Resume: Steve Ivy

Resumé: R. Steven Ivy

Home: (480) 777 2223 Email: steveivy@gmail.com Website/weblog: http://www.redmonk.net

Steve is a skilled designer and visual thinker with over a decade of experience in graphic and web design, information design, content management systems, and web-based applications. He has a passion for communication and enabling technologies, demonstrated by a career-long interest in visual design as related to content systems. He was a part of the initial blogging revolution, and continues to work in the area of content management whenever possible.

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Summary of Experience

  • 10+ yrs Visual/Graphic/Web Design
  • 9+ yrs Web Application development (HTML, programming, scripting, design)

Experience:

Senior Designer

Content Connections - Mesa, AZ - December 2003 - June 2006

Content Connections is a small (40 employee) publishing services firm in Mesa, AZ. Steve’s role at Content Connections included concept and product development, all visual design for the web and print, user interface design, and graphic design production. During this time, Steve developed several high-use web applications that brought in significant revenue for the company and contributed to several others.

In addition, Steve was responsible for maintaining and developing the corporate identity and collateral for Content Connections and several related companies, product packaging, and a variety of other technology-related functions.

Skills/Technologies:

  • Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Flash 8
  • (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, DHTML/Ajax using Prototype and similar technologies
  • PHP, Drupal Community CMS

Self-employed, Contract Web Designer and Developer

Redmonk Design & Development - Gilbert, AZ - June 2002 - Dec 2003

Steve performed contract web design and development, graphic design, and internet consulting for small to medium businesses and non-profit organizations. His role included client needs analysis, site planning, web design and production.

Skills:

  • HTML, CSS1,2
  • Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash
  • Content management systems (Conversant, OpenACS, Plone)
  • Web Programming (Python, TCL, OpenACS, PostgreSQL)

Web Application Developer - WebObjects

U-Haul International - Phoenix, AZ - Oct. 2001 - June 2002

With U-haul, Steve was responsible for porting existing applications from WebObjects 4.5 to WebObjects 5. Projects also included a number of internal utility web applications. Successfully introduced version control to the development process and trained several other developers in its use.

Skills:

  • Macromedia DreamWeaver
  • Java/WebObjects tools – Project Builder, WebObjects Builder
  • HTML, Javascript, CSS
  • Adobe Photoshop

Web Architect, Developer, Analyst

Compass Technology Management - Chesapeake, VA - June 1998 - Oct. 2001

At Compass, Steve directed a team of web developers in the design and development of web applications for internet and intranet websites. Platforms included Microsoft and Java web application technologies. I played a significant role in the successful integration of Linux, CVS, and Java into our development practices.

Skills:

  • Macromedia DreamWeaver, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand, Fireworks
  • HTML, Javascript, CSS
  • JScript/ASP/COM
  • Visual Interdev, Visual SourceSafe, CVS
  • Java Server Pages, Java Servlets, Velocity template engine
  • XML, XSL

Technical Director, Designer

Artlab Europe - Altensteig, Germany - January 1996 - April 1998

Steve’s responsibilities at ArtLab included technical research, multimedia development. Macintosh system support, web development, design, and training. Steve initiated and oversaw the installation and management of a unix-based internet and intranet server, and development of perl and mSQL-based web applications. Fulfilled duties as a designer on web projects, trained graphic designers in web-based graphics production.

Skills:

  • Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand, Macromedia Director
  • GoNet/Adobe GoLive
  • Perl, mSQL, Unix (FreeBSD)

Technical Experience

  • 10 yrs – Basic web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XML-RPC
  • 5 yrs – Unix (FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X)
  • 2.5 yrs - Java (J2EE, Servlets, WebMacro and Velocity template engines)
  • 2 yrs - “LAMP” development: Linux/unix, Apache, MySQL, PHP
  • 3 yrs – ASP/Javascript, IIS
  • 2 yrs - Perl, Python
  • 1 yr - Mac OS X development in Java, Objective-C
  • <1 yr – OpenACS, TCL, AOLServer, PostgreSQL

Education

  • University of the Nations - Lausanne, Switzerland - B.A. in Graphic Design – Sept. 1996
  • Various technical seminars and conferences.
  • Self-study - Programming WebObjects 1, with online tutoring by an experienced WebObjects developer

References upon request.

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