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Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Responsible for creating, documenting and maintaining the HTML, CSS, and Javascript standards for sun.com and 38+ worldwide sites. Ensuring templates and stylesheets for Sun are optimized for efficiency in both download and rendering in a wide array of platforms and languages including Korean, Japanese, Chinese and right-to-left reading Hebrew.

Accomplishments

• Created the first CSS for Sun that eliminated the need for FONT tags, normalizing font styles and reducing code on millions of pages.
• Co-designed the user interface and built master templates for the 1999 site redesign.
• Led the technical team of an outside design agency during the 2002 site redesign.
• Served as the sole design technologist for the 2005 site redesign. This included migrating Sun’s CSS to a new look and feel, creating a large number of new HTML components, and building out a new hompage design.
• Created (and later evolved with the help of teammate Greg Reimer) a robust HTML component documentation system consisting of over 100 page templates and over 400 HTML component variations.
• Formalized CSS and Javascript releases to into a monthly release, published world wide to over 38+ countries simultaneously.
• Built out new homepage in 2008 to accommodate a new design. Despite the appearance of more images the actual number of files downloaded by the user was cut in half from the previous design. This massive cut in file calls was credited by Sun’s Director of Web Engineering, Will Snow, as a contributor to Sun’s resilience from crashing on the day of the Oracle & Sun announcement.

Eight Shapes, LLC

Assisted Eight Shape’s principal Nathan Curtis with consulting sessions for Cisco Systems on creation, documentation and management of a large scale HTML component based design system.

Fishbowl Design

Created two sites for clients based on designs from Fishbowl principle Gregory Hom; one for an optometrists luxpaloalto.com and one for a dressage horse trainer vrdressage.com. For the later I convinced Gregory to adjust the design so we could make it work within a Wordpress blog, allowing the client to easily make edits.

Oblix, Inc.

Constructed master CSS and HTML templates for the oblix.com 2003 redesign. Due to an Oracle buyout, this site no longer exist.

Black Dog Design (Chicago)

Designed and produced web sites, print collateral, and banners for assorted clients including ACE Hardware, AT&T, Cort Furniture, Equiserve, the LPGA, and many more.

J. Gleason Associates / JGA

Designed and produced print collateral, direct mail and advertising for clients such as Mervyn’s, Target, Visa, and Capital One.