The portfolio of front end developer Mike Byrne

I have 15 years experience specialising in building semantic, accessible, pixel perfect websites, using and pushing todays best practice methods. I seek to produce graceful, pragmatic solutions to solve interface problems presented to me. Over the years I have developed a reputation for straight talking, working very quickly, adaptability, being client friendly and leading both developers and whole teams towards a successful project.

Primary skills:

CSS/SCSS
HTML, xHTML and HTML5
JavaScript
FE architecture
Browser compatibility
Browser performance
Mentoring
Prototyping
Responsive websites

Experience with:

JSON, XML, SVG
PHP, Ruby on Rails
Presenting/teaching
Source control in SVN and Git
Task runners - Gulp and Grunt
SEO
Localisation
Accessibility
UX

Key Engagements

Apple
August - October 2014
Working within the Apple marcom team in Sunnyvale, California and Cupertino, California supporting 2014's biggest Apple product launches. Within my team I established a reputation for going beyond the required, doing whatever it takes to deliver and being very designer friendly. I like to think I brought energy, enthusiasm and some much needed British humor to the group.
The key challenges here lay with adapting to working within marcom's (at the time) new responsive web strategy, whilst simultaneously also working on legacy marketing sites with frequent direction changes and a tiny timescale. Quickly becoming familiar with their internal methods, bug tracking systems while all the time maintaining a very high attention to detail.
Whilst there it was my great pleasure to meet and be inspired by Andrew Hedges, Abraham Velázquez, Ludwig Wendzich and many others.
ESPN
July 2013 - August 2014, AREA 17
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AREA 17 were engaged by ESPN to help redesign their website which receives up to 80 million visitors a month and handles 8,000 new pieces of content a day. Initially I was involved with redesign ideas generation - giving advice based on my experience as a developer with a keen interest in browser performance. This moved on to creating prototypes to demonstrate and refine ideas.
Ultimately this led to being embedded within the ESPN developer team in Bristol, Connecticut, to help guide and direct realising and develop the new designs from the front line. This involved integrating with the FE team lead by David Ashton, the BE team lead by Keith Lam, the design team lead by Dan Benshoff and the product team lead by Jarrod Schwarz and Dheerja Kaur.
The relaunched ESPN looks fantastic and I'm really warmed to still be able to spot my influence and my code within its pages.

Talks

McrFRED
Rapidfire
October 2017
McrFRED
A17 FE philosophy and boilerplate
June 2017
Slides
Warrington Digital
A17 FE philosophy and boilerplate
March 2017
Slides
McrFRED
The importance of health and fitness as a developer
January 2017
Slides
standards>next
CSS3 animations
March 2011

Other Engagements

Art Institute of Chicago
October 2018
AREA 17
Visit
CFR: Growing Economies Through Gender Parity
October 2018
AREA 17
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New England Journal of Medicine
September 2017
AREA 17
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Mai 36
June 2017
AREA 17
Visit
Wyss Institute
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July 2016
AREA 17
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Maison&Objet and more
April 2016
AREA 17
Charlie Rose
April 2016
AREA 17
Visit
The Webby Awards:
People's Voice (FE rebuild)
April 2016
AREA 17
Arré
(technical direction)
April 2016
AREA 17
Scientific American
(technical direction)
November 2015
AREA 17
Visit
Engadget
(technical direction)
November 2015
AREA 17
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Library of America
(technical direction)
November 2015
AREA 17
Dering Hall
September 2015
AREA 17
Havard Art Museums
(technical direction)
October 2014
AREA 17
Apple
September 2014
Samsung: Derby
September 2014
AREA 17
ESPN
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April 2014
ESPN
Visit
The Webby Awards:
People's Voice (reskin)
April 2014
AREA 17
Advertising Age
(technical direction)
February 2014
AREA 17
Activaire
February 2014
Spearpoint
Visit
Ten Stories
February 2014
for Facebook's 10th Birthday
Design Connect
February 2014
AREA 17
NY Media Center
January 2014
AREA 17
2013 Year in Review
December 2013
Facebook
heartresearch.me
Charity hack day
November 2013
We Love The Web
Visit
Facebook Stories
November 2013
Facebook
The Webby Awards: Winners Gallery and Archive
April 2013
AREA 17
Billboard
January 2013
AREA 17
Billboard Biz
January 2013
AREA 17
New Year's Midnight Delivery
December 2012
Facebook
Filmmaker
November 2012
AREA 17
Visit
America Votes 2012
November 2012
Facebook
CBX
October 2012
AREA 17
Facebook Stories
August 2012
Facebook
Google Chrome
April 2012
Google
Jay Z's Life+Times
March 2012 (javascript re-write)
AREA 17
Unpakt
January 2012
Pivotal Labs
Stalkr
December 2011
AREA 17
IFP
November 2011
AREA 17
Visit
Coroflot
November 2011
AREA 17
Dering Hall
October 2011
AREA 17
Société Perrier
August 2011
AREA 17
Theyskens Theory
January 2011
AREA 17
Made by Fudge
January 2011
Fudge
Universal Music: Give Music
December 2010
Fudge
Doha Film Institute
October 2010
AREA 17
Face of Blue Inc
October 2010
Fudge
Sustainability
August 2010
AREA 17
Creative Islington
February 2010
Fudge
Technique Retreat
January 2010
thirteentwelve
Creative Times
January 2010
Fudge
Digital Bury
September 2009
Fudge
Creative Capital
August 2009
AREA 17
Humanity United
July 2009
AREA 17
Canal+
July 2009
AREA 17
England Squash and Racketball
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May 2009
Fudge
Own It
December 2008
Fudge
Vice Magazine: Motherboard.tv
November 2008
AREA 17
Vice Magazine: VBS.tv
September 2008
AREA 17
AOL Lemondrop
June 2008
AREA 17
AOL Digital City
June 2008
AREA 17
AOL Tour Tracker
4+ million unique a month.
March 2008
AREA 17
AOL Weather
January 2008
AREA 17
AOL Asylum
2+ million unique a month
October 2007
AREA 17
The Way Ahead Group
December 2007
Fudge
Kitty Cooper
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September 2007
Fudge
Warp X
June 2007
We Love The Web
Mr Scruff
December 2004
We Love The Web
Evolution Print
Design by The Designers Republic.
We love the web

Written pieces

Optical Cortex
various blog posts
AREA 17
Visit
.net magazine
Get your JavaScript in order
October 2012
.net magazine
How to structure your css
August 2011
.net magazine
Link swipe tutorial
January 2011

Teaching

Technique Retreat
CSS teaching
March 2011
Technique Retreat
CSS teaching
February 2010

Personal

1000 Miles
Stats from running 1000 miles in 2014
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1312 Miles
Stats from running 1312 miles in 2015
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1500 Miles
Stats from running 1500 miles in 2016
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Handstands
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