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About Me
Front-end Developer:
I am a front-end developer specializing in web standards, accessibility, and usability based development. I generally code to XHTML 1.0 Strict and maintain a separation of layers (content, presentation, behavior) with semantically correct code. All of these greatly benefit Search Engine Optimization (SEO), caching, faster page loads, as well as ease of maintenance, debugging, and updating. Doing it right the first times saves problems later.
Accessibility:
I work towards WCAG 1.0/WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act compliance for accessibility. I have been a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) since 2004 to further my knowledge.
Cross-Browser:
I am very familiar with cross-browser designing as well as browser hacks. There are a plethora of methods dealing with Internet Explorer’s (IE 6 specifically) and other browsers’ bugs. You will find some default browser hacks present in the core.css style sheet used in this little resume page.
Graceful Degredation
Designing a site so that it will function gracefully in older or limited browsers. The site may not look exactly like it will in modern and fully featured browsers, but it will be functional. Not all functionality may be present due to lack of support for newer standards or scripting, but all content will be accessible. Styling for smart phones as well as older browsers such as Internet Explorer 5.x and Netscape 4 are good examples of this.
PSD – Design:
I enjoy the challenge of taking a site’s graphic design given in something like PSD or JPG formats and turning that into a usable site template.
Table-less Layouts:
My expertise is in putting together full XHTML/CSS table-less layouts. There is a time and place for table based layouts, but those are few and far between. CSS Zen Garden can help to show you the power and beauty of standards based design.
Tools and Technologies:
Dreamweaver is my tool of choice to hand-code my pages with such features as code completion, code hints, and the built-in validator and link checker being very handy. I have also used Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Prototype.js as well as with Eclipse, AJAX, Java, Java Server Pages, Lotus Notes, and Active Server Pages.
Work Experience
It’s All About You LLC in Baraboo, WI
Position: Freelance – Site Design and Maintenance Dates: Sept 2008 – present Basic Description: Primary developer to design and maintain site.
- Worked with graphic designer to create a basic layout in JPG form and took the JPG and created XHTML Strict site using accessibility and usability principles.
- Maintain Content: maintain and update content for site.
- SEO Work: worked to move content to front page at second or third result for their important keywords.
Sauk County Government in Baraboo, WI
Position: Web Application Specialist Dates: January 2003 – Present Basic Description: Primary Web Developer to design and maintain site with some Lotus Notes application interface and workflow design and some in Java/Java Server Page (JSP) development.
- Manage and Update Site (ongoing): Mange and update site content, standardize and normalize content coding practices and page layouts while ensuring code is semantically correct, accessible, and it validates to XHTML 1.0 Strict.
- Java Server Page (JSP) Application Maintenance (intermittent): I perform intermittent maintenance and updating of a web based JSP application called SOARING for viewing property tax information for the county.
- Adobe Acrobat Professional (intermittent):
- Bookmarking: I have taken lengthy process documentation and PDF ‘ed it along with creating topical bookmarks for ease of use.
- Editable Forms: I have worked with application forms and made them editable with some JavaScript processing for automating calculations.
- County Site Redesign (2003): Completely redesigned the non-standardized and tag-soup site to a full Dreamweaver template driven site, as well as converting all content to XHTML Strict compliance. (~10k hits per month with over 3 GB of content)
- Touch-Screen Kiosk Site (2004) : Developed an informational kiosk site for a touch-screen based kiosk.
- Site Analytics (2004): Researched, selected, and implemented an JavaScript based external site analytics program for the county website.
- Created Intranet for County (2005): Coded a Dreamweaver template driven intranet site for County Employees. (Over 500 users)
- Lotus Notes Application Interface and Workflow Design (2006): Created an interface layout and workflow for a local Lotus Notes application dealing with scheduling meetings, and routing, and managing Agendas and Minutes which were to be posted to the public facing website. Created application interface layout with usability principles and wrote back-end pseudo code for our Lotus Notes Developer. I also wrote the the web based help documentation for this application. (~60 users)
- Java Based Lotus Notes Agent to XML and ASP (2006): Wrote a Lotus Notes Agent in Java to take records from a Lotus Notes database for Foreclosures and to export then in XML, which is to be read by a server-side JavaScript based Active Server Page (ASP) to be presented in a fully accessible table structure. I wrote the server-side JavaScript to read and display the XML file to webpage.
- Usability Based Redesign Process (2007): Started a usability based redesign of County site including generating and collecting surveys from public users via Survey Monkey, generating personas for potential use modeling, and looking at website statistics to determine site usability patterns.
- Selected Content Management System (CMS) (2008): Researched and selected a CMS for use in county site redesign – Drupal. Arranged meetings and product demonstrations with end users, as well as gain their feedback on demo’ed products.
- Java Based Lotus Notes Printing Agent (2008): I created a Java based agent for a web based Lotus Notes application for Septic Maintenance tracking to take records for specific clients and generate an HTML page usable for printing. I worked with the project manager and the primary developer to coordinate and test this agent.
- Lotus Notes Application Interface and Workflow Design (2009): I designed a Lotus Notes application interface layout and workflow using usability principles for the proposing of resolutions for county committee meetings.
- Working with Developers to Redesign County Site in Drupal (2008 – 2009): Selected developers to redesign county site in Drupal. Gave them a base design in XHTML and worked with their design ideas. Created a XHTML Layout of possible design for new Drupal theme combining our ideas.
Other Employment
Sitel Technologies in Madison, WI
Position: Internet Technical Support for AT&T Consumer and Business Accounts Dates: January 1999 – October 2001 Job Description: I worked 1 year on AT&T World Net Consumer accounts and then transferred to AT&T Business Dial accounts. I worked with customers over the phone to try to solve various connectivity and email issues.
Perry Judd’s Printing in Baraboo, WI
Position: Printing Press Operator Dates: July 1998 – January 1999 Basic Description:
United States Navy on the USS Enterprise
Position: Reactor Operator/Electronic Technician Dates: August 1994 – June 1998 Basic Description: Proceeded by 2 years of naval schooling (see below) I was stationed on the USS Enterprise out of Norfolk, Virginia for 4 years as an Reactor Operator/Electronic Technician. Monitoring and recording meter and gage reading. Maintaining and controlling a reactor plant in normal and emergency conditions, as well as performing maintenance on reactor plant instrumentation inside and outside of the reactor plant.
Education
Other Education
Nuclear Power Training Unit (NPTU – Charleston)
Institution: United States Navy Dates: December 1993 – July 1994 Course Concentrations: This 6 month lab took place at the naval base in Charleston on a gutted submarine moored to the pier, as well as their share-based teaching and studying facilities. Here we learned how a specific reactor operated and how to do the jobs that we would be performing and qualifying when we arrived to our first command: Phone Talker. Throlttleman, Reactor Operator (RO), Shutdown Reactor Operator (SRO), Reactor Control and Equipment Operator (RCER) while on a rotating shift schedule.
Naval Nuclear Power School (NNPS – Orlando)
Institution: United States Navy Dates: May 1993 – Nov 1994 Course Concentrations: This 6 month school taught Nuclear and Reactor Theory, Physics, Chemistry, and Operation along with Nuclear Instrumentation, and Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow as well as other sundry topics.
Nuclear Field “A” School (NFAS – Orlando)
Institution: United States Navy Dates: Sept 1992 – March 1993 Course Concentrations: Electronics Technician – This 6 month school taught basic electronic theory and repair specializing in Radar.
Certifications
Certified Novell Administrator 5.11 (CNA)
Date Obtained: April 2002
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Windows 2000
Date Obtained: October 2001
Certified Usability Analyst (CUA)
Date Obtained: August 2006 Received my CUA via Human Factors International (HFI)
Professional Memberships
Web Standards Group (WSG)
Member since since 2004
Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS)
Member of the since 2004
