Resume


SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
  • More than 7 years experience designing, developing and managing web sites with fiscal soundness
  • Successful management of sites redesign, improving content management, navigation architecture and usability to result in increased page impressions
  • Adept at project requirements gathering, vendor selection, project staffing and management of project life-cycle
  • Strong user interaction and quality assurance practices and techniques
  • Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills
  • Proven documentation and writing abilities
TECHNOLOGY:

Applications:IIS, SQL, Visual Studio, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Visio, MS Office, MS Project, Dreamweaver, QuarkXPress

Languages:ASP, ASP.Net, Visual Basic, Actionscript, AJAX, Javascript, XML, CSS, XHTML

 
EXPERIENCE:
6/01 - present Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., NYC, NY
 Web Manager/Developer

 
  • Meet with department managers and directors to gather project needs and requirements
  • Assess project staffing needs and contract/hire accordingly
  • Manage project life-cycle and budgets in the design of user interaction processes, web page layouts, original artwork, multimedia processing and web programming
  • Perform ongoing evaluation of web site content management system and other applications to provide user interaction improvements and technical upgrades
  • Research, evaluate, recommend and purchase web and application service providers and related hardware and software, negotiate with vendors
  • Daily maintenance, production, development, documentation and archiving of web sites:
  • Page development using ASP, .Net, Javascript, DHTML, CSS, XHTML
  • Page layout and site architecture design using Dreamweaver
  • Original graphics creation using Photoshop
  • Multimedia content authoring using Flash and Actionscript

6/97 - 6/01 Earl G. Graves Ltd., NYC, NY
 Systems Manager/Web Administrator

 
  • Evaluated, recommended, purchased and installed PC and Macintosh hardware and software, performed systems upgrades, and provided hardware and software desktop support
  • Maintained LAN and provided Macintosh, Microsoft and Novell Server systems administration
9/94 - 6/97 Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., NYC, NY
 Desktop Publishing / Network Administrator

 
  • Consult with and advise magazine department managers of innovations to improve efficiency of desktop and pre-press magazine production methods
  • Managed editorial production staffing needs, trained edit staff on editorial production methods
  • Electronic processing of text and graphics of page layouts for monthly magazine
     

2/93 - 9/94 The Economist Intelligence Unit, NYC, NY
 Senior Production Editor

 
  • Schedule and implement production procedures, style manuals and templates for weekly, biweekly, monthly and annual publications
  • Train staff in latest electronic production methods and procedures
  • Desktop design, layout and production of pages and informational graphics
  • Proof bluelines and okay final film
EDUCATION
 M.S. Professional and Technical Communication
 New Jersey Institute of Technology, Pending Graduation Summer 2008

 B.A. Journalism/Business Administration
 Baruch College. Graduated with honors.

 A.A.S. Graphic Arts and Advertising Technology
 New York City Technical College. Graduated with honors.


 
 
 
Andrew Williams