Resume

PROFILE

Creative and quality driven web developer and designer; determined to incorporate thoughtfully designed front-end user interfaces with efficient, standards compliant back ends on all projects.

SKILLS

Web Application Design & Development

• Solely designed and built multiple websites for local government agencies, educational institutions, as well as individual clients. Sites ranged in size from a few pages to several hundred pages.
• Conducted analysis of business needs for sites and designed and implemented effective information flow.
• Built interactive web applications pursuant to departmental needs and updated applications in response to personnel and public user input.
• Utilized best development practices pursuant to W3C standards, including building sites based on the most current HTML/XHTML DTD, using CSS for total site construction rather than tables, and designing public sites to be in conformance to Section 508 standards.
• Experienced in the development of dynamic websites using ASP and ASP.Net C# server-side technologies with Oracle and/or MySQL database interaction.
• Experienced in the development and maintenance of sites using various content management systems; including Drupal, WordPress and Cascade Server; including the development and implementation of custom designed themes.
• Experience maintaining Microsoft IIS, and limited experience with Apache for Windows and UNIX/Linux.
• Experienced use of the most current web and database tools and languages, including XHTML, XML, CSS3, PHP, JavaScript, Flash, ASP.Net, SQL for Oracle and MySQL.

Project Management

• Managed website and application development from initial concept through final delivery to client.
• Worked with marketing professionals throughout the design process to ensure projects were meeting marketing needs and goals.
• Assigned work for and monitored the work of one assistant.
• Conducted meetings with clients during the web application design and development process to ensure websites met public and personnel needs.
• Prepared project documents, work outlines and project time lines & deadlines to ensure the development process was organized and on time.
• Researched hardware and software needs for department and provided proposals.
• Administered esoteric software used for departmental needs, and informally provided technical support to staff.
• Managed 60+ large scale land use development projects concurrently as an urban regional planner.

Graphic & Interactive Design

• Experienced web interface designer with the ability to maximize the most current web technologies in the creation of user interfaces.
• Designed prominent website billboards for UC Santa Cruz in consultation with marketing professionals, and in accordance with established design guidelines.
• Designed logos for departmental uses (business cards, websites, and publications).
• Completed extensive post undergraduate coursework in interactive design, graphic design and typography.
• Ability to merge high end visual aesthetics with detail oriented and complex computer programming to create high-end, user-friendly business applications.

Computer Applications & Programming

• HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Google APIs, Facebook APIs – Web development
• ASP.NET, PHP – Server-side web application development
• Drupal, WordPress, Cascade Server - Content Management
• C#, C++, Java
• Microsoft Visual Studio – Windows based application development
• Dreamweaver, Flash – Website management and interactive content
• Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign – Image and layout design software
• 3D Studio Max – 3d visualization software
• ARCView, ARCInfo – GIS software
• Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer – Database management

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION