Tiffany Fehr's Resume (Last updated February 15th 2009)

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Tiffany Fehr

Seattle, Washington USA


http://www.tiffehr.com

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Qualifications 

Versatile UX engineerette & web technologist with 8 years experience in UI design, user-experience and interactivity design, prototyping and front-end development. Extensive involvement in high-traffic web development cycles and projects, with focus on SEO and download speeds. Strong background in cross-browser/-platform development, as well as Web standards, optimization and accessibility. Advanced application of Web-specific color palettes and typography. Excels in rapid development environments.

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Career Highlights 

UI Designer/Developer

Redmond, WA

msnbc.com

September 2007


Primary member of UI team taking on ownership, maintenance and further development of all client-side code and interactivity on msnbc.com and affiliated NBC news programs. Contributed to personalization side of 2-year site redesign effort, focusing on client-side JavaScript and page load times. Ongoing duties include shaping team territory and responsibilities, and developing new, improved tools for the editorial team workflow.

Current projects include continuing redesign initiative on to key msnbc.com pages, advertising metrics, reader experience and rewriting client-side jQuery/JavaScript library.

msnbc.com

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User Experience Designer & Developer

Seattle, Washington

Hillclimb Media, a Demand Media company

March 2006 - June 2007


User Experience Engineering (design and development) for Hillclimb Media's collection of niche recreation web properties, notably Run.com, RunThePlanet.com, GardenGuides.com and GolfLink.com. Current projects include developing websites for recreation markets with web-standard user-interfaces, solid information architecture and a light-weight code base. The company specializes in acquiring older, well-ranked specialty websites, which are then redesigned, re-developed and expanded with Hillclimb Media's unique recreation content. Beyond UX planning, front-end development and an small amount of design, typical work includes conceptualization, mind-mapping, usability heuristics and SEO & SEM strategies, as well as competitive analysis and search analytics. Hillclimb Media's development environment includes working with SQL, ASP, XHTML, CSS, DOM scripting, a smidge of AJAX, and lots and lots of regular expressions.

| run.com | golflink.com | gardenguides.com | demandmedia.com | hillclimbmedia.com | trails.com | runtheplanet.com | allgetaways.com |

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Web Designer/Developer

Seattle, Washington

WhitePages.com, Inc.

January 2002 - October 2005


UI design and development within the Engineering team for WhitePages' Network. The Network included WhitePages.com/.ca and 411.com, as well as 60+ co-brand partnerships and an extensive affiliate system. In 2005, WP.com broke into the Top 50 Ad-Focused Websites (5/2005, ComScore MediaMetrix). Highlights of work at WP included:

  • Authored GUI re-design in 2002 and helped design & marketing team better translate 2004 re-design into CSS, resulting in pages 75% faster @56k and 36% lighter. The redesigns and underlying "engines" supported traffic growth from 2M to 17M uniques/mo since 2002.

  • Designed and developed CSS-based "skinnable" framework for co-brand distribution, allowing customized co-brand websites with minimal maintenance overhead. This framework powered co-brands for the likes of MSN, AOL, Verizon's SuperPages, SmartPages/YellowPages and YPG in Canada.

  • Revamped entire front-end code base in early 2005 to better align with business and distribution requirements. Re-write also enabled better implementation of coding standards, improved CSS usage and greater leverage of XSLT's templating. Coincided with database, Perl and XML schema updates needed by entire development team. Consistently met deadlines over 3 month re-write project.

  • Led interaction design/development and user advocacy, Network-wide. Frequently involved in technical writing, prototyping, user analysis and design/development for WP's sister-site "wizards", like their online mailing list generation tool.

| whitepages.com | whitepages.ca | 411.com | whitepages.msn.com (deal since dropped) | whitepagesinc.com |

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Web Designer/Developer

Seattle, Washington

Ocentrix, Inc.

May 2001 - January 2002


UI developer/designer and content writer focused on small-business websites for automotive and motorcycle dealerships, with a special relationship to Harley-Davidson�®. Beyond design and development, earned extensive experience directly collaborating with clients, account managers and Harley-Davidson�® corporate design standards.

| twinstatesharley.com | davis-harley-davidson.com | northshoreharley.com |
(maintenance/operation now by third party; company defunct)

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Volunteer Work 

Volunteer Production Manager

Seattle, Washington

Digital Web Magazine

August 2006 - January 2009


Volunteer Production Manager for Digital Web Magazine, a recognized, independent web publication for web designers, web developers and information architects. Editorial writing duties, as well as occasional article writing duties. Minor work on our in-house, PHP-based CMS.

| digital-web.com |

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Volunteer Web Master

Seattle, Washington

Eightfold Design

1995 - Present


Utilizing design/development skills, direct a very small (aka, one person) freelance design firm specializing in design, development and support for non-profit or social causes. Projects include websites, print and multimedia design.

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Education 

Bachelor of Arts

August 1996 - May 2000

Wellesley College, Boston, Massachusetts
Media Arts & Sciences and Studio Art

 

Certificate

March 2004 - June 2005

University of Washington - Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering, Seattle, Washington
User-Centered Design

 

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Technical Skills 

Languages: XHTML, XSLT, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, regular expressions; working knowledge of PHP, SQL, ASP, ASP.net and Flash; beginning Prototype and Python; source control via CVS/VSS and SVN

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Affiliations 

  • Amateur boxer, USA Boxing through Capitol Hill Boxing Club
  • Puget Sound SIGCHI member
  • Girl Scout Gold Award recipient

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