
Assistant Content Producer at Anthropologie Direct
Greater Philadelphia Area

Assistant Content Producer at Anthropologie Direct
Greater Philadelphia Area
(Public Company; URBN; Retail industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
- fulfilled the role of "Assistant Content Producer" from the original job description by: "providing HTML support for numerous weekly creative promotions; assisting with time-sensitive site projects; working directly with the Web design team [and Web merchandise team] to coordinate the timely release of web promotions."
- maintain new store locations on anthropologie.com
- troubleshoot and fix bugs on anthropologie.com
- proposed the initial idea of an Ajax/JS alternative to a third-party's Flash-based application
- conceived and developed a time-saving way to update the Anthropologie Widget
- offered an improved way to view products on the ecatalog
- synthesized a solution for the Internal Media Library using Joomla
- presented demonstrations of the new Internal Media Library to different departments
- collaborated w/IT to create their own Joomla site to present to other brands' retailers
- collaborated w/IT to create a dynamic sitemap for anthropologie.com for SEO purposes using XML/XSL and JSP; maintain current sitemap
- collaborated w/IT to create and test HTML operational emails and liaisoned w/CheetahMail
- collaborated w/Front-End Developer and Web design team for Redesign on a time crunch; adjust pixels, apply CSS templates, carefully merge code, troubleshoot, keep checked-in files organized; worked extended hours to finish for scheduled turnover
- helped train QA Analyst and delegated "content producer" tasks
- learned new technologies: AJAX, JSP/dsp, XSLT
- learned new applications: Akamai, ATG BCC/Dynamo, CheetahMail, Coremetrics, Eclipse, Ecometry, MTS, Scene7, Tracs
- established good rapport and trust with Copywriters, Merchandisers, Web Designers, IT, CheetahMail so that there is better/open communication
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