Resumé

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Profile

UI engineer looking to design and write elegant, cutting-edge code without compromising accessibility or adherence to web standards.

Professional Experience

Lead Interactive Developer

Roundarch

October 2010 – present

  • Front-end, .Net, and JSP development for a variety of clients including Time Warner Cable

Senior Presentation Layer Developer

Razorfish

October 2008 – October 2010

  • Built interactive, progressively-enhanced sites for clients including Visa, Levi's, and Microsoft, using jQuery, ASP.net, C#, JSP, and PHP
  • Developed mobile websites and Facebook applications for Miller Coors
  • Modified and wrote middle tier/backend code in Java, ASP.net MVC, and PHP to support frontend needs and resolve bugs

Web Development Engineer

Amazon.com, Inc.

June – September 2008

  • Reviewed and wrote JavaScript, CSS, and JSP
  • Evaluated the feasibility and accessibility of new features

Senior UI Engineer

Orbitz Worldwide

June 2005 – June 2008

  • Developed and maintained Orbitz brand sites using XHTML, JSP/JSTL, and CSS. Wrote object-oriented, unobtrusive JavaScript with Prototype (including AJAX functionality using “Hijax” techniques)
  • Designed and implemented CSS architecture elements for running shared brands on a single platform, maintained by a large developer team. Accommodated internationalization and localization concerns
  • Coordinated maintenance efforts for ebookers.com, serving as the main UI contact for business and java teams

Associate Site Developer

Web Services, University of Chicago NSIT

September 2004 – June 2005

  • Created universally accessible websites using valid semantic markup with graceful degradation. Resolved browser display inconsistencies. Updated the front end code of sites written in ColdFusion, ASP, and PHP
  • Served as an advanced CSS resource

Education

Java Developer Program (certificate)
Jan-March 2007
DePaul University
BA (Psychology)
awarded Spring 2004
University of Chicago

Training & Associations

An Event Apart
May 2009
Seattle, WA
Aug 2007
Chicago, IL
Guild of Accessible Web Designers (Member)
Jan 2006 - present
Project Management: From Idea to Completion
Feb 2005
University of Chicago
Usability and Accessibility Conference
Oct 2004
Michigan State University