I am a Web Content Engineer that has been creating Web sites for over 11 years. My employers include the most highly trafficked sports site in the world, a digital-marketing agency focused on Fortune 500 clients, and a pioneering Web development software company. Skills include best-of-breed HTML,/CSS, ECMAScript/JavaScript, and ActionScript. I am personally driven to handle every Web project with passion, pride and personal ownership. I put the highest emphasis on making the customer happy in order to make the company I work for look its best.
Recent Career Accomplishments
Situation:
A competitive environment for the internet time and attention of a highly desirable demographic.
Solution:
Constructing web experiences so they are delivered in a timely fashion, with 100% accuracy to a global audience.
Outcome:
Beating our competition in major metrics as measured by a third party, such as page views, unique users and time spent.
Situation:
Our team was diminished and we were lacking man-power.
Solution:
Identified qualified developers, hired them, and trained them to reach their highest potential.
Outcome:
Increased productivity by taking ownership of staffing needs.
Situation:
Increase market saturation, anticipate customer interests, and instill desire for our product.
Solution:
Increase indexability and searchability of pages by improving page mark-up, created personalization features, and consulted with writers and editors to find the best way to get information on to our site.
Outcome:
Captured new audience with low-risk innovations and increased traffic.
Situation:
Customer's demand for content drives an imperative of efficient delivery.
Solution:
Designed development process with a close eye to making future development effortless.
Outcome:
Traffic continues to increase while reliability and site responsiveness remains high.
Situation:
Needed to increase profitability. Hey, we aren't in this for our health, right?
Solution:
Provided our sales team with the flexibility they needed to sell promotions, executed daily on delivering impressions, and brought to the table the audience that our advertisers wanted.
Outcome:
Helped increase annual revenue from 26M to 100M + over two years.
Education
Baccalaureate of Fine Arts Conceptual and Information ArtsSan Francisco State University
1996 - December 1998
Professional Experience
Front-end Engineer — SportsYahoo!, Inc, Santa Monica, CA