Who is this Mike Ruane guy?

In a nutshell

Motivated and dedicated front-end developer who lives to create, searching for passionate and like-minded folks to grow with.

Born, raised, and currently thriving in the California Bay Area, Mike occasionally chooses to spell using the Queen's English, refers to himself in the third person, and creates run-on sentences.

Skilled labour

Expert
HTML
CSS
Photoshop
Intermediate
JSTL
Illustrator
Novice
JavaScript
Quartz Composer

Street cred

Web Developer at LinkedIn
January 2011 - Present
Making great stuff on a regular basis.
Senior Technical Designer at CBS Interactive (formerly CNET Networks)
April 2008 - January 2011 (2 years 10 months)
Architect, develop and maintain the presentation layer for all CNET.com properties (CNET.com, News, Reviews, Download, TV) with a specialty in well-formed, efficient and cross-compatible HTML and CSS. Serve as the primary conduit between visual design teams and back-end engineers. Manage a small team of developers while maintaining my own productivity/workload. Work with ad development to develop and test new advertising opportunities. Work with marketing to develop special packages. Serve as a consultant across the network to support cross-platform/cross-browser development. Triage, first-responder to site emergencies/outages.
Technical Designer at CNET Networks
February 2002 - April 2008 (6 years 3 months)
Visually designed, architected, developed and maintained high-profile and private-label co-brands with content partners including NYTimes, USA Today, MSN, AOL, and ComputerShopper. Worked closely with developers and marketers to create unique content experiences.
Associate Producer at CNET Networks
March 2000 - February 2002 (2 years)
Designed and developed co-brand sites for use with content partners. Managed daily production needs with content partners. Designed and developed email newsletters. Developed StoryServer (tcl) templates for use with network content.

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