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Objective

Experienced user experience, industrial design and marketing professional seeking opportunity to exercise proven talents on consistently delivering innovative corporate web presences, corporate identities, and internet applications.

Profile

Creative, driven, problem-solving, technically-savvy individual constantly seeking additional knowledge and refining current skills. I have an extensive portfolio of satisfied customers. I have the technical aptitude to quickly come up to speed with any operating system, programming language, or software. I possess a strong work ethic, which I believe is vital to accomplishing my professional and personal goals in life. I am a leader and an innovator who regularly leads projects and speaks at company and community events.

Experience

Operating systems

  • Microsoft Platforms – 12+ Years
    • NT 4 – 1 Year
    • NT 5 – 6+ Years
    • 2003 – 2 Years
  • Linux Platforms – 4+ Years
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux – 1+ Years
    • Fedora – 2+ Years
    • Ubuntu - 1+ Years
    • Gentoo – 1 Year
    • Slackware – 1 Year

Programming

  • PHP – 5+ Years
  • HTML/XHTML/CSS – 8+ Years
  • XML/XSLT – 5+ Years
  • SQL – 6+ Years
  • JavaScript/DHTML/JavaScript Libraries – 4+ Years
  • AJAX – 1+ Years
  • ActionScript – 3+ Years
  • Ruby – 2+ Years
  • Java/JSP/Servlets – 4+ Years

Web Frameworks/Platforms

  • J2EE/EJB/Struts/Servlets – 2+ Years
  • Rails – 2+ Years

Server software

  • Apache HTTP Server – 5+ Years
  • WEBrick – 2+ Years
  • IIS – 2 Years
  • Tomcat – 2+ Years
  • Cpanel – 3 Years
  • Plesk – 3+ Years
  • MySQL – 5+ Years
  • PostgreSQL – 4+ Years

Design software

  • Adobe Photoshop – 7+ Years
  • Macromedia Flash – 4+ Years
  • Adobe Illustrator – 2+ Years
  • Adobe InDesign – 1 Year
  • Corel Draw – 1+ Years
  • SketchUp – 2+ Years
  • AutoCAD – 1 Year
  • Valve Hammer Editor – 1 Year

Web software

Monitoring

  • Webalizer
  • Awstats
  • Urchin
  • MRTG

Content Management Systems

  • Vignette Content Management
  • Vignette Application Portal
  • Vignette Dynamic Portal Module
  • Vignette Content Access Management
  • Drupal
  • WordPress
  • TYPO3

Other Notable Software

  • Samba
  • VMWare
  • Plesk / Cpanel
  • Spamassassin
  • phpBB and Simple Machines Forum
  • Gallery software such as Gallery, Gallery2, Coppermine
  • E-commerce software such as Interchange, OsCommerce and Miva
  • Vignette Collaboration
  • Vignette VBIS

Additional Experience and Skills

  • Website usability
  • User interface design
  • Search engine optimization
  • Web marketing
  • Web advertising
  • Wireframing and prototyping
  • Proficient in written Spanish

Work History

I have done consulting work privately and also through three companies: Hanson Information Systems, Avrom Systems and Vignette Corp. My work concetrates in the areas of user experience and front-end coding.

Vignette Corp

User Experience Consultant - Vignette Professional Services: 2006 - Present

  • Lead front-end developer and user experience consultant on more than 20 projects
  • Developed intellectual property to enable Vigentte's products' compatibility with Web 2.0 technologies
  • Won Initiative Award 2007
  • Presented sessions on user experience topics at both customer and company conferences
  • Consistently surpassed billable and non-billable utilization expectations

Self

Owner/Operator jessecrouch.com consulting 2003 - Present

Avrom Systems

Lead Web Consultant: 2003 - 2005

Hanson Information Systems

Lead user-interface developer: 2002 - 2003

Projects

NBCSports (NBC Universal / GE)

http://nbcsports.com
  • Ported extremely CSS/XHTML-driven website entirely from Internet Broadcasting platform to Vignette Portal/Content
    • Management/Dynamic Portal Module
  • Led User Experience/User Interface practice for entire project also managing members of partner team
  • Met extremely tight three month deadline while simultaneously working on iVillage

iVillage Total Health (NBC Universal / GE)

http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com
  • Wireframed, consulted on design, usability and search engine optimization
  • Laid the foundation of what the site would become
  • Took design to HTML/CSS, integrated with Vignette Portal, Content Management and Dynamic Portal Module
  • Led User Experience/User Interface practice for entire project also managing members of partner team
  • Met extremely tight three month deadline while simultaneously working on NBCSports

American Express

  • Consulted on design, usability and accessibility best practices for presales stage

Bessemer Trust

http://www.bessemer.com/
  • Integrated highly CSS-driven design into Vignette Portal for company’s customer-facing website
  • Designed and developed structure for Vignette Content Access Management on

McGraw-Hill

  • Developed user interface (HTML/CSS) from given designs for company Intranet

Kwik-Wall moveable wall systems

  • Engineered design and interface

Other notable projects

  • De Lage Landen
  • Fox News
  • NBC iCue
  • Champion Homes
  • Hachette Filipacchi Media
  • Pepsi
  • Travel Channel
  • FitClub

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