Experience

Fort Bend County

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Webmaster/Sr. Web Developer

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  • Provides support for Drupal-based county website and other websites and applications. • Built child themes and custom plugins for multiple WordPress sites. Developed custom theme features from scratch including responsive layouts, collapsible sidebars, accordion widgets, and an overflow menu for top-navigation. Developed and delivered a custom WordPress permissions management solution allowing staff backend access to update content that is specific to their department. • Built online web forms using HTML, Bootstrap, jQuery, and PHP to create features including multi-step wizards, conditionally appearing fields, and custom data validation. • Assisted frontend development of dynamic centralized content widgets that appear on multiple websites and mobile app. Content is pulled from SQL database, converted to XML/JSON, and rendered on the frontend through PHP, HTML and CSS. • Designed web graphics promoting county events and programs. • Created documentation and provided training for website editing and development procedures. Show less



Odyssey Information Services

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Web Developer

  • Aug 2020 - Dec 2021

  Contracted with Fort Bend County, Texas to assist with their Covid-19 website, county website, and other applications. Original contract spanned Aug-Dec 2020, but was extended to Dec 2021 at the request of the client. Job became full-time in Jan 2022. • Migrated existing static HTML site to a CMS to allow county staff easier access to posting updates. • Converted paper forms into online dynamic web forms with conditionally appearing fields and options based on selections throughout form. • Provided documentation, training, support, and maintenance of main county website and supporting websites and applications. Show less



IFMA

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Team Lead, Web Services Department

  • Aug 2017 - Jun 2020

  I managed a team of two full-time web developers and a web marketing vendor. We developed the web strategy for over 45 web projects. Accomplishments included:• Launching new websites promoting company and affiliate initiatives. Moved several websites to a standard template and platform to achieve a more cohesive branding, layout, look and feel across company products.• Leading agile-driven initiatives focused on fresh content, dynamic features and iterative improvements to increase website engagement. During these efforts, annual visits to main company website increased by 24% from 2016 to 2018.• Co-leading webinar for over 200 company affiliates describing best practices for website development, branding usage and content management.• Supervising development of dynamic widget on company home page showing real-time industry-based job listings pulled from partnering job board website. Integration of widget provided a 43% increase in traffic to job board site resulting in a 30% revenue increase from paid listings.• Removing expensive and unnecessary software licenses and replacing with alternative solutions, saving company $7K/year. Show less

• Web Designer

  • Nov 2012 - Aug 2017

  • Performed design and maintenance of over 60 websites. Received President’s Award on two occasions.• Led or assisted in over 20 redesign projects for websites supporting regional offices, conferences, affiliates (chapters, councils and communities), online newsletters and other company initiatives. Worked collaboratively with other departments to determine project scope and development schedules.• Conducted company-wide training presentations for CMS website editing; produced quick reference documentation to assist with frequent editing tasks.• Co-led a focus group at company's flagship conference with top association members discussing company website needs and ideas for improvement.• Helped develop affordable and professional hosting solution supporting up to 40 website accounts containing staging servers, SSL, DNS configuration, PHP, MySQL and latest version of WordPress.• Rebuilt static content websites onto CMS platforms including Sitefinity and WordPress. Developed custom Sitefinity templates and WordPress themes. Provided self-managing solutions for departments and partnering organizations to maintain the content on their own websites.• Used Pardot and ClickDimensions to produce html emails promoting company initiatives. Deployed paid sponsor emails on behalf of tradeshow clients resulting in over $300K revenue. Show less



Self-Employed

• Part-Time Freelance Web Designer

  • 2005 - Nov 2012

  • Led or participated in over 25 web projects. • Performed development work, redesign and launch of professional client websites. • Produced website mockups and graphic design services. • Trained clients on a proprietary CMS system to maintain their site content. • Led or participated in over 25 web projects. • Performed development work, redesign and launch of professional client websites. • Produced website mockups and graphic design services. • Trained clients on a proprietary CMS system to maintain their site content.



Independent Contractor

• Livingston, Texas

• Petroleum Landman/GIS Specialist

  • Aug 2008 - Oct 2012

  • Worked with team to design and construct office GIS mapping system. Helped migrate static map content over to dynamic GIS system. • Created flowcharts, provided graphic design, IT support and core landman services. • Worked with team to design and construct office GIS mapping system. Helped migrate static map content over to dynamic GIS system. • Created flowcharts, provided graphic design, IT support and core landman services.



Tyler Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Writer

  • Oct 2005 - Jul 2008

  • Created onscreen and online documentation for financial software help resources. • Designed and coded templates for online help resources using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. • Designed and built interactive video tutorials using Adobe Captivate. • Created print documentation including How-To guides and Quick Reference documents. • Created onscreen and online documentation for financial software help resources. • Designed and coded templates for online help resources using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. • Designed and built interactive video tutorials using Adobe Captivate. • Created print documentation including How-To guides and Quick Reference documents.