Eric Guitard
Business Analyst at Service Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Guitard is a Business Analyst in Ottawa with 7 years of experience translating user needs into usable, accessible web experiences across federal departments. He blends front-end skills (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP) and content/SharePoint management with usability and UX expertise to deliver practical, client-focused solutions. At Service Canada and prior roles in Justice and Agriculture and Agri‑Food Canada he has led communications and web coordination efforts, often bridging technical teams and stakeholders. An active contributor to the Government of Canada’s prominent WET-BOEW open-source toolkit, he has improved accessibility and calendar/data-table features—showing a knack for pragmatic UI improvements that meet WCAG standards. His background in web development and hands-on work with accessible government themes gives him a rare combination of policy-aware digital communications and front-end craftsmanship.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Collège de l'Outaouais
Github Skills (10)
html10
accessibility10
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
javascript10
wcag10
web-content9
webpages9
css9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wet-boew/wet-boew
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Open source code library for building innovative websites that are accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile-friendly and multilingual. This collaborative open source project is led by the Government of Canada.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 29 reviews, 45 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on updating and implementing features related to the "Add to Calendar" plugin and the Canada.ca theme within the WET-BOEW repository. The user's commits included code updates, working examples for the add-calendar functionality, and modifications to the documentation. They also addressed date-picker issues within data tables and improved accessibility by updating Data Table sorting and adding WCAG testing classes. The user consistently improved the UI and ensured updates related to the project release.
governmentgovernment-of-canadaledjavascriptopen-source-project
Ricokola/GCWeb
May 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 879 pushes, 136 branches in 3 years 5 months
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