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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 Honors Program Dean's List Intern to Office of University Advancement Intern to Office of Information Systems Contact Me [email protected] katieellison.com (206) 427-2234 2004