Resume

L3 Communications, Reston, Virginia

Web Designer / Web Developer

2008 - Present

• Front-end web developer contributing to the design, development, and operation of an information collection system that supports the United States defense industry.
• Employed DOM-based scripting techniques to produce uniform output and enable greater control of presentation through external stylesheets.
• Re-designed application shell to meet customer requirements for layout, target resolution and accessibilty.
• Lead efforts to improve user interface aesthetics; created icons, devised a harmonious color palette, set sensible font sizes.

Demand Media, Bellevue, Washington

Web Designer / Web Developer

2006 - 2008

• Front-end web developer for all service-side Demand Media properties, including: enom.com, bulkregister.com and enomcentral.com.
• Transformed legacy browser-wars-area code into valid CSS and XHTML.
• Reduced file-size / rendering time of XSLT documents by replacing redundant transformation tests with CSS selectors and JQuery.
• Reworked the NameJet.com shell to resolve presentation issues with the navigation menus and dashboard console.
• Provided maintenance / support for ChannelMe.tv.

BulkRegister, Baltimore, Maryland

Writer / Web Technologist

2005 - 2006

• Served as a technical writer and web technologist for a major domain registrar.
• Created DomEmporium.com, a domain marketplace prototype.
• Performed usability analysis of user interface components, with a special concentration on maintaining an intuitive and consistent namespace.

Alabanza, Baltimore, Maryland

Technical Writer / QA Analyst / Web Technologist

2003 - 2005

• Served as technical writer, quality assurance analyst, and web technologist for one of the world's largest web hosting automation companies.
• Designed a single-source documentation workflow that used FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher to generate online help systems and matching PDFs (see SiteXpress Help).
• Assisted development department in solving browser-rendering issues associated with transitioning a deprecated coding structures to modern, standards-compliant ones.
• Worked with the development lead for the DSM (Domain System Manager) to streamline and simplify the steps necessary to successfully use the DSM API (via secure XML requests and responses, or via PHP toolkit functions).

VCommand Incorporated, McLean, Virginia

Graphic Designer / Illustrator / Webmaster

2001 - 2003

• Served as graphic designer, illustrator, web designer and web developer for VCommand Incorporated, a provider of voice-interactive technology.
• Produced detailed vector illustrations of the VCOM navigation device for use in product documentation, marketing literature and large-format printing.

Cambridge Research Associates, Inc., McLean, Virginia

Senior Technical Writer / Illustrator / Graphic Designer

1997 - 2001

• Wrote, designed and illustrated end user documentation for PowerScene Terrain Visualization software.
• Engineered a single-source solution for outputting both a cross-browser compliant help system and a matching PDF user guide for a number of applications.
• Implemented an intranet document repository used heavily by staff to retrieve brochures, white papers, datasheets and screenshots.

Selected Freelance Work

Design / Illustration / Copywriting

1995 - Present

• Designed and coded CharlesGreco.com, an appraiser/dealer website focusing on Sub-saharan Tribal Art. The site uses Strict DTD and validates.
• Contributed spot illustrations to Presstime, trade magazine of the Newspaper Association of America.
• Wrote copy for Discovery Channel, National Geographic and regional radio station WHFS (99.1 FM).