Experience
Information Architect / Senior Web Developer :: Nursing Home Quality
September 2008 to Present
NHQ provides affordable and reliable QIS educational programs and QA systems to nursing homes so that the QIS tools can be used for ongoing quality improvement and assurance.
Responsibilities
- Prototyping & wire framing customer facing websites
- Development of processes for UI development and testing
- UI design and development
- HTML / XHTML, CSS, JSON and Javascript development
- Heavy utilization of the AJAX framework jQuery
- Train developers on the use of web standards and "table-free" web development
- Wiki documentation of best code practices and templates
Information Architect :: Infonow
June 2007 to September 2008
InfoNow offers award-winning services with ChannelInsight - POS & inventory data tracking, and LocationInsite - online locators.
Responsibilities
- Prototyping & wire framing of internal applications and external customer facing websites
- Development of processes for UI development and testing
- UI design and development
- HTML / XHTML, CSS, JSP, XML, JSON, Javascript and SQL development
- Provide industry-leading applications for clients such as Bank of America, Wachovia, VISA, etc.
- Application & portal documentation
- Create online tutorials for company development policies
- Heavy utilization of AJAX frameworks like ExtJS and PrototypeJS
- Continually learn new languages and technologies to stay on top of trends and deliver state of the art solutions
- Wiki UI design and implementation
Senior Web Developer :: Akamai
April 2006 to June 2007
Akamai's global platform of thousands of custom servers helps the Internet withstand the crush of daily requests for rich, dynamic, and interactive content, transactions, and applications. Akamai is the world leader at providing fast and efficient global access to online media.
Responsibilities
- Transitioned the department to standards compliant web development to drastically reduce template code base and decrease development time
- Implement custom media portals for Akamai's industry leading StreamOS and ContentChannels platforms
- Prototyping & wire framing
- UI design and development
- HTML / XHTML, CSS, PHP, XML, XSL / XSLT, Javascript and MySQL development
- Custom report design & development
- Delivered complex applications with tight timelines for heavyweight clients such as NBA, NHL, IMG Media, etc.
- Application and portal documentation
- Designed and developed internal documentation system to enable more efficient documentation of complex projects
- Rebuilt Javascript media interface libraries to utilize the open source projects script.aculo.us and PrototypeJS
Owner/Creative Director :: Truvisio Interactive LLC
February 2003 to June 2007
Truvisio Interactive LLC was positioned as an interactive design firm providing creative and technical consulting, design and development. The typical client is a business seeking to utilize the full potential of web technologies to promote growth, build awareness and streamline processes.
Responsibilities
- Manage projects from inception to delivery
- Direct technical and creative teams
- Collaborate with key institutional decision-makers to build relationships and uncover new business opportunities
- Work with third party vendors to create successful collateral
- Evaluate statistics and activities to address usage levels, shortfalls, and strengths to optimize client's web presence
- Stay educated in eBusiness by learning new programming languages and tools, studying industry news and attending events
- Track financial assets and expenses
- Develop and maintain timelines
- Train clients in the use of web based applications
- Interview clients to determine their wants and perceived needs
- Educate clients regarding the potential of utilizing web technologies, the benefits of standards based web development and web accessibility
- Consult clients in Search Engine Marketing (SEM): placement and optimization
- Brainstorming and concept development
- Develop business requirements
Creative Lead :: KBtoys.com
November 1999 to February 2003
KBtoys.com (formerly KBkids.com and eToys.com) is an online toy retailer competing directly with Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target.
Responsibilities
- Promoted from Assistant Designer to Creative Lead in eight months
- Developed a user interface that outperformed all the major competitors in focus group studies
- Supervised designers and production artists
- Addressed issues in which improvements were needed and implemented strategies that put the website ahead of the competition
- Brainstorming and concept development
- Improved search engine visibility
- Maintained websites to be competitive in the marketplace by studying and evaluating competitors' websites
- Designed marketing campaigns: newsletters, banner ads and emails
- UI design and development
- HTML / XHTML, CSS development
Interactive Designer :: UW Geology and Geophysics Dept
November 1997 to August 1999
The University of Wyoming Geology and Geophysics Department was one of the first in the nation to provide online courses.
Responsibilities
- Defined UI and business requirements for online educational sites for Geology & Geophysics
- Designed and produced sites for UW Geology & Geophysics and NSF grant funded projects
- Coordinated with programmers and developers to ensure cohesive application development
Graphic Designer :: UW Graphic Arts Services
May 1996 to November 1997
The University of Wyoming Graphic Arts Services provides creative design for the university's various organizations, departments and athletic programs.
Responsibilities
- Designed print materials for UW's promotional programs and athletic department
- Print collateral preparation: digital and traditional paste-up
- Macintosh workstation/network support and maintenance for graphics lab