Dynamic career exhibiting impeccable team leadership and project coordination in the fast paced interactive design industry. Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills combine to achieve bottom line results while strategizing and implementing advanced technologies. Extremely knowledgeable with the standards and conventions of Project Management, Interface design and Website Usability.
Web & Multimedia Production / Project Management / Team Leadership and Collaboration / Client Assessments
Strategic Planning / Graphic Design / Web Development / Attention to Detail / Interface Usability / Search Engine Optimization
JBArtistic – Custom Web Development |
08/2005 - Current |
Senior Project Manager and Web Designer and Developer
Manage interface design, coding, and quality assurance testing for small business website projects. Meet with clients to understand products, target audiences, and business plans to ensure designs and site architectures align with business goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess client requirements and create site specifications, schedules, and contracts. Obtain customer sign-off on project plans and at the conclusion of each project phase.
- Design site architectures and interfaces taking into account usability, scalability, and ease of maintenance.
- Create site templates, content pages, style sheets, interactive forms, and animations.
Implementation Manager
Coordinated the successful implementation of proprietary software for both self-hosted client solutions and application service provider models. Ensured customer solutions were delivered on time, within budget, according to specification, and to overall customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
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Develop internal project portfolio process to balance resource workloads and ensure projects with the highest priority receive the appropriate amount of attention.
- Efficiently organize internal and external teams in a matrixed environment to coordinate the timely execution of project tasks.
- Understand complex client requirements and translate them into fully detailed project plans outlining scope, risks, schedules, responsibilities and costs.
PPG Industries - eCommerce Application Development Team |
05/2001 - 10/2004 |
Project Manager
Successfully led cross-functional teams to complete simultaneous, large-scale mission critical projects. Accountable for all activity related to projects including project scope definition, customer expectation setting, time and cost status tracking and communication, and customer relationship maintenance.
Key Responsibilities
- Effectively monitored and reported project status information to management and customers, and was held accountable for controlling project plans and costs. Communicated frequently with internal and external customers, ensuring the delivery of high quality service and support.
- Consulted with customers to understand business goals, recommend appropriate usage of technology, and offset costs through technology re-use. Developed detailed project plans as part of overall system documentation.
- Worked with other project and resource managers to prioritize projects and allocate resources amongst various active initiatives.
- Successfully led the PPG intranet design team to create Content Management Templates for intranet sub-sites utilizing .NET. Participated in the redesign of the PPG intranet to a .NET “Productivity Workstation”.
- Led the design, development, and implementation of a corporate Internet authentication application, expanding on scalability and flexibility for multiple business units.
- Led SharePoint Governance Committee to develop implementation plans, determine standards, and delegate work. Documented corporate-wide standards for internal usage of Microsoft SharePoint Portal services and trained internal staff members according to roles and standards.
- Evaluated interface designs and software solutions for interface usability. Implemented a 0 - 100 point interface usability grading scale.
- Produced executive level presentations, marketing IT initiatives to senior management and customers.
S4I Studio 4 Interactive - Design and Marketing Firm
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12/1999 - 04/2001 |
Senior Programming Manager
Effectively coordinated and managed all aspects of web programming from initial conceptual design through coding, quality assurance testing, final delivery, and client approval. Assessed development needs and designed technical requirements for all web development.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborated with other department leaders to evaluate current project status, functional specifications, and estimated timelines for production.
- Created task lists and delegated work taking into account member workload, deadlines, current project status, and other activities.
- Motivated team members to pursue aggressive goals with confidence and independence. Stimulated employee development by helping team members realize how their responsibilities fit into the overall team initiative. Wrote and delivered performance evaluations for multiple direct reports.
- Developed methodologies involving coding standards, naming conventions, protocols, and documentation that were implemented company-wide. Analyzed and re-designed development processes to streamline production and reduce overhead.
Web Developer / Computer Animator
Efficiently coordinated, designed, and maintained static front-end website development for corporate customers. Met with clients to discuss project specifications throughout project life span. Developed and maintained all CGI models, animations, and interactive productions for multiple clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Performed all front-end web development including graphic editing and splicing, HTML template creation, and content implementation.
- Developed documentation demonstrating an extensive knowledge of multiple browser types and versions on multiple platforms.
- Worked with clients to diagnose and rectify defects in existing sites. Defined the benefits and uses of web techniques including inter-activity, robust site design, scalability, search engine optimization, and end users.
- Designed precise 3D graphical representations and animations of industrial machinery and schematics that accurately depict their true-life counterparts.
Macromedia Studio / Adobe Studio / QuickBase / Commerce Server / SharePoint / Content Management Server / MS Office Suite / MS Project / MS Visio / Exchange /
.NET / SQL / ASP / JavaScript / XML / HTML / DHTML / XHTML / CSS
Available upon request. |
