Interim Webmaster at Northern Essex Community College
Greater Boston Area
- Past
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- Interim Webmaster at Northern Essex Community College
- Freelance/Contract Web Developer at The MathWorks
- Web Developer at Northern Essex Community College
- Web Content Coordinator at Intertek Testing Services
- Freelance Web Developer at Staples
- Associate Web Developer at BuyerZone.com
- Webmaster (part-time) at J.P. Calvin Communications
- Freelance Web Designer/Developer at Self Employed (Self-employed)
- Education
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- New Hampshire Community Technical College
- Northern Essex Community College
- Northern Essex Community College
- University of New Hampshire
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Mike Escutia’s Summary
I'm a web developer whose core strengths are (X)HTML and CSS with an emphasis on web standards, site layouts and clean designs. My work focuses primarilly on developing websites that are easy to use and easy to maintain.
While I have been doing contract work (mostly through staffing agencies) in recent years, I am also seeking permanent full-time employment.
Mike Escutia’s Specialties:
(X)HTML coding, CSS, UI development
Mike Escutia’s Experience
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Interim Webmaster
Northern Essex Community College
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2009 — April 2009 (4 months)
I maintained the college's current website. This work included updating content in various sections of the site and uploading documents as needed. I also ensured that content changes made by staff and faculty using Adobe Contribute were uploaded to the live site, made ongoing editing and additions to the site's CSS files as needed, and performed quality assurance and proofreading as needed.
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Freelance/Contract Web Developer
The MathWorks
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)
I formatted HTML emails for marketing campaigns related to seminars, webinars, conferences and other events. I also developed and maintained web pages for events, including both static pages and pages generated via the content management system used for sections of the site, and updated event listings on the MathWorks websites, including international sites. Some of this work has involved German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese and Korean content.
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Web Developer
Northern Essex Community College
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
July 2008 — September 2008 (3 months)
I helped migrate content from the college's old website into a new site design. This work involved editing and reorganizing content, preparing images and documents for inclusion on site, and changing filenames to match new filename conventions. I completely reworked some sections to fit them in the new site's informational architecture. I also edited the HTML in the site templates to help streamline code where possible and made edits and additions to the CSS files. In addition, I assisted co-workers in solving problems involving HTML and CSS and performed quality assurance and proofreading as needed.
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Web Content Coordinator
Intertek Testing Services
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2007 — January 2008 (2 months)
I migrated content from the company's old intranet site to their new site. Some of this content consisted of images and technical documents that needed to be uploaded via the Morello content management system.
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Freelance Web Developer
Staples
(Public Company; SPLS; Retail industry)
May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)
I prepared, organized and imported email templates into Salesforce.com system, rganized image files and uploaded them to Staples' own server for hosting, and turned Photoshop compositions into HTML email templates. I also developed copies of the existing corporate responsibility section from company's main site that would appear on the contract division site, recoding them with cleaner XHTML and CSS in the process.
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Associate Web Developer
BuyerZone.com
(Public Company; Internet industry)
January 2007 — March 2007 (3 months)
I fulfilled site changes needed by various departments, including marketing and sales. This including importing content -- mostly articles -- from sister sites into the BuyerZone.com website. I also assisted in the transition to a new site design and performed quality assurance and proofreading as needed.
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Webmaster (part-time)
J.P. Calvin Communications
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 3 months)
I designed, developed, and helped maintain various websites for the company and its clients. These responsibilities included developing sites based on prepackaged templates or themes, updating and maintaining existing sites, and developing new sites from scratch. In some cases, I recoded pages to use standards-compliant (X)HTML and CSS and modified FrontPage templates to fit customer requirements.
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Freelance Web Designer/Developer
Self Employed (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Information Technology and Services industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years )
I designed, developed and helped to maintain websites for a small number of clients, working in some cases with the sites' webmasters to implement design ideas. All work used standards-compliant XHTML and CSS; a few projects involved setting up and configuring a WordPress installation and integrating it into the site.
Mike Escutia’s Education
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New Hampshire Community Technical College
Web Technology 2002 — 2002
Took courses in web technology.
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Northern Essex Community College
Associate , Computer & Information Sciences: Applications and Operations Specialist , 2001 — 2002
Graduated with High Honors.
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Northern Essex Community College
Certificate , Web Page Design and Development , 2001 — 2002
Graduated with High Honors.
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University of New Hampshire
Computer Science, English 1992 — 1997
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Mike Escutia’s Interests:
Web development, websites, Internet, new meda
Mike Escutia’s Groups:
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