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SUMMARY PROFILE:

Detail-oriented and creative Senior Designer with over 7 years of Web Project Management and Web Design experience and over 10 years Design experience in the wholesale and retail industry. Demonstrated project management, designing, and problem solving skills; extensive merchandising and business development experience. Extensive knowledge of all stages of graphic/web design from conceptual to product launch.

PROFILE:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2008 – Present Senior. Business Analyst DCP Group, LLC

• Worked with client management teams to define custom requirements for solutions to business processes and customer facing technologies, across industries.

• Work with clients primarily in the educational industries, reviewing current business opportunity to define business and functional requirements and custom solutions.

• Developed product deployment acceptability criteria.

• Owned Business Relationships with Clients. Managed Client expectation.

• Work with management teams to define custom features for proprietary educational software.

• Authored business and functional requirements documents, user manuals, workflow diagram and process flowcharts.

• Utilized Scrum Methodology for development and requirements activities.

• Worked with Business Rules Methodology to document current, valid business rules and identify business rules in different systems, processes, and functional areas that should be retired or updated.

• Coordinated activities with key subject matter experts to achieve business buy-in throughout project.

2008 - Present IT Project manager DCP Group, LLC

• Managed complete project development life-cycle for proprietary educational based tutoring software.

• Responsible for the development and maintenance of project plan to monitor scheduling and resource assignment.

• Implemented processes into various phases of projects.

• Authored progress reports for internal reporting and external reporting. Implemented communication plan.

• Organized process changes into logical projects and estimated resource usage and budget.

• Responsible for all communications and coordination among 11 development, quality assurance, and project teams.

• Responsible for ensuring timely achievement of all requirements and dependencies.

• Initiated risk mitigation and strategy sessions to intercept potential development issues. Participated in all defect reviews with sign-off responsibility for severity and priority assignments.

2000 - Present Sr. Webmaster/Sr. Web Designer/Project Manager The Boyds Collection, Ltd. PA

• Manage a web department in developing, designing and managing company's websites, email marketing designs and internal all web-based marketing projects.

• Complete Project management experience for multiple projects.

• Create user friendly and innovative websites for Company for different audience ranging from toddlers to adult.

• Responsible for the creation or direction of all web-based projects from concept to completion, including defining all business requirements, risk assessments, defining process, database design, integration with existing company's main frame, branding, website design and build, implementation, testing, marketing collateral, and eMarketing effort.

• Controls all technical aspects of website, including performance issues, such as speed of access, and approving site content.

• Plans, develops, tests, edits, maintains documents and controls content, look, and flow of websites. Applies knowledge of programming techniques, database and computer internet systems.

• Evaluates statistical study of traffic patterns (visitors). Analyzes and develops specifications, determines feasibility, cost and time required, compatibility with current system, and computer capabilities required for new or revised websites. Prepares flowcharts and diagrams to illustrate sequence of steps program must follow and to describe logical operations involved.

• Designs screen displays to accomplish goals of site. Provides specifications, using flowcharts and diagrams, into sequence of detailed instructions and logical steps for coding into language that can be processed by computer.

• Assists in solving operating problems with site.

SPECIFIC PROJECT EXAMPLES:

• Recently redesign company website (both front end and back end) to reflect ecommerce and new branding guidelines (www.BoydsStuff.com). New website has ecommerce functionality and also integrated with company’s network of retailers. All creative concepts were produced using Photoshop and Illustrator as well as Flash for animation. Websites production using Coldfusion Studio (HTML) which requires extensive HTML and JavaScript knowledge as well as the use of Style sheets.

• Manage company’s B2B website which requires both front end and backend updates on a regular basis. (www.BoydsBiz.com)

• Responsible for the complete design and development of a web-based Home Party Tracking system. Managed integration of company’s main frame system with web-based portal. (www.BoydsHomeReunions.com)

• Design and develop CMS system for company internet. CMS system can track email response, product upload process and content management.

• Design and produce company’s eMarketing effort on a weekly basis. Total audience reached approximately 300,000 opt-in recipients.

• Manage CMS web-based registration system for company retail division. (Boyds Bear Country in Gettysburg, PA)

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