Resumé
Spencer Sundell’s Current Position
Senior Web Developer
POP Design + Technology, Seattle WA
(employed there since 2004)
Presentation layer integrations for dynamic .NET web applications and e-commerce sites, as well as flat sites, and related responsibilities. Standards compliant XHTML and CSS authoring, Photoshop comp transformation and graphics production, JavaScript authoring, occasional forays into middle-tier C# and JSP, XSLT customization, XML, etc. Content integration and migration. Daily use of version control and Visual Studio. Close liaison with IA, design, and programming team members. Also: template engineering, system administration (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris), Google Mini integrations, technical documentation (internal and external), etc. Additional expertise in SEO best practices, and accessibility requirements and best practices for the US, Britain, and the EU.
In general…
I have been building web sites since 1993, and professionally since 1994. My areas of Web and Internet expertise include but are not limited to:
- Project & staff management: extensive experience coordinating diverse disciplines under tight deadlines.
- Extensive agency experience: juggling multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and quality standards.
- Web authoring: Hand-coded compliant XHTML and CSS, Photoshop and ImageReady
- Programming: advanced PHP, presentation layer-level and some middle-tier .NET (C#), some very rusty JSP and classic ASP (VB script) chops, able to “Frankenstein” CGI/Perl
- Database development and administration: DB design and normalization, MySQL, some MS SQL Server
- Scripting: JavaScript, DOM, DHTML
- System administration: Linux / Unix / SunOS, Apache, MySQL, some experience with Tomcat 5.5 and IIS
- Excellent communication skills: writing, editing, style enforcement for lay and technical audiences
- Multidisciplinary expertise: research, public relations, film and video production, digital and analog audio engineering in live and studio settings, sound design, music composition and performance, performance tech, theater and acting, stage managing, the humanities, poster design, grant writing, consensus group process, community organizing, making Turkish coffee over an open fire, cooking a good omelet, even walking and chewing gum simultaneously…
- Fast learner, self-directed, collaborative, deadline driven
Further information…
Should you desire, you may learn more about me by visiting the following points of presence:
- Spencer Sundell’s current resumé (PDF, 115kb) - Updated 2007 edition. Yeah, kinda long.
- POP design + technology - My current employer since 2004, one of the top interactive agencies in the Northwest with an international client base.
- Subliminal Media Inc. - My own company, founded in 2000 (but quiescent since 2004). The site includes some nifty streaming video. Dang!
- Subliminal.org - My online community providing free Web presence for artists, community service, and political stuff. Visit Subliminal Radio for peculiar audio phenomena of a downloadable nature.
- Spencer Sundell’s online resumé circa 1998 - A 10-year-old time capsule. Egads, this thing is actually written in HTML 3.2. Did people really live like this??
