PROJECTS:

Author of four books

Jan 2010 to Present: Blogger and web developer for Web Street Productions and Aeiou.org WordPress websites.

Front page developer for Microsoft Office 365 converting English pages to 6 other languages.

Web Developer for Motricity (Verizon) evaluating and coding for new, not yet released smartphones (Blackberry, Motorola, Palm, etc.) changing configuration and CSS/JavaScript so that existing portal site works. Visual Studio 2008 some 2010 beta.

Web Developer and blogger for Ideal-Companies WordPress website for e-commerce and social networking website also wrote the content and web development for the Woodinville Chamber of Commerce. Did some SEO work for BlueSkyOutfitters. All Visual Studio 2008.

Web Developer Microsoft Research Global Machine Translations wrote Bing Translator web page, developed Bing Translator Widget. Also worked on internal Adoption Portal, MSN Messenger, UI, Widget and Mobile Translator. Skills used Visual Studio 2008; C#; JavaScript; AJAX; Source Depot; Product Studio; BBPack; CSS and lots of debugging too.

Web Developer Microsoft MSN International Home Pages developing web pages for Americas market (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Latin America, Mexico) concentrating on page load performance issues using VS 2008, CSS, XML, JavaScript.

Web Developer for new e-commerce site for American Express Business Savings at Work website. Debugged C# and corrected CSS problems as well as new functionality. AJAX implementations.

Web Developer Microsoft Exchange group working on new online service product startup and initial design working from wireframes.

Web Developer Microsoft Custom Solutions developing Flash / ASPX advertising websites and admin tools for the ABC TV network show In the Motherhood and Driving with Craig.

Web Computer Specialist at University of Washington Child Health Institute (3 years). Developed pediatric research surveys for the internet, kiosks (touchscreen), and iPAQ PDAs using VS 2005 VB.NET. Also wrote external website with Dreamweaver.

Web Developer at Microsoft SQL group Intranet Master Portal site. (9 months – contingent). Designed, developed and maintained master portal web site for all of Microsoft SQL team. Used Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Digital Dashboard, SharePoint, and SQL 2000 database on IIS 5.0 server.

Web developer at Europe Express and Go-Today online travel agencies.  Converted FoxPro travel agency reservation system to ASP/SQL 7 on IIS 5.0.

Web Developer at Microsoft Operations. Worked on dev team as HTML/ASP coder to develop Intranet site – all SQL based content. Then on the “Comeback Kids” morale site – graphic design, Microsoft Agent, HTML + Time and DHTML. Tools used were Windows 2000 Advanced server, SQL 7, Visual InterDev. Later sole Webmaster for MSN Intranet site featuring Digital Dashboard, Interactive Forms and database server cluster performance reports. Did Program Management, wrote all code, edited announcements, and maintained 3 servers. HTML/DHTML/ASP/ActiveX type of site. Used Windows 2000 Advanced Server, SQL 7, IIS 5.