EXPERIENCE:

World Travel Holdings Woburn, MA                                      2007-Present
Senior Web UI Developer
Responsibilities include building and extending cruise and vacation websites for clients like Orbitz, Yahoo, Priceline, and Cheaptickets, as well as major hotel chains and airlines.

• Helped launch the biggest new partner deal in the company’s history
• Built new functionality with ASP, ASP.NET, C#, SQL, XML, XSLT, CSS, HTML, JavaScript
• Set up and deployed Windows 2003 servers for development and testing
• Led workshops in Regular Expressions, cross-browser compatibility, and CSS

Karen Pryor Clickertraining Waltham, MA                             2004-2007
Director, Web Development & Marketing
Responsibilities include management of all IT operations, retail sales, online services and marketing.

• Increased pageviews 65% and online sales 44% in the first year
• Developed and launched a DRM-enabled video download service
• Redesigned the company website www.clickertraining.com with a PHP-based CMS and AJAX form elements, as well as a keyword-based ad delivery system, increasing conversion rates 24% (36% among new visitors) in the first three months
• Coordinated AV and presentation delivery for the ClickerExpo national conference series

Matthew Ferrara Seminars Methuen, MA                                  2002-2004
Team Leader, Technology Trainer
Responsibilities included 2nd-level support of Help Desk Technicians, training of new personnel, training of seminar clients on proprietary systems, help desk communications and QA, and intranet design and implementation.

O’Reilly & Associates Cambridge, MA                                     2000-2001
Author

• Co-authored Designing with JavaScript 2nd Ed. (O’Reilly & Associates, 2001).
• Wrote two chapters of Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Ed., by J. Neiderst (O'Reilly & Associates, 2001), on JavaScript and Dynamic HTML.
• Wrote several articles on JavaScript and Apache for the O’Reilly Network
• Technical Reviewer of Perl for Website Management (O’Reilly & Associates, 2002).
  

Web/Information Designer
Responsibilities included the design and information architecture of Safari Books Online, a joint venture between O'Reilly and Pearson Education to create an online computer books subscription service, using CSS, HTML, and XML; the design of the company intranet, using CVS, CSS, and HTML; and numerous other design, research and marketing projects using Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Perl and CGI.

Chaffee & Partners Providence, RI                                          1998-1999
Online Creative Designer
Responsibilities included site design for all new clients, information structure, e-commerce site architecture and Flash animation. Also was responsible for company site redesign as part of company rebranding effort in 1999.

EDUCATION:

Brown University, Providence, RI                            1995-1998, 1999-2000
Independent Major: Digital Arts and Media
Interdisciplinary Independent Concentration combining courses in media studies, hypertext, computer science and fine arts including computer graphics, electronic music and interactivity.

Teaching Assistant, Electronic Composition
Undergraduate Teaching Research Assistantship (UTRA) grant awarded for teaching assistantship in Advanced Electronic Composition (EL111) with Robert Coover, T.B. Stowell Professor of English.

Research Assistant, Interactive Gallery Installation
Undergraduate Teaching Research Assistantship (UTRA) grant awarded for interactive installation involving motion and proximity sensors based on MAX and iCube, video editing in Media100, Adobe Premiere, and After Effects.

Phillips Academy, Andover, MA                                              1992-1995
High school, graduated with honors.

SKILLS:

Languages Spoken: English, Spanish

Web/Programming Languages: HTML, XHTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, AJAX, Perl, PHP, CGI

Operating Systems: Windows 3.1 through Vista and Server 2003; MacOS 9 and X, Linux (Red Hat and Debian-based distributions), Solaris.

Technical Skills: Windows, MacOS and Unix networking; web admin; hardware installation and repair; systems admin.

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Academic:
Papers, hypertext fiction and essays on digital culture included in the syllabi of college hypertext courses at Brown University, University of Calgary, Virginia Commonwealth University, National University, and University of Louisville.

Winner of the 1995 Pan-American Prize for cultural studies in Spanish language literature

Musical:
Student Conductor of Brown University Chorus. Soloist in Phillips Academy and Brown University choirs, including tours of Spain, Portugal, France, California, New York and Puerto Rico.