Huang-Cheng Ku (Alex) Front-End Developer
Proactive, organized, and solution-oriented. Great team player with resilience and perseverance. Enthusiastic about transforming ideas into user-driven applications. Always passionate about learning and sharing.
Skills
- Be able to build SPA with HTML / CSS / JavaScript (ES6+) / React / React Router / Redux. Could Implement UI without third-party libraries, built RWD & CSS Flexbox layouts with styled-components, and deploy with Firebase Hosting.
- Familiar with handling DOM & Local Storage with data fetched from RESTful APIs through AJAX call and collaborating with team using Agile / Scrum / Git-flow / Discord / Notion / Trello / Miro.
- Be able to design responsive website wireframes / UI using Figma.
Personal Project
brewsDrip
[Technical Skills]
- Applied React, Redux, and React-Router for SPA website.
- Implemented UI without third party libraries, built RWD & CSS Flexbox layouts with styled-components to provide an excellent UX.
- Used Web Audio API for timer alert sounds and background music.
- Deployed with Firebase Hosting. Used Firebase Service: Authentication, Firestore, Storage for database management.
[Features]
1. Coffee Tutorials: Articles of basic knowledge of brewing, drinks, and culture.
2. Personal Coffee Timer: Users could brew easily with customized steps of timer including alert sound & changing background color after specific seconds.
3. Coffee Taste Note: User could record on mobile device/notebook easily with flavor profile tags from Specialty Coffee Association.
4. Users could share notes & timers with friends via Facebook, Line, and copylink.
[About]
With 7 years of experience working in the specialty coffee industry, helping people enjoy a good daily coffee is my long-term goal, therefore I created brewsDrip! It’s your best coffee pal that could share an amazing coffee experience with friends.
STYLiSH
STYLiSH is an E-commerce website that fulfills complete customer journey from sign-up, explore and search products, to checkout.
- Implemented UI design without third party libraries, built RWD & CSS Flexbox layouts with plain JavaScript to provide excellent UX.
- Handled DOM & Local Storage with data fetched from RESTful APIs through AJAX call.
- Integrated Google Analytics, achieved Search Engine Optimization, and deployed with Firebase Hosting.
STYLiSH
STYLiSH is an E-commerce website that fulfills complete customer journey from sign-up, explore and search products, to checkout.
- Implemented UI design without third party libraries, built RWD & CSS Flexbox layouts with plain JavaScript to provide excellent UX.
- Handled DOM & Local Storage with data fetched from RESTful APIs through AJAX call.
- Integrated Google Analytics, achieved Search Engine Optimization, and deployed with Firebase Hosting.
Co-Work Project
Based on exist MVP project STYLiSH. Used SCRUM for process management.
- Introduced teammates to use Miro for daily sync & Kanban for task management.
- Came up with ideas of : Product variant filter, Local Storage Checkout Alert, and Member Email Checkout Alert as main features and coordinated with teamates built great output.
- Created UI Style Guide for teammates to use, and built high quality mockups and prototypes on tight timelines.
- Built Product variant filter layouts based on UI Style Guide.
- Owned the Local Storage Checkout Alert feature.
- Assisted Back-End developers with coding and troubleshooting.
Experience
Front-End Developer Trainee AppWorks School Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
- Selected as top 10% out of over 300 applicants to join AppWorks Schooltraining program based on high potential and results-driven motivation.
- Led self-motivated study group using notion/hackMD to discuss and record with classmates. Dive into topics like: OOP / Event Loop / AJAX / RESTful API / DOM ,etc.
- Spent 70-75 hrs per week to reach the best progress in intense schedule and assignments.
- Won Championship of Co-Work Competiton with 7 extraordinary teammates including
- Back-End, iOS, and Android Trainee of AppWorks School out of 7 teams in 1 week.
- Ran weekly SPRINT with Trello to manage features and tasks of personal project.uilt from scratch to product launch in 5 weeks.
Marketing Specialist JUT RETAIL DEVELOPMENT Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
- Frequently collaborated with cross-company partners in JUT GROUP (500+ people) including designers, engineers, museum, cafe, and retail partners.
- Responsibled for creating group UX Survey, Mockup, and wireframe to help managers planning. highly involved in Service Design & planning of cross-company APP, CRM, ERP, POS, and EIP.
- Curated branding-relative events (2 workshops per month & 2 big events). Achieved 30+ brand collaborations, over 5000+ attendance, 100+ brand exposure, 10+ media interviews.
- Launched a WordPress-based blog, managed Facebook and Instagram as SNS media copywriter. Achieved 1500+ followers in 30 days. 1 cross country interview.
Barista & Shop Manager Yaboo Café & Yaboo Café II Mar 2012 - Jul 2019
- Curated store from scratch to launch in 3 months includes equipment and product planning.
- Achieved 20% cost saving & gained 80% efficiency with cost control, team training & management.
- Achieved 2 international cooperations. Negotiated business cooperation with external clients.
Education
Master of Arts Management 2011 - 2016
National Taipei University of Education (NTUE)
Bachelor of Business Administration 2007 - 2011
National Chengchi University (NCCU)
Additional Courses
NTU - Information System Training Course Jan - Mar 2020
#323 Front-End Basics: HTML5, CSS3, SASS, jQuery, Bootstrap
#325 Front-End Advanced: Firebase, Git, Google Chrome DevTools, Node.js, NPM
