Summary

• Creative web entrepreneur involved in web development and design since 1998.
• Devoted to creating cool and useful web-based stuff using open-source tools and development practices.

Professional Experience

• Tip The Web Foundation Inc.

  Newton, MA

  Co-Founder

  02/2010 - present

  TipTheWeb is a service that lets you directly support your favorite web content by tipping it. We’re a non-profit organization promoting freely-accessible, high-quality web content by awarding publishers that receive Tips. Our goal is to help build a better Internet by enabling community supported web publishing.

• Oddnut Software

  Newton, MA

  Co-Founder

  05/2009 - present

  Oddnut LLC is a software consulting company specializing in the development of web-based products and tools which utilize open standards, protocols, and technologies in unique and interesting ways.

  Projects

  • YUI 3 Gallery Modules, 2010: Developed and open-sourced several YUI 3 Gallery Modules: Component Manager, IO Poller, Markout, Overlay Extras, REST Resource.
  • MarkoutJS, 2009: Perfect for templating in JavaScript. Much easier to use than the built-in DOM API, and allows for easy delegation for code modularity.

• Jackpot Rewards, Inc.

  Newton, MA

  Front-end Engineer

  06/2007 - 10/2008

  Working as a front-end software engineer for the Internet's largest online sweepstakes company. Focusing on implementation of user-interactions via Freemarker templating, XHTML structure, CSS presentation, and JavaScript behavior. Visual design and user-interactions of the site is driven by the Marketing department.

  Projects

  • Jackpot Rewards, 2008: Implemented visual design and user-interactions driven and mainly developed by the Marketing department.

• Freelance Work

  01/2000 - 01/2009

  Open-source projects, web applications, web pages, and CMS-based websites. Projects listed here are some recent examples of work for clients, myself, and the general community.

  Projects

  • ajax-alexa-thumbnails (open-source project on Google Code), 2008: A JavaScript module built on the Yahoo! User Interface library that allow asynchronous (Ajax) usage of Amazon's Alexa Site Thumbnail web service.
  • Eric Ferraiuolo | Living in Boston, 2007: Personal blog to keep in-touch after my move to Boston.
  • Eric Ferraiuolo's Resume, 2007: This webpage; marked-up using the hResume micoformat, provides a centralized place to highlight relevent web-related work.
  • Cass Community Social Services, 2006: Provides a web-based connection between Cass and the surrounding community.

• Schoolcraft College

  Livonia, MI

  Web Developer and Designer

  05/2005 - 06/2007

  Hired to design, develop, and update websites and web-apps; making them more user-friendly, and comply with W3C and accessibility standards. The position also entails the designing and development of new web-based systems to meet IS and college initiatives and objectives.

  Projects

  • Student Activities Office, 2007: Developed a multi-site implementation for the Student Activities organizations of the college.
  • Schoolcraft College (college's main website), 2006: Updated UI features web standards and accessibility compliance, new back-end database system provides dynamic content to users.
  • Web Advisor, 2006: Modified and improved UI originally provided by Datatel.
  • VisTaTech Center, 2006: Developed to allow separation of business and education at Schoolcraft, providing a employee-managed website build on an open-source CMS.
  • Wheels of Tomorrow, 2005: Developed with an open-source CMS to provide an employee-managed website to interface with the community.
  • Schoolcraft FAQ, 2005: Developed as a technology knowledge-base to answer common technology-related questions with tutorials managed by the IS staff via open-source CMS.

• Controls-Crew, Inc.

  Hazel Park, MI

  Intern

  05/2004 - 09/2004

  A summer internship turned into a technology upgrade for Controls-Crew; comprising of a new file server, website, email, and wireless facility.

  Achievements

  • Developed company website, and setup email.
  • Revamped office LAN and added secure wireless access.
  • Ordered, setup and configured Dell file server running Windows 2003 Server OS.

Education

• Michigan State University

  East Lansing, MI

  Bachelor of Arts, Business Finance with Information Technology focus

  08/2003 - 05/2007

  Studied Business Finance at The Eli Broad College of Business, with additional concentration on Information Technology Management.

  Achievements

  • Certificate of Tribute from The State of Michigan for creation of the Newton Township Website.
  • GPA: 3.4 / 4.0; made Dean's List during three semesters.

Web-related Technical Skills

• Methodologies

  • Web standards
  • Open source
  • Content Management Systems (CMS)
  • User Interaction Design (IxD)
  • Model-View-Controller (MVC)
  • User-centered Design (UCD)
  • Agile Software Development

• Behavioral

  • JavaScript
  • DOM scripting
  • Yahoo! UI Library
  • jQuery

• Presentational

  • CSS
  • Yahoo! UI Library
  • Blueprint CSS
  • XSLT

• Structural

  • XHTML
  • XML
  • HTML
  • Microformats

• Server-side

  • FreeMarker
  • Java
  • Drupal
  • PHP
  • ASP
  • SQL

• Dev Software

  • Adobe Fireworks
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • OmniGraffle
  • Eclipse IDE
  • Subversion

• Platforms

  • Mac OS X
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux