Senior Web Designer Resume Dallas, Texas - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Customer focused and detail oriented Web Designer with 13 years of progressive experience and a Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) Site Designer certification.
Quick technical learner that is self - motivated and consistently pursuing new challenges to stretch abilities, expand knowledge and bring greater returns to the business.
Development tools: Dreamweaver CS4, Flash CS4, IBM WebSphere Portal Web Content Management, Adobe Acrobat 8, Microsoft Office, Qarbon ViewletBuilder6.
Graphic design tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, SnagIt 8.
Testing tools: WebKing, JAWS Screen Reader.
Solid background in hand-coding HTML, XHTML, Confluence wiki markup and CSS.
Proven ability to perform portal administration tasks and create HTML pages using WebSphere Portal.
Deep understanding of W3C standards, Section 508 standards and Web best practices.
Knowledge of JavaScript, XML and Web 2.0 technologies (widgets, blogs, wikis, feeds).
Proven ability to lead information development projects and facilitate meetings.
Outstanding organizational, oral and written communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Senior Web Designer

Responsibilities:

Migrated software demo content to a new intranet portal Web site and used WebSphere Portal software, HTML, XHTML and CSS to redesign page layouts in innovative ways.
Improved the efficiency of our intranet portal Web site by applying Web 2.0 technologies such as tags, widgets and blogs to feed dynamic content into portlets.
Developed community Web pages using WebSphere Portal software and Web 2.0 technologies that encouraged content collaboration among subject matter experts, had role-based access control and customized content.
Wrote blog postings that promoted various IBM product demos and internal offerings to help the sales teams generate business in the marketplace.
Created a wiki using confluence wiki markup that provided sales teams with standards on how to develop quality software demos.
Tested hand-coded XHTML and CSS with WebKing and JAWS to ensure the code was 100% W3C compliant, accessible and error-free.

Web Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed an IBM Internet Web site with XHTML and CSS that provided multimedia software demos to improve external customer relations and increase sales team productivity.
Performed a major design conversion to a table-less CSS layout on 50 IBM Internet Web sites to comply with new IBM and Industry Web standards.
Designed a user-friendly intranet Web site that increased employee productivity and customer satisfaction by providing users with more information, functionality and development tools.
Wrote technical news articles for e-newsletters promoting various IBM product demos and internal offerings to help the IBM sales teams generate business in the marketplace.
Tested hand-coded XHTML and CSS with WebKing and JAWS to ensure the code was 100% W3C compliant, accessible and error-free.
Created pop-up windows with client-side JavaScript so users can easily view larger contextual images or content without leaving the Web site.
Worked closely with the developments teams to create high-quality Web documentation and demonstration guides using Adobe Acrobat Professional and Microsoft Word.
Produced, scaled and optimized Web graphics and screen captures using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady and SnagIt.

Confidential

Senior Web Editor

Responsibilities:

Co-developed and delivered confidential’s first software demonstration intranet Web site by converting IBM BookMaster tagged documents into HTML.
Worked closely with the development teams and created high-quality Web documentation and demonstration guides to ensure information is organized and current.