Lawrence Whiteside

Web Architect

Portland, OR, USA
Hi, I've been working professionally as a web developer since I was 15 years old and the web was 1 years old. Back then it was ASP and IE4. Now I use a variety of tools from Ruby and Rails to newer frameworks like Foundation, CanJS, MeteorJS and Node. I am fascinated with CSS Animation, especially in the Greensock library. I hope to be involved in interesting creative projects for years to come.

Work Experience

Fantrotter

Lead Architect

Oversee all aspects of the technical architecture, Travel API, scaling, UX/UI and recruiting and inspiring the freelance to do their best work. Fantrotter is a site focused on bringing the most comprehensive choices to the user in the funnest way posssible
September 2012 - Present New York, New York, United States

Cinema Set Free

Lead Architect

An online destination for independent filmmakers. Gives you all the tools necessary to crowd-produce your dream film. Learn/Teach Hire & Work.

Architect and Developer of the web app platform using Ruby on Ralis and JavascriptMVC. Multiple platforms and devices.
November 2004 - Present Portland, Oregon, United States

Spins.FM

Lead Developer

Spins.FM
Request Any Song on Any Station. Social Radio Requests connect music fans to local radio stations helping artists get to the top of the charts.

Lead Architect and Developer of the web app platform using Ruby on Ralis and JavascriptMVC. Multiple platforms and devices.
September 2010 - March 2012 New York, New York, United States

Oktane Micro Media

Lead Developer

Soup to Nuts design and implementation of several social media and Web 2.0 ventures including a social network and for bio-diesel retailers, and workshops, a document sharing search engine and an online sports video competition site. Used Ruby on Rails, JQuery, HTML, CSS.
September 2006 - August 2008 New York, New York, United States

Education

New York University

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production and Dramatic Writing

Attended the Tisch School of the Arts. Graduated with a double major in Film Production and Dramatic Writing. I got to stand up twice during the ceremony.
September 1999 - June 2002 New York, New York, United States

Skills

Advising, APIs, Bootstrap, Branding, CanJS, CSS3, Drawing, ExpressJS, Foundation, Greensock, Heroku, HTML5, JavaScript, Less, MeteorJS, Mobile, MongoDB, MySQL, Node, Phonegap, Photoshop, PostgreSQL, Premeire, Rails, Responsive Design, Ruby, SASS, ScrollMagic, Strategy, Stylus, WordPress, Writing,