• Working as contract web developer / programmer. Clients include:
  • UBC Vault: development of custom CMS and ecommerce site for art from UBC's special collection (ongoing)
  • BC Film: developed an online database and registration form for film companies apply for tax credits for movies and television shot in BC
  • Probono Law of BC: development of a large, customized CMS to let the client manage volunteer lawyers and coordinators (ongoing)

• Primary tools: XML, XSLT, JavaScript, JSP, CSS and HTML
• Mainly involved with UI re-design for clearer presentation and navigation of website content
• Wrote and designed a separate Flash-based image scroller widget for improved delivery of online ads (which became a spin-off Open Source project: Flash Image Scroller)
• Helped develop and deploy numerous sites, including: Stuff4Sale, and Recycler (click "Sell It")
• Helped redesign the JSP templates for quick deployment of company sites, including designing and writing a PHP-based pre-parser for converting the JSP templates into multiple languages (English, German and French)
• Developed XSLT documents for clear, user-friendly presentation of XML data for use in online-ad taking process

• Designed and wrote software to automate the process of creating online registration sites for company clients
• Worked with MS-SQL, Coldfusion and JavaScript, providing timely, robust code
• Aided clients (incl. Cadbury-Schweppes) continue development of their own databases for accurate, secure storage of data
• Designed and wrote generic client- and server-side validation code, portable to any website / page previously developed by PGI

• Helped integrate client websites with online payment schemes to automate credit card payment processing
• Wrote and enhanced existing scripts / databases to process secure webforms and email information to clients. Example sites include:
  squamishtriathlon.org, gearjammer.ca, universityheights.ca, blacktuskrealty.com

• Collaborated with other member of the design team to produce a website according to the specifications of the VNHS board
• Designed a user-friendly interface for the CMS (content management system) for VNHS members, allowing non-technical users to update and maintain their own website
• Designed and wrote a MySQL database to store user accounts and web page information, and developed all corresponding PHP code to simplify account creation, deletion and modification
• Acted as advisor for all technical issues regarding the design and implentation of the CMS

Managerial Skills

• Helped train three new support technicians:
  • Examined and edited their emails and forum posts before responding
  • Helped document the training procedure to facilitate the hiring process
  • Taught how to professionally respond to customer problems and complaints, putting all issues in a positive light to best reflect on the company
  • Gave presentations to Support Team and individual crew members to explain new software features and scripts

Programming-related Skills

• Wrote assorted JavaScripts to solve client-specific problems
• Helped develop htmlArea - a textarea replacement tool, allowing non-technical users to automatically generate HTML
• Worked with Perl scripts and supplemented their existing functionality with new options; e.g. improved search engine within "Article Manager" product to allow for multi-category searching
• Determined what additional functionality clients desired by examining their emails and their comments on the forum, and developed 'add-on' scripts to solve them (e.g. htmlarea Generator, hitcounter and linkcounter scripts)