I'm curious about everything and I love/need daily challenges. I love to invent, reinvent and discover while creating products. Favorite tools lately: React, Node, MongoDB, Backbone.

Senior Software Engineer @ From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Manager, UI Engineering @ Coaching and mentoring 20+ engineers across several product teams Actively driving massive increase in team size, while dramatically increasing skill level of UI Engineering Helping lead charge into new node.js rendering services and data translation services Heading campaign for more community involvement. Hosting UI Meetups, hackathons and teach-outs, etc. Spinning up recruiting initiatives across organization. Engineering blogs, engineering specific job site, incentive programs, etc From October 2014 to August 2015 (11 months) Lead Application Developer, UI Engineering @ Leading multiple teams in creation of new web applications across multiple platforms. Most apps created using a mixture of native javascript, backbone.js, dust.js, node.js, LESS, and lo-dash. Projects vary from new e-commerce web applications to a new analytics framework used company-wide. Lots of fun engineering issues related to things like scaling to millions of customers, thousands of concurrent I/O operations and responsive asset (css, js, images, etc) delivery, among many others. Began product development processes to include rapid prototyping, tight feedback loops and small development iterations. Teams sizes are kept small and quick with a lot of concern regarding agility. Most fun I've had at a job! From November 2013 to October 2014 (1 year) Principal Front-End Developer @ Contract to create the new version of Pearson's high-stakes-test web application. Creating middle layer API in pure Javascript on a RESTful API. Top layer front end built with Backbone, Bootstrap and jQuery. iOS version built with Cordova \ Phonegap. From March 2013 to November 2013 (9 months) Front-End Web Developer @ Working on a contract to create a seamless, device agnostic web application using Backbone.js, Handlebars.js., Sass, Bootstrap and good ol' jQuery From September 2012 to March 2013 (7 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaFront-End Developer @ A short contract with Target Corp From July 2012 to August 2012 (2 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaProgrammer @ This is a part-time side gig I do for fun and experience. We are currently making iPhone games in C# using the Unity3D engine. From January 2010 to August 2012 (2 years 8 months) Community Specialist @ From June 2010 to July 2012 (2 years 2 months)

BA, English, Creative Writing, Film @ University of Iowa From 2005 to 2009 Film @ University College Dublin From 2008 to 2008 Dominic Cocchiarella is skilled in: jQuery, Web Applications, JavaScript, CSS, Web Design, HTML 5, User Interface Design, Web Development, User Experience, SASS, HTML, REST, Node.js, User Interface, Front-end