Resume as Usual
Experience…
- Web design/dev since 1997 …wee lad
- Coding since 2002
- Graphic design since 2001
- Drupal since 2005 (early D5)
Work Experience…
- misc web work in HS/college
- Webmaster - Experimental College @ UW
- Operations Manager - Career Center @ UW
- Lead Developer/Designer - YourSports (SEA web startup)
- Co-Owner - ReadyDone (digital talent agency)
- Developer/PM - Skull Squadron (development firm)
- Co-Owner/Designer/Dev - Tacky Smack (hobby biz)
- Drupal Programmer - Tableau Software
Education…
- B.S. Linfield College - Ind. Maj. Mass Communication and Computer Science
- Master of Communication in Digital Media from University of Washington (partially complete)
Skills & Interests
Communication & Workflow…
- What matters to whom.
- Pleasing a few devs, many editors and tons of users.
- Enabling sprint cycles via smart: milestones, tickets, stories, buckets… and an agile mindset. Buzzz.
- Time set aside for speeding up everyday work.
- Hyper-focus time and planning cycles.
- Actual white-glove service.
- Realistic estimation.
- Borrowing existing work and knowledge.
Code & Tools…
- Languages: PHP, Javascript, mySQL, CSS3, HTML, unix
- Frameworks: Drupal, jQuery,
WordPress
- Design Software: Photoshop, InDesign, some Illustrator
- IDEs: Komodo, TextMate, TextWrangler, Notepad++
- Some Favoriate Tools: Git, Drush, LiveJS, Firebug
Techniques and Technology…
- Tagging and recommendation
- Fresh CSS and browser-pushing layout
- Browser compatibility, unobtrusive fallbacks
- Data caching, CDN, front/backend performance
- Translation/internationalization (i18n)
- Landing pages and driving and call-to-action
- Sales funnels, nurture campaigns
- Feed aggregation
- Auto-tagging and categorization
- Deployment, staging, QA, workflow management
- CRM integration
- Access control, permissions, roles
- Contextual layout
- Upgrades, migrations, dependency
- CMS plugins and modules
- Date related objects and display
- Social plugins and sharing
- SEO, Conversion funnels
- Solr/Lucene and Google Appliance search
- Spam prevention, controlling input/display
- Web Fonts ☃
