Fiendish Master Plan

Chad Lundgren’s Resume

Contact Information

www.fiendishmasterplan.com
chad.lundgren@gmail.com

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Web Design

  • Have been hand coding HTML and CSS professionally for 14 years.
  • Code to XHTML, HTML5, CSS 2.1 and CSS3 web standards.
  • Ensure cross-browser compatibility for Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 10+, Safari 5, and Internet Explorer 6 – Internet Explorer 9.
  • Create fast web sites using gzip compression, CSS sprites, object oriented CSS, and JS and CSS minification.
  • Focus on progressive enhancement, also known as graceful degradation.
  • Build for white hat search engine optimization, making use of title tags, structural HTML, copy, and keyword-based filenames using clean (readable) URLs.
  • Code with accessibility issues and section 508 and WAI in mind.
  • Conduct usability testing: preparing, conducting, and analyzing tests to make a site easy to use.
  • Write site critiques using aesthetic, business objective, and usability principles.

Programming

  • Write PHP5. Use the CodeIgniter and CakePHP frameworks as well as Smarty; worked with many other programing languages
  • Use MySQL 5, SQL Server 2008
  • Code JavaScript for 10 years: use the jQuery framework..
  • Work in LAMP and Microsoft environments
  • Have worked with various CMS and blogging systems: MOSS, Vignette, WordPress, Drupal, Movable Type.

Other Skills

  • Writing skills, including copy-writing, and explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Good phone presence and professional email.
  • Editing skills: able to edit complex technical material.
  • Experience with digital photography: photographic principles, cropping, color and contrast correction, image cleanup, RAW conversion techniques.

Work Experience

  • AllonHill (recruiter: Kforce). PHP Developer. (12/11 – current).  Worked with developing their custom sytem that helps banks perform due diligence, using MySQL, PHP, XUL .
  • IBM (recruiter:  Manpower).  Local Services Adminstrator & Web Developer. (03/11 – 12/11).  Worked with PHP (using the YII framework), MySQL, CSS, XHTML  on websites to support IBM’s Learning Division; also offered technical support to classes in IBM’s Boulder location.
  • University of Colorado, Denver, CITT. Web Developer.  (02/10 – 03/11).  Writing custom CSS for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) CMS, writing PHP applications interfacing with MySQL and SQL Server in CodeIgniter.
  • Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico (UNM). Web Designer. (08/04 – 09/09, permanent position; 11/03 – 05/04 – temporary position) Performing usability testing, visual design, PHP, Smarty, CSS, XHTML & information architecture for a large web site
  • ClientLogic. (04/03 – 10/03). Technical Support Representative. Working on the Tivo campaign at ClientLogic, providing technical support for Tivo customers.
  • Oso Grande Technologies. (01/97 – 9/02). Web Developer. Other job titles included: Senior Web Designer, Web Designer, Publications Specialist. Designed, performed usability tests on, and created web sites. Gained extensive experience integrating legacy systems into modern web systems. Implemented, configured, and trained on ecommerce packages.

Software

  • Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe ImageReady CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe InDesign, emacs, Notepad++, Zen Coding
  • Google Analytics, including goals and segment breakdown
  • Operating systems: Windows, Linux, Macintosh
  • UNIX (Linux) command line skills include hand web log analysis, find, LDAP queries, CVS, subversion
  • Apache server software: configure for server side redirects, friendly error pages, page compression, clean URLs using rewrite rules, subversion
  • Microsoft Office Word, Excel, MOSS, SharePoint Designer, 2007-2010

Education

  • University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graduated 1997 with two Bachelor’s Degrees: English, with a concentration in Professional Writing, and Political Science.
  • An Event Apart, Washington, D.C,  September 2010.
  • Web Design World, July 2000.

References: Available on request.

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