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SKILLS SUMMARY

• Successful web project management for large corporations and small businesses.
• Creative problem-solving combined with analytical thinking to set goals and determine smart solutions.
• Longstanding passion for art and digital technology to enhance user / consumer experiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build solid relationships with clients, colleagues, and freelancers.
• Hands-on knowledge of design software, web programming, and back-end server set-ups.

EXPERIENCE

• Consulted with clients on the latest web technologies, translated business requirements into scoped projects, and proposed online advertising plans for building their brand presence.
• Provided design and web development services from creative briefs, improved information architecture, code standardization, interactive Flash, and light web application development.
• Clients include Pattern People, Vesta Technologies, Syndicate Labs, Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, Anadys Pharmaceuticals.
• My recent entrepreneurial venture is Vintalier.com, a passion project to garner interest in vintage shopping.

• Managed web production for a small business client and feature enhancements for Intel Brand's custom digital asset management system with budgets averaging $50-60K.
• Wrote SOWs and technical specifications, estimated project budgets and schedules, identified and tempered known risks, recruited freelance talent, and tracked development and team productivity.
• Guided web concepts and strategies to ensure quality of brand and key messaging initiatives.
• Researched software project management methodologies to improve the web production process.

• Served as interim Senior Digital Manager with four direct reports; facilitated progress and motivation during leadership and IT transitions, functional changes, server and software upgrades, and an intranet refresh.
• Cleaned 48% of the intranet in obsolete sites; defined new account management procedures; implemented fixed fee rates; and recouped an estimated $340K in annual costs.
• Managed digital communications for executives, global strategic initiatives, and business groups; negotiated deliverables, budgets, and timelines; monitored internal and external resources; conducted focus groups; and kept detailed documentation.
• Began as Web Publisher developing for 250+ internal clients; educated clients on self-publishing technologies such as RSS feeds, blogs, and wikis; and collaborated on a team to strengthen the intranet brand.

• Contributed to the massive rollout of Intel 3.0 branding while launching product sites monthly.
• Performed live creation of site mockups and storyboards, by popular request from management, integrating Web 2.0 technologies such as podcasts, RSS feeds, and del.ici.ous-style tag clouds.
• Initiated improvement of ticket handling and TeamSite process by analyzing hand-off times.
• Localized content and metadata to Chinese, Japanese, Russian etc.

• Architected and transitioned a 400-page, cross-departmental website to an upgraded server. Accommodated multiple skill levels and reduced storage consumption by over 40%.
• Established solid relationships with department leads and earned kudos.
• Collaborated with systems engineers to write detailed documentation on the installation, use and optimization of high performance terascale computing technology.
• Ensured standard QA testing such as code validation, accessibility, and browser compatibility.
• Developed an extensive user survey to define the mission and objectives of user services.

• Successfully launched an e-commerce project from conception to completion including seller relations, photography, installation, and payment processing and shipping.
• Monitored Overture and AdWords accounts to improve search engine optimization and statistics.
• Direct marketing and minimal cost resulted in conversion of visitors to patients and higher profit.
• Illustrated avatars and military and medical devices for use in virtual reality simulations.
• Provided technical support such as network setup, security, and database management.

• Researched and implemented an online Yahoo! Store complete with payment integration.
• Designed website and print ad campaigns to promote a new video server and interactive software.
• Increased sales and consumer and investor interest led to a fifth prototype and new software.

EDUCATION

B.A. in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts
University of California, San Diego

Project Management Institute (PMI), Portland

Corporate-sponsored courses on rich internet applications (RIA), Java web services, and mobile web.

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

“Featured Talent”, Filter Talent’s Clear Blue Sky Newsletter, March 2007

References are available upon request.