VICTOR H. SPARROW

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Washington, D.C. 20002

202-***-****

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EDUCATION

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting, 1993.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine. Worked with Jane Hammond, Christy Rupp and Mel Edwards Summer, 1992.

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. BA. (honors) in Art and Semiotics [Art History, Studio Art and Communications], minor in French, 1989.

LANGUAGES: English, French

W O R K

E X P E R I E N C E

Freelance Web Developer 2005-2023

Cineblog.us, constancegarciabarrio.com and social media groups Souvenirs de Lacoste, Bernard Pfreim’s Lacoste School of the Arts, and the DC MS Empowerment Group on Facebook and Wordpress.com. Remediated PDFs and served as Section 508 SME for Manoverboard studio, Manoverboard.com.

Property Manager, 1616 Park Ave. LLC December 2011-January 2017 Managed 3-unit tfamily-owned apartment building in Baltimore, Md. Collected rent, arranged for inspection and coordinated paperwork with city officials. Supervised renovations, repairs and trash removal.

IT Consultant, George Washington Institute for Spiritual Health October-December 2011 Consultant for GWish. Advised GWish Staff on re-design strategies for GWish.org. Participated in strategy meetings with GW University External Development Team.

Web Designer/Developer, Federal Reserve Board February- April, 2010

• Remediated PDF documents for 508-compliance using ABBYY Fine Line Reader.

• Created fully validated, webpages for Reserve Board’s intranet and public-facing websites. HTML Author, ManTech International July 2009 – February 2010 HTML editor for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Dept. of Community Planning and Development.

• Updated webpages with metatags for SEO;

• Prepared Section 508-compliant PDFs using Acrobat CS4 and its OCR functions;

• Maintained intranet and extrnal-facing webpages (HTML, XHTML, CSS and CFusion).

Assistant Webmaster, Federal Trade Commission February 2006 – June 2006

• Day-to-day content management of FTC.gov, the FTC Intranet and internationalcompetitionnetwork.org, building and modifying existing web pages.

• HTML/CSS/Javascript, XML and DHTML development

• Ensured 508 compliance for all documents published to FTC administered sites;

• Provided direct support to FTC staff for all things related to publication on the FTC website and Intranet;

• Responded to customer inquiries regarding FTC.gov;

• Created written documentation for all three FTC administered websites. Tools used:

o Adobe Creative Suite

o MS Office – MS Word, Excel and Entourage.

IT Consultant, Academy for Educational Development December 2004-February 2005

• Designed and built-out an extension to AED’s Public-Private Partnership brochure site:.

• Researched, wrote and edited new copy.

• Built and tested mini-site to correspond with AED’s existing site architecture.

Tools used:

o Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, DreamWeaver, etc.) o BBEdit

o Terminal – PERL and Unix scripting

o MS Office – MS Word, Excel and Entourage

o HTML/CSS/Javascript and DHTML and Section 508 accessibility enhancements.

Web Developer, American Geophysical Union September 2002-December 2003

• Responsible for day-to-day content management of an NPO website.

• Managed and re-deployed AGU's online library of research articles.

• Verified and repaired links to existing articles and published content, dating back to 1996.

• Verified and repaired PDFs and HTML content in journal articles dating back to 1994.

• Used UNIX shell and PERL scripts to batch-process and distribute AGU content to AGU affiliates and intra-agency units.

• Created new content (HTML, PDF, JPEG, and GIF) and modified old content to make it compatible with newer design standards on the AGU website.

• Tools used:

o Adobe Creative Suite

o HTML with Section 508 accessibility enhancements, Javascript

Assistant Webmaster, Council for Exceptional Children February 2001 – June 2002

• Responsible for day-to-day content management of an NPO website.

• Provided ongoing maintenance and consultation with CEC Divisions – Membership, Public Policy, Professional Standards, Development, etc.

• Development responsibilities including designing information architecture, navigation, templates and style sheets, user-interface design, and HTML, XHTML, CSS and PHP coding.

• Converted entire CEC website, <http://cec.sped.org> from HTML 3.2 and 4.0 to XHTML 1.0 codebase and maintenance of ADA Section 508 accessibility standards.

References

Andrew Boardman, Principal Manoverboard, Inc. Web Designer and Developer

w: 204-***-****

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Jonathan Firestone, fmr. Webmaster, Council for Exceptional Children Internet Developer c: 703-***-****

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Vivian Lowery Derryck, Senior Vice President – Pub.-Priv. Partnerships Academy for Educational Development Washington, D.C. w: (202) 545- 0022

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Penelope Kriese, Fmr. Web Site Managing Editor American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C. c: (202)

693-6574 adxmf2@r.postjobfree.com

Barri Hutchins, Webmaster, Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. w: (202) 326- 2373

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