FMA - The Portfolio

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Thank you for your interest in my work.

Information not included in my resume, including additional biographical information, may be found in the About section.

Fabio M. Albertin

About

Biographical Information
  • Age: 37
  • Place of birth: Zurich, Switzerland
  • Citizenship: Swiss
Extracurricular Interests
  • Music (metal, rock'n'roll, prog)
  • Political science
  • Languages

Past work

While I have been involved in many projects over the last few years, only a small number have featured aspects that were uniquely mine. Some of the examples below are therefore from previous engagements where I had considerably greater creative control.

Work for Matchesfashion.com
  • In sum:

    Maintenance and development of Matchesfashion's global e-commerce platform's core running on SAP's Hybris platform.

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    Matchesfashion.com (October 2016 - present)

    Implement front end components of new features of online platform

    Support maintenance of existing e-commerce features

    Lead front end technology stack upgrade project

    Technologies used: Hybris 5.x - 6.6, Webpack, ES2015+, Handlebars JS, SASS, Impex, Apache Velocity, jQuery

Work for Office Depot
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    A pan-european relatforming / brownfielding project to transition Office Depot Europe to SAP's Hybris platform.

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    Viking Direkt (Austrian imprint) (June 2015 - October 2016)

    Implemented front end components of transitioned features of online platform

    Supported development of new e-commerce features

    Technologies used: Hybris 5.x - 6, CanJS, Handlebars JS, SASS, Grunt, Phantom JS, Jasmine, jQuery

Work for Cognizant
  • In sum:

    Design / develop Web pages using HTML5/CSS3/JS

    Prepare image assets from source files

    Help back-end developers with integration

    Unit test deliverables

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    Apple Online Store (November 2014 - April 2015)

    Implement front end components of new features of online store

    Support reduction of backlog of improvements to online store

    Technologies used: CanJS, Mustache JS, Grunt, Phantom JS, Jasmine, jQuery

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    O2 (August 2014 - October 2014)

    Migrated existing content into custom CMS

    Implemented marketing initiative assets in CMS

    Prepared new templates for CMS and e-mail marketing

    Technologies used: Apache Velocity, SASS, Grunt, jQuery

Work for Zappos
  • 6pm.com screenshot
    6pm.com

    Company's discount retail site.

    Led and coded site revamp in Fall 2008.

  • Zappos Blogs screenshot
    Zappos Blogs

    Company's blogs on business related topics and company culture.

    Established blog lineup and significantly improved existing code.

Work at the University at Buffalo
  • Getting Started with MyUB screenshot

    About MyUB: Tutorial and project news site for the university's internal community internet portal. Converted interface design into working code.

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    Creative Services and Marketing: As yet unpublished site for the University at Buffalo's internal public relations agency. As with the site above, I transformed an interface design into working code. Some of the architectural and code elements have since been used on projects such as the website of the International Student and Scholar Services at the University at Buffalo.

  • GSA screenshot

    Graduate Student Association: Student government site. Above is a reduced size screenshot of the next generation design of the organization's website. Copyright and intellectual property issues do not allow a full size display at this time.

  • Sub-Board I screenshot

    Sub-Board I, Inc.: Student run service corporation site. I was employed by Sub-Board I from fall 1999 to summer 2005 and was responsible for the general overhaul of the site during the 2004 / 2005 academic year.

Freelance Work
  • Pestalozzihaus screenshot
    Pestalozzihaus (Switzerland)

    Boarding school for children and youths with special needs located in north-eastern Switzerland.

    Redesigned and restructured site. The site's information architecture and design constituted most of the work.

    The design pictured here formed part of a project in progress.

Contact me

I am also on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Github.

I publish the ocassional concert review or piece of commentary on my personal blog, the wire.

Please note

Twitter and Facebook are personal accounts and especially on my blog, some content may be R / BBFC 18 rated.

© 2005 - 2019 Fabio M. Albertin

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