Eric Fields

Current

• Engineer at Spring Partners

Past

• Sole Proprietor at Eric D. Fields
• Web Designer at I'm In!
• Senior Web Production Specialist at Y2M / MTV Networks

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Education

• Emerson College
• School of the Museum of Fine Arts

Recommended

8 people have recommended Eric

Connections

62 connections

Industry

Graphic Design

Websites

• Twitter
• My Blog

Eric Fields’s Summary

Web designer with years of experience working on web-based applications. A strong knowledge of the structure and needs of modern web apps, including the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, AJAX, standards-based markup, and cross-browser compatibility. Clean presentation and semantic markup are a major focus.

Eric Fields’s Specialties:

Expert proficiency in the entire web design process: user interface design/workflow, wireframe, mockup/design, markup in XHTML and CSS, and behavior using JavaScript, jQuery, Prototype, et. al.

Adept at preventing and debugging browser rendering inconstancies between Internet Explorer 6, 7, Firefox, and Safari

Worked within multiple coding environments: Java/JSP/Apache Tomcat, ColdFusion, PHP

Eric Fields’s Experience

• Engineer

  Spring Partners

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

• Sole Proprietor

  Eric D. Fields

  (Design industry)

  January 2006 — September 2009 (3 years 9 months)

  Web solutions. Design and development of blogs, brochures, and rich-content sites of all sizes.

• Web Designer

  I'm In!

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  May 2007 — April 2008 (1 year )

  Principal lead in generating a usable interface to an essentially new advertising platform for the travel industry. The process entailed a creating wireframes, mockups, static HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and then rolling it all into the source code.

• Senior Web Production Specialist

  Y2M / MTV Networks

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 5 months)

  Highlights from the job include improving the usability of the College Publisher content management system by implementing AJAX, improving general aesthetics and end-user production workflow, and designing a new media management solution from the ground up. Principal tasks included implementing web standards-based template markup, maintaining a LAMP environment, and customer support.

Eric Fields’s Education

• Emerson College

  B.A. , New Media, Marketing , 2003 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  The Berkeley Beacon, Gauge, Gangsters in Concrete

• School of the Museum of Fine Arts

  n/a , Typography , 2005 — 2005

  A single-semester course on Typography, taken through the Pro-Arts Consortium

Additional Information

Eric Fields’s Websites:

• Twitter
• My Blog

Eric Fields’s Interests:

Standards-based web design & development.

Eric Fields’s Groups:

Emerson College

•    Drupal Users Group
•    Web Standards Design + Development

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