William Lawrence

Current

Section 508 Compliance Specialist at Glynn Technologies

Past

Senior Front End Web Developer at 12seconds.tv
Product Manager & Evangelist at Quiddities Dev, Inc
Senior Front End Web Developer at Quiddities Dev, Inc

Consultant at Irenology.org
Document Analyst at Lockheed Martin
Legal Assistant at American Civil Liberties Union
Producer/Public Service Director at WGDR 91.1 FM
Administrative Clerk at United States Marine Corps

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Education

Goddard College
Universitat Jaume I

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William Lawrence’s Summary

Document handling and media management has been the mainstay of my diet for many years. When taking that to the internet, a very uncertain environment, a work day is ripe with aspects of uncertainty. Finding meaning in organisation branding and translating that to the tubes of the information flow is an everyday task. Creating environments that users, customers, can navigate and consume is what I do all day: engineering the semantics of interaction.

William Lawrence’s Specialties:

Abstraction and Transliteration with a sprinkle of coding.

William Lawrence’s Experience

Section 508 Compliance Specialist

Glynn Technologies

(Internet industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Consulting with the US government providing Section 508 and functional accessibility assessments and remediation for web content and web content authoring applications.
Senior Front End Web Developer

12seconds.tv

(Internet industry)

January 2008 — January 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Manage the development for all phases of the UI web application development from requirements gathering, cross browser testing, and production deployment. Facilitate design walkthroughs with team to validate the user interface against requirements and information architecture. Write code based on functional specification and technical design; adhere to development techniques and standards. Keep up to date on new technologies and offered analysis of present or future benefit to end users.
Product Manager & Evangelist

Quiddities Dev, Inc

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

September 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 5 months)

Speak at conferences and technology meetups to increase the awareness and improve the perception of Internet standards and accessibility. Actively promoting the benefits of Internet technology to local communities. Manage projects, setting priorities and measurable objectives, monitoring and reporting on the process, progress, and results. Review business requirements, ensure clarity, and establish expectations for services requested. Review technical development deliverables for accuracy and completeness.
Senior Front End Web Developer

Quiddities Dev, Inc

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2002 — January 2009 (7 years 1 month)

* Responsible for client interface and providing consulting services focused on developing
the client's web presence aligned to their branding and media strategy
* Directly responsible for helping the client organize a broad set of information and data,
develop a set of clear, user requirements, build prototypes of website for user acceptance,
and drive final website design
* Proficient at creating and deploying easy to navigate websites with fully accessible
content, excellent data management, and complex interactions
* Implemented and deployed ecommerce websites
* Developed custom standards-compliant content management systems
* Utilized open-source applications to reduce time and costs in required by needs
Consultant

Irenology.org

(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Internet industry)

February 2000 — December 2004 (4 years 11 months)

Consulted, advocated, and educated organisations and individuals throughout Eastern Croatia on harnessing the internet as a means to bring peace into their communities. Building Web presence for those who couldn't who were trying to help those who lived in violence who wanted to live in peace, is what irenology.org was all about.
Document Analyst

Lockheed Martin

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Internet industry)

December 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 2 months)

The "Year 2000 problem", universal as it was, offered many opportunities to test many forms of computational devices. As a result of these tests, there were ample amounts of documents generated to prove these tests had occurred. Media and document management played paramount during these years.
Legal Assistant

American Civil Liberties Union

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Legal Services industry)

September 1995 — December 1998 (3 years 4 months)

Civil liberties get violated. Many citizens file complaints regarding these violations. Someone has to process these complaints and sort out what is and what isn't a public issue or a private problem.
Producer/Public Service Director

WGDR 91.1 FM

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Music industry)

1994 — 1998 (4 years )

Public Service Announcements (PSA) are a part of the nutritious diet of incoming correspondence of radio stations across the world. On any given day, a radio station can expect to receive around 10 to 1 octodecillion PSAs in the mail. Sorting the commercial from the non-commercial announcements, organising, managing, and presenting them on the air and to the team was what one did. It was about carrying on a tradition of relating to the radio station with having public trust. And, I produced and hosted radio programs, and conducted public interest interviews in studio and in the field.
Administrative Clerk

United States Marine Corps

(Government Agency; Military industry)

September 1988 — September 1992 (4 years 1 month)

Every organisation needs a clerk. Everyone ought to be a clerk for sometime.