Rebecca Murphey

Rebecca Murphey

Web and Social Media Consultant

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Current
  • Web Consultant at Rebecca Murphey
Past
  • Front-end engineer at dailystrength.org
  • Media Developer at webslingerz Inc.
  • Production artist at Koroberi, Inc.
  • Assistant news desk editor at Elmira Star-Gazette (Gannett)
Education
  • Lehigh University
Connections
49 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Rebecca Murphey’s Summary

I’m a web consultant with nearly 15 years of experience serving the needs of clients big and small. In those years, I’ve developed a broad understanding of the pieces that make up the web, and insight into how to harness those pieces to help you and your business envision and implement effective web strategies. I can build a rock-solid, standards-based front end, but my experience also extend to a keen understanding of the social media and social marketing landscape.

Rebecca Murphey’s Specialties:

CSS, (X)HTML, Javascript, jQuery, web standards, Wordpress, social media, social marketing


Rebecca Murphey’s Experience

  • Web Consultant

    Rebecca Murphey

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2008Present (4 months)

    Advising small business clients on web and social media strategies; designing and developing scalable websites with content management features; working with agencies to expand their web offerings; providing agencies with front-end development skills and guidance.

  • Front-end engineer

    dailystrength.org

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    February 2008July 2008 (6 months)

    Front-end lead at health-oriented social networking site. Assisted in developing modular architecture to separate business logic from content and presentation. Worked closely with with senior back-end developer on rapid rollout of new features. Participated in rapid overhaul of existing features to utilize new framework and standardize presentation. Refreshed and standardized design of disparate existing features to truly leverage cascading style sheets and semantic markup. Created guidelines and implemented rollup tools to reduce per-page HTTP requests. Audited site elements to help standardize UI across the site and decrease CSS overhead. Authored reusable Javascript widgets to increase opportunities for in-page interactions. Rewrote existing Javascript (YUI and non-library) to standardize on jQuery library. Created jQuery plugins to encapsulate and abstract common Javascript needs.

  • Media Developer

    webslingerz Inc.

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

    August 2006February 2008 (1 year 7 months)

    Web design and development using HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash and PHP. Implemented new design and interactivity on homepage for company’s largest client; designed XML config files and the Javascript to read them to allow easy changes to “billboard” content on 39 regional pages. Designed and deployed blogs.nortel.com using open-source applications; provided ongoing support, metrics analysis and consulting. Developed a PHP/MySQL blog-monitoring application. Adapted open-source application to integrate RSS feeds into nortel.com intranet. Researched, implemented and supported open-source workflow management tool. Created brand-compliant graphics, Flash, CSS, and HTML for marketing sites with tight turnaround times. Collaborated with team to transition the Products section of nortel.com to a new page width while maintaining support for legacy content and markup.

  • Production artist

    Koroberi, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    July 2003July 2006 (3 years 1 month)

    Developed and implemented systems to facilitate web and print production. Consulted on estimation, planning and production of web, print and multimedia projects. Analyzed new and ongoing projects for opportunities to improve processes through new technology and automation. Established design guidelines and enforced brand compliance. Created web pages and templates based on supplied designs. Optimized print documents for consistency, repeatability and automation. Educated web team on CSS and HTML standards.

  • Assistant news desk editor

    Elmira Star-Gazette (Gannett)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GCI; Newspapers industry)

    September 1996July 2001 (4 years 11 months)

    Helped lead nine-member news desk, drafting and enforcing design and style standards, handling scheduling and monitoring efficiency. Managed news desk during breaking news events, including the 2000 election and a local bomb scare. Instituted and monitored copy editing standards and developed new page flow guidelines to enforce deadlines. Authored and implemented Perl program to automate publication of stories to online edition.


Rebecca Murphey’s Education

  • Lehigh University

    19931995


Additional Information

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Rebecca Murphey’s Interests:

CSS, HTML, XHTML, social media, social marketing, search engine optimization, web standards, jQuery, AJAX

Rebecca Murphey’s Groups:

  •    Startup Specialists
  •    Web Standards Design + Development

Rebecca Murphey’s Contact Settings

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