WORK HISTORY

• Design and code search-engine-friendly web sites for small businesses and sole proprietors
• Perform search engine optimization for a variety of web sites, several of whom have enjoyed a four-fold Google page rank increase, and up to a 150% increase in site traffic.
• Refurbish existing web sites to improve design and code and to increase traffic. Add Web 2.0 features such as blog and twitter feeds.
• Install, customize, and optimize Wordpress blogs
• Produce information architecture documentation, including site maps and full sets of wireframes for complex web-based applications

• Optimized Food & Wine Magazine's print content and advertising for the web and produced web pages from magazine content
• Managed e-mail advertising campaigns for Travel + Leisure Magazine
• Designed banner ads and contests for Travel + Leisure Magazine
• Updated Media Kits for Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure and Departures Magazines

• Wrote a 120-page functional specification for a web-based extranet application
• Created wireframes for various clients

• Oversaw schedule, budget, and production of web-based professional development courses for educators
• Managed design and production of online teacher resources to supplement public television programming
• Worked in a non-profit environment, contributing to written proposals for grants and funding
• Conducted a usability test of a web-based educational video search

• Facilitated and actively participated in discovery and definition sessions as a consultant for various clients. Produced documentation for clients, toward laying the groundwork for web-based applications

• Worked as part of a team to create Passport Kids, a multilingual community for kids. Participated in all aspects of site creation including interface and interactive design, copy, back end development, translation management. Managed video production and QA
• Coded pages for re-launch of site Sesame Workshop web site
• Wrote, edited, and updated copy for Sticker World, a community of web users ages 6-12

• Coded HTML templates for the September 1998 launch of Mouthpiece
• Edited music, film, and book reviews; optimized graphics for the web

• Created teacher's guides on current educational topics for sales reps and teachers
• Marketed new children's paperbacks to the retail and wholesale markets through contests and promotions

PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE

SHOWS

• SQUISH, an alternative input device for toddlers, presented at ITP's Physical Computing Show 5/11/99-5/13/99 and featured in the New York Times, 5/20/99
• POLYCHROMATIC MILLIPEDE, a java applet, exhibited in the Kids Wing of the Museum of Web Art (MOWA)
• EXQUISITE CORPSE, a collaborate story writing interface, was shown at ITP's Digital Spaces Show, 2/19/99

EDUCATION