Complete List of Skills:
- Web design and front-end web development
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Programming Expertise:XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash CS3, ActionScript 2.0, ActionScript 3.0, PHP, XML, W3C Standards.
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Operating Systems:Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X
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Content Management Systems:Wordpress, Microsoft Sharepoint, DotNetNuke
- Also proficient with Final Cut Pro, Photoshop CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, Fireworks and Illustrator. Some experience with ASP, ASP.NET, XSLT, InDesign CS3, Illustrator CS3, Adobe After Effects, Sharepoint Designer and Visual Studio 2008.
Work Experience:
American Greetings, Cleveland, Ohio:
09/2009Present
Contract Flash Developer / Designer
- As full-time consultant. Creating Flash banner advertisements, image rotators and videos for American Greetings.com and other brand websites.
- Accomplishments include the creation of seasonal banner advertisements for Thanksgiving, Halloween, Hannukah and more across multiple brands; coding of a user-editable Flash image rotator that hooks into the ION content management system; and the utilization of streaming video for e-card previews.
- Technologies: Flash CS3, ActionScript 3.0, ActionScript 2.0, ION content management system
Perception Multimedia, Middleburg Heights, Ohio:
11/2009
Freelance Front-End Web Developer / Designer
- Freelance job. Brought in to develop web site from a provided design. Also developed a custom Flash video rotator for the front page.
- Technologies: XHTML, CSS, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), W3C Standards, Flash CS3, ActionScript 3.0, Photoshop CS4
CherishMemories.net, Cleveland, Ohio:
08/200911/2009
Freelance Web Developer / Designer
- Created a customized E-Commerce/Wordpress site for a private client interested in creating a website to host online memorials for deceased love ones. Developed in PHP/mySQL custom plugins that allowed the site to process online memorial pages, take payments for memorial hosting and allow the creation of templates for different memorials.
- Integration of Paypal into website; used Paypal's IPN features to save information into a viewable database for easy monitoring of transactions.
- Use of Google AdSense for tasteful online advertising / additional source of revenue
- Partially responsible for site design; augmented and developed some samples provided by a graphic designer to create a custom Wordpress theme.
- Developed administration plugins to ease tasks of site management, including monitoring and access to memorial and payment databases, setting of hosting prices, and more.
- Technologies: XHTML, CSS, PHP, mySQL, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), W3C Standards, Wordpress, Paypal, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Photoshop CS4
LoopScreen, North Ridgeville, Ohio:
07/200908/2009
Web Designer / Front-End Web Developer
- As part-time consultant. Web design, search engine optimization and front-end web development for Ohio-based social networking startup.
- Technologies: XHTML, CSS, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), PHP, W3C Standards, Photoshop CS4
Data Recovery Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio:
07/2009
SEO / Front-End Web Developer
- As part-time consultant. Worked on web design, search engine optimization and content writing for Cleveland-based business specializing in data and hard drive recovery.
- Interfaced PHP-based forms and scripts with existing ASP.NET backend via HTTP submissions compiled through the PHP cURL library.
- Set up new sites on an Apache web server by modifying configuration files.
- Technologies: XHTML, CSS, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), PHP, Apache.
Nice Multimedia, Rocky River, Ohio:
02/200906/2009
Flash/ActionScript Developer
- As a part-time consultant through the Creative Group, Cleveland, Ohio.
- Initially brought on to develop scripts in AS3 and AS2 for an online advertisement project. Designed and programmed a small “game” into the ad, as per specifications. Researched and implemented Google AdWords and MySpace advertising standards.
- Have since worked on modifying, correcting and testing a Flash/AS2 rich Internet application with ASP.NET and XML components. Coordinated with an onsite .NET developer in tweaking and testing all components of the application to client specifications. Decoded extremely complex XML system in order to ensure proper communication between the application and the server.
- Technologies: Flash CS3, ActionScript 3.0, ActionScript 2.0, XML.
SCK Design, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio:
07/200812/2008
Front-End Web Developer
- Developed, coded and tested XHTML/CSS pages based on designs created by another department.
- Developed DotNetNuke skins, Sharepoint master pages and custom Wordpress themes to exact design specifications.
- Created a Flash CS3/ActionScript 3.0 “plugin” application for DotNetNuke that allowed the CMS to communicate and transmit image data to a Flash image gallery via XML/XSLT.
- Developed an internal DotNetNuke site/portal for use as a demonstration when presenting to potential clients. Task involved XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, an understanding of DotNetNuke skinning, and W3C Standards.
- Edited and modified Wordpress administrative dashboard to client specifications.
- Developed and tested custom Wordpress plugins.
- Modified and tested ASP.NET templates used by DotNetNuke modules.
- Other tasks included maintenance and updating of legacy websites, documentation of work in a Sharepoint wiki, research on potential Sharepoint plugins and solutions, cross-browser testing on multiple platforms and content proofreading.
- Technologies: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash CS3, ActionScript 3.0, PHP, XML/XSLT, DotNetNuke, Wordpress, Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS), Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS), Sharepoint Designer, Visual Studio 2008, Dreamweaver 8, IIS 6.0, Microsoft SourceSafe, Photoshop 7, Fireworks CS3, Windows Remote Desktop Services.
Internet Marketing Group, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio:
01/200804/2008
Contract Front-End Web Developer/Web Designer
- As a full-time contractor through the Creative Group, Cleveland, Ohio.
- Initially hired as a quality assurance (QA) coder, involved in reformatting and simplifying XHTML/HTML content being moved between content management systems to W3C Standards.
- After roughly a month, was promoted to working with the Design Manager on the total design for the new Cleveland Clinic website. Created XHTML/CSS templates based on provided designs; assisted in cross-browser testing and SEO optimization; introduced to Sharepoint branding and basic design concepts.
- Technologies: XHTML, CSS, W3C Standards, Search Engine Optimization, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks.
Captain Action Enterprises, Hawthorne, New Jersey:
10/200703/2008
Web Designer
- As a freelance web designer, created new website for a New Jersey-based marketing company focusing on a 1960’s superhero property.
- Used XHTML, CSS and JavaScript through Dreamweaver CS3 for basic site template and format (including rollover buttons and branded look).
- Developed and tested a custom Wordpress theme for a blog section of the site.
- Was later called in again to secure site and Wordpress install against a cross-site scripting attack.
- Other tasks included cross-browser testing, some Flash animations, and creation and optimization of graphics using Photoshop.
- Technologies: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash CS3, W3C Standards, Dreamweaver.
Office of Civic Education Initiatives, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH:
11/200712/2007
Junior Web Design Consultant
- Revised Internships section of Cleveland Clinic nonprofit arm as a consultant.
- Technologies: ASP/VBScript, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
