Nathan Webster

Design & Development

Qualifications

Employment

June 2006 to Present
Web Designer/Developer

Design and development for these companies and more:

July 2005 to June 2006
Senior Designer – M&A Technology

Designed developed and maintained all marketing materials for M&A Technology, while working with M&A's clients to address their website development needs.

April 2005 to June 2005
Web Developer – Fossil Inc.

HTML, CSS and Flash development for Fossil Inc. run retail websites such as www.fossil.com, www.fossilwatches.com, www.fossilathletic.com and www.giorgioarmani.com.

Aug. 2004 to April 2005
IT Coordinator – Global Views

Responsible for all computer and telephony related needs at Global Views, a 50+ user environment specializing in the design and wholesale of Interior Design accessories.

June 2001 to Aug. 2004
Web Designer/Developer

for companies such as:

Jan. 2000 to June 2001
Senior Advisor / Project Manager – Nortel Networks

eMarketing & eBusiness database marketing & user experience development for projects such as the Partner Locator, Partner Business Center and Rebate Calculator for Distributors and Resellers

April 1999 to Dec. 1999
Lead Developer – uniView Technologies

Team lead for group of designers and developers, creating, developing and maintaining websites for multiple uniView customers such as Mid-South Electrical Cooperative - www.mscc.net, Mood Magazine - www.moodmagazine.com, OneFamily.com - www.onefamily.com, Phoenix Healthcare Corporation - www.phoenix-healthcare.com

July 1997 to April 1999
Design Team Manager – Nortel Networks

Managed and led a team of graphic designers and information architects to design the interface and user experience for nortelnetworks.com.

Project Team Leader – Nortel Networks
Team lead for all creative design, production, implementation, hosting and day-to-day operations for large-scale, high traffic, websites.

Projects included:

The Official Dallas Cowboys Website - www.dallascowboys.com
Summer 1996 to Spring 1999.

The Official Indy Racing League Websites - www.indyracingleague.com & www.indy500.com
Spring 1997 to Fall 1998.

Dec. 1996 to July 1997
Project Leader – Northern Telecom
Advanced Internet Solutions/Internet Commerce Solutions
- Actively led a strong team of developers and system administrators to design, launch and operate the Official Indy Racing League Website.

June 1996 to Dec. 1996
Senior Developer – Northern Telecom
Internet Commerce Solutions
- Worked with a team of web developers and network designers to develop a high traffic network and website user experience for the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.

June 1995 to June 1996
Webmaster, Internet Solutions Group – Northern Telecom

  • Created prototype website, capturing the Dallas Cowboys and their first website as a customer for Nortel.
  • Created website, CD-ROM and other marketing materials for the Nortel Rapport line of Internet products.

Awards Received

  • President’s Award of Excellence for Innovation 1997 – ESAT Online Survey – Nortel
  • GPN Services Award of Merit 1997 – ESAT Online Survey – Nortel
  • MCS Marketing Conference Best Practices award 1995 – Nortel Rapport launch
  • Dallas Cowboys Website awards – Dallas Observer Best of Dallas 1997, WebCrawler Select, Platinum 100, Lynx of the Week Page of the Year 1996, NetGuide Gold Site, Hot100 Sports Sites, Cyber-Teddy’s Top 500

Education

Spring 1998
Northern Telecom

Courses in Management/Leadership and Project Management

Fall 1994
Richland College

Electronic Publishing courses in QuarkXPress, Macromedia Director, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop

Aug. 1987 to May 1990
Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art Inc.

Intensive work study in illustration, graphic design, painting, airbrush and graphic storytelling

Aug. 1983 to May 1985
Purdue University

Courses in industrial design, art, photography and communications

Programming Proficiencies

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, AJAX, XML, PHP, .NET, Concrete5, Wordpress, Flash with AS2/3

Applications

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe InDesign, RubyMine, Eclipse IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Adobe Fireworks, PHPMyAdmin, ATG Web Commerce

Platforms

Windows OS all versions, Macintosh OS, UNIX Server, Linux Server, IRIX Server, Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL