SUMMARY

• Creative web developer with 10+ years experience in the development and maintenance of web. Passionate about developing websites emphasizing usability and accessiblity.
• Creates clean and uncluttered designs based on easy navigation, intuitive page layout, arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and visual appeal.
• Consults with customers, users, designers, engineers and managers to ensure complete understanding and agreement on final layouts, with the intention of not only meeting but exceeding expectations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: PHP, HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, SQL, JavaScript, XML, AJAX, C

Development Tools: PhotoShop, phpPgAdmin, Bugzilla, CVS, Dreamweaver, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, IE

Development Platforms: Unix - Linux/Solaris/IRIX/HPUX, Macintosh - 8/9/X, NeXTStep

Servers: Apache, Postgres, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Web Master

Responsibilities:

• Improved the usability of the registration form, eliminating unnecessary steps, cleaning up the data display, making it more consistent, and offering multiple options for entering data.
• Completed implementation of event pre-registration system, including adding a limit to how many people can register for an event, and keeping the data layout consistent with the event search page.
• Redesigned the event search page with events color-coded by department and data displayed in a more concise format. Also, added additional search functions and the ability to hide descriptions to further consolidate the lists.
• Improved functionality of administration forms by adding key data to the output.
• Implemented a redesign of the site, improving navigation, and continuing work on cross-browser and mobile compatibility.
• Developed web forms in PHP to view and modify database fields, allowing for editing and saving of additonal data only by users with editing permissions.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

UI Developer

Responsibilities:

• Modified CSS3 and HTML5 to ensure cross-browser compatibility of content with new page layout.
• Reviewed and tested MySQL PHP queries for compatability issues in transfering to Oracle and modified as necessary.
• Produced Javascript Application using internal Javascript Library.
• Determined what was likely causing an issue on a web page or discrepency between browsers through testing, research and code reduction, and documented results and test cases for the developers.
• Reviewed new issues to determine reproducibility, priority and assignment to the appropriate developer.

Consultant

Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Modified banner image and started adding navigation consistency.
• Talk Chocolate to Me Created home page for new web site that reflected chocolate theme.
• L10N Expert Implemented a new design including a color palette, graphics and features for the site.
• Updated design of the site and added an order form page.
• Generated scripts to manage site-wide templates and content.
• Updated pages to reflect the design provided by marketing while adhering to accessibility standards.
• Reviewed each page for accessibility issues and modified code to conform to accessiblity guidelines.
• Documented accessibility issues in Content Mangement System (CMS) generated code, and what steps the (CMS) provider should do to remedy each issue.
• Created an accessibility best practice document for those using the WYSIWYG editor to modify content.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Incorporated changes to existing pages and developed new pages as specified.
• Created a new layout design for the site, including an alternative navigation to ensure access to the navigation options by more people and browsers while migrating the site to Dreamweaver.
• The resulting site includes CSS based drop down menus for cross browser compatibility, supplemented by Javascript control for IE 6.
• Resolved major user usability issues by enhancing the navigation format.
• Collaborated with in-house graphic designers to produce the requested graphics for the new site design.
• Proposed new approaches for a non-technical group to manage their web site by researching internal hosting options and open source applications.
• Incorporated an RSS feed from a blog into a page layout.

Confidential,San Ramon, CA

Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Updated content and adjusted formatting to address marketing requests.
• Created a new web-based questionnaire that enabled easier collection of data from survey participants.
• Redesigned “for sale” page on internal website improving display of pictures and descriptions.
• Proposed and implemented a consistent and more user-friendly site design re-focusing on the search capability and improving visual appeal with a grape vine-based color palette.
• Worked on modifing the base iWino system to be a more generic inventory application and the database table structure to be more general.
• Improved the usability and increased the visual appeal of a content management system's (CMS) user interface by modifying forms and templates.
• Worked with customers to finalize requirements and design of new features, then implemented, tested and deployed resulting new web pages to web site.