Rick Rickards

Current

Principle UI Engineer at EMC
Sr. UI Web Developer at Shutterfly
Founder, Web Developer/Designer at DESIGNFREQ

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Past

Sr. Web Application Engineer at Olive Software
Level II Customer Service Engineer at VELOSEL
Staff Developer Support Consultant at DOCUMENTUM, INC

Senior Web Developer at DOCUMENTUM, INC
Founder and Internet Solutions Architect at SYNTHESIS CORPORATION
Principal and Independent Multimedia Development Consultant at NEW MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT (Self-employed)
DBA at APPLE COMPUTER, INC
Programmer/Analyst/DBA/Project Manager at CALGENE, INC

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Education

California State University-Sacramento

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Rick Rickards’s Summary

Experienced Web Developer. My strength is that I am very technical AND have strong design and business process skills. I have a passion for designing and developing elegant solutions - simplifying complexity and streamlining processes/tasks.

My experiences have spanned IT, Professional Services, Customer Support, Marketing and Engineering. This breadth is key to my ability to come up to speed quickly on complex products, technologies or processes.

Rick Rickards’s Specialties:

Web Development Skills: X/HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ext JS, AJAX, XML, XSL, XSD, XUL, RIA, Flex, Java, JSP, JSTL, Apache, Tomcat, JSON, REST, IIS, WebSphere, MQSeries, SSL, .NET, SQL, Oracle, MySQL, PHP, Perl, VBScript, User Experience, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Content Management, Information Architecture, B2B, Supply-Chain, Buisness Process / workflow

Rick Rickards’s Experience

Principle UI Engineer

EMC

(Internet industry)

2007 — Present (2 years)

Front-end developer.
Sr. UI Web Developer

Shutterfly

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Given wireframes and interaction specifications, design, develop and integrate object-oriented JavaScript based UI components (using prototype.js and scriptaculous.js) for consumer facing Web 2.0 (AJAX) Photobook application.
Founder, Web Developer/Designer

DESIGNFREQ

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

http://www.designfreq.com

DESIGNFREQ develops user-centric standards based websites.

I'm currently working on a consumer oriented community web site (in stealth mode), using Asynchronus JavaScript and XML. More details to come.
Sr. Web Application Engineer

Olive Software

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

September 2005 — January 2006 (5 months)

Added RSS functionality to web application focused on taking existing content from newspapers and magazines and parsing it into XML for multi-channel online distribution.
Level II Customer Service Engineer

VELOSEL

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 3 months)

Developed Customer Self-Service Internet Portal and knowledgebase

Provide second level support for diagnosis and resolution of complex issues related to J2EE application

Mentor customers on product information management and global data synchronization
Design and develop web tools to generate code, parse logs, manipulate XML DOM, visualize xPath/XSLT, and generate SQL

Designed and developed Support Intranet

Customize UI for J2EE application for sales demos

Provide client-side software development support for Engineering, as Engineering was primarily server focused – this has included implementing Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n), and supporting the client-side DHTML
Staff Developer Support Consultant

DOCUMENTUM, INC

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; DCTM; Computer Software industry)

January 2002 — January 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Architected, developed and deployed first production internet site based on Documentum RightSite technology while creating best practices for templating and scaling

Instituted IT-Engineering product feedback loop to improve quality, performance and ease-of-use of Documentum products

Architected, developed and deployed first production intranet portal based on RightSite

Developed and championed caching techniques to enhance performance and scalability

Developed reference application for publishing and delivery of content used as reference for Documentum Portal
Senior Web Developer

DOCUMENTUM, INC

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; DCTM; Computer Software industry)

January 1998 — January 2002 (4 years 1 month)

Architected, developed and deployed first production internet site based on Documentum RightSite technology while creating best practices for templating and scaling.

Instituted IT-Engineering product feedback loop to improve quality, performance and ease-of-use of Documentum products.

Architected, developed and deployed first production intranet portal based on RightSite.

Developed and championed caching techniques to enhance performance and scalability.

Developed reference application for publishing and delivery of content used as reference for WebPublisher.
Founder and Internet Solutions Architect

SYNTHESIS CORPORATION

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

January 1995 — January 1998 (3 years 1 month)

Created IT services outsourcing organization to meet growing demand for infrastructure installation, configuration and management

Grew business to $4.6M annual revenues and 30 employees

Developed customer facing, web applications for customer support

Company named by East Bay Business Times as one of the 100 fastest growing businesses

Architected and developed secure extranet web resources to scale organization by leveraging knowledge
Principal and Independent Multimedia Development Consultant
NEW MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Media Production industry)

January 1993 — January 1994 (1 year 1 month)

Developed marketing messages and created innovative kiosk and CDROM delivery techniques

Developed interactive tradeshow demos for Apple Computer, Ziff-Davis (ZD Net)

Performed technical market analysis, wrote copy, designed graphics, animation, audio/video and Lingo for Macromedia Director projects

Developed and acquired content and managed Apple Computer’s online assets for their newly created multimedia program
DBA

APPLE COMPUTER, INC

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; APPL; Computer Hardware industry)

January 1990 — January 1993 (3 years 1 month)

Maintained Oracle databases for Apple Developer Group

Designed logical and physical schema for 4D client-server applications

Provided ongoing input to Total Quality Management efforts
Programmer/Analyst/DBA/Project Manager

CALGENE, INC

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Biotechnology industry)

January 1985 — January 1990 (5 years 1 month)

Proposed, sold, secured and successfully managed multi year project to automate research pipeline with $1.5M budget

Designed and developed client-server application to analyze field trials of genetically altered material allowing scientists to design, manage and statistically analyze the results of multi-year, multi-location field trials

Developed and implemented wireless data collection system allowing scientists to enter data directly from the field reducing post-trial analysis time while enhancing accuracy