SUMMARY:

• I would really love a development, design, hybrid, or team lead role at a fast - paced and growing company where I can use my skills to the fullest and learn a thing or two along the way.
• I'm a front-end and user experience nerd with a proven track record and a huge appetite for challenge.
• I’ve got 15 years of web/graphic design, user interface design and web development under my belt.
• I’ve worked both for other people and for myself, and I’ve done full-time employee, contracted, and freelance work.
• I’m very good at working with customers directly, and I can answer technical and geeky questions for someone who doesn't have much computer savvy.
• I make a perfect liaison between developers and marketing professionals because I speak both languages fluently.
• While I have experience in a vast array of programming languages, environments, and skills, I am strongest and best-suited at front-end web design and development with an emphasis on UX/UI, usability, SEO, optimization, and mobile. Adobe products, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are what I use every day and where I feel most at home.
• Analytics development and troubleshooting
• Project management
• Excellent team leadership and artistic direction
• Learning new skills & technologies quickly and thoroughly
• Multitasking while maintaining high quality
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Tutoring, teaching, and passing on knowledge
• Great track record with proven results
• Knowing when to ask questions and seek advice
• Maintaining creativity while conserving functionality
• Creative and effective problem solving
• Fostering high morale and offering effective motivation

MY SKILLS:

• Web Design
• Graphic Design
• User Interface Design / User Experience
• Mobile & Responsive Development
• Analytics (Omniture and Google Analytics)
• Search Engine Optimization
• Liquid Layouts & Web 2.0 Development
• Desktop Publishing
• Flex, Flash and Media Design
• Image Color Correction and Retouching
• Illustration
• E-Commerce
• Brochure Design
• Corporate ID Packages
• Software Development
• Section 508 and WAI standards accessibility
• Tutoring and Teaching
• Windows Networking
• Computer Repair
• Computer Troubleshooting
• Sales and Marketing
• Customer Service
• Technical Support
• QA and Bug Testing
• Computer Hardware
• Software Installation
• Software Troubleshooting
• Virus and Adware Removal
• Advanced Project Management
• Excellent team leadership and artistic direction
• Great communication skills
• Tutoring, teaching, and passing on knowledge

MY TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 7 & 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X

Server Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows 2000/2003/2008 , Windows NT

Programming/Markup Languages: HTML 4 & 5, CSS 2 & 3, JavaScript/JQuery, Flex & ActionScript 3, Lua, PHP, Perl, Ajax/JSON, C# & ASP .NET, ColdFusion, Python, Adobe CQ, JSP, Sling, Groovy on Grails, Ruby on Rails, Laravel MVC

Applications: Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, FreeHand, Photoshop, ImageReady, Streamline, Illustrator, CorelDraw, QuarkXpress, PageMaker, GoLive, FrontPage, Jasc PaintShop Pro, Painter, FTP, SCP, Telnet, SSH, Putty, WinSCP, Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel & Powerpoint), Acrobat, InDesign, Visual Studio 2008, Adobe Flex Builder, IntelliJ, Perforce, Git

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential

Senior Marketing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I work in the Marketing department as a back-end and front-end web developer who wears several other hats.
• I develop for and maintain our web properties which run on frameworks like WordPress, Drupal, and Laravel, and administrate our various web servers and domains.
• I create custom software for internal and external use, consult on various code architecture projects, and leverage my design skills when needed.

Confidential - October 201

Associate Architect / UX/UI Lead

Responsibilities:

• I am a senior-level IT consultant and User Experience Lead with a focus on hands-on development and design, responsive design, and optimized, user-friendly interfaces.
• I've done work for several high-profile clients.
• I work daily in HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and JavaScript, and use up-and-coming tools like Adobe CQ.
• I have also served as a thought leader and consultant on projects regarding mobile/responsive development and user experience best practices.

Confidential

Senior Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• I was their one and only web developer and was in charge of their single marketing website.
• Working with Drupal, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the Adobe suite on a daily basis,
• I helped to fix analytics and organic traffic problems on their site, update old content and add new content.
• I also set up new internal production and development servers and administered them.

Confidential

Senior Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• I hit the ground running and began developing code for major brands
• I also used my knowledge of analytics to help optimize and enhance the company's utilization of Omniture and SiteCatalyst.
• I also developed a brand-new function for their shopping pages that leveraged Google Commerce, Google Maps and Places, and their internal product feeds.
• I was instrumental in the documentation of past and current code and helped to solidify web standards going forward.
• I also helped deliver a video blog using Brightcove and WordPress for the 2012 Toy Fair.

Confidential

Senior Web Designer

Responsibilities:

• I was the sole web designer with the responsibilities to both maintain and support their vast 90-website portfolio and to create new websites and graphics going forward.
• My focus was a mix of web design and front-end development, though I also handled the policing of the company’s branding guidelines and the troubleshooting for web technologies like Marketo and WordPress.
• I also helped to manage the outside creative vendors leveraged by the company.

Confidential

Senior Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• I have expanded my knowledge of back-end web development and had the pleasure of learning Groovy and Grails.
• I have worked on every part of the website and helped to create plug-ins, the e-commerce store, and also had a hand in several web components of the game, including the team hub, player trainer, and more. I work daily with CSS, HTML, JS, Photoshop and Perforce.
• Working directly with partners and vendors, I helped to create a Facebook variant of the game as well as implemented partner branding on the site, minisites for marketing purposes, and aided in analytics, SEO and tracking for the site.
• I also had the privilege of helping out with game and website user interface and user experience, and gave advice on game economy and monetization techniques.

Confidential

Senior UX Developer

Responsibilities:

• I had worked on both the job seeker and the employer sections of the website, and had been primarily responsible for performance, cross-browser/OS compatibility, and web standards.
• I was the primary UX coder on over 14 projects since I began and had the honor of taking on the role of the CSS Standards expert.
• While working with satellite offices both in the US and abroad, I built scalable, compatible, clean and efficient elements both on the back-end of the .NET environment we use and for the forward-facing user experience.
• I worked daily with cross-browser compatible CSS, HTML, JavaScript/jQuery, and C#/ASP in their .NET environment, and also helped out building, editing, and managing design assets in Photoshop CS3.
• I played a major role in the early-2009 roll-out of an entire redesign and recode of confidential and continue to help enhance and refine the website. I had also trained fellow employees on UX development and design techniques and best practices.