Bonnie Vasko

Bonnie Vasko

Web Developer

Greater Philadelphia Area

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Education
  • Art Institute of Philadelphia
  • Immaculata University
  • St. Pius X
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Bonnie Vasko’s Summary

I bring experience, passion, and creativity to my work as a web developer. My current obsession is pushing the boundaries of Actionscript 3.0 application development utilizing OOP and MVC design patterns. I developed a custom podcast player for The Scientist.com, and RSS reader widget in Flash. Both are available for viewing through the browser or standalone web applications. I am also a speaker at the Art Institute of Philadelphia on web development and career issues.

As a person and a web developer, I am meticulous, logical and persistent. High quality standards and neatness describe me as a person and and my code. When I tackle a project I first sketch the project’s functionality to use as a blueprint. My greatest satisfaction is seeing a project through from inception to live on the web. Whether developing a small website for a new entrepreneur or revising a major pharmaceutical website, I find Information Architecture, design and most of all development to be incredibly satisfying.

I am an accomplished baker of cookies and cakes and find baking similar to web development. You can’t really stray from the recipe until you get to know the basics. If you try making substitutions without understanding the impact on the end product, things can go terribly wrong. Once you get the hang of things, you can really let your imagination run wild. This is the experience, passion, and creativity I bring to my work as a web developer.

Bonnie Vasko’s Specialties:

Flash Platform Developer: Actionscript 3.0, Flash Animation, Flex 2.0, AIR, FMS

10+ years Web Development: HTML / CSS; XML & RSS; Javascript; XSL; PHP / MySQL; AJAX / XHR

Technologies: Spry Framework, AJAX, XSL / XML, AS3 OOP, Light JSP, Light Java, CSS, JS

Applications / IDE: Eclipse, Flash, Aptana, Subversion, Saxon, XML Spy, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, Bug Tracker, ACE Project Management

Certifications, Workshops & Graduate Classes

Bonnie Vasko’s Experience

  • Web Developer

    Comcast Interactive Media

    (Public Company; Online Media industry)

    2009 — Present (less than a year)

  • Senior Front-end Developer

    The Scientist

    (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

    September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

    My responsibilities at The Scientist go from editing JSP code and generating RSS feeds to creating a podcast player in AS3, animating illustrations building accessible forms and more

    Technologies: AJAX, XSL / XML, AS3 OOP, JSP, CSS, JS

    URLS:
    http://www.the-scientist.com:
    - reduced HTML production time from 40 hours / month to 8, while increasing slideshows and infographics
    - Worked with the editorial and project management team to implement a QA process, where there had been none!

    http://www.biotech360.com

    http://www.the-scientist.com/BIO/index/

    TRAINING & CONFERENCES
    AS3 OOP, FLEX 2.0, JSP, PHP / MySQL, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3,

    2007 AJAX Experience conference.
    - workshops on integrating AJAX with Adobe AIR, FLEX, Flash, and HTML.
    - workshops on JQuery given by the author, John Resig.
    -workshops on AJAX Patterns given by Yahoo’s Director of User Experience, Bill Scott.

  • Web Developer and Designer

    Philly Site Builder (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

    July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

    Assist small businesses in creating an online presence. This includes website design, e-commerce, flash development, and email marketing campaigns.

  • Flash Developer

    MC3

    (Online Media industry)

    2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

  • Alumni

    Art Institute of Philadelphia

    (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

    March 2004 — February 2008 (4 years )

    As an active alumni I speak to classes about the different aspects of web development, finding work, and building a stellar portfolio.

  • Consultant: Front-end Lead for Site65.com

    Independence Blue Cross

    (Insurance industry)

    June 2006 — September 2006 (4 months)

    I implemented the Site65 website redesign using strict accessibility standards targeting users 65 years and older. The print CSS ensures clear readable print-outs. The text resizer script sets a cookie so the text size settings persist as the user navigates the site. Web forms were developed using accessibility guidelines so they can easily be read by screen readers for the blind or handicapped.
    In a separate project, I built a custom FLV player to be distributed on CD-ROM for the Healthy Lifestyles program IBC was launching that year.

    URL: http://www.site65.com

    Technologies: Flash Actionscript 2.0, CSS, HTML, Javascript
    Applications / IDE: Microsoft SharePoint, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash

  • Consultant: Lead Developer, The Franklin Institute

    Red Tettemer

    (Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

    March 2006 — June 2006 (4 months)

    I acted as IA, designer, and developer for the current incarnation of the Franklin Institute Web site. The primary challenge was organizing the massive amount of data strewn across the site into one cohesive structure. The fun part was integrating the video trailers for the IMAX theater in Flash. The original version of the trailers was a combination of Flash and CSS which expanded the viewing area over top of the page content to watch a large version of the trailer.

    Technologies: Flash Actionscript, FLV video playback, CSS, HTML, Javascript
    Applications / IDE: Basecamp, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash

    URL: http://www2.fi.edu/

  • Lead Developer

    insight interactive

    (Online Media industry)

    2004 — 2006 (2 years )

  • Lead Developer

    Whittman Hart

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

    September 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 7 months)

    My primary responsibility at Whittman Hart was to manage production of the 5 websites of Centocor, the health care divisions’ largest client. I also was lead front-end developer on the Remicade.com site redesign, which won the 2005 Web Marketing Award in the healthcare division. The attention to detail in the front-end scripting and accessibility standards garnished high praise from the judges. I also had the opportunity to work on several other projects, including the Sherwin Williams Color Visualizer, built in Flex 1.0.

    • Managed website production for Philadelphia office’s largest client’s 5 websites
    • Create XSLT stylesheets to transform XML data, and output as HTML
    • Work with Java Developers on styling struts form elements and enhancing form accessibility for all browsers
    • Worked with Actionscript 2.0 custom classes in Flex on Sherwin-Williams.com (mostly debugging scripts)

    URLS: http://www.remicade.com
    http://www.livingwithuc.com

  • Junior Developer

    Kanter International

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

    March 2004 — September 2004 (7 months)

    As flash developer and designer, my responsibilities included interactive storyboarding, building sites within tight timelines and budgets, and training clients on their site’s content management system.

    - Expanded Kanter International’s interactive services to include streaming and Flash Video for the web
    - Built websites using a combination of Flash, XML, XHTML, JS, and DHTML

  • Marketing Manager

    Media Supply

    (Computer Hardware industry)

    February 1999 — March 2004 (5 years 2 months)

    Design and maintained MediaSupply.com
    Developed online and print advertising campaigns

  • Intranet Administrator

    Bentley Systems

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    1995 — 1998 (3 years )

Bonnie Vasko’s Education

  • Art Institute of Philadelphia

    Web Development 2001 — 2004

  • Immaculata University

    Bachelors , Psychology, Art , 1994 — 1998

  • St. Pius X

    High School , General , 1990 — 1994

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Bonnie Vasko’s Interests:

art, web development, design

Bonnie Vasko’s Groups:

Philadelphia Area New Media Association, Philly Ad Club, Philadelphia Adobe User Group

  •    Philadelphia Interactive Marketing Association
  •    Bentley Systems Alumni
  •    Aquent Network

Bonnie Vasko’s Honors:

2005 Web Award for Remicade.com

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