Skills and Accomplishments

I am not a programmer - I complement programmers.
I specify and design user interface metaphors and themes, information architectures, navigational schemas, screen layouts, user interaction, functional flow, and atmosphere.
I have strong visual, organizational, and verbal skills.
I work extremely well with technical development teams to implement user interfaces. I can code and revise HTML, CSS, design-centric javascript, handle server-specific coding, and work with a variety of markup languages, stylesheets, and scripting languages. My recent experience includes XML, SGML, XSLT, SSL, ASPs, JSPs, and struts and tiles.
I have introduced and enforced development processes to project teams and development groups, working to ensure that we manage requirements gathering and reporting, version control, collaborative work environments, testing, and change control efficiently and effectively.
I have led creative teams, mentored junior designers, worked with fellow leads to improve our delivery, prioritize schedules and goals, and resolve outstanding issues and problems.
I have also participated in design partnerships, where a two person team works together to complete a project and share responsibility for the successful completion of the project.
I have highly adaptable skills. Where necessary, I have gathered and written requirements, mentored junior programmers and designers, done quality assurance and testing, written and created training and marketing materials, done peer reviews, and taught classes on topics ranging from HTML to meeting facilitation.
I have been brought in on multiple projects to rescue and renovate user interfaces, to improve usability, the look and feel, and client satisfaction, and to hit project deadlines and goals.
I have designed applications for Windows, Macintosh (in 1992), and for the web to meet a variety of needs, including subscription-based financial services, B2B tools and extranets, healthcare information centers and marketplaces, project and process management, searching, and community-building.
I have designed websites, intranets, extranets, and web applications for internet hubs and service providers, hospitals, corporations, scientific partnerships, academic departments and groups, small businesses, and individuals.
Since 1994, I have maintained a collection of websites at julen.net that receive more than 11 million hits in a year (approximately 250,000 repeat visitors), including the Ancient World Web (shuttered in 2005), the oldest meta-index to sites dealing with the ancient world on the Internet. I was also responsible for Charlottesville On-Line, the index of all sites about Charlottesville, VA from 1994-1997 (when the site was retired). My sites have been covered in articles for USA Today, The New York Times, Archaeology, major and regional newspapers around the world, and on television in the USA, Australia, and Japan.
My design and/or writing has been studied for classes in Information Design (SFSU), Short Fiction (Texas Community Colleges), Information Science (Michigan, UIUC), Book Arts (twelve-fourteen universities around the world), and Web and Graphic Design
I have designed, typeset, and printed my own books using both digital and letterpress technologies, and I have won local and regional awards for my artwork.

Software Expertise

I have expertise with the following software packages, tools, and operating systems:

Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady, Acrobat, and Pagemaker
Macromedia's Freehand, Fireworks, Dreamweaver and Flash
Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, and Project
Corel's Graphics Suite
Painter
Quark Express
Typographer and FontLab
Allaire Homesite
vi, emacs, SimpleText, Wordpad, and other core text editors
Visual SourceSafe, PVCS, CVS, and other source control tools
Multiple bug-tracking tools
Major and minor browsers (e.g., Internet Explorer, Netscape, AOL Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Lynx, propietary AOL and WebTV browsers, Konquerer, and more)
Font Management Tools
Comfortable with Microsoft OSes (including NT and XP), Mac OSes, and Unix