Resume
Qualifications
Seasoned Web professional specializing in front-end development and site design, with expertise in standards-compliant HTML and CSS-based design. Experience includes development on two award-winning newspaper Web sites, statesman.com and austin360.com, building Backstage 101, Sony's social marketing and online consumer education community, and building Sony's Digital Darkroom, a digital photography community featuring user photo galleries.
Skills
| Web Development |
Standards-compliant HTML, CSS, JSP/JSTL, JavaScript, ActionScript |
| Web Design |
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Flash |
| Project Management |
Managing customer needs, project scope, timeline, internal resources, freelancers, sub-contractors, and vendors |
| Management |
Managing full-time employees, interns, and contract workers |
| Content Production |
Copy editing |
Professional Experience
Web Designer
NetSpend Corporation, Austin, TX
April 2009 to present
- Redesigned sections of the customer servicing Web site that give users the ability to manage the debit cards associated with their account, including a simplified, single-page card order feature.
- Designed a feature that customers use to set and adjust savings goals, and redesigned the user interface for transferring money back and forth from their savings account.
- Created a stand-alone marketing education piece designed for users unfamiliar with banking products.
Senior Web Developer, Tech Services
Powered, Austin, TX
April 2006 to January 2009
- Designed and developed Backstage 101, Sony's social marketing and online consumer education community.
- Developed Sony's Digital Darkroom, a digital photography community featuring user photo galleries, discussion forums, and group membership.
- Developed learning centers for HP, Epson, RadioShack, and AT&T, completing the design and front-end development for each site within about six weeks
- Implemented the new sites using hand-written, standards-compliant markup, CSS, JSP, JSTL, and JavaScript.
- Built a CSS/markup framework that supports multiple clients' Web sites, enabling rapid development, ease of maintenance, and the ability to seamlessly match each client's branding and site design.
- Used clients' existing Web site design and brand guidelines to create Photoshop mock-ups for learning center Web sites.
- Created cross-platform e-mail templates that effectively drove participation in the clients' online programs.
- Created JSTL templates in the content management system and trained Operations employees on their use and maintenance.
Web Development Specialist, Statesman.com
Austin-American Statesman, Austin, TX
July 2003 to April 2006
- Developed CSS-based, standards-compliant HTML templates for the award-winning 2006 Statesman.com and Austin360.com's redesigns, cutting page weight by more than 60 percent.
- Developed a Flash photo gallery, used by all of Cox Newspapers' four metro newspaper sites, that enabled non-technical content producers to easily update the gallery using XML.
- Designed and developed a mini-site for SXSW 2005, which included staff recommendations, feature stories, and photos.
- Trained and supported employees from multiple departments on the creation of CSS-based, standards-compliant HTML.
- Provided technical support to a broad range of Austin American-Statesman and Austin360 online users.
Senior Graphic Designer, Knowledge Group and Marketing Department
Matrix NetSystems, Austin, TX
September 2000 to July 2003
- Acted as Project Manager for two corporate Web site redesign projects, managing information architecture, internal and external resources, timelines, project scope, and project documentation.
- Designed and maintained an electronic newsletter with a subscription base of 3000 users.
- Acted as Designer and Developer for one corporate Web site redesign project, producing information architecture, HTML, and graphics for a 100-page site in less than one month.
- Maintained multiple corporate Web sites, adding content and features for various marketing campaigns, including styling and maintaining dynamic content.
- Created and managed new corporate branding for all printed materials that embodied consistent branding and communicated company identity.
- Prepared print projects for output, working with printers to coordinate bids and print schedules.
National Instruments, Austin, TX
December 1992 through September 2000
- Graphic Design Team Lead, Web Interface Group (July 1999 through September 2000)
- Web Graphic Designer, Web Interface Group (June 1998 through July 1999)
- Designer, Corporate Design Group (June 1997 through June 1998)
- Design Assistant, Corporate Design Group (August 1994 through May 1997)
- Intern, Corporate Design Group and Publicity Department (December 1992 through August 1994)
Education
Bachelor of Journalism, Magazine Sequence (writing and design)
The University of Texas at Austin, May 1997
Personal Honors
National Instruments Marketing Excellence Award for marketing performance judged outstanding by fellow employees, April 1998.
