OBJECTIVE:

• To obtain an exciting and challenging position in a large size company in San Francisco that will enable me to fully utilize my substantial creative and technical skills, and to use my knowledge of Web 2.0 technology to further my skills as a UI/UX development professional.

SUMMARY:

• 10 years of experience as a professional in Web Development, Technical Writing, Visual Communications, Graphics and Information Design.
• Seven years of expertise, specializing in application development, UI Design and Usability evaluation experience, visual design, analysis and enhancements.
• Six years of business development and project management experience.
• Five years of organizational experience. Introducing and implementing new and successful ways of organizing production and design process. Proven ability to coordinate and set up process, and quickly find problem - solving solutions. Experience in overseeing projects through full life cycle.
• Brand development and positioning, promotional marketing and advertising campaign conceptualizations.
• Experience with a variety of hardware, software, and most development environments.
• Ability to lead and handle multiple tasks simultaneously and efficiently. Dynamic, self-motivated and open to new challenges.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Adobe: Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, Image-Ready, PageMaker; Quark Express, CorelDraw.

Macromedia: Dreamweaver, HomeSite, Fireworks, Flash, BB-Edit and other various HTML editors and validation tools for Windows and Macintosh systems.

MS: Visual Source Safe, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Publisher, Visio, Outlook, Works, File Maker Pro, Snag It (Advanced Screen Capture).

CRM and CMS systems: Clear Case, SourceSafe, CVS, Vignette, and Interwoven TeamSite 6.0.

Programming: HTML, DHTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, PHP, JSP, CGI, ASP, ActionScript, FLASH, FLEX, JQuery.

DB: Oracle, Access, SQL and MySQL.

Environment: /Networks: Mobile WAP, Java, AJAX, JSF, Web Services, IDE, EA, EAI, .NET, Web Logic Portal, SAP, SOAP, REST and XML-RPC, Joomla

OS: Windows OS, Windows NT, Windows XP, Linux, MAC OS, MS DOS.

IT: Windows Web-Servers, Apache and Unix Servers, DNS configuration. Web browser compatibility, various FTP and Tracking systems, AP Style and the Chicago Manual of Style, RoboHelp; Various SEO software and optimization tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

UI/UX Developer

Confidential —Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Used responsive design to write and edit HTML 5, CSS 3, unobtrusive javascript (DOJO), PHP and JQuery code to create pages.
• Wrote and tested code for cross-browser compatibility.
• Worked in an Agile Development model. Version control system was Subversion.
• Participated in regular code reviews for consumer-facing .e-commerce website www.bondrewards.com.
• Created wireframes and mock ups based on clients’ design guidelines.
• Created image assets used in web pages.

UI/UX Developer, Consultant

Confidential —San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and edited HTML 5, JQuery, PHP and CSS 3 code to create pages based on style-driven templates using Joomla And SourceSafe.
• Wrote and tested code for cross-browser compatibility.
• Worked in an Agile Development model. Version control system was SourceSafe.
• Participated in regular code reviews for intranet community website http:// Confidential .com.
• Created graphics based on clients’ design guidelines.

UI/UX Developer

Confidential — San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and edited HTML, JavaScript (Backbone.js) effects with JQuery, and CSS code to create pages based on style-driven templates using Microsoft Visual Studio and IIS on Microsoft Server 2003 PCs.
• Wrote and tested code for cross-browser compatibility.
• Participated in regular code reviews for http://www. Confidential .com.
• Created and sliced PSD graphics based on clients’ design guidelines.

Production Artist, Consultant

Confidential— San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and edited HTML, JavaScript, and CSS code to create pages based on style-driven templates.
• Wrote PHP code for cross-browser compatibility for http://www. Confidential .com.
• Wrote and tested code for cross-browser compatibility.
• Created and sliced PSD graphics based on clients’ design guidelines.

Web Developer

Confidential — San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and edited HTML, JavaScript, and CSS code to create pages based on style-driven templates using Interwoven TeamSite web content management system. Used PHP code to connect to database in mySQL.
• Wrote and tested code for cross-browser compatibility.
• Participated in regular code reviews. Designed and developed code for the iPhone.
• Informed management of any technical issues and their business impact.
• This redesign of www.pge.com, the company’s customer facing website, was intended to ameliorate the user experience and make content more easily accessible adhering to ADA Section 508B standards following those from the W3C Consortium. winning website: www.pge.com, E Source 07 Review of North American Electric and Gas Company Web Sites - 2007.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential — Mill Valley, CA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote, managed, and edited content through the company’s proprietary Content Management System (AdminCenter) of their software SiteBuilder™, which leveraged the management, creation and deployment of custom made solutions for Enterprise clients in a short time and with little initial investment.
• This software was designed to be the base back-end business logic on top of which a custom solution could be quickly built to meet the Client’s specific business needs.
• Confidential developed said solutions initially and launched and hosted them for their Clients.
• The clients would then be trained on how to manage content through the product’s Admincenter (CMS) to set up independent corporate websites, portal websites, microsites, locations, retailer stores (eCommerce websites) which could then be hosted and maintained by the Client, or hosted and maintained by Confidential in dedicated servers, per client.
• Such solutions included upgrades of the product, SiteBuilder™, as well as upgrades (added functionality) to their custom solution as the Clients’ business needs grew or changed.
• Development took place on Microsoft Server 2003 platform, with IIS, ODBC, and App Server in a .NET environment.
• Files were version-controlled through Visual Source Safe, C# applications contained the classes, and all their files and templates were hand-coded in JavaScript/XML/XSLT/CSS.

Web Developer, Consultant

Confidential — San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Symantec is the World’s leader in Internet Security.
• The company develops software applications which are available from a retail level to an Enterprise level.
• As a team lead in the Business Intelligence Department, the group that utilizes existing tools to research threat activities on the Internet worldwide, then develops fixes to any existing guard tools already in place and also creates new tools to address new-found security breaches, I wrote, coded, programmed and designed this tool as a process.
• I conducted all research relating to this type of development method using Symantec’s broad knowledge base as well as documented texts and W3C notes on the subject.
• Thoroughly documented the process of creating and replicating this tool to become part of Symantec’s continuing wide range of security risk tools using industry-standard technology such as JavaScript, CSS, XHTML, SEO, Photoshop, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver.

Web Developer, Consultant

Confidential — San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and edited HTML, JavaScript, CSS code to create pages based on wireframes and visual comps from the designers.
• These pages were entirely style-driven and contained no tables.
• All content was displayed dynamically; the few javascripts were imported and used for form validation, browser-checks, and user event-handling.
• This overhaul of www. Confidential .com was intended to achieve better usability, create a table-less dynamic content information and eCommerce website, which also adhered to ADA Section 508B standards following those from the W3C Consortium.
• Created widgets by which the Marketing Group could upload new promotions, ads, and new copy regularly by using the company’s content management tool, Vignette.

Web Developer/Technical Writer, Consultant

Confidential — San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and edited all the ProStores Easy Sreet Documentation, their multiple User Guides, Store Administrator Help, and System Administrator Help.
• Wrote and edited content of their static HTML templates for their software product on the web.
• This software was designed for merchants to set up independent stores (eCommerce Websites) which would be hosted by the merchant's ISP but would be directly connected to Confidential servers with a common account so merchant could list and sell any or their entire inventory through both. Confidential purchased ProStores (located in Folsom, CA) a year ago and the Easy Street software product is proprietary to Confidential .
• Their work and test environment was on Apache Web Server, files were version controlled through SourceSafe, Java applications contained the classes, and all their files and templates were hand-coded in JavaScript/HTML/XML/XSL/CSS.

Software Engineer, Consultant

Confidential — Novato, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the redesign of the UI of the company’s proprietary online software product, FlashPhoto.
• FlashPhoto is used internally by PhotoTLC employees to take in and process orders from retailers for photographic services.
• Restorations, copies, enlargements, and photo gifts were all input through the API, processed and shipped out by their individual vendors.

Lead Technical Writer, Consultant

Confidential— Cupertino, CA

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with other engineers and developers in creating and documenting an internal website for the Symantec business network and revenue portal, the project was called Metropolis.
• Designers created artwork and mock-ups, which the developers would then construct into web pages dynamically using HTML, JavaScript, XML, CSS, while using an Apache Server to run their applications and pull data from their Oracle DB.

Web Developer

Confidential — Novato, CA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and edited HTML, JavaScript, CSS code to create pages, as well as edited content on a website design for Confidential employees.
• The internal website contained content designed to guide R&D teams through documentation control of clinical studies, revise business processes and workflow descriptions, include configuration procedures, and maintain good manufacturing practices.

Web Developer

Confidential — San Mateo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and edited HTML, JavaScript, CSS code to update pages, as well as edited content on Confidential Corporate Website; by using a templating system from their C++ application, and integrating such templates with the Siebel Enterprise product on their servers.
• Worked on the team (web designers, marketing, engineers, DBAs system administrators) that single-handedly launched Sales.com, the Confidential Enterprise product for the Internet, B2C.
• In this process an entire site was built from scratch by programming the applications, creating and coding the templates, uploading the data, and designing the look & feel of the product using HTML, JavaScript, CSS and TCL within Vignette, a content management tool, to hold and keep version control of all code.
• All data was kept and maintained in an Oracle DB.

Web Developer

Confidential — Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Created, and coded all templates in the Corporate Information Section of the 3COM website.
• The applications were written in JAVA maintained in BEA's Weblogic servers, the templates were coded with JSP tags, HTML and JavaScript and the queries were coded with XML tags.
• All the content on the site, including images, was kept and managed in an Oracle DB so it could be dynamically generated per page.

Web Developer, Consultant

Confidential — Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an HTML programmer for E*Trade Group’s International Department.
• E*TRADE’s partner in Sweden co-branded a similar site to E*TRADE’s for trading in non-American markets.
• My team created the entire site using JAVA applications, Oracle for the database and HTML hand-coded templates, which would provide information based on the latest data, which came from Tuxedo™.

Web Developer, Consultant

Confidential — Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Served as team programmer for Confidential ’s release of the Go Network.
• Using the company’s proprietary language Blitzen, a derivative of C++, I developed the portal’s pages.
• The templates were constructed with a combination of Blitzen tags, HTML and JavaScript, using their UNIX environment with tools such as VI and emacs.