
Project Manager & Developer at Dancing Mammoth, Inc.
Greater Chicago Area

Project Manager & Developer at Dancing Mammoth, Inc.
Greater Chicago Area
Graphic design (Photoshop, Illustrator); programming (PHP, ASP, JavaScript, Palm webOS, some JSP and ASP.NET); art direction; corporate and product identity; project management; expectation management and client relations; server administration (*NIX); print design (InDesign, Quark XPress); web design (XHTML, CSS, standards compliance and accessibility); MySQL; SEO
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)
Formerly known as PJ Doland Web Design, Inc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2003 — February 2005 (1 year 5 months)
As Software Engineer, prototyped and executed UI enhancements to existing product lines in order to reduce bandwidth consumption by 50% through the incorporation of efficient XHTML and CSS.
Worked directly with the CEO to prototype visual information displays in Adobe Illustrator of bond market movements and trends unavailable on competing platforms.
Rigorously led initiatives to improve user experience and information display in order to decrease time-to-execute in decision-making by customers.
Designed custom user interfaces for clients, seamlessly integrating them into a pre-defined corporate aesthetic while unintrusively incorporating Valubond's bond platform conventions.
Developed fully-functional prototype sites using ASP (and ASP.NET), XSL, (X)HTML and CSS for the Marketing department to assist in pitches to new clientele.
Led the redesign of existing bond movement charts available to clients, resulting in greater accuracy and readability.
(Partnership; Management Consulting industry)
April 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 7 months)
Led the Creative Services Dept. of the Atlanta office to offer services previously unavailable in 90% of Deloitte CS branches, such as full-circle application development.
Developed VBA applications for both internal and external initiatives to evaluate various activities such as pitch response from clients and internal registration for charitable work.
During the proposed Braxton rebrand, took a leading role with the various levels of management to develop user interface revamps for various divisions from Japan to the U.S.--in their native languages.
Worked with various levels of management to develop UI enhancements to the Deloitte Consulting intranet. Managed the DC Atlanta Intranet.
Led training sessions with Marketing leaders worldwide to teach basic and intermediate (X)HTML and CSS.
Worked with print-based colleagues within the department to develop enhancements to workflow in order to step up efficiency in disseminating deliverables.
(Consumer Electronics industry)
September 2001 — December 2001 (4 months)
Developed second-generation user interfaces for handhelds and portable computers to interface locally with the central ListmanHome home automation software.
Worked with software engineers to integrate enhanced remote functionality and various displays of information into a proposed interface for the ListmanHome Internet portal.
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
November 2000 — August 2001 (10 months)
Led enhancements to the interface of Orchestrate 2000, a web-based application tying web-based voicemail, e-mail, and news-gathering technologies into a single portal.
Assembled customized UI prototypes for pitches to clients, including ZDTV and AOL.
Worked with in-house developers to enhance the user interface of internal applications, leading to a demonstrable increase in workflow efficiency.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
August 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 3 months)