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I am both very creative and technically proficient, able to communicate with backend developers and clients in order to meet their requirements. I have an "eye" for design and am self-taught as a UI designer and programmer. I am highly knowledgeable of various browser/OS requirements and apply this to my site design. I am an organizer and an excellent facilitator.
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| | | Stanford Alumni Association, Stanford, CA |
December 2001 - Present |
As a Content Manager for the Online group, work with two broad areas of responsibilities. First, work with internal groups to create new sections, maintain and refresh existing sections of the main SAA site at http://www.stanfordalumni.org. Second, work with internal groups and external vendors to design and provide the code base for user interfaces applied to various web applications, new and existing. Working closely with a product manager, ensure that scopes are realistically built and that timelines are met. Responsible for browser compatibility for HTML, CSS and relevant javascripts.
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| · | work with completely data driven site, (TCL and JSP). Using a proprietary, powerful CMS, architect the table structures and logic, in addition to the UI, that enables the client to have the most power and flexibility with their content. Notable sections of the main SAA site include the 2003 Reunion Homecoming and the Alumni Education Book Salon subsites.
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| · | successfully designed and launched a complete refresh for the award winning magazine, STANFORD (http://www.stanfordmag.com). In addition, the magazine group wanted to be able to manage the site themselves. The magazine site is outside of the main site's CMS, so extensive use of Dreamweaver MX templates were created, as were the snippets feature, to provide the client with a safe and flexible method to pour in content every other month. See back issues before July, 2003 to see the old design.
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| · | User Interface Design: In addition to creating the UI for various small web applications within the site styleguides (the Stanford Career Center and the ATNC Application Review, to name two), architected, designed and coded for the three following web applications: Stanford InCircle, Club and Class Websites (and Web Administration for same), and SAA Discussion Groups. See http://www.tigote.com/html/p_saa.html for details.
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| | | Harding Marketing Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA |
January 2001 - December 2001 |
Web Site Lead for various Intranet websites at Hewlett-Packard. Based in HP’s Cupertino office, responsibilities include consulting (scoping, planning, architecture and analysis), implementation (navigation, copy writing, coding, graphic design), QA and release. Maintenance includes managing and implementing updates submitted by various HP editors via web-based work management tool owned by HMC. Work in coordination with Web Developers, copy editors and graphic designers as necessary. Ensure that the sites fit the HP Intranet design rules. Implement custom templates, javascript navigation, and style sheets within those guidelines. Notable projects include:
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NSP Business Unit: Merge European regional site into central site, refresh both with new look and feel, content organization, architecture, and navigation within the context of the HP Intranet design rules. Extract DTP files (MS office, Acrobat and videos) from existing European ASP database and merge with content of new site. Flow in new regional content. Create and integrate two Cold Fusion databases: customer reference and training course finder. Design UI for course finder.
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IT Solutions: Phased site refresh: (1) Bring existing site into accordance with HP Intranet design rules. (2) Refresh individual solution categories with as “portals”. (3) Create central database that automates collateral for portals, news, and events.
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| | | McAfee.com, Sunnyvale, CA |
June 2000 - January 2001 |
Manage various projects from start to finish for the ASP driven website, http://www.mcafee.com. A unique website that serves up online applications using ActiveX controls, the challenge is to keep bandwidth small, provide a high-end user experience and balance out sponsorship and advertising requirements. Interact with web developers, site builders, copy editors and design team and coordinate with upper management and Business Development to ensure consistent messaging, look and feel, customer usability and retention. Write proposals, project plans, maintain sitemaps and information architecture diagrams, and instigate new designs where appropriate. Also statistical analysis of Web Trends and internally gathered website data.
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| | | Wind River Systems, Alameda, CA |
June 1999 - June 2000 |
Webmaster for the Marketing Intranet. Complete site redesign focusing on the Products and Services section of the site with an emphasis on the "Sales perspective" in coordination with the Marketing Operations team. Involves: designing new information architecture and design and coordinating with CGI programmers to enable "on the fly" generation of high-activity databases and product information pages. This includes designing the form templates to be used for inputting product information and designing the HTML templates that will be part of the CGI code. See http://www.tigote.com/html/p_wrs_m2.html for more details.
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| | | Wind River Systems, Alameda, CA |
December 1997 - June 1999 |
| Executive Assistant, VP Marketing |
As the assistant to the VP of Marketing and Corporate Development initiated and developed a wide variety of projects, including:
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Webmaster, Marketing Intranet
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Create, grow and maintain a Marketing website on the company Intranet. Over a two-year period this website grew totaling over 600 pages. The site had been maintained primarily using NetObjects TeamFusion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat and the Microsoft Office Suite. Javascript and CGI were used throughout for mouseovers and forms. Primary considerations were: optimal bandwidth - the Sales force primarily access the sites through dial-up modems; and printability - individual pages should print in a manner that is clean and easy to read, suitable for customer viewing where appropriate. See http://www.tigote.com/html/p_wrsmktg.html and http://www.tigote.com/html/p_wrscafe.html for more details.
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Powerpoint Presentation Templates:
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Using Photoshop and Powerpoint, create new "look" for Company Powerpoint presentations. Template was very successful and were still in use 1.5 years later. See http://www.tigote.com/html/p_templates.html for more details.
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Powerpoint Presentations and Custom Graphics:
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Create persuasive, compelling and informational presentations. This included consistency of design, layout, and color as well as expertise with creating many different graphics and block diagrams using Photoshop, Kai's Power Tools, Bryce 3D, Visio and the Powerpoint draw program where appropriate. While primarily for the VP of Marketing and Corporate Development, also created presentations for the Chairman and Founder, the CEO, and many of the director's and managers in Marketing. See http://www.tigote.com/html/portfolio.html for more details.
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| | | Michigan State University, Lansing, MI |
1986 - 1988: Major in Journalism
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| | | Wayne State University, Detroit, MI |
1988-1990: Major in Elementary Education
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| | | Merritt College, Oakland, CA |
Winter 1997: Introduction to C Programming: A grade
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| | | Ciber, Inc., San Francisco, CA |
October, 1999: Dreamweaver Training
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November, 2003: Javascript
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| · | NetObjects Team Fusion 3.0
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| · | Adobe Photoshop 4.0-7.0
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| · | Mambo 4.0 CMS (Open Source)
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| · | Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6.0
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| · | Microsoft Office Suite 95-XP
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