2/2010 – 8/3/2011
SAIC- Frederick
Web Developer
Develop web applications for NCI scientists. Working within a
proprietary framework in PHP, creating web applications to help
scientists find a cure for Cancer. Object oriented structures in PHP.
Also working with jQuery, Scriptaculous and SQL.
9/2007 – 2/2010
Philips Hadco
Art Director, then Communications Manager (Webmaster/Developer/Designer)
Upgrade and maintain corporate websites for Hadco lighting.
Redesigned bot sites as well as created microsites for product launches.
Hadco is now a division of Philips North America Lighting. I wrote a
usability report that lead to an Information Architecture redesign. I
tweaked the code written in.NET by Cimbrian (Lancaster, PA) to work with
new navigation structure. Created OOP-based email list manager in PHP
5.2 for MS SQL Server.
5/2003— 4/2005
Maryland Sea Grant
College Park, MD
Educational Web Designer
Create, Publish and maintain scienceinquiry.org. This position had a varied scope of duties which included creating a custom CMS in PHP 5.1/MSQL 5.1 for mdsg.umd.edu. Creating e-learning systems for educators to post lessons for peer review. Creating and maintained grant website for grant participants. Creating and maintaining a CMS for Environment Science Education Partnership using the same e-learning systems. All site work done in procedural PHP.
Other duties included constant interactions with grant participants, video production of convention events, post-production using Final Cut Pro software.
3/2001 — 5/2003
Bruce Creative
Beaverton, OR
Owner
I freelanced for the two years that we lived out in Beaverton, Oregon. With the time I had I taught myself PHP/MySQL, designing and coding for several clients. Starting from a simple forum to creating a basic CMS with a member pay systems, newsletter system and community apps such as forums and chat.
10/1999 — 3/2001
Healant e-care business
Greensboro, NC
Senior Web Designer
This was mostly a pure design position where I was the only designer that knew any HTML/CSS or Javascript. This enabled me to better interact with the developers to give them realistic and workable designs, enabling us to push the barriers and little more.
12/1998 — 10/1999
CorData Technologies
Lexington, NC
Art Director
I “cut my web teeth” in this position, learning everything I could about HTML and CSS and Javascript. I dove into Dreamweaver 1.0 and Flash 1.0. I learned about web servers and systems. I never touched any server-side during this stint. I worked on many local clients’ sites as well as Volvo Action Services internal employee portal.
1993 -1998
Desktop Publishing and Illustration.
