Shawn Cook

Resume

Summary

A front-end Web developer with over two years' professional design experience via developing small/medium-scale Web sites and Web applications; focused on compliance with accessibility and usability standards on the Web and an interest in user experience and interaction design.

Skills

  • HTML, CSS and frameworks
  • Javascript and frameworks
  • Familiarity with version control and issue tracking systems
  • Django template language
  • Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues
  • Designing for usability, accessibility and standards compliance
  • Experience in Adobe Photoshop and Flash
  • Platforms: Windows, OS X

Career History

Web Application Developer
National Center for Biotechnology Information - National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
November 2010 - Present

Web Designer
Digital Dialogue
Wausau, Wisconsin
May 2010 - November 2010

  • Mockup design, custom graphic and Flash production, ColdFusion template design, and associated content management tasks
  • Responsible for regular website updates and time tracking for multiple clients
  • Regularly sliced and coded complex site mockups into usable and semantic templates

Web Producer
Midwest Communications, Inc.
Wausau, Wisconsin
December 2008 - May 2010

  • Brainstormed, wireframed and designed framework for and interfaces of multiple Django web applications
  • Worked closely with developer to accomplish user interaction and functionality goals
  • Updated and maintained four medium-scale, legacy radio station websites
Student Web Manager
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Stevens Point, Wisconsin
May 2007 - December 2008
  • Re-designed, coded, implemented and maintained a new version of department website
  • Worked with activity coordinators to produce Web and print promotions for office events
  • Managed over fifty student organization Web sites and provided instruction to Web masters via introductory seminars and one-on-one consultation

Education

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Bachelor of Science in Social Science
December 2008

University of Wisconsin-Marathon County
Associate of Arts and Sciences
May 2006

Portfolio

Click here to view my online portfolio.

For a sample of my work, check out the example project, templates and stylesheets for django-djobs on Github.