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. Currently I am out at The Boy Scouts of America reorganizing and redesigning their internal and external facing websites. Before Boy Scouts I was out at Blue Cross Blue Shield of TX working on an Enterprise Level Application for Enrollment when the funding was reduced due to the economy. I was employed by Vignette Corporation for many years 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.