- Summary:
12 years hands-on experience developing websites through their entire life cycle. Energetic self-motivated, multi-faceted programmer/developer. - Web skills:
Energetic self-motivated, multi-faceted programmer/developer. Work tirelessly to develop, design, and deploy websites and web-based applications using DHTML, perl, JavaScript, php, MySQL and graphics applications to create graphics sets. - Location:
Currently seeking full-time employment in the San Francisco Bay Area. Specifically: Fremont, Union City, Newark, Hayward, Milpitas, North San Jose, Pleasanton, San Ramon, or Dublin. Will not work in San Francisco. - Platforms:
Macintosh and Windows O/S (Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP), Linux, Solaris. - Software:
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat, Real Producer, Flash, HomeSite, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Microsoft Office Suite, PageMaker, Quark Xpress. - Education:
Computer Science, graphic design. Attended Ohlone College, Computer Science/Network Admin. Certification program. - Miscellaneous:
22 years experience of layout and design. Graphic Artist, Technical writer; Type 140+ wpm, administer multi-platform LAN in my home.
- Your Great Website.com - Proprietor
June, 1997 - Present- Develop web sites; determine navigation, appearance and content.
- Create web graphics with Illustrator, Photoshop, Macromedia Flash and other integrated tools.
- Use text editor to write and edit HTML, perl, php and JavaScript to create pages and structure.
- Use perl and cgi to make interactivity such as e-commerce possible.
- Integrate MySQL as a backbone to run the site dynamically
- Maintain client updates to their sites in a methodical, timely fashion.
- Robert Half International - Portal Administrator (Contractor
- Used Vignette to create site structure for the new rhi.com website
- Worked tirelessly to create new rhi.com website and was successful in keeping our team a couple of weeks ahead of schedule.
- Performed maintenance on the other Lines of Business websites
- Contract terminated shortly after the deployment of the new rhi.com
- Moonstone Interactive - Webmaster (Contractor)
- Re-deployed company affiliate websites to XML compliance and search engine optimal
- Made templates from graphics in CSS (rather than tables)
- Worked closely with manager to ensure timely delivery of site work
- Excite@home - Website Architecht; International Division
- Worked with various groups within the company to automate their sites, departing from hard to maintain static pages to dynamically generated pages and directories utilizing php, perl and MySQL.
- Developed and maintained the current Service Realization Process site which defines how we developed any product in the company and took it through its life cycle.
- Developed training workshops in perl, HTML and Flash.
- Developed an automated documentation repository system using MySQL and perl joined with a versioning software, probably CVS or RCS.
- Designed internal International communications website from start to finish, including graphics, navigation, back-end programming, look and feel, etc. single handedly which contributed to the group¹s communication and helped us be one of the only revenue generating business units in the company. Maintained site, adding content as needed, developing new interactive content and tools as needed by the Group.
- RHI Consulting - Consultant- Website Producer
- Coordinated and created graphic design, banner ad management, and all other aspects of site production. Acted as technical interface between marketing and the technology.
- Delegated troubleshooting and QA for entire site prior to going live.
- Infolane Corporation - Senior Website Developer
June, 1996 - July, 1999- Oversaw, supervised and delegated tasks to the Production Room staff, client site maintenance.
- Frequently interacted with clients one-on-one to review and discuss how to achieve their goals for their sites
- Often designed sites from start to finish, including graphics and navigation structure
Website Credits - Cross Section - http://www.BFIFremont.com - Fremont's trash collection company.
- http://www.newarkrotary.org - Newark's Rotary Club. This site is run completely on a PHP/MySQL backbone so they can make changes to the content themselves.
- http://www.spacerock.com - my personal home page.
- http://www.miserablemelodies.com - a site which runs on a MySQL backbone. It gets 100,000 hits/month
- http://www.yourgreatwebsite.com - my commercial (own business) site
- http://www.wearsoftoptions.com - Soft Options - Headwear e-commerce site
Educational Background
Most of my computer language skills have been self-taught. If I don't know something, I will read about it and apply what I have read directly to the application I am developing. I have attended some formal training:- Graphic Design and Layout - San Jose City College, San Jose
- Computer Science - De Anza College, Cupertino
- Unix Systems Administration - Ohlone College, Fremont
Hobbies & Interests - Riding my Harley
- Scrapbooking/paper crafts
- Gourmet level Cooking
- Enjoying my cats
- Open Wheel Racing (IndyCar)
- Student Pilot - working on Private Pilot’s License
Additional Web Credits & References available upon request
August, 2007 - October, 2007
January 2007 - May, 2007
April, 2000 - December 2002
November, 1999 - March, 2000
Job Site: Miller Freeman/CMP Media for TechCareers.com
