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Scott Polley - Web Administrator and Front End Drupal Developer

For your consideration;

I am an eager and experienced Web Administrator and Developer looking to elevate my skill set and working experience in a fast paced, creative environment.

Employed with Youth Culture since Dec of 2007, my responsibilities have varied between building contest micro sites, developing custom code, hiring out and spec-ing out development work, managing e-blasts and banner delivery, all as well as being the first line of tech support for the office.

This opportunity to work in a fast paced professional environment where learning new skills and improving current ones will be required is an ideal situation for me at this stage in my career.

I am grateful you have considered me as a candidate for this position.

Thank you,

Scott Polley

Objective:

To improve and add to my current abilities, bringing my proven track record for learning new technologies as needed while rolling out new sites and site updates on time, on budget.

A perfect compliment to a dedicated graphic designer with some code knowledge, a design sensitive Drupal/PHP developer in training with experience building and deploying Drupal web sites.

Scott Polley - Web Administrator and Front End Drupal Developer

Work Experience and Relative skills:

Dec 2007 – Nov 2011 Youth Culture, Web Administrator

Responsibilities:Implementing Client promotions and/or micro sites using designs provided or created in Photoshop and/or Illustrator, then built in Drupal with custom theming. Clients include: Dell, Clinique, West49, Powderroom, Sears, Hydro1, to name a few, as well as various media agencies.Sites I've built with Drupal for Youth Culture: : flagship site. Recent contest micro sites: and Building additional functionality into our website(s) when required for a paid promotions, in other cases building, testing, and rolling out micro sites to meet those needs. Includes finding existing code (Drupal Modules) and configuring and customizing as needed.Banner delivery, via DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) and OpenX, communicating directly with clients and media agencies to obtain and roll-out media, coordinate and cooperate troubleshooting when necessary.Delivering email blasts via Constant Contact, Exact Target, and Siteforum. Reporting on results (POP).Maintained a work flow from Dev->Stage->Production utilizing SVN, Drush, and the Drupal module Features.Tracking web site statistics in Google Analytics and other sources.Contract projects out to third parties, keep these projects on time, on budget, managing compromises to achieve these, while keeping clients happy.First line of support for all technical issues in the office. Liaise with outside tech support.

2002 – Present Web2scale.com, sole proprietor.

I have created web sites and provided hosting for several small companies, local artists, and individuals. Some of these sites I was tasked with designing from scratch, others design was provided. Sites range from simple HTML, JavaScript and CSS to custom PHP/MySQL code. Examples at web2scale.com/portfolio

I've also built several sites of my own using Drupal. These personal sites are constantly ‘under construction’ and often act as a test bed for new technologies I am learning, such asCoupling website content with interaction with FacebookMultisite: many sites, one codebase, one database. Examples:,, and (all three on one Drupal installation).Experimented with 'accessibility', starting with the 'flexible' theme. See for an example (under construction).

Scott Polley - Web Administrator and Front End Drupal Developer

Relevant Skills and Education

Relevant Skills

Software: Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Eclipse IDE, MAMP, PHPMyAdmin, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Google Docs, SVN, Drupal.

Programming Languages: HTML, PHP, MySQL, CSS, also XML and JavaScript.

Platforms: Mac, Linux, and Windows.

Education

Digital Imaging/Photo Manipulation w/ Adobe Photoshop (Seneca College, 2000)Story Boarding (Seneca College, 2000)Macromedia Director (Seneca College, 2000)Graphic Design Courses (George Brown College 1999)Cartooning/Illustration (George Brown College 1998)Adobe Photoshop (Humber College, 1997)Adobe Illustrator (Humber College, 1997)Introduction to Digital Imaging (Humber College, 1997)

References

Available upon request.

Contact Information

Scott Polley

Telephone: 416-***-****

Email: *******@*********.***

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/scottpolley

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