David Coulter

Current

• Senior Front End Web Developer at 720 Strategies

Past

• Front-End Web Developer at National Geographic
• User Interface Designer at Anteon
• Interface & Design Consultant at System Automation Corporation

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David Coulter’s Summary

David Coulter’s Specialties:

Web development, design, user interface, html, css

David Coulter’s Experience

• Senior Front End Web Developer

  720 Strategies

  (Privately Held; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  February 2009 — Present (10 months)

• Front-End Web Developer

  National Geographic

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  June 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 6 months)

  Responsible for a host of updates and revisions to http://nationalgeographic.com.
  
  Responsible for many National Geographic Channel sites, including XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash creation, implementation and bug fixes.
  
  Templated and implemented CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript, across the entirety of the National Geographic website.
  
  Performed monthly updates to National Geographic Kids site, creating hundreds of new pages with a focus on speed and performance.
  
  Created and updated sites for auxiliary National Geographic sites including pages for the All Roads Film Festival and http://mywonderfulworld.org.
  
  Created templates and updated HTML and CSS for http://www.nationalgeographic.com/seamonsters/

• User Interface Designer

  Anteon

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ANT; Defense & Space industry)

  November 2005 — June 2006 (8 months)

  Responsible for documentation of User Interface standards for the entirety of FEMA's Automated Deployment Database Project.
  
  In charge of design implementation, from a client server application to a web based application, involving simplification of processes, layout, flow, usability and definition of all UI standards. This process reduced screen count from 30 screens to around 6 (depending on user rights).
  
  Complete UI Design relying heavily on government-mandated 508 compliant standards (including Alt tags, color schemes, and scalable fonts) while keeping the application attractive and pleasing to work with.
  
  Designed, templated, and implemented CSS, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML and limited AJAX functionality throughout the application.
  
  Assisted all the front-end java developers with html, graphics, CSS and JavaScript issues, embedded in JSPs using the Spring framework.

• Interface & Design Consultant

  System Automation Corporation

  (Internet industry)

  November 2004 — October 2005 (1 year )

  Complete user Interface design and implementation of the flagship products implemented in 23 states and over 400 agencies.
  
  Involved in the entire software development lifecycle, from initial inception of UI design, assisted in requirements gathering and analysis, and prototyped UI flow.
  
  Responsible for designing, templating and implementing the CSS, HTML, DHTML and JavaScript for the flagship product MyLicense Office.
  
  Responsible for the design, management and implementation for user acceptance testing with existing clients.
  
  Responsible for coordinating all efforts between sales, senior management and third party printing firms to produce quality sales and promotional materials in a timely manner.
  
  Responsible for resolving cross browser issues for the application for the following browsers Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and Opera.

Additional Information

David Coulter’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• My Portfolio

David Coulter’s Interests:

Parkour, video games, UI, new business models, TED

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