Objective
A Web Development position that would encourage application of W3C Guidelines, Standards-Compliant Web technologies and development methods, and Web Accessibility principles.
Education
University of Houston (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
Expected Graduation May 2009
Current GPA 2.7
Strengths
Strong oral & written skills (audience-minded communication)
Commitment to project completion
Team-oriented; supportive of new and innovative ideas
| Mac*/PC | MS Office | Photoshop | Illustrator | Dreamweaver | Flash/FLEX† |
| XHTML | DOM | XML/XSL | CSS1&2.1 | JavaScript | PHP* |
| WIP/WCA | SEO | MySQL/SQL | Visual Basic | ASP/.NET | JSP† |
Experience
Technical Support Agent
HostGator (Houston, TX)
March 2007 – May 2007‡
Member of Tech Support Team. Providing Web Hosting support through phone and chat.
Web Developer & Consultant
EmLogis, Inc. (Houston, TX)
February 2006 – February 2007‡
Member of the Management (Development) Team. Researching as an internal consultant for Web-related technologies. As the front-end developer, I collaborated with the lead graphic designer to produce user interfaces for the Administrative and the Portal Web-based applications. Major duties included producing XML documents as structures for datasets to be processed by the back-end Java engine; developing XSL style sheets to render XML data fragments via AJAX into pages dynamically; writing JavaScript, HTML, and CSS for the Administrative and Portal applications. Worked with lead graphic designer on various other projects, including the Website (XHTML, CSS, PHP, XML/XSL, etc). Developed a Visual Basic installer for the EmLogis Generator. Drafted a Web Accessibility cost analysis and guideline for future reference.
Technical Support Agent & In-House Web Developer
Convergys (Houston, TX)
June 2005 – February 2006
Member of Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting tech support staff. Working as a Web Hosting customer service and technical support agent. Assisting in development of intranet Web forum (XHTML, CSS).
Network Administrator Assistant
Adams Resources (Houston, TX)
June 2004 – August 2004‡
Member of MIS Department. Configuring and maintaining multiple networked computer systems.
Freelance
Millennium Learning Tutorial Services
Began August 2007 – present
Website written in XHTML Strict; CSS, JavaScript, PHP. Assisting in writing literature.
Harbinger / eight-ch.com
Began August/September 2008 – ended February 2008
Startup project that went bust. See the result of our collaboration. Here's the finished Website. I had no hand in the latter. The collaboration is based on the moo.fx JavaScript Library; written in XHTML Transitional; CSS; PHP. We more or less brainstormed together to produce the design. Developed a "step-based" manual template system to create new dynamic pages. Installed a basic search engine.
EmLogis, Inc.
February 2006 – February 2007
Website written in XHTML Transitional, with CSS, PHP, JavaScript, XML/XSL. Produced print, text resize, and page send functions at page level. Assisted with finding photographic images.
UH Students for Fair Trade
Began May 2007 – Current Webmaster
Website written in XHTML Transitional, with CSS, PHP, JavaScript. Developed custom administrative functions for admin users, such as "News Posting," "Events Posting," to name a few. It works like a very rudimentary CMS.
Mestemaker & Straub
June 2007
Website written in XHTML Transitional, with CSS, PHP, JavaScript, XML/XSL. Produced print, text resize, and page send functions at page level; wrote a JavaScript and XML-based script to cater the site to both English and Spanish speakers.
Other Activities
In my leisure, I enjoy reading and writing philosophical works, sincere philosophical discussion, photography, listening to avant-garde, Jazz and various rock music, longboarding, and plucking sparse melodies on my guitar.
References
...are available upon request.