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Katie Ellison
Web Author • CSS Ninja • Gadget Geek • Pixel Worker • Caffeine Addict
About Me
Web developer with about 15 years' experience seeking work in a small, empowered team
that ships fast and often. I offer extensive experience in building highly performant, scalable,
and localized templates for web publishers and aggregating services. I’m no stranger to
ambiguity or complexity, thrive in a team environment, and am passionate about building
cool stuff.
I'm currently seeking an opportunity to return to web development, leveraging my deep
knowledge of CSS and web standards while having an opportunity to go deeper into
JavaScript and C#.
I also am a contributing member of the W3C CSS Working Group.
Experience
PM2 @ Microsoft - AMP January 2013 - present
AMP Food & Drink Team
Responsible for the Food & Drink experience for the AMP Prime project, based on the
experiences built for the Windows 8.1 app and Windows Phone 8 app. Participated in
partner entity ingestion, wire-framing and brainstorming, and feature prioritization.
MSN SDK Team
PM for core features and experiences used across all MSN verticals and markets. Features
I managed included SEO improvements, MSN Down-level device strategy, accessibility,
and article/gallery/video entity pages.
SDE2 @ Microsoft - OSD January 2008 – Jan 2013
MSN Mobile/SDK Team
Built out MSN Mobile, for rich-touch and gesture enabled experiences using HTML5
(markup, CSS3 targeting Android, IOS, and Windows Phone devices.
MSN Homepages & Catalog Features Team
Built out the MSN Feature Catalog for the rebranding of MSN channels and homepages
within the US and across the all MSN markets. Responsibilities include defining,
documenting, maintaining, & training developers to build with web standards, defining
requirements for adaptive rendering and performance tools that are now part of ASP.NET. I
mentored developers at all levels and across the organization regarding CSS, HMTL, and
behavior implementations.
Web Developer @ Real Networks August 2003 December 2007
My small team built out the entirety of Rhapsody.com with Java/JSP.
My other contributions were building the middle tier to front end of RealNetwork's web
properties using their proprietary publishing platform in Java.
Web Developer 3 @ TeleCommunication Systems March 2000 June 2003
Built numerous customer facing e-commerce applications. Much of my work was building
provisioning tools for tracking wireless E911, commercial location, and mission critical
systems. Built Flash, WAP, and web experience demos for the XYpoint Location Platform.
Web Designer & Developer @ BizNexus August 1999 February 2000
Responsible for graphic design and building large scale static websites. Developed custom
web applications and database-web connectivity using Cold Fusion or ASP, JavaScript, and
HTML.
Webmaster (Internship) @ Winston-Salem State University - Office of IT May 1999
February 2000
Duties included production control functions, such as setting up and revising accounts,
troubleshooting, setting up and configuring student and faculty IS and test labs in a
Windows NT platform. Also responsible for networking, OS and software installation,
troubleshooting, and server configuration. Also lead efforts in graphic design and building
large scale static websites. Created database-to-web connectivity functions, QA, graphic
design, and front-end maintenance for existing sites.
Portfolio
MSN Now
Built out real time social channel for MSN touch enabled phones and small tablets using
ASP.NET MVC with Razor, jQuery, CSS3, and HTML5.
MSN News
MSN Entertainment & Movies
News and Entertainment are examples of channels I built while dev’ing in MSN.
MSN Homepages & Channels
Built CSS and templates for network common components, which were used by markets to
assemble a homepage to suit their demographic. Features built included tabs, slideshow,
headlines, header, footer, web search, nav, social modules, and all variations of headline
modules.
Conducted code reviews with teams submitting code to the worldwide MSN Catalog. I
mentored engineers at all levels, helping them learn the tenets and value of developing
using web standards. I engaged design and collaborated with them to streamline design
deliverables and design interactive experiences for over 51 markets.
il.msn.com
Architected the strategy to get the MSN Catalog to support RTL markets.
KrispyKreme.com
This was long ago, but still I like to brag about it. I worked on the KK website in my first
couple years as a developer, building their online store in Cold Fusion.
Rhapsody.com
Wrote CSS, JavaScript (using Scriptaculous and Prototype JS libraries), and lots of JSP.
Contributed to the events driven external player and API, supporting the storm of mashups,
AJAX, and the media by subscription revolution.
RollingStone.com
Publishing content from CMS with JSP and servlets, styling with CSS, and adding behaviors
as needed.
Education
Java 2 Programming Certification @ U of Washington Extension Program
MIS @ U of Washington School of Business 2000 - 2003
MIS & Accounting @ Winston-Salem State University 1996 - 1999
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Honors Program
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Dean's List
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Intern to Office of University Advancement
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Intern to Office of Information Systems
Contact Me
[email protected]
katieellison.com
(206) 427-2234
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