Resumé
Spencer Sundell’s Current Position
Senior Web Developer
POP Design + Technology, Seattle WA
(employed there since 2004)
Client-side development and presentation layer integrations for dynamic .NET and LAMP web applications and e-commerce sites, as well as flat sites, and related responsibilities. Hand-authored standards compliant cross-browser XHTML and CSS, Photoshop comp transformation and graphics production, JavaScript authoring (including experience with the jQuery and Prototype libraries); occasional forays into middle-tier C# and JSP, XSLT customization, XML, etc. Content integration, migration, and maintenance. Daily use of version control and Visual Studio. Close liaison with IA, design, and programming team members. Also: Google Mini integrations, template engineering, system administration experience (Linux, FreeBSD), technical documentation (internal and external, adept and novice), etc. Additional expertise in SEO best practices, as well as accessibility requirements and best practices for the US, Britain/Australia, and the European Union.
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:
- 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 minor 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, some experience with the jQuery and Prototype libraries
- System & server administration: Linux / Unix / FreeBSD, Apache (including custom compiles), MySQL, some experience with Tomcat 5.5 and IIS
- Excellent communication skills: writing, editing, style enforcement for lay and technical audiences
- Project & staff management: experience coordinating diverse disciplines under tight deadlines.
- 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, 106kb) - Updated 2008 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, 2000-2005 (but the domain is still active). 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??
