Skills
Responsibilities have included:
- Establish structured designs for information architecture, navigation, and user experience.
- Examine client’s business challenges and created solutions to improve online processes, branding, presence and experiences.
- Develop requirement documents, site flow diagrams, usability studies, user experience wire frames, and functional specs.
- Lead client presentations of UX deliverables, clearly communicate concepts.
- Presentation, proposal, time and cost estimates for deliverable experience.
- Participate in overall ongoing company production process definition and enhancements.
- Set-up of content management systems, frameworks, open source programs for individuals and businesses.
- Templating of skeletal site framework using Web standards and valid coding techniques.
- Written many style guides for businesses and groups.
- Code Monkey.
- Pushed for unified coding techniques, web standards and clean code. Supporter of Web standards in many online communities.
Skills:
- 7+ years working as a Web Development professional.
- 2+ years of experience working with Web 2.0 technologies (AJAX, API’s, Microformats, Folksonomies).
- 3+ years of experience working with CSS, Javascript, Javascript frameworks (2 years; JQuery, Scriptaculous, Prototype), HTML/XHTML, PHP/MySQL.
- <1 year Ruby on Rails
- Experience working on advertising projects, including sweepstakes, brochure sites, e-mail campaigns.
- Expert knowledge of Web standards & best practices, production and optimization.
- Experience with content management systems such as Drupal, Textpattern, Expression Engine and WordPress.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Ability to flourish in a web development/design/professional/office environment.
- Light Linux (Ubuntu, FreeBSD) server administration.
- Sense of humor, passion for technology, thirst for knowledge and a positive attitude.
- Concrete understanding of HCI principles, usability best practices, user research methods, and usability testing.
- Experience translating research into sound design decisions, combining business and creative goals.
- Familiarity with modern web design and development tools and practices. Design and development skills a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for significant client interaction.
- Ability to juggle multiple projects with ease.
Employment History:
- 1.1997 - Present:
- Six03 Studios (North Conway NH) - Web Developer (freelance)
Groups, Networks & Associations:
- AIGA
- Digital Web Magazine
- Interaction Design Association
- Web Standards Group
- Web Standards Design + Development
- An Event Apart
- Dice.com Network
- Refresh
- Shaved Platypus
Professional References:
- Soon to follow
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