Résumé

Winter 2012 (in progress)

This winter I'm resetting my CSS layouts, to facilitate flexible layouts and mobile device deployment. Check this page, and some of my recent sites on your phone. I'm also digging deeper into webfonts to enhance typographic presentation. While I've been using google fonts on client sites for a good part of last year, there are richer offerings to explore.

Fall 2011

In the last year I've helped design the interface of a web application, which has just received its first round of venture capitol funding. The application has been called a "Killer App" by someone very prominent in the field. I'm still under Non Disclosure agreement and hope to re-engage with that development at some point. The application is developed in Ruby on Rails, and I worked closely with the Rails developer and even coded some of the app templates. Mostly my work was interface design, photoshop and CSS work.

In the last years I've changed my working style to be more based on hand-coding using Textmate and various shortcut tricks to expedite coding, and CSSEdit and other editors to work with CSS. I also can use Dreamweaver, but it is slower and more cumbersome to do that, now that I've adopted and become agile with these great coding tools.

In this period I've continued to maintain long term client sites, and have done a few more designs.

In the last year, I've deployed a number of highly customized Wordpress sites and gotten quite good at developing daughter themes.

See my Portfolio page for other recent projects.

2001 - 2010: Innumerable Web-projects, including new sites as well as long term relationships with established clients, fine art photography, and lots of learning. In this period I moved from my 90's style of table based layouts to standards compliant, accessible, and standards compliant pages, as CSS and styles changed. There is still old code of mine out there though.

7/97 through Winter 01: Webmaster for Killington Resort. The site has been very successful under my tenure, clearly the most successful of all American Skiing Company web sites by any measure. Traffic has been high; the site is large and informative, with almost 3,000 files on the server and average user sessions of 20 minutes under my tenure. User feedback has been very positive. My responsibilities during this period have included e-commerce, graphics, page design, information design, and site architecture. Working on something as big as killington.com has been a fun challenge, and I'd like to thank everyone at killington who made it a generally great experience. During this period I also worked on designing, building, and maintaining a number of other sites.

Other work in the period of '96 to the present has been in web development, both (very) large and small sites. All of my experience over the last 20 years -- working with images; writing, organizing, and designing information--converges in web work.

Skills:

Web Design -- Since '96 I've been very busy in all aspects of Web Design, Site Architecture, Information Design, eCommerce, database integration, Content Management, Javascript, CGI, and of course graphics. I've used a variety of tools, from hand coding (in BBEdit) to using WYSIWYG web tools like Adobe's GoLive and DreamWeaver. See my Web Work page for more.

Photoshop work/Graphic Design -- I've used Photoshop professionally since '94, and other computer graphics/design/layout tools as well since then, including Corel's Painter and Bryce, Adobe's Illustrator and Indesign, and Quark Xpress. Though most of my work has been for the web, I have also worked on print materials such as business cards to match a web design as well as very high resolution photographic pieces to be output on various high resolution devices.

Writing/Information Design -- In the early 90s I worked as a writer, publishing magazine articles in national magazines as well as pulling together several technical manuals on software products and hardware devices. Working with information and understanding the need to prepare well organized and tight content laid the foundation for web design. 

Photography -- Photography has been a serious focus of my time and energy. It's been an invaluable aid in developing my eye, and also it has sharpened my skills at producing web images. I'm currently involved in a big documentary project in the capacity of photographer, archivist, digital video editor, and web publisher for these photographic images.

Time-Line:

Fall 2005 – Extensive effort into my photography.

2004 Summer: My photos on the front and back cover of Kosmos magazine

1996 to Present: Designer/Producer/Webmaster of many web sites. See Portfolio.

1/97 NetGuide Gold Award winner, with 5 stars for design for the Digital Mask site. Actually, that was my very first web site.

8/96 I didn't win the trip to Paris in the 1996 Fractal Design Contest. But one of my high resolution pieces toured the country as part of Fractal Design's Gallery, hung at MacWorld, Siggraph, Seybold--all those shows.

4/19/96 My article on the Dye Transfer Process is in the May/June issue of Photo Techniques, a national magazine on high-end photography.

12/95 Winner in Photo District News digital imaging contest.

1994 - 1996 Printer, technician, image editor, webmaster, marketing and publications for Digital Mask, a high-end, digitally based fine printing lab; work on personal high resolution digitally manipulated photography, film work, and traditional printing.

1991-1994 Free-lance magazine writing (articles for Country Journal and Harrowsmith Country Life) and technical writing (manuals for North East Environmental Products and Allen Bradley Corporation), work on self-illustrated gardening book; continued work in photography, began work in digital imaging.

1987-1991 New darkroom completed: continued work in large format silver photography while branching into other interests -- writing and computing among them.

1980-1985 Pursued fine art photography full time; Hung several shows of silver photographs in New Hampshire and Vermont spaces, represented by Charles Fenton Gallery in Woodstock, VT. Photos published as covers on the Poetry Journal "New England Review."

1982 1982 Studied view camera techniques and fine printing with John Sexton at Maine Photographic Workshop.

1980 Bachelors Degree from Dartmouth College