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Director seagate.com
Seagate Technology LLC
Scotts Valley, California
November 2005 through March 2009
 

Director of Web team responsible for seagate.com external and internal web properties, including www.seagate.com web site, extranet distributor and reseller portals and intranet employee portal. Responsible for web content management and globalization programs and services to support global web presence. User centered design methodology center of excellence lead, lso responsible for web usage metrics and reporting. Part of web strategy team; responsible for planning and prioritization of web team resources and coordination with business units to determine web roadmap. Once again just getting something here to not have it seem empty for a decade.

 
Sr Manager eBusiness Solutions
Seagate Technology LLC
Scotts Valley, California
October 1999 through November 2005
 

Designing and implementing web-based solutions for Internet, extranet and intranet web sites, applications and portals. Working on standards groups to help define enterprise-wide web application development, deployment, and presentation standards. And much, much more... just a minimal entry to be a little less out of date.

 
Lecturer
UCSC Extension
Cupertino and Santa Cruz, California
January 2001 through present
 

Designing course curriculum, preparing lectures and other materials, and teaching courses pertaining to the web. Includes User-Centered Web Site Design and Cross-Browser and Cross-Platform Design Issues. Topics within these courses include a soup-to-nuts process for defining, designing, developing, deploying and maintaining a web site, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets, and other miscellaneous topics. Yes, there is a course web site... but right now it is in stealth mode until the co-teacher and I decide whether we need/want yet more consulting work (since it doubles as our partnership site!).

 
Web Designer
Inprise Corporation
Scotts Valley, California
July 1998 through October 1999
 

Web site maintenance and design for corporate site of over 12,000 pages. Design and implementation of Web launches including DCE-CORBA Bridge, Borland C++Builder 4, and a redesign of the home page and corporate info section. Use of JavaScript, CSS-1 and CSS-P to create intricate Dynamic HTML designs, form validating, and site navigation. Conception and implementation of Perl CGI scripts for Web mail, cookie handling, navigation poll, and a Case Study search script. Global search and replaces on site through the UNIX shell. Editing and compiling C/C++ CGI programs for use on site. Ongoing production of Web documents; cleanup, updating, and repair of old and broken documents. Collation and analysis of navigation survey results and accompanying redesign advice. Design and implementation of IChat server Web chat area. Creation and maintenance of template generator to assist in keeping site documents uniform as well as custodianship of Web "Toolbox". Tutoring and assisting other team members in learning JavaScript, CGI, Perl, cookies, and HTML. Web team technical leader since November 1998.

 
Web Developer
Franz Inc.
Berkeley, California
June 1997 through October 1999
 

HTML coding and Perl CGI scripting for Web interfaces. Restructuring of Web site and work toward visual and internal site redesign. Generation of graphics and content for site as needed. Co- maintenance and ownership of the Web server (Apache). Continuous maintenance of the corporate Web site. Redesign and maintenance of internal sales Web site since March 1998. Design, writing, and implementation of internal marketing Web site. Redesign and maintenance of CGI scripts to dynamically handle form input. Registry of site with search engines. Link maintenance, and other miscellaneous site maintenance duties. Designed, wrote, and implemented documentation for all nontrivial site tasks.

Learning and documenting developmental server and Lisp-like server side scripting language for dynamic generation of corporate web site, GUI design for new server interface. Bug reporting and feature contribution to this server and scripting language.

 
Web Developer
Freelance Web Design and Programming
1996 through present

Refer to the online summary of active sites.

 
General Partner and Jack of All Trades
Gryffon, Dragon & Wolf
Aptos, California
Spring 1990 through present
 

Design, manufacture, and sale of products including incense, candles, bath salts, perfumed oils, stained glass, ceramics. Booth design, construction, and management at Renaissance faires and other festivals suitable for such crafts. Tax matters partner, bookkeeping, graphic design of catalog and business cards, and other promotional materials. Management of mailing lists and Jennifer O'Meara's art.

This list has a continuation which includes detail beyond the scope of my present professional incarnation.

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