Over 10 years experience in web application technology, as Designer, Senior Developer, Software
Architect, Software Engineer Manager. Team player with a keen interest in engineering philosophy, leadership, and product growth. Full-stack software engineer, focused on JavaScript, architecture, modularity, user experience.
Tech Lead @ Currently employed by highly successful financial advisor platform LearnVest in Manhattan, NY. Recently acquired by Northwestern Mutual, LearnVest offers exciting opportunities to further my career as Senior Software Engineer in an Agile environment.
Primary technologies used: Git, Node JS, REST, Express, NPM, ES6, Babel, Gulp, Browserify, React, Mocha, Jira, Sublime Text
Highlights:
* Tech Lead on internal product to create a safe, stand alone, encrypted system to strengthen
B to C relationship at northwesternmutual.com
* Tech Lead coordinating internal and external teams to help integrate several new client platform products into northwesternmutual.com
* Senior Developer on various tasks for learnvest.com From April 2015 to Present (9 months) Software Engineer Manager @ 2014 : Software Engineer Manager for Desktop Client Application Group. Led skilled team of front-end developers responsible for creating, updating, and maintaining desktop version of highly successful Virtual Casino application on Facebook. Worked closely with Design, QA, Production, and Marketing in an Agile environment to produce and deploy many successful aspects of the Casino. Focused heavily on leadership, management, hiring, and mentoring.
2013 : Lead Client Software Architect for Desktop Client Application. Created scalable, modular, event-driven structures to host games developed both internally and published externally. Successfully handled asynchronous, modular plug-in design challenges such as audio management, 3rd-party software integration, and managed shared resource deployment.
2011-2013 : Senior Developer for Desktop Client Application. Implemented application components for virtual Casino UI, games and mini-games, lobbies, and meta experiences.
Highlights:
- Major contributor to the Casino Client Application, both before and after acquisition. DoubleDown was successfully sold to International Game Technology (IGT) for over $500M.
- Personally developed Desktop Client portal to publish hundreds of IGT games through our virtual Casino, which resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue.
- DoubleDown Casino is now the highest grossing application on Facebook, achieving 2 million + Daily Active Users (DAU). From 2011 to 2014 (3 years) Flash / Web Developer @ Flash/ActionScript 3 Developer, Web Developer for University of Phoenix www.phoenix.edu. From 2009 to 2011 (2 years) Flash Developer @ Integrate designs into Flash, Develop and support ActionScript 3 -based client applications, for high-profile, award-winning Nike products such as Nike Store. From 2008 to 2009 (1 year) Web Content Designer / Flash Developer @ Self-driven Photoshop-based Web Designer and Flash Developer for exciting, interactive, fun projects for Lifetime Entertainment, including award winning games, promotional rich-media web pages for television series and movies. From 2004 to 2008 (4 years) Web Designer/Developer @ Web Developer in New York responsible for several independent freelance projects. Projects included multimedia, PHP, CSS2, HTML, Flash, design and development. From 2004 to 2008 (4 years)
Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design @ Cabrillo College From 2000 to 2003 Tor Schandall is skilled in: JavaScript, OOP, Management, Web Development, Photoshop, User Experience, Web Design, Layout, Agile Methodologies, Scrum, HTML, CSS, Graphic Design, User Interface, User Interface Design, ActionScript, Multimedia, PHP
Websites:
http://www.schandall.net