I’ve made my living by being versatile, constantly adapting my skills to meet my employer’s needs. My usefulness tends to rapidly outgrow my job description, making me a perfect fit in an environment that is simultaneously technical and creative: I can wrap my mind around a task, break it into its logical parts, and then raid the technology toolbox I’ve been assembling for the last 15 years as I go to work on each of them.

I’ve spent the last six months immersed in the world of social networking as a front-end engineer for DailyStrength, a health-based social networking site. In that time, I’ve strived to bring a consistent visual language to the site, leveraging semantic markup and truly cascading style sheets in an effort to give users a seamless experience across the site. I've added custom Javascript widgets to enable in-page interactions and developed Javascript plugins to smooth development. I retooled the entire site to a new width, making room for new ad inventory, and I helped develop registration modules for key pages that generated a double-digit increase in the registration rate. I’ve squashed excessive http requests with a vengeance, challenged product and design to embrace web standards, and participated in the rapid rollout of features large and small.

You’ll see in my resume that I’ve done a variety of work — leading the front-end efforts at DailyStrength; maintaining the web presence of a major technology company; executing web designs for a variety of small clients; estimating and project-managing complex projects; and developing web applications and implementing systems to streamline an agency’s production work. Whether my tool was PageMaker or Firebug, the core of my job has always been using technology to give users a compelling experience.

Through it all, I’ve honed my skills at developing concise, information-driven designs. My design sense has been informed by a low-frills school of thought: strong headlines, multiple points of entry, judicious use of imagery. Compelling, accessible content should speak for itself.

I am seeking a creative environment where I can leverage my unique combination of development, design and production skills to help create an online space where people can communicate and collaborate. I'm eager to work with a team that understands the nuances, pitfalls and potential of such a challenge.

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