Kaisho.org - Resumé

Resumé

Experience

Freelance Web Designer; Richardson, TX — 2006-present
Operating as an independent designer/developer offering all aspects of web design from IA to production.

Web Specialist, The University of Texas at Dallas; Richardson, TX — 2005-2006
Worked with University Web Services, UTD’s web publishing team. Responsibilities included content management, site architecture, web application development and maintenance, graphic design, interaction design, template development, usability testing and software training.

Web Developer, University of Illinois; Champaign-Urbana, IL — 2004-2005
Maintained the departmental website of International Programs and Studies. Developed a web-based reservation calendar in PHP/MySQL for internal use by department staff.

Web Developer, University of Illinois; Champaign-Urbana, IL — 2003-2004
Worked with ATLAS, the web publishing team for the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Used Dreamweaver to build templates for distributed authoring and assisted in a major website redesign.

Web Assistant, University of Illinois; Champaign-Urbana, IL — 2001-2004
Helped manage the departmental website of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Assisted with content management and maintenance of web applications in ASP.

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — B.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2005
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy — High School Diploma, 2001

Skills

Software: Abode Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Fireworks, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, OmniGraffle
Programming: PHP/MySQL, XHTML/CSS, XML/XSLT
Languages: Japanese (intermediate)

Interests & Activities

Piano, creative writing, illustration, animation, information design, translation, watercolor painting, calligraphy

References

References available upon request.