Work Experience 

Dates Employed

Job Title

Company

9/2006 - Present

Chief Web Architect / Contractor / Consultant

*Primary designer for high mission critical Coast Guard applications. Specializing in user experience.

*Conduct meetings to improve business workflow and refining requirements for optimal business growth with budget officers and managers.

*Responsibility of providing preliminary concepts, requirements, prototypes and proof of concepts based on the business rules of Coast Guard's critical missions.

*Responsible for gathering feedback and refining users experience through comprehensive usability test labs.

*Created important frameworks for retrieving crucial financial data from Coast Guard's main financial databases.

*Created and designed applications used to retrieve real-time data which translates into meaningful real-time reports.

*In less than a year, the highest civilian award (Innovation Award) was given for designing a key application to optimize Coast Guard's tax auditing processes.

*Saved the US Coast Guard $200+ million in obligated funds through new application designed to meet CFO's financial compliance.

2/2006 - Present

Part-Time Instructor

*Expertise in a full range of the web application life cycle. Back-end database to front end user interfaces.

*Specializing in teaching SQL Server, Database Development, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Active Server Pages, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and UI Design.

*Students are comprised of employees from prolific companies such as Ebay, Google, Yahoo, Intel, and many others located in Silicon Valley.

5/2002 - Present

Senior Manager (User Interface)

*Coordinate with UI team to engineer and develop web interfaces (or POCs - Proof-Of-Concepts) for CargoSmart.com, CDRIVE, and other projects (50000 + users) utilizing screens using HTML/DHTML and javascript (by hand).

*Worked closely with business and system analysts who were responsible for providing their requirements/feature sets. Through several meetings and requirement reviews, I would help refine their requirements and provide screen flow scenarios to utilize good usability practices.

*Performed Usability Lab tests on users while providing test cases and scenarios through a comprehensive document covering aspects such as click time and user behavior analysis.

*Developed and standardized graphics, icons, buttons, as well as modularizing interfaces. Created and provided documents for interface development to keep consistency but paid attention to detail on usability.

*High proficiency in graphic design has prompted other involvements in projects other than cargosmart (i.e graphic print work, site design, etc.)

*Created documents that diagram user screen flow using modularized interfaces while maintaining user-centric design.

*Assisted in fleshing out low-level prototypes to integrate with DB and PL SQL procedures.

*Responsible for Creating Style guides (ranging from 30-40 pages) for many parts of the application, page standard designs and templates. Style guides are then disseminated to many parties including UI team.

*Create and directed several new designs/projects and application enhancements for the CargoSmart system, this included fully scalable and modular systems and functions around the site.

Assisted in Cargosmart's other related sites for graphics, interface work and usability insight (schedulingsmart.com and operationsmart.com).

1/1995 - Present

Developer, Analyst, Support, Founder

*Started a three man company to develop web sites/apps for small businesses on a part-time basis.

*Freelance ASP/ASP.NET, PHP, CGI/Perl expertise on several types of projects ranging from search engine refinement to rich interfaces.

*Gathered requirements and provided overall analysis of current workflow vs. new workflow and then proposed solution through various visual material (i.e. PPT presentation, meetings, etc.)

*Created and designed Proof-Of-Concepts (POCs) for high-level interface designs after refining requirements. This includes detailed conceptual sketches, possible fail-safe scenarios, visio diagrams illustrating interface/screen flow, etc.

*Created and conducted testing scenarios through visio and provided documents for all projects involving web applications and/or deployment of networks.

*Worked on projects where site is migrating from one platform to another (i.e. PHP > ASP, ASP > ASP.NET, JSP > ASP.NET).

*Developing complex ASP applications for interactive content with databases to give users ability modify content through individual accounts.

*Other past projects include redesigning interfaces and optimizing the management of information through intranets. This includes organizing statistical data through administrators and local accounts.

*Developed web-based Helpdesk systems with employee timestamp capabilities for medium sized companies.

*Small projects included:
creating informational web sites (brochure based) for small businesses
web based interface for handling product organization on the web
contact directory search engine for employees
content management system with security rights, registration, and newsletters
e-commerce
web-based product procurement
online auction site
Demonstrations of said projects can be requested


*Still working with company to develop personal on-going business specific extranet/intranet projects.

9/2000 - 9/2001

Senior ASP Developer/Web Director

-Worked closely with pharmaceutical development group to create CFR11 compliant applications to regulate and enforce GMP (good manufacturing practices) with a team of 10 programmers and database engineers.

-Led group of developers ranging from database to design throughout the lifecycle of an application.

-Developed a CRM/ERP solution for sales force using Oracle DB, ASP, and COM

-Developed new infrastruture and guidelines for company’s intranet

-This included the adopting the industry standard/procedures for deploying N-tier based sites and web-based applications.

-Developed and improved interface for current flash-based intranet.

-Created several web-based applications for the NT-based platform.

These applications included:
-A Standard Operating Procedures Management system (SOP Manager)
-A Redeployable Statistics/Survey Generator -Department proprietary Search Engines for PDF files and Word DOCs.
-In-house content management system
-Web based file manager accessable from any terminal-Redesigned and optimized database schemas for departments.
-Regulated development standards and templates for the company’s intranet.

3/2000 - 8/2000

Technical Director

Led a small engineering team to develop the company's first flagship B2B application.

Developed from the ground up using SQL Server and ASP. Developed several versions of the user interface for the web based application and integrated backend systems with the finalized interface (ASP).

Also assisted in core programming of the application

Wiseconnect was then acquired through the

5/1997 - 3/2000

ASP/Web Developer

-Design and develop interfaces for the intranet including maintainance (Windows NT). Also developed initial intranet web apps (using ASP).

-Web Scripting for special projects and applications on internet site(using Perl/CGI)

-Leaded web development staff for other informational sites for other agencies:
http://www.bth.ca.gov (California BTH)

-Redesigned DMV's web site (with new interface which in turn increased the number of public users to easily gain access to needed info)

-Lead Designer for Vehicle Renewal Registration on-line application (where users can do e-commerce for their vehicle registration)

-co-created and developed online Driver License Renewal web application for users to renew their licenses online.

6/1995 - 9/1997

Student Assistant/Network Administrator

-Assisted in troubleshooting networks across various computer platforms.

-Maintained and managed network servers for optimal use.

-Assisted Database Administrator with Oracle DB through C programming.

-Helped manage users accounts through Unix and IBM X-terms.

-Experimented with HTML for intranet. Began experimenting with ASP Development on NT machines.

Education 

Dates Attended

School

Degree

Location

4/2000

UC Davis

Computer Engineering

Davis - CA - US

1/1995-3/1998

Sacramento City College

Sacramento - CA - US

9/1993-9/1994

Sacramento State University

Sacramento - CA - US

6/1993

Hogan Senior High School

High School or equivalent

Vallejo - CA - US

Skills 

Skill Name

Skill Level

Last Used/Experience

Adobe ImageReady

Expert

Currently used / 7 years

Adobe Photoshop

Expert

Currently used / 9 years

ASP (VBScript) / ADO

Expert

Currently used / 8 years

ASP.NET (C#)

Expert

Currently used / 5 years

SQL Server Data Transfer Services (DTS)

Intermediate

Currently used / 2 years

AJAX

Intermediate

Currently used / 2 years

XML

Intermediate

Currently used / 4 years

C++

Expert

Currently used / 8 years

CGI/PERL

Intermediate

Currently used / 8 years

COM Object Development (Visual Basic)

Intermediate

Currently used / 5 years

DHTML (cross browser CSS/Javascript)

Expert

Currently used / 8 years

Dreamweaver 2.0/3.0/4.0/MX

Expert

Currently used / 8 years

HTML

Expert

Currently used / 12 years

Interface Design

Expert

Currently used / 8 years

MS Access

Expert

Currently used / 8 years

Oracle SQL

Intermediate

Currently used / 5 years

Print Graphic Design

Expert

Currently used / 8 years

SQL

Expert

Currently used / 7 years

SQL Server (T-SQL)

Expert

Currently used / 6 years

Usability Testing/Development

Expert

Currently used / 6 years

Visual Basic

Intermediate

Currently used / 5 years

Web Graphic Design

Expert

Currently used / 10 years

References 

Only by request

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