Design Web Developer

Jonathan Hayward

*** * *******, *******, ** ***87, USA

********.*******@*****.*** [+1] 630-***-****

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhayward

Languages: Ajax CSS HTML Java JavaScript JSON JSP Perl PHP Python SQL XHTML

XML

Skills: Accessibility CGI CMS e-Commerce IA Security Themes UI UX

Technologies: Alfresco Apache Django Flash GIMP jQuery LAMP Liferay Mac/OSX

OSS RIA Unix/Linux Windows

EXPERIENCE

Web Development Author / Contract

Packt Publications, Wheaton, IL 3/10-present

. Wrote the book on Django jQuery Ajax.

. Created the world's first open source employee intranet photo

directory. (Used Django jQuery Ajax.)

. Completed expanded first draft two months ahead of schedule.

. Also proposed Python and Usability title which was editorially

accepted before being affected by marketing concerns.

. Independently invented technique for Ajax without JavaScript or client-

side scripting. (The spike resulted in well over two million hits and

ongoing traffic, even several months later.)

. Independently published domain-specific, specialized search engine and

CMS with strong attention to UX.

. Worked with Ajax, CGI, CMS, CSS, Django, HTML, Intranet, jQuery,

jQuery UI, JSON, Python, SQL, UI, Unix/Linux, Unobtrusive JavaScript,

Usability, UX, Web Design, Web Development, XHTML, and XML.

Senior Python/Web Developer / Contract

Steep Rock, Chicago, IL 1/10-2/10

. Responsible for development and expansion of advanced pharmaceutical

industry software identifying and managing key opinion leaders.

. Developed, maintained, and debugged multiple areas of complex system.

. Developed new password system, proposed and implemented several

security enhancements, and significantly improved on prior system.

. Succeeded in backend responsibilities using Python, MySQL, and a

custom ORM.

. Wrote clear documentation explaining complex system setup procedures.

. Provided list of usability enhancements for flagship product.

. Learned system well enough to pick up on things missed by local gurus.

. Worked with Ajax, Apache, CGI, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, LAMP, MySQL,

ORM, Python, SQL, UI, Unix/Linux, Usability, Web Design, Web

Development, XHTML, and XML.

Senior Python/Web Developer

Call One, Chicago, IL 6/08-11/09

. Provided web solutions to telecom parent company and travel

subsidiary, coming to know both industries.

. Created CMS providing a usable way to update existing custom travel

site, including architecture and design.

. Created secure web server from scratch to handle online payments at

well above industry standard security levels.

. Transformed look and feel of billing system and integrated e-commerce

payment system.

. Developed software interface to help relevant information "jump out"

from mounds of data, which substantially decreased excess workload for

the revenues assurance auditor while improving productivity.

. Responsible for communicating and handling technical negotiations with

upstream provider which the company knew to be difficult to work with.

. Handled customer-facing communications for issues related to online

billing (another area of responsibility).

. Responsible for, in words of the CTO, "the tricky stuff."

. Worked with Ajax, Alfresco, Apache, CherryPy, CGI, CSS, Customer

Communication, Customer Care, e-Commerce, Flex, GIMP, HTML, Java,

JavaScript, JSON, LAMP, Perl, PHP, Python, SOAP, SEO, SQL, Unix/Linux,

WDSL, Web Design, Web Development, XHTML, and XML.

Front End Web Developer / Contract

Kingsway Financial Services, Elk Grove Village, IL 9/07-3/08.

. Was asked to become, and did become, local Liferay guru.

. Front end graphics and JSP work on external website.

. Responsible for developing RIA intranet/extranet prototype.

. Research into topics including Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and technical,

business, and human factors feeding into what makes intranets succeed

or fail.

. Documented and explained open source technologies and solutions.

. Worked with Alfresco, CMS, CSS, Cygwin, GIMP, HTML, JSP, Liferay, RIA,

Tomcat, Velocity, Web 2.0, and Windows XP.

Study and Personal Development

Wheaton, IL 6/07-9/07.

. Took graduate coursework in how to learn a language well and learn to

function at a high level of success and influence in another cultural

setting.

. Ongoing personal projects including web development and writing.

. Worked with Anthropology, Cultures, Cultural sensitivity, Learning

languages, Language acquisition.

Web Designer and Representative

Fordham University, Bronx, NY 8/05-5/07.

. Created, overhauled, expanded, organized, and maintained websites for

multiple departments within university.

. Developed technical side of website including adapting work to

function gracefully in the CMS.

. Worked on making a more user-friendly website through sensitivity to

artistic concerns, graphic design, usability, and information

architecture concerns..

. Represented university to both internal and external clients in

person, over phone, and by e-mail.

. Worked with CGI, CMS, CSS, Customer Communications, Customer Care,

HTML, JavaScript, Perl, Web Design.

Web Consultant / Part Time

Systematic Political Science, Cosby, TN, 1/03-present.

. Responsible for all aspects of creating, updating, and maintaining

website.

. Took information existing in Word documents and incorporated it into

seamless website.

. Worked with Apache, CGI, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Perl, SEO, and

Unix/Linux.

Consultant / Contract

codeRelay, Schaumburg, IL, 7/02-9/02.

. Worked to adapt medical device monitoring software to near-transparent

network availability.

. Before end of contract, knew Visual Basic well enough to be evaluated

as more proficient than Visual Basic teaching consultant on team.

. Worked with Network Programming, Visual Basic.

Web Consultant / Contract

Trainers of Pastors International Coalition, Schaumburg, IL, 3/02-7/02.

. Overhauled website in technical aspects, design, and usability.

. Worked with HTML, Unix/Linux, Usability, Web Design.

Adjunct Professor / Contract

DeVry University, Chicago, IL, 2/02-5/02.

. Instructed students in development of web-enabled business solutions.

. Taught HTML, Java, JavaScript, UML, and VBScript. Used teaching and

tutoring skills.

Web Designer / Contract

World Evangelical Alliance, Wheaton, IL, 8/01-7/03.

. Responsible for all web-related questions and requests from World

Evangelical Alliance headquarters.

. Took press releases and other updates from various e-mailed formats

and converted them to hand-coded HTML.

. Registered website with all appropriate directories and portals

available from Open Directory.

. Developed in HTML from Unix/Linux.

. Updated, developed, and publicized website, and posted press releases

and new materials

. Evaluated, reported on, and implemented new technologies as well as

special-purpose sites.

. Worked with HTML, SEO, Unix/Linux, and Web Design.

Consultant / Contract

Eolas Technologies, Wheaton, IL, 7/02-9/02.

. Worked to modify encryption program to function as extension to Tcl

language.

. Worked to adapt remote conferencing software to fit material.

. Writing used for auction of ProofSpace's core technology.

. Worked with C, Cygwin, SWIG, Tcl, Windows, Writing.

Web Developer

Teleformix, 5/00-3/01.

. Performed full-lifecycle Unix/Linux software development.

. Worked on continued improvements and developments to system that both

communicated with SQL server and performed backend responsibilities

for "call center script" site via JSP and Java applet.

. Analyzed possibilities of migrating from makefile-based build system

to Ant. Responsible for migration from make to Ant.

. Designed, implemented, and deployed automated content-management

system to extract documentation from company's Java code and publish

Javadoc-based subsite to server.

. Used Apache, CGI, CMS, HTML, Java (server and client-side), JSP, Perl,

SQL, Unix/Linux, Web Development, and XML.

Consultant / Contract

Wheaton College Computing Services, Wheaton, IL, 1/00-3/00.

. Built, tested, configured and secured experimental web server running

Apache on Unix/Linux.

. Wrote recommendation to migrate mission-critical campus-wide web

server to Apache on Unix/Linux.

. Recommendation was implemented.

. Worked with Apache, Hardware Assembly, Product Evaluation, System

Administration, Unix/Linux.

INTERESTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

. Interested in communication, cultures, and languages (human as well as

computer).

. Lived in four countries on three continents.

. Published author in three languages, including online book on Perl.

. Reading proficiency in languages including French, Italian, Spanish,

Latin, and Greek.

. Created, including architecture, design, and implementation, several

simple open source CMS'es.

EDUCATION

. Anthropology/linguistics postgraduate coursework, Wheaton College,

2007. Worked on anthropological observation and understanding of

cultures and different ways of seeing things within a culture.

. Doctoral coursework, Fordham University, 2007. Obtained a broader view

of trends in contemporary thought and society. Emphasized

understanding people.

. M.Phil., University of Cambridge, 2004. Cross-disciplinary application

of computer-related insights in humanities.

. M.S. in Applied Math, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

1998. Computational Science and Engineering Option. Multidisciplinary

work in cognitive science seminar. First person to graduate with new

thesis option; thesis was based on consulting-related work at National

Center for Supercomputing Applications. GPA 3.5/4.0.

. B.S. in Math, Calvin College, 1996. GPA 3.3/4.0.

. Certificat Semestriel, Niveau Sup rieur I, Universit de Sorbonne,

1995.

BRAINBENCH CERTIFICATIONS

Technical

. CGI Scripting (Master)

. Dynamic HTML

. HTML 4.0

. Internet Security

. Java 2

. JavaScript 1.5

. Linux Administration (General)

. Linux Programming (General)

. Network Security

. OO Concepts

. OO Design Patterns

. Perl

. Programming Concepts (Master)

. Python 1.5

. SQL (ANSI)

. Web Design for Accessibility

. Web Design Concepts

. Web Development Concepts

. Web Server Administration

. XHTML 1.1

Business

. Advertising Industry Knowledge (U.S.)

. Business Communication

. Business Writing

. Coaching

. Customer Assistance (Master)

. Editing and Proofing (Chicago Style)

. English Vocabulary (Master)

. French Reading Comprehension (Master)

. General Sciences (Master)

. Interpersonal Communications

. Interviewing and Hiring Concepts (U.S.)

. Managing People (U.S.)

. Marketing Concepts

. Negotiation Strategy

. Problem Solving - Qualitative

. Time Management (U.S.)

. Training Delivery and Evaluation

. Training Development

. Written English

. Project Management (2005)

. Public Relations Industry Knowledge (U.S.)

. Sales Concepts (U.S.)

. Spanish Reading Comprehension

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