1101 Hasbrouck Apts.
Ithaca, NY 14850
Home: (607) 253-6594
Work: (607) 255-8661
Email: skh2@cornell.edu

Objective:

A web development position that is challenging, fun, enables me to continue expanding my skills, and provides work/life balance.

Summary of Qualifications

Experience with all aspects of web development, including:

• Ability to evaluate best hardware and software tools based on performance, power, cost, ease-of-use, portability, and robustness.
• Thorough knowledge of MS Internet Information Server 4.0, Apache server, and Webstar server setup, security, and administration. Can enable secure transactions through SSL.
• Ability to organize/re-organize information and design labeling to allow easy navigation and use of a website.
• Complete knowledge of HTML. Working knowledge of Java (applications, applets, and servlets), CSS, XML, and JavaScript.
• Extensive experience writing CGI programs using Perl and PHP.
• Can design databases in support of web applications and formulate SQL statements to retrieve, manipulate, and display data using CGI programs. Experience with MS Access, MS Visual Foxpro, and MySQL databases.
• Ability to create/manipulate images in Photoshop, including color correction techniques, and saving images with optimal file size and quality.
• Desktop support and troubleshooting experience with Windows 95/98/NT, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems.
• Staying abreast of emerging technologies and trends in web publishing. Can learn new applications and skills very quickly.

Work Experience

Cornell School of Hotel Administration, Ithaca NY
Programmer Analyst II/Webmaster, February 1998 to present
www.hotelschool.cornell.edu

• Took a leading role in developing a new website for the school. Determined requirements, collaborated on organization, and implemented final site design.
• Collaborate with school departments to keep their web content up-to-date, readable, concise, and effective at serving their intended audiences.
• Set up a secure server and enabled online submission of encrypted credit-card numbers for Executive Education course tuition payments.
• Write web applications to allow searching and dynamic display of database information. This includes faculty (www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/directories/faculty), alumni (password protected. Screenshots at: www.people.cornell.edu/pages/skh2/database), job (password protected), and course (www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/directories/courses) directories.
• Create submittable forms for information requests and online applications to various Hotel School programs. These generate emails to the appropriate individuals and store submitted information in databases.
• Administrate four Windows NT/IIS Web Servers.
• Member of Cornell's Web Certification Committee. Developing a training and certification program to define several web development skill sets in the context of existing Cornell job descriptions. This will allow employers to assess the skills necessary for a particular job and inform employees which courses they can take to attain these skill levels.

Cornell Halai and East Lokris Project (CHELP), Theologos GREECE
Computer Support Specialist, May 1997 to February 1998
halai.fac.cornell.edu

• Developed a web application for online searching of an Access database of archeological finds: http://halai.fac.cornell.edu/chelp/search/obj.htm.
• Redesigned the CHELP website to have a coherent organizational structure and a uniform look and feel.
• Supported several Windows NT computers in rural Greece where there was no internet access, and the nearest computer store was a two-hour bus ride away.
• Used AutoCAD to map walls and other structures unearthed during the archeological dig.

Education

Cornell University, Ithaca NY
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 1997

Related Activities

• Created a website for a friend hiking the Pacific Crest Trail: http://www.fcinet.com/pct/
• Alpha-test and contribute to development of the Bluefish open-source HTML editor for Unix.