Michael Leung Jersey City, NJ OBJECTIVE Front-End Developer with 14 years hand-coding experience converting design files into standards-compliant, cleanly-coded, CSS-based, maintainable cross-browser compatible websites, looking to practice more of the same. QUALIFYING EXPERIENCE Web Developer, Part-time Jun - Oct 2009 National Audubon Society 225 Varick Street, New York, NY www.audubon.org * Coded HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and edited images, for the National Audubon Society's network of community-based nature centers and chapters, scientific and educational programs, and advocacy on behalf of areas sustaining important bird populations, engage millions of people of all ages and backgrounds in positive conservation experiences. Web Developer Jun 2005 - Feb 2009 Edit.com 45 Main St, Suite 530, Brooklyn, NY www.edit.com * Served thousands of small businesses and vendors who established their relationships with Edit.com for its reliable website maintenance services. * Closed tickets to update and improve websites built in the widest-variety of site-building methods, for the widest-variety of needs our clients could experience or imagine. Each ticket was every client's opportunity to force me to reinvent my career for the occasion. * Expedited ticket-fulfillment by developing a practice to establish change-order or update-sequence to minimize the solution-reinvention often required to reconcile updates, serving any range of disparate client needs, to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript custom-built by third-parties. * Expedited subsequent updates and service to existing accounts by formatting HTML for coder-readability with HomeSite's CodeSweeper-function, and cutting CSS class-count by taking opportunities to style class-embedded tags, allowing the stylesheet-structure to correspond more with document-structure. * Actively contributed ideas to encourage deep-learning and development-cycle-friendly processes centered on providing a suite of services, which also encouraged the presentation of our service-value in a manner easier for clients to comprehend. * Built forward-compatible sites in HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, and extracted site-images, from PSD files provided by third-party designers. Web Developer, Contract Jul - Dec 2004 Register.com 575 8th Av, New York, NY www.register.com * Coded HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the public site of one of the first national web hosting service providers. * Coded templates offered to clients as Register's WebSite Now service, part of Register's suite of comprehensive hosting services. HTML minimized, as key tag classes were innovatively employed to import varying combinations of matching background images and colors in CSS. * Maintained PHP intranet pages, updating and importing include files, and programming involving file opening and text editing. Web Developer, Contract Dec 2002 - Apr 2003 Children's Prison Arts Project 605½ W Bell, Houston, TX * Designed and coded HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the Children's Prison Arts Project, a non-profit theater and arts education organization nurturing creative expression in at-risk youth in correctional facilities and shelters. Web Developer, Contract Dec 2002 - Jan 2003 Marsh 1000 Louisiana, Houston, TX * Coded HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for leading global insurance broker Marsh Inc., collaborating to build an insurance and claims intranet for their client, international real estate developer Hines. * Completed project that had fallen behind schedule by replacing expensive Flash menus that were challenging to update and long to download with smaller, easier to maintain code. * Telecommuted by conventional FTP. Web Developer, Contract Mar - Jul 2002 Fremont City Managers Office 39100 Liberty St, Fremont, CA www.fremont.gov * Telecommuted by conventional FTP, coding and modifying HTML for municipal government public web pages. Web Developer Aug 2000 - Jun 2001 Backplane 2200 Powell St, Emeryville, CA www.backplane.com * Designed HTML tables for server-generated pages on Backplane's database-application web server. * Reduced file sizes by a third for HTML originally generated in Dreamweaver. * Authored HTML and JavaScript for Backplane's public website. Web Developer, Contract July 2000 Sapient 1177 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA www.sapient.com * Coded pixel-exact Windows- and Mac-tested HTML, and extracted site-images, from PSD files. * Source-protected code in CVS. Web Developer, Contract May - Jun 2000 NextOffice 301 Vermont St, San Francisco, CA www.nextoffice.com * Created and modified JSP files for online office furnishing vendors, consolidating redundant HTML and JavaScript. * Source-protected code in Microsoft SourceSafe application. Web Developer, Contract Oct - Nov 1999 Intraware 25 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA www.intraware.com * Completed HTML coding of backlogged software product documentation, coding in standard text editors, Wordpad and vi. Unix Administrator Apr - Sep 1999 Qwest 185 Berry St, San Francisco, CA * Maintained Web and Unix servers, monitoring with NMS, and ticketing with Remedy. Webmaster/Unix Admin Apr 1995 - Nov 1998 U.S. Strategic Command Offutt Air Force Base, NE * Installed, configured, and maintained the first classified web server at StratCom. * Developed site architecture and related network file systems. * Supported 200+ users in designing and keeping current up to 10 gigabytes of classified web content. * Supported same 200+ users in updating mission-critical SQL tables centralized at U.S. Transportation Command (Missouri) and the Pentagon. HONORS * 2009 Interactive Media Awards, Eccentric/Peculiar category, Outstanding Achievement, http://www.king-spot.Com. * SXSW 2003 Website Competition, Weird/Extreme category, selected finalist, http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com EDUCATION * Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, Media Communications, New York, NY, 1992