2001–present
J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA
Senior Web Developer / Web Production Specialist / Web Content Specialist
I’ve been building websites here since I was a contractor in 2000. I’ve seen our pages morph from flat html with tables and frames, to templates in a content management system. We did the Flash thing when that was all the rage; we went from bright colors to gray and white; we’ve done audio tours, mobile tours, and mobile audio tours; we’ve created cool apps for an in-gallery multitouch table; we made the jump to all of the social media playgrounds; and though we’re totally on board the CSS/CSS3 train, we’re still trying to transition tens of thousands of web pages out of tables and into responsive grids. Also? We won a Webby in 2002. 😀
Recent and favorite projects include:
- The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra (digital exhibition)
- #GettyInspired (WordPress awesomeness)
- The Art of Food (mobile in-gallery scavenger hunt)
- Pietro Mellini’s Inventory in Verse, 1681 (digital publication)
- Featured Works from the exhibition World War I: War of Images, Images of War (mobile tour)
- Pacific Standard Time Audio Tour (free iTunes app)
- GettyGames (Flash-based games)
- Tango with Cows (Flash-based interactive books)
- The Multi-Touch Table app
2000–2001
Aquent, Los Angeles, CA
For seven months I worked as a contractor with The J. Paul Getty Trust, as an employee of Aquent, on the web team that converted the many individually-run department websites and joined all of their content into one massive and cohesive website with one unifying design. When the project ended, they hired me full-time.
1993–2000
William Gallagher Associates, Boston, MA
I started as a receptionist soon after college, then moved to administrative assistant for the benefits insurance brokers department, followed by marketing specialist, then assistant account manager, until finally I left the insurance side to join the IT department, where I spent my last two years there providing help desk and networking support for 80 employees in three states, as well as building and maintaining the website. In the end I learned that websites were my one true love, so I made the jump to developing those full-time (at the same time I made the jump from Boston to Los Angeles).
Workshops I Have Taught
Blogging Basics 101, American Alliance of Museums, 2011 (Houston) and 2012 (Minneapolis)
Blogging Basics 201 (co-taught), American Alliance of Museums, 2011 (Houston) and 2012 (Minneapolis)
Building a Website on a Shoestring Budget, American Alliance of Museums, 2012 (Minneapolis)
Optimizing Your Website for Mobile, American Alliance of Museums, 2013 (Baltimore)
Things I Am Awesome At
- HTML, HTML5
- CSS, CSS3
- jQuery
- WordPress
- Foundation 5
- Optimizing websites for mobile
- Teaching
Things I Know but Don’t Get Enough Practice In
- Javascript
- PHP
- Drupal
- JSON
Things I’ve Been Studying Lately, But Haven’t Used Much Yet
- SCSS
- Python
- Git
- Ruby
Things I Hate
- Dreamweaver
- Internet Explorer
- The disparity in browsers and their different interpretations of code
- Internet Explorer (needed to be said twice)
- To be brutally honest, Drupal. Man, that system is a PITA.