Paul Sweatte

Current

• Front-End Developer at Walmart.com
• Technical Architect at Johnnie Girl Publishing

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Websites

• My Blog

Paul Sweatte’s Summary

Eight years of web development experience utilizing a diverse set of skills including User Interface Design, Interaction Design, Data Modeling, Server Administration, and Content Management. A position working with a team of web professionals focused on organization, planning, and quality assurance would be ideal. I aspire to create innovative and useful web applications using proven methods. I advocate the use of asset, content, and source code management tools that are reliable, modern, well supported and intuitive. I prefer project management which facilitates simplicity, balance, and accountability among the unique positions in the production pipeline.

Paul Sweatte’s Specialties:

Scripting, Template Design, Widget Design, Database Design, Project Planning, Accessibility

Paul Sweatte’s Experience

• Front-End Developer

  Walmart.com

  (Public Company; WMT; Retail industry)

  April 2009 — Present (8 months)

  Developed HTML and CSS to implement design specs of walmart.com feature enhancements using modern techniques to balance usability, aesthetics, and cross-browser compatibility requirements. Focused on documenting, evangelizing and implementing standards for semantic HTML, reusable CSS, and unobtrusive JavaScript to achieve measurable improvements in response time, page weight, and object overhead. Developed and promoted HTML and CSS guidelines to reduce cross-browser bug counts and version control conflicts. Introduced basic CSS concepts junior front-end developers and server-side developers to improve the awareness and consistent usage of modern layout techniques.

• Technical Architect

  Johnnie Girl Publishing

  (Publishing industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Prototyped the site layout, color scheme, and typography and progressively enhanced it over several iterations to meet the needs of the client. Designed and coded a clean UI using semantic HTML and cross browser CSS along with a few unobtrusive Javascript bells and whistles that fit the theme of the site. Configured the entire LAMP architecture, including MySQL database schema, Apache .htaccess security settings, SVK source control repository, Linux cron jobs, and reusable PHP templates. Created a basic CMS to simplify the editing process. Wrote form validation and email generation functions in PHP. I also wrote scripts to dynamically convert the XML sitemap to HTML and XML metadata to SEO keywords and description info for each URL. Created database schema and wrote SQL statements to query and update the CMS of the site. Minimized bandwidth usage through the implementation of dynamic caching and compression of HTML and CSS in addition to resizing and optimizing images for the web.

Additional Information

Paul Sweatte’s Websites:

• My Blog

Paul Sweatte’s Interests:

Project management, web application frameworks, visual design, scripting languages