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Glendale, Ca, Us

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Charlottesville, Va, Us

• Developed the Roomkey.com front end, a single page application, using the Backbone JavaScript framework• Developed the Roomkey.com back end using Clojure

Charlottesville, Virginia, Us

• Developed an LMS platform on Rails tailored to institutions aiming to monetize and distribute online learning content and award continuing education credits and certifications. Regional clients included Montpelier. National clients included the American Heart Association.• Provided user interface leadership to Scitent’s developer team regarding large-scale CSS and Javascript patterns, best practices, and reusable components.• Led the development effort to reconceive Scitent’s flagship product, a key distribution system for access to online courses, as a rich single-page Javascript app using BackboneJS and KnockoutJS with a JSON API back end.• Managed a team of consultants, including developers from Charlottesville, Belarus, and San Francisco, by producing user stories, wireframes, and other forms of feature specification.

• Served clients from e-commerce, higher education, non-profit, and medical industries, including the U.Va. Center For Politics Youth Leadership Initiative to produce a web application serving tens of thousands of educators and students worldwide.• Conducted user experience research and developed user requirements through the use of user story workshops, think-aloud usability testing, interactive prototyping, wireframing, and web analytics.• Engineered and produced front end code for websites and custom web applications, integrated with back ends ranging from Wordpress/PHP CMS implementations, to large-scale Ajax-heavy Rails and Cold Fusion apps.• Produced web audio and video, featured on the homepage of a high-traffic e-commerce site, to walk users through a checkout process. This was part of a larger homepage and landing page redesign effort, for which I also set up Google Analytics goal and conversion funnel tracking to aid the client’s ROI analysis.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

• Produced and coordinated the implementation of a full visual redesign of the U.Va. Library web presence, involving development of a new template and user interface framework required to accommodate the needs of thousands of pages and dozens of website stakeholders.• Advised website stakeholders on matters of user experience design, and steered website design production efforts using assessment information such as findings of the Library’s usability testing and user requirements research team.• Conducted training specifically on use of the Library website templates and generally on skills and practices necessary for website maintenance. Prepared and taught a 12-hour intermediate-level course curriculum on CSS to U.Va. Library staff.• Produced online public relations materials such as website counterparts to physical exhibitions housed in the U.Va. Library.

• Designed, built, and maintained the first two incarnations of A&S Online, the primary web news publication produced by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at U.Va., on top of a custom content management publishing and templating system.• Stewarded the College and Graduate School through a progressive redesign effort over 6 years, continually introducing more effective information architecture, visual design, search engine optimization, technological solutions, and site management practices.• Implemented a site design based on W3C web standards, using CSS positioning for layout and conforming to best practices and specifications for improving site accessibility and ease ofmaintenance.

• Designed and assisted with production of print publications such as brochures, pamphlets, corporate identity packages, event invitations, and advertising displays.• Designed layout and coded HTML of websites for corporate and non-profit clients, including Monticello and the University of Virginia.• Produced illustrations as graphic elements for design projects.