Resume

Ottawa-based Web developer with 10 years experience working on hundreds of web projects for private, non-profit and government sector clients.

Selected Work Experience

Yahoo!

Lead Prototyper
November 2009 to Present

  • Develop rapid prototyping environment.
  • Improve production processes.
  • Provide training.
  • Make products for a few hundred million people.

Snook.ca

http://snook.ca/work
Freelance Web Developer
January 2006 to Present

  • Develop Web sites and Web applications.
  • Speak at conferences around the world.
  • Write books.

Sidebar Creative

http://sidebarcreative.com
March 2007 to Present

  • Provide training workshops on front-end design and development.
  • Develop Web sites and Web applications.

Squarespace

http://www.squarespace.com
Lead Developer
April 2009 to September 2009

  • Developed MVC front-end architecture to accelerate new development.
  • Created Ajax-driven dialog system, improving interface response times.

Fuel Industries

http://www.fuelindustries.com
Application Developer
March 2004 to January 2006

  • Ported internal frameworks to other languages, allowing the company to improve development time for a wider base of clients.
  • Developed new Web development and project management processes to ease growing pains of the quickly expanding company.
  • Developed multilingual Web sites and Web applications.
  • Budgeted Web development projects.

H3Creative Inc.

http://www.h3creative.com
Web Developer
April 2001 - March 2004

  • Developed multilingual Web sites and Web applications.
  • Performed employee reviews and mentoring; involved in the hiring of new developers.
  • Identified market trends, new markets and potential partnerships with management.
  • Performed cost budgeting for Web development projects.
  • Developed Dreamweaver extensions to accelerate development.
  • Created documentation for research and development tax credits; also participated in the audit. H3Creative received the majority of the claim as a result.
  • Designed and programmed a Web content management system that is still used by a number of organizations.

I4design Inc.

http://www.i4design.ca
Project Manager/Developer
December 1999 - April 2001

  • Established new procedures and trained the staff with production techniques that helped improve quality control and performance.
  • Mentored co-workers.
  • Documented and reviewed technical recommendations with the business development team.
  • Developed multilingual Web sites and Web applications.
  • Designed and developed a Web content management system.