Resume of Marcus Willis

Contact Information

• Phone: 312.307.8471
• Email: marcus@anti-personnel.com
• Web: http://anti-personnel.com/

Objective

To work with a dynamic employer to create the perfect balance of website accessibility, functionality, and cross-browser/platform compatibility using semantic XHTML, standards-compliant CSS, and unobtrusive DOM JavaScript.

Education

The Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago

• Location: Chicago, IL
• Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Multimedia & Web Design
• GPA: 3.5 / 4.0
• Duration: October 2000 - March 2003

Rich South High School

• Location: Richton Park, IL
• Degree: High School Diploma
• Duration: August 1993 - May 1997

Employment History

CondéNet

• Position: CSS Developer
• Location: New York, NY
• Duration: December 2007 - Present

WorldNow

• Position: Interface Developer
• Location: New York, NY
• Duration: July 2006 - November 2007
• Responsibilities:
  • Help to re-write entire front-end architecture with standards-based, tableless HTML and CSS for leading local media system spanning hundreds of websites
  • Redesign website interface features (forms, weather forecasts, user polls, etc.) to maximize accessibility, compatibility, and attractiveness
  • Write XSL for website components
  • Test site accessibility in multiple web browsers and alternate settings
  • Verify HTML, CSS, and Section 508 validity

3-Points, LLC

• Position: Web Designer / Front-End Web Developer
• Location: Palos Hills, IL
• Duration: October 2005 - July 2006
• Responsibilities:
  • Designed Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Dreamweaver website mockups
  • Converted web site mockups into hand-coded, standards-compliant [X]HTML and CSS
  • Created site enhancements with unobtrusive DOM JavaScript and XML-backed, ActionScript-based Flash elements
  • Created and modify 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: October 2004 - October 2005
• 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

Standard Multimedia

• Position: Web/Graphic Designer
• Location: Chicago, IL
• Duration: October 2003 - February 2004
• Responsibilities:
  • Created Photoshop web site layouts, and later implemented them to publishable HTML, CSS, and Flash
  • Created package design for products and prepared for mass production printing
  • Edited and created PHP and JavaScript website extensions when required

Technical Skills

General

• Seven years of professional web site design experience
• Five years of professional graphic design experience

Operating Systems

• Windows
• MacOS

Expertise With:

• Hand-coded, 100% valid, standards-compliant Strict and Transitional [X]HTML
• Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to separate document structure from visual presentation
• Unobtrusive DOM JavaScript
• Adobe Photoshop
• Macromedia Flash + ActionScript
• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Adobe ImageReady

Proficiency With:

• XML integrated with Flash and PHP
• Adobe Illustrator
• Macromedia Fireworks
• Front-End ASP
• Front-End PHP
• Microsoft Office

Experience With:

• MySQL
• RSS displayed with ASP and XSL

Sample Websites

• http://mediscript.com/
• http://nicoletcapital.com/
• http://firstchoicelogistics.com/
• http://www.reddremedies.com/
• http://customdatainc.com/
• http://thelearningtreechildcare.com/

For each of the above projects, I was responsible for the design mockups, breaking up of images, standards-compliant and tableless HTML, CSS, and DOM JavaScript. A few of the projects (The Learning Tree, Custom Data Processing, and Redd Remedies) were edited by other developers/designers after I completed them, so you will see invalid or deprecated elements (CDP), layout tables (Redd Remedies) or presentational markup (The Learning Tree) in certain areas.

References

References available upon request.