Ken Hanson

Current

• Senior Front End Developer at Hot Studio

Past

• UI Engineer at TrialPay
• Founder at Markup Ninjas (Self-employed)
• Lead Front-End Architect at Mevio

• Contract Markup Guru for Zoomer at innerEcho
• UI / Markup Expert at Telligent Systems Inc.
• UI Designer at PeopleClick
• XHTML/ CSS Guru at Wieck Media
• Design Technologist (CSS Guru) at Match.com

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Education

• Louisiana Tech University

Recommended

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Connections

176 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My RSS feed

Ken Hanson’s Summary

XHTML / CSS Guru with a strong passion for web standards. Currently looking to promote http://www.markupninjas.com and my freelance business.

Ken Hanson’s Specialties:

CSS, XHTML, Javascript, Web Standards, Browser Compliancy.

Ken Hanson’s Experience

• Senior Front End Developer

  Hot Studio

  (Privately Held; Design industry)

  October 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Front-end work for agency bliss! (Will fill this in with more details when I've been there for a bit).

• UI Engineer

  TrialPay

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  April 2009 — October 2009 (7 months)

  Front-end guru with a strong focus on helping marketing see their latest designs hit the web pixel perfect.
  
  I also lead the spear on the Style Guide implementation, from widgetizing components to the actual CSS behind it all, and any iPhone web app development using CSS3 + CSS Animations, with Canvas tags and javascript for graphics.

• Founder

  Markup Ninjas (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

  October 2007 — October 2009 (2 years 1 month)

  This is where my freelance and Markup training is based out of. I'm a co-founder, and big things have come out of our heads that will soon be hitting the market. We're a PSD to XHTML service, and damn good at it too.
  
  Our slowest turn around time is 3 days, we can turn an entire project around in as little as 24 hours, and we browser check everything for you so that every one of your design's pixels is right where they should be.
  
  Markup Ninjas is easily my pride and joy, and where I really flex my Markup Muscles ;) We'd love to have you, so stop on in!

• Lead Front-End Architect

  Mevio

  (Internet industry)

  October 2008 — April 2009 (7 months)

  Generally cranking out all things front-end. From Rapid Javascript prototyping with either jQuery or Prototype / Scriptaculous, to Smarty Templating, nitty gritty PHP, as well as slicing and dicing Designs into pixel perfect XHTML / CSS.

• Contract Markup Guru for Zoomer

  innerEcho

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

  Built all CSS / Markup / and Image Cutting for the soon to be huge facebook application - Zoomer.

• UI / Markup Expert

  Telligent Systems Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  2007 — June 2008 (1 year )

  Responsible for all of Services' (custom product work) Markup and CSS needs. Tasked with maintaining a high standard of quality within markup and css, keeping to up and coming web standards, following semantics, and using personal best practices to keep stylesheets clean and concise.

• UI Designer

  PeopleClick

  (Human Resources industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

• XHTML/ CSS Guru

  Wieck Media

  (Internet industry)

  October 2006 — May 2007 (8 months)

  Handled any design need / XHTML and CSS need that came through the front end department. Interfaced with the development team and handled any need for html / frontend debugging.
  
  Proudest Moment: Using CSS to make the menu happen at http://www.hondanews.com
  
  Love me some ruby programmers :D

• Design Technologist (CSS Guru)

  Match.com

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2006 — November 2006 (9 months)

  Got to cut my Dallas teeth here by doing XHTML and CSS with some of the best guys in the industry. Split the workload with another HTML guru and handled all Domestic (US) XHTML needs, as well as email campaigns and other frontend jazz.

Ken Hanson’s Education

• Louisiana Tech University

  Computer Technology 2005 — 2005

  After going through their web classes, I realised how behind the times they were with their Web Standards, and how most colleges are, and decided to join the workforce. I've never looked back, and am completely self taught. College is right for some people, but it wasn't my bag, and I had already started freelancing.

Additional Information

Ken Hanson’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My RSS feed

Ken Hanson’s Interests:

XHTML, CSS, Design, Javascript

Ken Hanson’s Groups:

Barcamp, Knowbility Dallas, PhizzPop

•    WSG
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    End to End Web Developers

Ken Hanson’s Honors:

Most recently launched websites where you can see my work:

Windows Vista Product Red Blog http://www.windowsvistablog.com/blogs/red/

Microsoft ADO.NET Community http://datadeveloper.net/

Microsoft SQLCat Community http://sqlcat.com/

Microsoft Biztalk http://biztalk.net/

Microsoft Port25 Open Source Community http://port25.technet.com/

Honda Digital Newsroom: http://www.hondanews.com

Acura Digital Newsroom: http://www.acuranews.com

Curves Foods http://curvesfoods.com/community/default.aspx

TIGI Hair Care http://tigihaircare.us/ (Only CSS Bug Fixes)

Betty Crocker Blogs http://www.bettycrocker.com/in-the-kitchen/

EA Sports League Nights http://leaguenight.easports.com/

EA Sports Game Show http://www.eagameshow.com/

Global Grind http://www.globalgrind.com

Allstate Media http://media.allstate.com/

Spina Bifida Association of North Texas http://sb-stage.com/

American Academy of Pain Medicine http://www.painmed.org/

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