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.

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.

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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.

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