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I am a junior front-end web developer skilled at creating attractive, intuitive, responsive, maintainable user interfaces via standards-conscious, browser-tolerant, search-friendly semantic markup and scripting. more >
  • I like teamwork.
  • I am an exceptional communicator.
  • My quality of attention to written detail translates to a finicky attitude towards code markup.
  • I am highly curious and enthusiastic about learning.
  • University of Washington, B.A. English (Creative Writing), 1993, M.Ed. Secondary Education, 1997.

Portfolio

All work here features my own client-approved designs and front-end markup.
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Screenshot of The Baker Street Irregulars homepage
The Baker Street Irregulars 2011 work. Implements HTML5 Boilerplate, PHP includes, jQuery, AJAX, hand-crafted modals, CSS3 animation, webfonts, social media links, hand-created back-end PHP email signup, and an alternative interface for small screen devices. Design and implementation are all my own.
Screenshot of ClickEats homepage
ClickEats 2011 unreleased work in progress: redesign of ClickEats.com portal. Click image to view more UI design mockups I have largely implemented, working with version-controlled files featuring complex interactions of multiple JSP, CSS and javascript includes.
Screenshot of Top Gun Restaurant homepage
Top Gun Restaurant 2009 work. Includes backend-fed store hours and menus.
Screenshot of Nibbana Thai Restaurant landing page
Nibbana Thai
2009 work. Original, striking design based on logo and photos provided by client. Website is now closed.
Screenshot of Cafe Ori homepage
Cafe Ori 2010 work. Clean layout including database-generated, scrollable menu.
Screenshot of Ten Pound Note homepage
Ten Pound Note 2009 work. XHTML, CSS and a little javascript.
Screenshot of Shorinji Kempo Seattle Branch homepage
Shorinji Kempo Seattle Branch Implemented 2003; not a table-based layout. Maintained through 2007. All content, functionality and implementation my own. Last version done in XHTML 1.0-transitional with CSS and some javascript, including a javascript-powered photo gallery of my own device.
Screenshot of PHP demonstration
PHP auto-generated gallery 2010 PHP/jQuery self-study exercise accomplished with about 20 lines of XHTML and ten each of CSS, jQuery and PHP.  Simplistic, but the envisioned v.2 would add PHP-driven image resizing for automated thumbnail generation, and a form for uploading and naming new galleries.

Experience

  • Dynacron Group, Sept. 2011-present

    Currently working in an Agile/Scrum team on a website redesign project for a large health-services client.

  • ClickEats, Inc., 2008-present

    Chief layout author for in-progress redesign of ClickEats.com portal, working via Subversion (SmartSVN) with complex interactions of JSP, XHTML, CSS and javascript. For clients, created over 20 customer-facing websites using XHTML/HTML5, CSS and light javascripting, working from scratch, from templates, or by converting existing websites as directed.

  • Band websites 2010-11

    See portfolio samples above. The Baker Street Irregulars site is my most current and active project.

  • Shorinji Kempo Seattle webmaster 1998-2007

    Initiated, wrote and maintained all aspects of website UI and content. Upgraded over time from HTML 3.2 to HTML 4, then to XHTML. See portfolio sample above.

Skill set

skill level
XHTML, HTML4, CSS2 advanced
HTML5, CSS3 solid
Javascript, jQuery solid
AJAX solid
UI/UX principles, SEO solid
Web graphic preparation solid
Graphic design, Photoshop moderate
PHP moderate
Java basic
Bonus, non-technical skills:
  • Proofreading
  • Japanese language (conversationally fluent; slow reader)