Currently wrapping up a web application GUI for Home Health Agency.

Frontline Home Owners Insurance                                                 01/15/08 - 08/01/09
Chicago Illinois | Telecommute
SR Lead Web Developer - Designer
As the lead frontend designer-developer, I had a range of responsibilities tackling the challenge of creating a GUI for a complex web application, and making it pixel perfect cross browser. I also assisted the marketing team with marketing emails, corporate website design, and updates.

• Coded a standard and accessible web application. Validating from the standard and specification of W3C.
• Enhanced specification to promote cross browser compatibility.
• Managed local SVN repositories, building the application out in various production environments.
• Designed GUI for complex web application.
• Produced custom graphics for corporate site.
• Managed corporate website via the word press CMS.
• Collaborated with director of software management, and marketing teams to deliver desired experience.

Tools: JSP, CSS, JS, DHTML, XHTML 1.0 STRICT, Tortoise SVN, Prototype, Scriptaculous, YUI, Apache Tomcat, Wordpress CMS PHP,

Federal Reserve Bank                                                                      05/15/07 - 11/17/07
Chicago Illinois
SR Lead Web Developer
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As the lead technical developer, I had a range of responsibilities on the front and back end development. 

• Translated approved wire frames into Valid 1.0 XHTML Strict and tableless CSS.
• Coded a standard and accessible web site. Validating from the standard and specification of W3C.
• Enhanced specification to promote cross browser compatibility.

• Bundled code into template fragments, integrating with Interwoven TeamSite (CMS).
• Produced technical business requirements for entire renovation effort.
• Produced style guide, adhering to approved design and branding effort.
• Collaborated with content management, and marketing teams to deliver desired experience.

Tools: CSS, JS, DHTML, XHTML 1.0 STRICT, JSP, Interwoven Teamsite

American Hospital Association                                                      03/01/06 – 06-01-07
Chicago Illinois
Senior Web Designer – Developer
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Led design and development efforts for over 40 organizations aligned with the American Hospital Association.

• Revitalized development, maintenance, troubleshooting, and customization of approx. 70 sites on the American Hospital Association portal.
• Collaborated with project managers, and stakeholders on project scope.
• Produced draft designs, followed approvals, and translated wire frames into valid markup (XHTML,CSS,JS,XML,JSP).
• Templated, and integrated with Interwoven teamsite.
• Enhanced specification to promote cross browser compatibility.
• Optimized footage for web utilizing various compression algorithms
• Producer of original artwork, and multimedia encompassing several creative technologies. (jpg, gif, animated gif, PDF, flash, audio, video, and dynamic multimedia.)

Tools:  Web Design & Development, Graphic Designer / Illustrator, Multi-Media Art / Design, Dynamic Flash Applications, JS, JSP, DHTML, XML, Templating – Content Management,
Interwoven, Flash, CSS, Flash Ads Banner Designer

09/01/2001-11/06/05
Wells Fargo Bank
Sales Development Consultant
Job Duties:
1 of 7 Sales Development Consultants initiating innovative marketing solutions for the national sales team.

• Individually spearheaded the first email marketing campaign from concept to completion. Designed and developed protocol using web based technologies.
• Collaborated with senior sales managers to create an array of marketing initiatives. Including but not limited to sales contests, marketing emails, marketing flyers, trifolds, and multimedia presentations.
• Spoke on emerging technologies, giving a presentation to over 500 brokers on the newly rolled out BrokersFirst website in California.
• Selected to serve on the organization wide, service excellent committee.

Tools:   Graphic Designer / Illustrator, Multi-Media Art / Design, Flash, Templating, HTML, CSS

Measured in my portfolio below, you will find live examples that reflect the use of the tools described in the following table.

Professional Experience

Eleven + years of web design and web development experience, Matt has become a seasoned technology professional working with a multitude of technologies and tools for the web. He has played several roles over his career leading web development efforts, working on the front end design and illustration, multi media art design, motion graphics, and other emerging creative technologies.

Matt is well-versed in taking information architecture and design concepts and translating them online to deliver the desired experience. He has over 4 years of experience with content management systems (specifically Interwoven Teamsite) and Joomla, an open source PHP driven platform.

Education
1996-1998 LLCC in Business
1998-1999 Columbia Chicago in Multimedia

Websites:

Federal Reserve Bank
As the lead technical developer, I had a range of responsibilities on the front and back end development.
www.neocenturymedia.com
Responsible for the front-end and backend development. DB setup, CMS setup, XHTML, JS, Flash, Tableless layout, CSS, PHP, produced graphics, layout and IA. Cross browser compatible, and accessible, following standards of W3C.
www.thankweb.com
Responsible for the front-end and backend development. DB setup, CMS setup, XHTML, JS, Flash, Tableless layout, CSS, PHP, produced graphics, layout and IA. Cross browser compatible, and accessible, following standards of W3C.
www.joomlainstallers.com
Responsible for the front-end and backend development. DB setup, CMS setup, XHTML, JS, Flash, Tableless layout, CSS, PHP, produced graphics, layout and IA. Cross browser compatible, and accessible, following standards of W3C.
Frontline Home Owners Insurance
Designed and coded GUI for POS application. Responsible for managing and extending the corporate website, creating footage, and code enhancements to the CMS.
American Hospital Association Websites
http://www.hospitalconnect.com/hospitalconnect/org/org_chart.html
Maintained, troubleshooted preexisting sites, as well as designed and developed new sites.

http://www.clarkesconcept.com
Designed and developed site per clients feedback. (Flash, Xhtml, CSS, CS3)
http://www.neocenturymedia.com/ncmport.html
Unique Marketing Delivery tool for Neo Century Media – Video
Motion Graphic Banners:
Download a small collection of motion graphic banners I designed using MX Flash, Adobe After Effects, and some 3d modeling tools. I lowered the resolution of these banners a little to help with download times. If you are on a high speed connection it should still only take a few seconds.
Request mp3's of audio compositions for multimedia presentations.