions based on ethnographic study results

2. UI Design & Prototype Developer

   Merrill Lynch

   Hopewell, NJ
   Feb 2008 - May 2008 Employed by subcontractor, Princeton Information in support of the Merrill Lynch web app redesign.
   • Interpreted flat wireframes to produce high-fidelity, cross-browser functional prototypes
   • Created a pixel-perfect presentation layer using well-structured, semantic XHTML styled with flexible CSS-based design
   • Used expert knowledge of the DOM and object-oriented JavaScript to develop efficient and reusable cross-browser code
   • Augmented YUI components to create customized interactions to support the desired user experience

3. Front-end Developer

   Lockheed Martin MS2 eMedia

   Moorestown, NJ
   Feb 2005 - Feb 2008 Employed by subcontractors, Anteon/General Dynamics and Splintertek, in support of Lockheed Martin Naval contracts.
   • Developed training applications and interactive courseware
   • Utilized object-oriented javascript and other web-technologies to simulate Navy battleship defense systems and equipment
   • Created icons, user interfaces and interactions that are intuitive and aesthetic with an emphasis on user-centered design
   • Co-wrote a custom JavaScript framework and base classes tailored to device simulation
   • Researched and introduced new technologies, techniques, trends and innovations
   • Researched, designed and developed prototypes and style guides
   • Designed and maintained system architecture of simulated device hardware

Achievements & Awards

• Patents Pending (5)
• Comcast Inventor Recognition Award (2)
• "XFINITY Customer-Minded Award"
• Department of Defense Clearance level: SECRET (not actively sponsored)

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Multimedia & Web Design
• Graduated with honors
• Awarded "Best of Quarter" for online portfolio