Marcus Willis

Front-End Web Developer

Phone:
312-307-8471
Email:
Web:
anti-personnel.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/marcuswillis

Objective

To help an employer build web sites and applications using the perfect balance of accessibility, functionality, and cross-browser/platform/device compatibility using semantic HTML, standards-compliant CSS, and unobtrusive JavaScript.

You'll see many acronyms and abbreviations in my resume, but my emphasis, expertise, and passion is in architecting optimal markup structure and producing well-written CSS.

Employment History

Apple Inc.

Position:
Front-End Developer
Location:
Cupertino, CA
Duration:
- Present

Condé Nast

Position:
Front-End Developer
Location:
New York, NY
Duration:
-
Responsibilities:
  • Architected semantic and accessible HTML structure for award winning, highly trafficked websites
  • Used CSS to generate pixel-perfect layouts based on design mockups
  • Tested and debugged website display issues in multiple browsers
  • Created bandwidth-saving image sprites from designers' Photoshop files
  • Communicated with site designers and stakeholders to guide design decisions
  • Wrote Ajax-based web application using jQuery-augmented JavaScript for DOM manipulation and JSON parsing
  • Created reusable CSS structure for 20-site platform using the Sass metalanguage
  • Wrote server-side display logic using JSP Java scriptlets and JSTL tags
  • Created custom components in Adobe's CQ5 Web Content Management platform

WorldNow

Position:
Interface Developer
Location:
New York, NY
Duration:
-
Responsibilities:
  • Helped to re-write entire front-end architecture with standards-based, tableless HTML and CSS for leading local media system spanning hundreds of websites
  • Redesigned website interfaces (forms, weather forecasts, user polls, etc.) to maximize accessibility, compatibility, and attractiveness
  • Wrote XSL for website components
  • Tested site accessibility in multiple web browsers and alternate settings
  • Verified HTML, CSS, and Section 508 validity

3Points, LLC

Position:
Web Designer/Front-End Web Developer
Location:
Countryside, IL
Duration:
-
Responsibilities:
  • Designed website mockups in Photoshop
  • Converted web site mockups into hand-coded, standards-compliant HTML and CSS
  • Created site enhancements with unobtrusive DOM JavaScript and XML-backed, ActionScript-based Flash elements
  • Created and modified front-end ASP code
  • Tested site accessibility in multiple web browsers and alternate settings
  • Verified HTML, CSS, and Section 508 validity

Apps Communications

Position:
Web Designer
Location:
Orland Park, IL
Duration:
-
Responsibilities:
  • Designed Photoshop web site layouts and implemented them into publishable HTML, CSS, and Flash
  • Edited and updated clients' pre-existing websites
  • Communicated with clients about website concerns
  • Created and modified ASP and JavaScript-based DHTML when required

Education

Rich South High School

Location:
Richton Park, IL
Degree:
High School Diploma
Duration:
-

Technical Skills

Expertise

  • Hand-coded, semantic, standards-compliant HTML, including HTML5 structural elements
  • Using CSS to separate document structure from visual presentation, including bandwidth-saving CSS3 properties
  • Manipulating the DOM with unobtrusive JavaScript
  • Using Adobe Photoshop to manipulate and create images for website use

Proficiency

  • JSP with Java scriptlets and JSTL tags
  • Ajax using jQuery-augmented JavaScript
  • Front-End PHP
  • Transforming XML into HTML with XSL
  • Unix command-line interface
  • Version Control Systems (Mercurial, IBM Rational ClearCase, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe)
  • Content Management Systems (Adobe CQ5, Autonomy TeamSite, WordPress, Textpattern)

Code Examples