Michael Wong

Current

• Software Engineer at GreatSchools
• Instructor at Laney College
• Web Design Consultant at SerpentVenom

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Past

• Web Designer at LetsTalk.com
• Web Design Engineer at Denali Software, Inc.
• Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton

• Production Engineer/Designer at Quokka Sports
• Web Designer at Golden Gate University

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Education

• San Francisco State University

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Industry

Internet

Michael Wong’s Summary

Web Design Professional with over nine years of experience. Specializing in creating usable, standards compliant web sites that employ the use of CSS for presentation and layout, and unobtrusive JavaScript for behavior. Expertise with various design tools including PhotoShop, Illustrator and Flash.

Michael Wong’s Specialties:

web design, graphic design, flash design, flash, photoshop, illustrator, hand-coded XHTML/CSS, web page usability, web graphic design, web interaction design, teaching

Michael Wong’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  GreatSchools

  (Non-Profit; Internet industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  Front-end web engineering including creation of HTML, CSS, JavaScript with jQuery and Groovy Server Pages.

• Instructor

  Laney College

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years )

  Web design course instructor. The course focuses on site planning, usability, design and production.

• Web Design Consultant

  SerpentVenom

  (Design industry)

  April 2001 — Present (8 years 8 months)

  Providing web design services for small to medium size organizations. Solutions include sites for marketing, communication, services and e-commerce.

• Web Designer

  LetsTalk.com

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Wireless industry)

  August 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 3 months)

  Web design. Web graphic design. Creation and maintenance of the company style guide.

• Web Design Engineer

  Denali Software, Inc.

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

  August 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Design and maintenance of the public website. Design of animated Flash promotions. Design and development of Flash-based webcasts.

• Senior Consultant

  Booz Allen Hamilton

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

  July 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 4 months)

  Web design services to the Department of Energy office in Oakland, California. Tasks included design and maintenance of public web sites and the intranet site. Other services included graphic design, CMS implementation and interactive design.

• Production Engineer/Designer

  Quokka Sports

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

  May 1999 — April 2001 (2 years )

  HTML production, web graphic production, web design, graphic design.

• Web Designer

  Golden Gate University

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year )

  Online course production, graphic design, customer support.

Michael Wong’s Education

• San Francisco State University

  1995 — 1998

Additional Information

Michael Wong’s Interests:

Web Design, Web 2.0, rich internet applications, standards compliance, HTML/XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, PHP, MySql, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, creative direction, photography, art, movies, books, sports, tennis, cooking, travel,

Michael Wong’s Groups:

SFSU Alumni Association

•    Interaction Design Association
•    Quokka alumni
•    Booz Allen Hamilton Alumni Network
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    SF State Alumni

Michael Wong’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch