KENJI GARLAND

abqa8y@r.postjobfree.com

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Scarborough, ME 04074

646-***-****

Enthusiastic, skilled, and experienced Web developer and designer seeks engaging

work in a creative environment in Maine or abroad. Highly organized, with strong

attention to detail, concern for user experience, and up-to-date knowledge of standards,

practices and tools.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Web Designer/Developer

June 2010 - present

Freelance/self-employed clients include:

P ossibilityU (Freeport, ME), an online educational consultant service o ering coaching and

assistance with the college admission process. I designed and developed a completely new

consumer acquisition site, and I continue to work with the other members of the

development team on changes and new features in the member site as well.

Aurora Linnea (Portland, ME), a writer with a strong and distinctive visual identity. Other

writing-oriented sites tend to mimic the appearance of words on plain paper, but this client

wanted a maximalist approach. I developed, using PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, a

graphics-intensive showcase site whose scope is still expanding.

Navigating the Real World (Portland, ME), a nonpro t o ering career and life advice for

high school and college students. I designed and developed a WordPress-based website to

showcase the many video interviews the organization has amassed with students, parents,

employers and others.

Grace Church School (New York, NY), a private preschool. Created a WordPress theme

from scratch, precisely following Photoshop mockups from a designer. Also developed a

system for gathering information from parents of current and prospective students, and for

manipulating and re-displaying the collected data within the WordPress environment.

Candray Pet Care Center (Candia, NH), a veterinary practice and pet grooming and

boarding center. I am creating a WordPress-based informational site with general

information, photographs, customer testimonials, and calendar of events that can be

updated easily by the client.

Village Books (Tivoli, NY), an independent bookstore. Overhaul of static information page,

creating a more modern and pleasant presentation for basic store info.

W ebsite Assistant

January 2011 - September 2011

News Services Section, Department of Public Information

United Nations, New York, NY

Redesigning and re-coding Stories the World Should Hear More About, a sub-site of the

UN News Centre (http://www.un.org/news), in order to make it more modern, elegant,

maintainable and accessible. e new site is written in PHP 5 and MySQL, using WordPress as

a core CMS.

I was responsible for everyday maintenance and updating of the UN News Centre website,

including creating news graphics, posting news articles written by the writing sta, and laying

out and coding new pages and features.

Other accomplishments include the creation of designs (to be followed by other developers)

for the Department of Public Information site and for a future version of the UN site itself.

Administrative File Clerk

August 2010 - December 2010

Legal Support O ce, Bureau of Management

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York, NY

Responsible for organizing and maintaining hard-copy and digital les, including open

administrative case les and inter-organizational and international agreements. Where

appropriate, either conformed to agency-wide speci cations, followed established o ce

practices, or established new systems of organization to be followed in the future.

Technical Director

November 2006 - May 2009

WXBC (student-run radio station)

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Responsible for upkeep of Web audio streaming server and studio hardware. Worked closely

with station director on a complete overhaul of station website using the Drupal content

management system, pooling our programming knowledge to adapt existing Drupal modules the

station s needs.

Web Developer and Designer

May 2008 - August 2008

Smoke NYC, New York, NY

Responsible for assisting with various projects undertaken by design rm. Accomplishments

include designing and implementing, using Adobe Photoshop and Flash, a custom video player

skin for the rm s online music magazine (http://www.smokemusic.tv/); developing a mini-site

to showcase footage that the rm shot at concerts; and giving brief lessons in Pro Tools to indie

music legend R. Stevie Moore.

EDUCATION

Bachelor s Degree, Electronic Music Composition & Performance

2006 - 2010

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

High School

2002 - 2006

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, New York City, NY

SKILLS

Programming: knowledge, enthusiasm and craftsmanship

Excellent understanding of XHTML/HTML 5 and CSS 3, and experience writing code

that s fully compatible with both cutting-edge and legacy Web browsers

oroughly comfortable developing applications using PHP and MySQL in a LAMP

environment

Experience and skill in JavaScript, including AJAX techniques and the jQuery library

Up-to-date knowledge of W3C standards, accessibility requirements and SEO best practices

P articular experience modifying and extending the WordPress CMS platform

Familiarity with scalability issues and solutions

UNIX, Linux and Windows shell scripting

O ther languages: Ruby, Objective-C, Java, C, C++

An organized approach

Version control using command-line git and Subversion

Familiarity with Agile and Scrum practices

User-oriented design sensibility

oroughly comfortable with major software packages

Adobe Creative Suite; especially uent in Photoshop

UNIX/Linux command line interface and tools

Video and audio editing: Final Cut Pro, Avid Pro Tools, Ableton Live

Microsoft O ce, including VBA scripting

References available upon request.

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