Creative, enthusiastic software developer, mapping expert, audio engineer, and project manager. Successfully designed and completed a wide variety of web and desktop applications over the past seventeen years resulting in many satisfied clients and regular follow-up work.
ABOUT- Focus on designing effective, data-driven applications using JavaScript, PHP, open-source tools.
- Skilled in database design, query, and manipulation using XML, MySQL, SQL Server.
- Extensive background in digital mapping, geographic data, open-source map tools.
- Audio engineer proficient in recording, editing, and mixing sound for film, video, web productions.
- Project management from requirements definition, to development, to documentation and support.
- Detail-oriented, keen problem solver, excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Enjoy learning new technologies and sifting through ideas to design the best solution.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEFocus on designing and building engaging software applications that present complex information through elegant and intuitive user interfaces. Projects range from complex data-driven websites to interactive multimedia presentations.
Audio engineering projects include sound design, clean-up, and mixing for two full-length documentaries, one full-length feature film, and a variety of short films, and corporate videos.
Continually expanding expertise to meet evolving challenges. Large and satisfied client base with returning customers.
Responsible for leading sessions with a variety of clients and producing finished audio and video products for web and broadcast mediums. Audio recording, editing, sound design, mixing.
Managed team of five programmers and project managers. Developed mapping services as revenue-generating operation. Authored stand-alone book Techniques of Map Making.
SELECT PROJECTSCreated a unique touch screen kiosk application for Oakland Museum's John Muir exhibit. The framework integrates HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, VBScript, and Windows 7 touch tools.
Built an engaging interactive web map to promote conservation efforts. Site is built with Flash/ActionScript, Google Maps API, a MySQL database, and custom map layers in KML.
Designed web mapping system for speedy access to cable system data across US. Built with Flex and UMap, the site resides on .NET C# platform and integrates SQL Server tables.
Created two interactive Flash/ActionScript modules, an audio player, and a video player for the Mark Twain autobiography web site. Visitors can sift through materials including photos, audio, and video.
Created a Flash and ActionScript module allowing site visitors to estimate a travel budget by answering a series of questions. Utilizes two-way communication with calling web page.
Designed and built a Flash and ActionScript program that continually retrieves real-time transit data from XML feed, translates locations to schematic, and displays symbols and time table.
Flash module with Google Maps providing a single point of access to ferry schedules for multiple vendors. Data is retrieved from XML feed and formatted for quick understanding.
Built .NET/C#/JavaScript module allowing users to query and review a set of voters on a Virtual Earth map. Voter and precinct boundaries translated from SQL Server table to GeoRSS.
Audio editing and sound mixing for a series of Ugandan health videos for Engender Health. The videos are distributed in DVD format as well as available for viewing on the web.
Sound design and mixing for this full-length documentary which continues to screen around the world. Awarded 2007 Best Documentary award from the National Film Board of Canada.
Sound design and dialog editing for episodes of this Disney Channel animated series.
ADDITIONALPhotoshop, Illustrator, SVG
Pro Tools, Final Cut