Developer Training

JARED A PEARCE

Address: **** ***** **. **, ***********, NM 87109 • Phone: 505-***-****

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FRONT-END DEVELOPER

Experienced HTML Developer delivering responsive, user-friendly driven design to achieve product deliverables. Expert at guiding customers through the design process: scope, wireframe, prototype, design and launch. Skilled developer of semantic and structural markup used to define user-centered experiences.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Multimedia Developer 2007-Present

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Albuquerque, NM

Established, in the final design specifications, visual layouts that conformed to a graphical user interface (GUI) framework, instituted strong typography and implemented appropriate color theory.

• Scoped, designed and deployed standardized learning templates for consistent delivery of web-based training.

• Presented high fidelity prototypes to engage customers in interactive feedback sessions, promote rapid design exploration and identify user patterns.

• Tasked with 83% of the total existing change requests for web-based training utilized by 12,000 employees and contractors.

• Provided technical support for colleagues and clients; resolving 110 formal customer support tickets in the past year.

Assisted in defining and promoting technical avenues of growth, direction, vision and planning for the E-Learning Services Team.

• Promoted a clean, holistic, and scalable approach to the template architecture by using JavaScript and the Adobe Creative Suite.

• Incorporated JavaScript and the jQuery library as part of the e-learning infrastructure for DOM manipulation within Sandia’s Online Learning Generation Application (OLGA).

• Validated (X)HTML and HTML5 markup to ensure W3C conformance and Section 508 compliance.

• Produced Sandia’s first mobile prototype for web-based training through the use of CSS media queries, HTML5 and jQuery.

Researched and implemented clean coding practices and industry-touted methodologies within software development processes to ensure software quality, stability and graceful degradation.

• Used the Firefox Web Developer extension to iterate rapidly through the software development life cycle and to ensure pixel-perfect design implementation.

• Hand coded design specifications for accurate display in Firefox modifying, as needed, for other browsers.

Web Technician 2003 – 2007

Contracted to Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Albuquerque, NM

by Tactical Staffing Resources, LLC

• Senior member of the E-Learning Services team responsible for developing and maintaining over 70 online training courses.

• Reduced employee training time by 88%, from 4 hours to 30 minutes, by converting instructor led training materials to web-based courses; saving SNL $350 per employee per online course.

• Pioneered implementation of AICC/SCORM industry standards within SNL’s e-learning culture using (X)HTML/CSS and ensured the overall architecture conformed to Section 508 Compliance.

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

Captivate 6 years

CSS 8 years

DreamWeaver 10 years

Fireworks 8 years

HTML 10 years

HTML5 2 years

(X)HTML 8 years

Illustrator 9 years

InDesign 10 years

JavaScript 5 years

jQuery 5 years

MS Office 8 years

Photoshop 10 years

Basic knowledge of ColdFusion, Flash and PHP.

FORMAL EDUCATION

Northern Arizona University

B.F.A. Visual Communication

Minor Russian Area Studies

Flagstaff, AZ May 2003

Mesa Community College

A.A. General Studies

Mesa, AZ May 2000

SUMMER INTERNSHIPS

Simplified Graphics Studio

Albuquerque, NM

Asst. Graphic Designer 2003

Institute for Human Development

NAU Flagstaff, AZ

Asst. Graphic Designer 2002

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