Resumé

Web pioneer

Designing and developing user-centered websites sites since 1996, my approach is all about accessibility and usability for all.

Skills summary

  • 12+ years web design, development
  • 10+ years digital photography and retouching, illustration
  • 10+ years editing, copywriting
  • 10+ years project, financial, team management

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Communication with emphasis in Journalism, Visual Arts minor; University of North Dakota; December 2004

Experience

Senior Web Developer, FindLaw

Eagan, Minnesota; 2005 – Present

  • Manage offshore vendor relationships to ensure appropriate return on investment
  • Hand-code over 500 fully accessible websites each year
  • Log and chart team’s and individuals’ progress using advanced Excel features, evaluate and report findings to management
  • Mentor and train others in accessible standards-complaint web development
  • Test FindLaw end-products to ensure standards determined by W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 are enforced
  • Advise product development team regarding product requirements to support accessibility and usability for clients and their end users
  • Develop tools that increase cross-departmental efficiency, resulting in $175,000 savings per year

Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, PurplePJs.com

Minneapolis, Minnesota; 1998 - Present

  • Design and develop large community web site
  • Design and develop user interface for web-based content management system
  • Orchestrate efforts of over sixty staff members to publish fresh content daily

Communications Specialist, Open Systems International, Inc.

Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2004 - 2005

  • Promote corporation through website, newsletter, and press releases, ensuring that corporate image and vision are uniformly applied and communicated
  • Manage web site design and content to ensure site tools and content are timely and effective for current business needs
  • Design and develop easy-to- customize templates for OSI marketing PowerPoint presentations, project profiles, product information sheets and other marketing material

Website Designer and Content Manager, Delta Delta Delta

Grand Forks, North Dakota; Moscow, Idaho; 2001 - 2004

  • Design, develop and maintain sorority chapters’ web systems

Website Designer and Content Editor, University of North Dakota Marketing

Grand Forks, North Dakota; 2001 - 2002

  • Design, develop and implementing web sites

Website Designer, McKenzie County Job Development

Watford City, North Dakota; 2000

  • Design, present, develop, and implement web system
  • Teach courthouse employees to maintain website

Technology

Applications

  • Extremely proficient PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Proficient in Acrobat, Access
  • Experience with Flash, Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut Pro

Languages

  • Extremely proficient in cross-browser xHTML, CSS
  • Experience with JavaScript, ASP, PHP, Ajax

Multimedia

  • Extremely proficient in digital photography, digital image manipulation, optimizing graphics for web