Thank you for visiting my online profile. My technical origins lie in software engineering and highly-available computer hardware architecture, complemented with extensive technology management and over a decade of current hands-on work in website development with html, xhtml, and css, particularly hand-coding new development in standards-compliant xhtml/css/JavaScript. I enjoy collaborating with a talented visual creative to produce compelling UIs, know how to work from wireframes and pixel-positioned Photoshop comps, and am endeared with the XMLHttpRequest object, XML, and JSON.
As a professional developer, I'm always eager to perfect and apply new skills and languages, particularly HTML5, CSS 3.0, ActionScript, and UI development frameworks.
Skills Summary:
- Extensive experience hand-coding front-end UIs with HTML 4.1, XHTML 1.0,
and CSS Level 2.1
- frameless, table-less, fluid, floated, and pixel-positioned css layout
- "slice and dice" Photoshop comps and develop fluid css layouts from wireframes
- experienced with cross-browser testing and remediation
- Experienced with JavaScript, manipulating the document DOM, jQuery, XMLHttpRequest, XML, XSL, JSON, AJAX, Google Maps API, MS TerraServer imagery API ("projects")
- Implemented a wide range of Web 2.0 RIAs including interactive
mapping APIs and production VIDEO:
- implemented UIs for live video, streaming video, and webcams
- converted and compressed a wide range of .vob, .mxf, .mov, and other videos to .flv, .ogg, .ogv, and H.264/.mp4
- familiar with Sorenson Squeeze, Handbrake, Toast, Final Cut, and Flowplayer software (Snow Leopard and Vista)
- familiar with switcher hardware, DVRs; P2 media, peripherals, and drivers; LaCie RAIDed storage
- experienced production P2 Media tech
- Implemented Google AdSense, Analytics, Maps, and Webmaster Tools; amazon.com, eBay, and mapquest.com linkages
- Extensive experience with Adobe Creative Suite (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Acrobat)
- Strong Microsoft Office Professional 2003 including VB macros and modules
- Strong unix ftp, FileZilla ftp, WS-FTP Pro, putty, ssh, and other web publishing tools
- Working knowledge of PHP, SQL, Fireworks, Flash, MS Project, and relational databases
- Intermediate admin for Linux/ Unix, Windows, TCP/IP, Apache, Tomcat, AWstats, and jsp SSI
- Basic Microsoft Visual Studio skills (I'm a JavaScript, C, and VB programmer, not an aspx/.net2 programmer)
- Basic knowledge of Section 508 requirements for Accessible Websites
- Experienced digital still motion and DVCProHD P2 media support tech
Related Skills:
- Webmaster for all sites shown in my Portfolio
- Experienced building and maintaining a large website (over 1,000 pages)
- Developed JavaScript, Visual Basic modules, and Excel formulas to automate and accelerate
site development, e.g.:
- Generate and emit large numbers of jsp:include files and iframes
- Interpret database of chemical formulas, generate, and emit xhtml markup
- Interpret database of optical properties, generate, and emit xhtml markup with
Greek character entities and Hermann-Mauguin notation - emit "well-formed" XML database from a large Excel workbook
- emit JSON database from an Excel workbook
- Authored and/or edited technical content on a broad range of topics
- Provided digital photography and participated in professional photo shoots
- Created and/or edited an extensive range of graphics, images, and photographs
- Provided complete desktop support for Windows machines of all ilks
Personal:
- Former C and assembly language systems-programmer
- Solid technology generalist with sound domain knowledge of:
- Computer Software, Hardware, and Networking
- Server "Green Energy" Analytics
- Debit Card Issuer Programs and transaction processing
- Geology
- Classic Cars
- Member:
- The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- IEEE Computer Society
- American Mensa
- Certifications:
- W3C Schools Certified, with Excellence notation
- expert HTML, XHTML, CSS, UI / Front-end developer
- Extensive start-up experience
- Extensive international experience
- Inactive DOD Secret clearance
- Avid fly fisherman, accomplished automotive enthusiast, and avocational geologist

