Resume

Carrus is the parent company to a number of brands, including CareerStep and ACLS. My job is to support web properties for both Carrus and Careerstep. I build new pages and functionality, built the redesigned carruslearn.com website, work with engineers to improve site performance, support the marketing team, and I am restructuring the careerstep.com site to reflect current best practices.

I was hired full-time by a long-term professional contact for whom I’ve done a lot of contract work over the last several years. The company provides mainly SEO and relied heavily on outsourcing for new websites and web-related projects or troubleshooting. I was hired to take over all website and coding needs, manage any outsourcing, create processes for new websites, and assist in planning for the future of the company.

In addition to continuing the previous responsibilities, I became the manager for the web team as well as web director. I established processes and wrote documentation and public-facing content. I refined our themes and strived to keep up with industry changes.

I began to create custom-built themes and plugins that could be re-used in the future by other developers. I changed company focus to more client-friendly sites, and I began training clients on using their new sites. I was responsible for our server admin, as well as email admin, tech support, and DNS issues. I worked with our new CRO team to apply changes to design and themes. I did a lot of troubleshooting of PHP, JavaScript, SSL, and hosting issues on client sites.

I was hired at Oozle to build sites and see them from PSD to launch, using WordPress as a CMS. I set up CRM integration via proprietary APIs for education clients. I was also responsible for troubleshooting, maintaining, and changing existing client sites, as well as creating landing pages.

This job was primarily for creating content for SEO purposes. I wrote and distributed SEO content using proprietary software and a variety of online portals. This did involve some minor WordPress theming and was my first introduction to WordPress.

This was the first job where I learned to slice sites from PSDs to XHTML (or HTML Strict 4.0) and modern CSS (CSS2). I developed using Internet Explorer 6 and the original version of Firefox into pixel-perfect websites. There was also some minor PHP programming and SEO content creation.

This combo bookstore and tax professional (whose owner loved puns) had me mostly performing retail tasks, like inventory, customer service, and cashiering. However, he wanted me to help with his website and I also did some basic IT functions as needed. I maintained our internal files and networking for the tax-side of the business.