Jimmy Harrell

Jimmy Harrell

Owner Of: www.jimmyharrell.com & www.mykaraokedj.com & www.debbieharrell.com

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Current
  • Technical Project Manager Creative Services at Mary Kay
  • CEO at http://www.jimmyharrell.com (Sole Proprietorship)
Past

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Education
  • University of Phoenix
  • The University of Texas at Arlington
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
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Jimmy Harrell’s Summary

Seasoned Web Developer with a Master of Business Administration in E-Business, a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and 7 years professional experience – including extensive online retail experience within the travel, airline and technology sectors. Adept with web design and development using CSS, HTML, DHTML, Javascript, XHTML, Dreamweaver 8, XML, and other technologies. Demonstrates advanced technical capabilities and will be recognized for employing effective communication skills and attention to detail, a sense of urgency and a business-minded approach to web design and development.



Portfolio of Work:
http://jimmyharrell.com/portfolio.cfm

Jimmy Harrell’s Specialties:

CSS / 5 years
Javascript / 7 years
Dreamweaver8 / 6 years
HTML / 6 years
VbScript / 2 years
OO Methodologies / 6 years
AJAX / 6 months
Photoshop / 2 years
DHTML / 5 years
XHTML / 4 years
XML (XSLT, Schema) / 3 years
Adobe Fireworks / 3 years
DOM / 6 years
FLEX 2.0 / 3 months
ActionsScript 2.0 /1 yr
Flash 8 / 1 year
Coldfusion7 1 year
SQL / 5years
Oracle / 2 years
Teradata Warehouse / 2 years
UNIX / 5 years
INFORMIX / 3 years
Windows Platform / 6 years

Jimmy Harrell’s Experience

  • Technical Project Manager Creative Services

    Mary Kay

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Cosmetics industry)

    February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

    Works with limited guidance from Creative Director and Manager New Media Communications to manage the technological aspects of Creative Services web design projects for international and U.S. independent sales force and consumer-directed web communications.

    Assists with creating job cost estimates and manpower requirements for new and existing web jobs.

    Helps to create and update the "Best Practices" and process documentation that will need to be developed for all web projects.

    Recommends technical methodology to ensure back-end web design efficiencies.

    Finds ways to better maximize the Web Teams efforts in regards to the large workload.

    In addition, attends weekly strategic meetings with the IST and Marketing groups to ensure all functionality requirements are considered.

    Assists the Creative Director in overall search engine optimization implementation to highlight and assess new business needs.

  • CEO

    http://www.jimmyharrell.com (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 1999 — Present (10 years 1 month)

    • Current site developed using Coldfusion7 as a server side scripting language in an effort to show dynamic content to current employers requesting online portfolio of current and past application development
    • Site utilizes various programming techniques from Coldfusion7, CSS, XHTML, HTML, DHTML and JavaScript to collect end-user information to be utilized for Marketing purposes in the near future
    • Current portfolio of applications demonstrates use of Ajax technology to build search form for current client.
    • Intro page developed in Flash8 for demonstration of Action Script 2.0.

  • Sr. Design Technology

    Match.com

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2007 — January 2008 (6 months)

    • Work under very tight deadlines, seamlessly, with the Product Development team to produce deliverables that match the creative vision without amendment while producing consistent results on all agreed upon browsers and operating systems.
    • Develop and maintain development friendly, valid client-side code for implementation on the Chemistry.com and Match.com core product.
    • Direct the implementation of design elements throughout the products to ensure user interface code design adheres to defined coding standards.
    • Interface with development team members and team leads to ensure smooth transition of creative assets.

    • Primary skill sets used: HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, CSS-P, .NET UI Controls, AJAX and Javascript.
    • Strong working knowledge of all current graphic web-design applications.

  • Web Developer

    Concentra Health Services

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

    January 2007 — July 2007 (7 months)

    • Front end GUI development.
    • Responsible for redesigning the existing Intranet Web Application portal based on functional design specifications.
    • Developed application utilizing the Spry AJAX framework on a Microsoft platform using JSP and Java architecture.
    • Primarily used Dreamweaver8 in addition to some Eclipse development tools and plug-ins, JSP and Coldfusion7 as a development platform.
    • Utilized Macromedia’s Fireworks for graphic creation for logos and banners.
    • Worked alongside a team of 3 Java Developers to assist in bringing project to completion.

  • UI Developer

    American Heart Association

    (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

    October 2006 — January 2007 (4 months)

    • Created User Interface Design (Layout/Template/Images), for client utilizing various web technologies and standards based on User Specifications while adhering to the latest WC3 standards.
    • Teamed with developers, user experience professionals and clients throughout the design process in an effort to help implement UI solutions to enhance the overall look and feel for the existing intranet.
    • Designed and developed Layout/Template and various pages utilizing Dreamweaver8 and Fireworks 8.
    • Developed and modified external JavaScript file, CSS external style sheet, HTML/XHTML and DHTML pages to enhance functionality within the site to create a more user-friendly front end to the end-use

  • Web Services Administrator

    Elk Corp

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Construction industry)

    April 2006 — September 2006 (6 months)

    • Controlled all technical aspects of website, including performance issues such as speed of access, and approving site content.
    • Developed user interface and design standards, including improvement of features, to attract visitors to website.
    • Managed content of website by gathering information and integrating data from other departments.
    • Controlled website design and creation.
    • Resolved any encountered problems. Responsible for evaluating, developing, and maintaining related systems.
    • Composed and developed written and graphical content for website to provide information on products and services.
    • Monitored trends and activities on World Wide Web to develop guidelines to increase presence and improve design and usability.
    • Recommended website standards and guidelines; oversee compliance to maintain consistency.
    • Interfaced with web site customers, customer service personnel, technical staff, and sales and marketing to implement changes as needed.

  • E-mail Marketing Communications Contributor

    Traveocity.com

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

    April 2004 — April 2006 (2 years 1 month)

    • Utilized the internal creative services, editorial, and development teams to help construct highly targeted e-mail campaigns for deployment in an effort to improve the overall product marketing strategy for existing website visitors, members, and subscribers focusing on conversion of members to subscribers.
    • Ensured that all e-mail campaigns are developed and deployed on time and with the highest quality and superior customer experience.
    • Assisted in the delivery of daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports measuring the performance of email conversion, in particular the number of: campaigns sent, open rates, click-thru rates, total value of sales, increased retention and impact on lifetime value of the customer.
    • Assisted the internal marketing team with the overall management of over 8 million weekly opt-in promotional email campaigns that involve multiple stakeholders within the company, as well as deliver the campaigns based on weekly deadline schedules.

  • Web Developer

    American Airlines

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

    October 2002 — May 2004 (1 year 8 months)

    • Assisted with the design, development, and maintenance of over 1500 pages of American Airline’s homepage located at http://www.aa.com. Performed routine daily updates and edits to the site. Modified existing pages using the Interwoven Application Tool to enhance their web presence.
    • Utilized Interwoven’s Open Deployment Distribution Server to distribute HTML and XML web content, media, etc. on a daily basis to enhance AA.com’s web presence and other applications. Applied routine updates to various HTML form applications (comprised of web servers, application servers, database servers or simple file servers) within the network.

    • Assisted with the creation, development and deployment of graphics using Adobe Photo Shop application.

    • Developed and modified JavaScripts to enhance functionality within the site to create a more user-friendly front end to the end-user.

  • Web Developer

    Pegasus Solutions Inc

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Hospitality industry)

    July 1999 — August 2002 (3 years 2 months)

    • Maintained and developed web pages for over 4000 major hotels chains worldwide using HTML JavaScript Java, DHTML, ASP, FLASH and Perl languages while working in a UNIX environment/platform.
    • Responsible for creating and maintaining Pegasus’s HTML and JavaScript based Netbooker Templates and Search Engine. Modified templates using CSS, HTML, JSP, and JavaScripts to enhance functionality.
    • Development of CSS to support existing pages.
    • Performed various programming tasks in Netscape Application Server’s Java Safe version control environment along with using the Vi Text Editor as an editing tool.
    • Responsible for updating and maintaining complex data and ensuring data integrity on various tables utilizing an INFORMIX database system. Also utilized SQL in order to query an INFORMIX database system to perform routine updates for existing customers.

Jimmy Harrell’s Education

  • University of Phoenix

    MBA , E-Business , 2002 — 2004

  • The University of Texas at Arlington

    BS , Information Systems , 1995 — 1999

Additional Information

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Jimmy Harrell’s Interests:

CSS ,Javascript, Dreamweaver,HTML,OO Methodologies,AJAX,Photoshop, DHTML XHTML ,XML (XSLT, Schema), Adobe Fireworks ,DOM,FLEX 2.0,ActionsScript,Flash, Coldfusion,SQL Server, UNIX, Windows Platform

Jimmy Harrell’s Groups:

Adobe UG http://www.dfwaug.net/, CF UG http://groups.google.com/group/dfwcfug/

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