Objective & Summary
I seek to use & expand my technical, analytical, and creative skills in a web production & design position, in San Francisco or the Peninsula area.
- Expert HTML 4, XHTML 1, and CSS 2 hand-coder (for IE, Netscape, Safari).
- Certified by HFI in Usability in Web & Application Design (layout, look and feel, informational structure).
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript; also skilled in JSP/ASP/VBScript, Flash, XML.
- Vast experience with template environments and efficient, modular code.
- Excellent project management, problem solving, troubleshooting, organizational, and writing skills.
- Conscientious, flexible, reliable, meticulous, independent.
- Sample work can be viewed @ www.siliconbeehive.com
Professional Experience
1/02 - present Freelance Web Designer, Silicon Beehive, San Francisco, CA.
- Designed and implemented small to medium sites for commercial, educational, or personal use.
- Delivered rapid turn-around, user-targeted designs, content consultation, & easily reusable code.
- Joined teams of developers & sales persons to develop user interfaces for ecommerce applications.
4/02 - 8/04 Web Production Specialist, Santa Clara County Social Services Agency, San Jose, CA.
- Led user interface development for four new enterprise web applications (serving hundreds of employees & thousands of clients statewide).
- Participated in requirements gathering, specifications, testing, and bug fixing of web applications.
- Responsible for the functional and visual development of the intranet (serving 2600 employees)
- Drew intranet traffic, growing the percentage of employees using the intranet from 35% to 90%.
- Decreased intranet error rate (404s) by 88% while slimming down page weight by more than 60%.
- Improved WebTeam productivity, efficiency, and turn-around time with new and improved standards, protocols, and tools.
4/00 - 1/02 Senior HTML Programmer, MyWay.com, Palo Alto, CA.
- Main designer, redesigner, and troubleshooter for the sites of our most important clients (news providers and major corporations). Led teams of up to 4 other programmers.
- Provided direct support to the clients; managed numerous projects, from very small scale to very large; and coordinated front-end, back-end, QA, & IS efforts for these projects.
- Redesigned technical, functional, and stylistic aspects of the front-end of MyWay's portal product.
- Improved, managed, and maintained the HTML group's working environments, documentation, training materials, skills standards, and tools.
- Served as technical consult and lead HTML Programmer for internal and external company projects.
- Awarded "heroic effort" award (highest possible award) and 2 other awards for unsolicited and sustained dedication to important client projects and company concerns.
3/99 - 4/00 Web Designer, Stanford University, CA.
- Designed and implemented a series of medium-sized class web sites for student use.
- Assisted in the development and testing of population biology simulations.
Education
June 1999 Stanford University, California.
- Bachelor and Master of Science, Earth Systems.
- Coursework included extensive biology matched with geology, economics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computer modeling to predict the behavior of complex, global biological systems.
Additional Skills
- Mac & Win OS, UNIX & WIN servers, PhotoShop, MM Shockwave/DreamWeaver/Contribute, VSS & CVS, MS Office.
- Fluency in French (native speaker) and competence in Spanish.
- Previous life as a lab assistant for Stanford and UPenn labs in genetics, biochemistry, and neurophysiology.
- Horse-back riding, photography.
Other Resume Formats
- MS Word (29k)