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• Over eight years of project management experience, including strategic and work planning, budget management, resource management, full product development lifecycles, client relationship management and timely delivery of products and services within budget, all using SCRUM management principals
• Strong project lead and business analyst with successful experience and understanding of several analyses and development methods, including AGILE, SCRUM, RUP, Iterative, Waterfall, Spiral and XP
• Superior team builder, mentor, liaison, and manager, who excels in handling client needs, group development and employee concerns
• Extensive grasp of leading Internet/Web technologies and web design principals; expert HTML, CSS and JavaScript developer
• Greatly experienced and extremely knowledgeable of User Experience, Human Factors, HCI and UI design
• Vast experience and knowledge of branding, identity, logos, typography and all traditional design
• Excellent traditional and computer graphic skills, with 16 years of computer design experience
• Nine years of extensive Web/UI design and development consulting; including business analysis; use-case modeling; requirements gathering and documentation and new business prospecting
• Complete knowledge of current design and web development programs; solid on Mac and PC
• Solid managerial, communication and presentation skills; strong leader, works well individually and within a team environment
• Extremely creative and innovative thinker, who is very self motivated, able to multi-task and works well under tight deadlines and budgets
• Well rounded financial and business background, experience across many industries, with strong marketing and sales experience

• F1D is a full solution design, development and consulting firm, focused on all aspects of the web, multimedia, and application development including project management; business analysis; IA; UI design; technology consulting; development and implementation; branding; logo design and traditional print.
• Use the standard process of business analysis and strategic planning with the client; requirement gathering and documentation; develop a business specification, project scope and schedule; create use case flows, mockups and prototypes, design product to specifications in an iterative process and QA test product to completion, for all projects. Follow Agile and Scrum methodology for management and development.
• Worked with business units to analyze business needs and requirements, create scope documentation, use case model and scheduled deliverables. Acted as liaison and project manager between business stakeholders and development team to manage risk, product delivery and scope using an agile development process.
• Possess 16 years of design and management experience, 12 years of web project and application expertise, and 9 years of web design and development consulting.
• Producer, who manages all facets of the clients’ web projects from business analysis, requirements gathering and documentation, scheduling and planning, design and development, all the way to product completion.
• Project manager, who managed all facets of development projects from inception to completion, including strategy, schedule, budget, personnel and resources; manages the complete product lifecycle.
• Managed, produced, designed and developed all aspects of small, medium and large scale web, application and traditional design projects.
• Consulted with clients in strategizing the company’s direction for web development and web focus.
• Worked with clients to develop web strategies and then help clients implement web strategies and goals.
• Worked with clients to develop and write business specs. documents commensurate with company goals.
• Meet with clients to ascertain their needs and goals; then prepared and delivered presentations to clients key management, securing business and ongoing relationship.
• Worked with programmers, marketing, internal and external designers to create and design visual treatments that meet client specifications.
• Pride myself on excellent project management for the product lifecycle and on time delivery of product.
• Possess vast knowledge and experience with asp.NET, JSP, DHTML, XHTML, XML, vb.NET, CMS, CVS, e-commerce and other web technologies.
• Designed and directed, from concept to completion, many clients’ identities, branding, logos, user interfaces, web projects and traditional print collateral.
• Created logos, branding and design elements commensurate with clients’ needs and goals according to specs.
• Designed screen treatments, navigation and structure of diverse interactive multimedia projects (cd-rom, intranet and web).
• Served as a lead member of the project team to clearly define and meet established deadlines and milestones.
• Developed and implemented QA test plan according to clients’ requirements, delivering excellent products.
• Worked with marketing team to conceptualize, develop and implement advertising and marketing programs.
• Provided creative direction, mentoring, training, team building and technical leadership to the members of project teams.
• Clients include:

• Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Developed logos and animations, designed and built internal web multimedia presentations for executives including Scott McNealy, Alan Baratz and Bill Raduchel. Developed UI and web design for Sun intranet applications.
• GearGoddess.com: Help design and implement an extensive UI design for the women's sporting website and built the site using HTML, XML and JSP. Redesigned and refocused the navigation and user experience. Elected to the company board of directors and served until the company was sold.
• Vividence Corp. (www.vividence.com): Helped redesign the company's UI for their product. Work extensively with the UI and design team to make a more functional and user friendly experience for their clients.
• Escalate, Inc. (www.escalate.com): Worked with the in house design team to redesign the complete website and UI of their product interface. Designed and built a flash demo of their product. Extensive use of jsp and xml.
• Adobe Systems, Inc.: Designed and helped produce UI and look and feel of "Classroom in a Book" series products, including multimedia cd-rom.
• U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team: Created and designed the UI and creative look of an injury tracking system for the team athletes. Product is still used today by the teams.
• Brightmail, Inc. (www.brightmail.com): Redesigned the company logo, UI for the website and web product UI. Built templates for the company to implement new UI and design.

• Oversaw and managed all technical and design related projects and endeavors. Advised and lead all technology and design based undertakings for the company. Reported to the CEO.
• Managed all aspects of the design and development process of the new custom web 2.0, social networking platform website.
• Managed and lead several internal and outsourced external development and design teams.
• Performed all business analysis, developed scope documents, use case models, production schedules, resource budgets, work breakdown structures for projects. Developed and managed all milestones and deliverables documents for all projects.
• Managed all personnel, resources, budgets and schedules for all technical and design projects.
• Researched, recommended and authorized all technical solutions for existing projects and new projects.

• Managed the design and development process of the custom web portals used by SPE business units and external customers.
• Managed the design and development team on multiple internal and external applications.
• Worked with Program Manager to develop work schedules, deliverables timelines and project budgets.
• Worked closely with the business and development teams, to make sure all the business’ needs and objectives, are understood and delivered by the development team and conveyed through the design and user experience.
• Gathered use cases and business requirements from the business units and developing a compelling user experience and interface (UI/UE) according to these requirements and needs.
• Designed, developed and implemented multiple web portal solutions for Sony Pictures Entertainment, Domestic Television.
• Designed, developed and implemented multiple portal sites for SPE using WebLogic, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Flash and CMS.
• Designed and directed the look and feel of the portal sites, and creating most of the graphical elements for the portal solutions.

• Managed the design and development of several large, internal, custom web applications used daily by most Fox employees.
• Managed the design and development team and the development process and schedule on several critical internal and external applications.
• Worked with the Program Director to develop work schedules, deliverables timelines and project budgets.
• Worked closely with the business and development teams, to make sure all the business’ needs and objectives, were understood and delivered by the development team and conveyed through the design and user experience.
• Gathered use cases and business requirements from the business end users and developed compelling user experiences and interfaces (UI/UE) according to these requirements and needs.
• Designed, developed and implemented multiple intranet and extranet web and portal solutions for the FOX Networks Group (FNG), part of FOX Entertainment.
• Designed, developed and implemented multiple intranet and extranet sites for FNG using .NET, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Flash, PHP and CMS.
• Directed the look and feel of the many sites, then designed and created most graphical elements for the many intranet and extranet solutions. Delivered all project solutions on time and within budget.

• Manage the Production Support Library team for the T3 system, including defect resolution, enhancement fulfillment and all aspects of a five person development team.
• Manage the Defect and Enhancement triage process between the business and the development group, making sure to meet all delivery objectives and dates.
• Worked with Program Managers to develop work schedules, deliverables timelines and project budgets.
• Designed, created and directed the user experience and interface design for the complete T3 system, a multi-million dollar, three, technology system integration and redesign for Product Quality and Service Support, PQSS at TMS. The systems will service hundreds of thousands of users each year.
• Designed and managed the complete development process of the EWD viewer, an integral part of the new T3 system, which is used by the service techs in dealerships and service centers around the country, to diagnose and service customers’ vehicles.
• Worked closely, as a liaison, with the business and development teams, to make sure all the business’ needs, conveyed through the design and interface, were understood and delivered by the development team.
• Gathered use case and business requirements and presented those requirements to the business and development group through flow charts, wire frame mockups and prototyping.
• Designed and created all graphical pieces for the T3 system.
• Developed and implemented a complete style guide and framework for the T3 project, then was adopted to be used throughout the company.
• Extensive work with BEA Web Logic, HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX and XML.

• Project manager and project lead, managed all facets of the web projects from inception to completion, including strategy, budget and resources.
• Acted as liaison between groups and managed all programmers, content, testers and customer feedback.
• Managed complete creative process and direction for company branding and product.
• Designed and directed, from concept to implementation, the new identity, branding, logo, user interface and corporate website, including all traditional print collateral.
• Developed, redesigned and created a strong, functional and efficient user experience and interface for the large corporate and e-commerce websites and company products.
• Developed and wrote business specifications documents and made sure all specs. were met in development.
• Lead project meetings making sure project milestones where hit on time and tracked process from start to finish.
• Designed, managed and QA tested the building of custom e-commerce website and payment system.
• Consulted and advised executives and board members in strategizing the direction of the company’s future.
• Worked with clients and customers, to address their needs and deliver the best product possible.
• Implemented newest applicable web technologies in website creation, asp.NET, vb.NET, jsp and Flash MX.
• Helped marketing visualize, develop and implement advertising and marketing programs.
• Provided creative direction, mentoring, training, team building and technical leadership to the members and groups of the project team.
• Researched and developed guidelines, specifications and style guides for project design and development for existing and future projects.

• TEN was the pioneer of internet gaming and we built the first pure java game client for the web.
• Managed, implemented and developed all aspects of all web and multimedia projects at TEN, including management of personnel, strategy, schedule, budget and resources.
• Managed and ran 10+ person web design and development group.
• Created logos, branding, packaging, web graphics and many print pieces in accordance with company specs.
• Lead the development of attractive, exciting, and user friendly UI for Win95/98 and Java web clients.
• Managed and designed games developed for Yahoo, Excite, Lycos and AOL.
• Designed, developed and QA tested advanced custom e-commerce payment system.
• Acted as liaison between groups and oversaw all aspects of the website meshing between front and back-end.
• Key contributor in design and development of Win95/98 and cutting edge Java web client software.
• Helped run strategy meetings, from the web perspective, creating and directing the focus of the company.
• Produced extensive game websites in conjunction with new games being released on the network.
• Worked with partners, game developers, and marketing to produce and release new games on to our network.
• Played a key decision making role and oversaw three redesigns of a 3000+ page, corporate websites.
• Developed guidelines, specs. and style guides for project design and development for existing and future projects, including logos, branding, print and web.
• Provided creative direction, mentoring, training and technical leadership to team members.
• Developed QA test plan and managed QA test team for games and gaming community network.
• Helped marketing strategize and develop online advertising and marketing projects.
• Worked in conjunction with marketing to produce custom advertising campaigns and contests, including banner ads, interstitial ads and contest websites.

• Designed and produced web sites, print pieces, images, illustrations, and logos for a variety of businesses. Designs include T-shirts, emblems, logos branding, packaging and company identity.
• Strong concentration on web site and project management and development from 1993 to the present.
• Clients include: Peacefrogs; Seasoned Surfboards; Fibercraft Products; 17th Street Surf Shop; Ski World, Ltd.; Adobe Systems; Sun Microsystems; Bluewave Communications and others.

• Supervised all operations of expanded retail locations. Handled company's inventory and financials.
• Trained and managed all stores' employees. Conducted ski industry presentations for local associations.

• Performed industry research and analysis, in order to evaluate a company's worth and value.
• Learned the fundamentals of investment banking and the brokerage business.
• Obtained series 7 and 63 licensing. Helped with transactions and advising clients about their portfolios.
• Learned the basics of handling and advising clients on retirement strategies and 401k planning.
• Learned the basics of property management, by managing the firms many business properties.

• BFA: Graphic Design, Art History Minor, James Madison University, 1991. Comprehensive studies in design using Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand, Director, Premiere, StrataVision, PageMaker, Quark Xpress, InDesign and Painter.
• Have extensive use and continued education of web and design products, such as, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, UltraDev, Homesite, Visual Studio, BBedit, Cold Fusion, Contribute, and Acrobat. Possess a strong understanding of Publisher, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Project, and Visio. Retain vast knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, ASP.NET, VB.NET, JSP, XML, CGI, Java, Flash, Shockwave and web design. Have completed extensive course works in photography and illustration.

• Board of Advisors for GearGoddess.com (1999-2001)
• Graphic Artist Guild (member since1995)
• American Institute of Graphic Arts (Professional member since 1994)
• The Commonwealth Club of California (member since 1998)
• ASP Professional Surfer (1987-1996)
• Surfrider Foundation (member since 1985)