My career as I know it started way back in 1995. I designed my first website that year… using Microsoft Word. It was awful. Later that same year, though, I had my first paying job as a freelance web-designer - $50 from a local church music group for a website full of frames, tables, and font tags. Of course, I was 12 at the time and didn't know any better. Now, almost 15 years later, the fundamentals of what I do haven't changed and neither has how much I love doing it.
Presently my focus is on front-end web development emphasizing standards, accessibility and the end-user experience. I constantly strive for pixel perfect implementations, highly flexible and reusable code and the highest quality craftsmanship for all of my work.
I currently reside in Longmont, Colorado and am a happily employed Senior User Interface Architect for Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Education
University of Missouri - Columbia
2001-2005
Received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. Completed 2 years towards a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art with an emphasis on drawing and design as well as 3 years toward a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy (yes, I said Philosophy).
Experience
Sr. User Interface Architect, Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Boulder, CO, November 2007 - Present
Responsible for leading standards-based front-end implementations for a wide variety of static and dynamic websites as well as sustainable web applications. Developed agency-wide architecture for front-end implementations and defined the process by which standards-based user interfaces are implemented. Responsible for interactive department education on my speciality, including intensive technical training for developers, process training for producers and technical consideration training for designers
Notable project work includes CPB Group's website, the American Express Open Forum, Microsoft's Windows.com, Burger King's BK.com and more for clients such as Domino's Pizza, Volkswagen and Coke Zero.
Sr. Web Developer and Designer, Delta Systems Group
Columbia, MO, November 2004 - November 2007
Primary responsibilities include the analysis, design and maintenance of both small and large scale commercial and corporate web sites and web-based applications as well as database design and software development and testing. Also served as web server administrator for over 40 hosted domains across multiple servers. Responsible for all functions of those domains and servers including website, email, database and DNS hosting.
Skills
User interface planning, architecture and implementation focusing on web standards and web application development and design.
Coding, Markup & Databases
(X)HTML, CSS, Javascript (including frameworks such as jQuery), Ruby (and Ruby on Rails), PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, XML, Dashcode (OSX Widget Creation)
Expert in the fields of web standards-based development, mobile web development, Ajax, DHTML and web application development.
Programming Proficiencies
Web Standards, Accesibility, MVC Frameworks (including Rails and Cake), Content Management Systems (including Expression Engine, Wordpress, and Joomla), and Object Oriented Design
Internet Systems Administration
Both Unix/Linux and Windows based servers, Apache, Mongrel and IIS webservers, MySQL and PostgreSQL database servers, Ruby on Rails deployment, Subversion (SVN) version tracking
Recognition
Unmatched Style · Most Inspired · CSS Mania · Design Shack · CSSClip · CSS Web Design Yorkshire · CSS Designed · Boxed CSS
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