Resume for Chad Lundgren, Web Designer

Chad Lundgren, Web Designer

Web Site Portfolio

RNAi at the UNM CS Department
Graphical design and usabilty for a new site using structural XHTML and CSS, with programming by CS researchers studying RNA interference (RNAi), a recently discovered method of gene therapy.
UNM Computer Science Department
Complete graphical and organizational redesign using structural XHTML, CSS, PHP, and Smarty. Usability, information architecture, and web standards played major roles.
Weirich Technologies
Did PHP/MYSQL programming for a technical recruiting firm job site. Favorite feature: the one that remembers the information you filled out last time and pre-fills it for other job applications.
First State Bank of New Mexico
Project lead, HTML and CSS coder.
Graphic design: Jupiter Zen wallpaper background image (1024x768, 68 Kb, JPG format)

Notable projects no longer live, or with different designs:

SeniorDiscounts.com
Project lead, usability, HTML, Embperl & Javascript. 500,000+ unique visitors & national press.
Jaynes Corporation
Co-designed the site for one of New Mexico's largest construction companies.
New Mexico State Fair
Project Lead & Graphic Designer, HTML, CSS
Los Alamos Fire Evacuee database
Created the interface in hours. This helped people during the Cerro Grande fire locate evacuees.

Usability Test Results

Conducted usability test focusing on navigation to sister sites. Conclusion: The location of this list below the text footer put it below a "false bottom". People stopped scrolling at the footer. This is a great place to put disclaimers.
Conducted a usability test on www.nmgrande.com (no longer live), a dropdown menu listed "Century 24" for a movie theater in Albuquerque known as the "Century Rio 24". Conclusion: Everyone found this disconcerting: one user didn't use the menu and ran a text search instead. Thanks to my cross-referencing in the text search, this succeeded.

Zen Haiku Home

Contact Information

5330 San Mateo Blvd NE #F83
Albuquerque, NM 87109
(505) 453-7246
www.zenhaiku.com

Skills

Hand code HTML, including HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Hand code CSS1/CSS2 for cross-browser compatibility, backwards compatibility, and accessibility issues.

Javascript, including DHTML, cross-browser, cross-platform compatibility issues.

PHP and other CGI scripting languages

MySQL

Create web page layouts that display quickly.

Usability testing: preparing, conducting, and analyzing tests to make a site easy to use.

Graphic design skills, including creating web and print layouts, integration of existing business branding into HTML.

Optimize images.

Search engine optimization: traffic analysis, keywords, anchor text, title tags, structural HTML, and HTML filenames

Writing skills, including copy-writing, and explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Web software: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, Adobe ImageReady CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2, emacs

Browser compatibility: Internet Explorer 5.5+, Mozilla/Firefox, others on request

Operating systems: Windows, Linux, AIX, Macintosh.

UNIX skills include hand web log analysis, awk, direct HTTP/1.1 commands to port 80 (HEAD, GET), find, ldap queries

Windows: putty, ping, tracert, netstat, ipconfig

Other software: Microsoft Word 2000, Excel 2000, Access 2000, Visio 2002

Excellent client relations skills, including good phone presence and professional email.

Have worked with implementing, configuring, and training on ecommerce packages.

Train in web design, both in classes and one on one.

Write site critiques using aesthetic, business objective, and usability principles.

Have worked with online training software.

Aware of legal issues such as deep linking, framing, privacy policies, reciprocal links, domain names, DMCA, and accessibility guidelines such as section 508 and WAI.

Experience with digital cameras including photographic principles, cropping, color and contrast correction, image cleanup

Configure Apache server for server side redirects, nice error pages, cookie tracking, page compression, clean URLs using rewrite rules

Experience

Computer Science Department , UNM. Web Designer. (11/03 - 05/04 - temporary position, 08/04 - present, permanent position) Performing usability testing, visual design, & information architecture for a large web site

ClientLogic. (04/03 to 10/03). Technical Support Representative. Working on the Tivo campaign at ClientLogic, providing technical support for Tivo customers.

Oso Grande Technologies. (01/97 to 9/02). Web Developer. Other job titles included: Senior Web Designer, Web Designer, Publications Specialist. Designed, performed usability tests on, and created web sites.

UNM Language Learning Center. (07/93 to 12/96). Recording Technician and Language Lab Attendant. Responsible for copying language tapes and selling them to students.