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Welcome to my website! I designed this website to showcase my talent as a Graphical Designer, Developer, Information Architect, User Interface Designer, Senior Creative Consultant and a Director of Marketing and Application Development.
I have worked building websites, doing everything from site maps, wireframes, functional design specifications (process flows), design comps even developing Marketing materials over the last fifteen years. I have had the opportunity to work with some of the top Fortune 500 companies. I am used to dealing with C Level Executives and their IT Infrastructure people to select the right Web applications, hardware, software platforms and designing and implementing those applications and framework. Most recently I was employed by Vignette Corporation as one of three GUI designers in the United States implementing the Vignette CMS Portal application. This put me onto projects like The American Red Cross, Fox Business News, California AAA, HMA, UT Southwest, NBC iCue, the Travel Channel, PepsiCo, Grant Thornton, and GE Money. Vignette gave me the opportunity to challenge myself to learn many new business models, like the Healthcare industry, and how physicians function in their day to day activities when I architected and designed the Physician Portal for HMA in Florida. While with other companies I worked on large e-commerce websites like WalMart, Sam's Club, HP, Mobility, Smithsonian, and Roots. I have also been involved in architecting many pharmaceutical websites while working with imc2 utilizing Sitecore and Ektron as a CMS (Content Management System) application.
I love building interactive web applications either custom coding or utilizing a CMS like Vignette, Ektron, SharePoint, Broadvision, Blue Martini, ColdFusion, or Sitecore; integrating Flash, ASP (ASP.net), VB (VB.net), JSP, XML, Java, Javascript, VBscript, and SQL, even MySQL and PHP. My expertise is such that I know what is involved in building a site from the ground up. From knowing how to build and maintain a server, database and website all the way to implementation and testing. I am a skilled documenter, having to develop user flow models, product maps, interaction concept sketches, wireframes, mockups, and testing prototypes. I have collaborated with the developers, design firms or design teams, user experience, product, and development teams to proactively gather and understand stakeholder and end-user needs in order to create the best user experience possible. Please take the time to look over my resume, and portfolio, and see the projects I am currently developing.
As a Director of Marketing and Application Development I was challenged to lead the Marketing and Application Development initiatives for True Solutions Inc. I worked on redesigning the Website, Network Infrastructure, and managing the day to day Network Operations. I also designed and deployed new Marketing strategies and collateral. Working with TSI, I had the opportunity to be creatively challenged and be a part of a rapidly growing and inspiring company. TSI is certified by the Project Management Institute� to Educate the top Project Managers in fortune 500 companies all over the world. A lot of their PMP Practices have rubbed off onto me.
For two years I was the Creative eCommerce Director for PFSweb a company whose sole initiative is to pick, pack, warehouse, and act as call center to some of the largest corporations in the world. While there I functioned as the sole creative talent building sites from the ground up, from design to coding, and acting as a liaison with clients for day to day maintenance and improvements once the solution was implemented as well as along the way.
Two years prior to PFSweb I worked for another dot com company LEAPnet whose corporate offices reside in Chicago. The initiave of LEAPnet was to provide Broadvision solutions to big name organizations like WalMart and Sam's Club. Working at LEAPnet gave me the undersatanding of large ERP systems and the logic involved in the day to day processes of large
Fortune 100 companies.
I feel that I am a well rounded and creative Developer, Designer and Solution Architect. Having worked with so many driven corporate identities I know how to integrate well thought out designs that conform to their astringent guidelines while maintaining my creative touch.
"I like what I do, and I do it for the creative outlet. A well thought out solution that is thought provoking and is tailored to make a company not only sell product, but streamline the processes involved, is a work of art." - Faith Warren
- Prepare and deliver long-term strategic plan for Web development and presence, including standards and guidelines for technical design, based on business goals and input from stakeholders.
- Identify, recommend, and prioritize new Web features and applications in conjunction with business leaders and department managers.
- Establish and document guidelines, policies and procedures for software and application development.
- Identify reusable code required for code library and ensure the high quality creation of the code.
- Perform cost-benefit analyses of proposed Web implementations, enhancements, and modifications.
- Select and implement hardware, software, platforms, publishing tools, and programming languages for the development of Web architecture.
- Create and maintain a consistent Web site architectural structure across the organization's Web applications.
- Communicate and coordinate architecture and strategy with Web site departments and content creators throughout the enterprise and with third-party development agencies, ensuring compliance with overall strategic direction.
- Work with database administrator to design, develop, and update relational databases as they pertain to Web applications.
- Conduct research into current and emerging Web technologies and issues in support of Web development efforts.
- Set and enforce compatibility and interoperability standards that ensure site accessibility for all users.
- Track and evaluate new standards, technologies and trends in Web architecture, development, design, and delivery.
- Monitor and report on Web site traffic and performance.
