Employment History
Current Employer
Title: Front End Engineer
Employment Dates: August 2007 to Current
Engineering
- Working within in a high scaling LAMP environment on two different Yahoo! Properties - Shine (shine.yahoo.com) and Tech (tech.yahoo.com now in maintenance) focusing on Front End Technologies in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.
- Create user tools utilizing Flash and JavaScript to improve and engage a social user experience. These tools include voting modules, user generated photo galleries, rich text editors, and several innovative blog authoring tools (won multiple hack day awards).
- Contributing and innovating on top of many internal and external Yahoo platforms such as YUI and Search, enhancing the platform for other users and yet provide our users a more stable experience.
- Interact with the marketing, user design and experience, quality assurance, product, editorial and sales teams throughout the development process to ensure a well rounded timely release of products focused on its key demographic and are well maintained with continuous support from Engineering.
- Examples
Previous Employers
Artemis Solutions Group
Artemis Solutions Group is one of Mid-Michigan's leading IT consulting and development outsourcing firms. We pride ourselves on timely project delivery and the highest level of customer service.
Title: Associate Post Implementation Consultant
Employment Dates: August 2005 to August 2007
Web Development
- Responsible for developing html and css skins for several content management systems including dot net nuke, rainbow, and php nuke
- Developed custom SharePoint intranet portals to increase work productivity and reduce paper load
- Supported a wide verity of custom web applications written in php, coldfusion, asp.net, and asp with sql database back ends
- Examples
Human Resources
- Recruited for several key positions including lead application developer, consultant, and many types of developers
- Created an employee rewards program to help boost employee attitudes
- Severed as Academic Ambassador to develop relationships with educational intuitions to help increase awareness about Artemis Solutions Group
Project Management
- Trained and developed an offshore African based web development team
- Managed a support team to help assist with existing clients web and application projects
- Coordinated work schedules with project loads to help maximize time on projects
Eli Broad College of Business
The mission of the Eli Broad College of Business and the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University is to excel in the education and development of business leaders and in the creation and dissemination of knowledge, leading to national and international prominence for our core businesses (undergraduate, MBA, MS, PhD, research and executive development programs).
Title: Web Programmer
Employment Dates: April 2004 - October 2005
Web Development
- Programmed within a Cold Fusion/MS SQL environment to design database applications with administrative back ends and content management systems.
- Ensured compliance with Fusebox standards framework and methodology as well as Federal Section 508 Web Standards.
- Worked as part of a four-person web development team that manages the college's web pages, databases, and applications.
- Websites that I worked on:
College of Veterinary Medicine
Title: Computer Assistant IV
Employment Dates: September 2003 - April 2004
Computer and Network Services
- Provided Dell System support and network support for over 600 terminals
- Installed and configured user's software and external hardware to work properly in a multi-user environment.