Manager Design

JD Leonard http://jdleonard.net/ ******@*********.*** cell: 832-***-****

Technical Freelance Drupal Developer and Business Process Consultant, Oakland, CA

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Work

Significant experience building complex websites with Drupal 5, 6, and 7

Experience

I specialize in architecture design, module development, and site building

I provide consulting and development services to web development shops,

startups, and businesses of all size in need of a flexible Drupal expert who

can directly address business objectives

Textbook Madness LLC

Founder, March 2011 February 2012

Built a website to help students save money on textbooks through campus

classified ads and a comparison shopping engine

Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Program Manager, August 2009 March 2011

Managed cross-discipline teams working on Windows Live Photo Gallery,

Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Writer, and plugins.live.com

Collected functional requirements from stakeholders then translated them

into functional design specifications

Coordinated collaboration among program management, UI design,

technical writing, research, marketing, security, privacy, and legal experts

Designed customer-centric experiences

Managed all aspects of planning and development of plugins.live.com

under tight resource constraints

Managed group s BI instrumentation processes and culture

Coordinated cross-team and cross-group partnerships

Triaged bugs, balancing customer needs, risk, and schedule constraints

Initiated meaningful contact with end users and drove improvements into

products based on customer feedback

One UI design patent pending

Leadership Camp Dudley YMCA, Westport, NY

Division Head, Summer 2008 (and other roles, previous summers)

Experience

Trained and managed 45+ cabin staff, scheduled activities, and supervised

150+ campers over two four-week sessions

Education Rice University, Houston, Texas

B.S. in Computer Science conferred May 2009, GPA: 3.4/4.0

Skills Project management and leadership

Software user experience design

Business process consulting

Clear and concise written and oral communication

CSS, Drupal, HTML5, Java, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, SQL, XHTML

Honors Microsoft Gold Star Award

Service Award for service to Jones College (three times)

President s Honor Roll

Miscellaneous Right to work in the United States and the European Union

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