Chris Curtis Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, WA

• Developed, designed, deployed, and maintained 5 websites for clients
• Consulted with clients regularly to gather and define business requirements for devising a comprehensive strategy to design and develop a website from the ground-up
• Created landing pages utilizing WordPress

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Migrated web content from the Virgin America CMS to the Alaska Airlines CMS (Sitecore) in support of the $2.6 billion acquisition of Virgin America
• Collaborated with developers to create an email builder application coded in React to save the company $10 million a year by eliminating a contract with our marketing vendor
• Managed a CMS owned by a third-party vendor, EveryMundo, which specializes in providing route pages that display airline fares in real-time
• Designed and developed website features including - responsive & interactive components and animations utilizing Bootstrap, JavaScript and CSS
• Created dynamic personalization rules to serve-up catered web content to targeted users
• Created an online resource for my team’s workflow process which also included documentation for using the CMS. Trained two web content producers on process, workflow and the CMS.

Seattle, WA

• Designed, developed and supported two of CDK’s largest clients by creating custom image assetsusing Photoshop, developing custom functionality using jQuery | CSS | JavaScript.
• Initiated a leadership council to improve relations between the implementation and design teams,increase efficiencies and implement a consistent workflow.
• Met with dealer principals and marketing strategists to determine design requirements for websites.
• Created unique and creative image assets using Adobe Photoshop.

Seattle, WA

Created customized web sites for automotive dealerships utilizing CMS, HTML, CSS and Photoshop

Seattle, WA

Utilized web development skills to improve the functionality and design of the National Smokejumpers Association website

• Elicited business requirements, wrote functional specifications, provided hours estimates for projects. Facilitated requirements gathering sessions and provided input during system design sessions. Managed.
• Awarded “WaMu Employee Excellence” award for exceptional performance during the small business loan conversion of 30,000 loans. Mapped 150 interface data elements and developed data mapping logic for a new small.
• Lead analyst for a project to systematically board new loans to WaMu’s loan servicing system, which was part of a larger multi-million dollar project to implement a new loan origination system. Acted as department.
• Maintained an interface that systematically boarded 150 new loans per-day on average to the loan servicing system with a 99% success rate in a production environment. Developed data mapping logic for all enhancements.
• Maintained and developed over a 100 document templates utilizing letter publishing software that assembled, published and printed 5,000+ customer letters per-day.
• Created functional specifications and participated in design sessions in support of 30 enhancements, which resulted in no severity 1 defects when implemented into production. Successfully met project deadlines while.

• Elicited business requirements, wrote functional specifications, provided hours estimates for projects. Facilitated requirements gathering sessions and provided input during system design sessions. Managed.
• Developed, designed and implemented automated Home Equity Line of Credit payoff letters that increased convenience for customers and reduced paper and postage costs.

• Created and executed test scripts for SIT, UAT and regression testing. Logged and reported system defects to business analysts and developers for resolution. Provided defect status updates to business owners.
• Increased unit testing efficiency and accuracy by developing an automated testing tool utilizing Access.

• Performed asset and delinquency reconciliation for loans that were sold to other banks and serviced by WaMu. Provided project coordination and support during the Bank United and PNC acquisitions.
• Assigned as project lead and department liaison to validate system fixes implemented by the vendor. Said vendor claimed user error was the result of defects, but findings determined vendor fixes were defective.
• Developed an Access database for tracking prepayment penalty payments that aided in data retention and increased employee efficiencies by 50% by eliminating the manual process.
• Developed a reconciling method utilizing system screen scrapes that increased remittance reporting processing in the department by 50%.

Certificate, Web Technology Solutions

*JavaScript *PHP *MySQL

Ba - Journalism And Mass Communication

Activities and Societies: Arts and Entertainment Writer for The Daily Iowan newspaper

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Business

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