Good Neighbors USA
- Given responsibility of wholesale re-design and front-end functionality of organization's English-language website
- Organized regular design-planning meetings, welcoming input from entire staff regarding look-and-feel
- Established color/style guidelines, composed external stylesheets, and structured file hierarchy for all graphic assets
- Investigated and integrated jQuery applications to accommodate project image galleries, tabbed reports, and display of real-time Google Maps
- Scripted and revised PHP code in cooperation with website developer, to insure cross-browser compatibility and seamless display of site navigation and content
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Hot Topic Media, Inc.
- As part of Design/Development Team, re-engineered each of the company's three relationship-advice business units using XML-CSS architecture to provide a framework allowing for easier and more efficient content management
- Improved cross-platform performance of each website by hand-coding tableless markup throughout
- Participated in quality assurance analysis as well as in-house split testing
- Fulfilled all requests and aerformed all updates to presentation styles, page layouts and individual block components for all brands
- Contributed to front-end developer guides and design style guidelines
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Script Pipeline
- Implemented strategic redesign of company website for 2010 re-launch, with assistance from General Manager and Lead Programmer
- Converted rough sketches into design comps and wireframes, suggesting refinements in page layout and user flow
- Achieved successful re-branding through use of more palatable color theme and modernized logotype
- Maximized dynamic presentation of content using accordion widgets and video clips, with all utilities tested for cross-browser compatibility
- Increased website's compatibility with mobile devices by decreasing overall number of Flash-based components in favor of ones programmed using JavaScript and CSS
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Oversee.net
- Managed all vector and photographic assets for company's travel websites, concentrating specifically on cross-browser optimization and search engine visibility
- Coordinated archive of all online graphics - categorized files by date and type, established and maintained naming conventions, and uploaded assets into WordPress/Drupal repositories
- Contributed original graphics and graphic effects using background textures, gradients, brush effects and typeface treatments
- Composed original copy, inserted product images, and published "Travel Gadgets" articles regularly featured on LowFares Blog
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The MLS - Members and Guests Site
- Assisted ColdFusion developers and SQL programmers in creation of company's wholly-owned, web-based listing system
- Incorporated custom-coded JavaScript and third-party software plug-ins to produce site enhancements requested by users - enhancements included printable PDF versions of online reports, online photo galleries, financial calculators and monthly sales statistics
- Managed licensing and distribution of real-time data feeds transparently framed within subscribers' personal websites
- Built ad template layouts for company's web-to-print online ordering system, permitting users to customize and schedule property listings for insertion into weekly open-house publication
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