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Ginger C. Mann
Objective:
A position in which I can contribute creatively with my
computer skills, verbal skills, and knowledge of Internet
applications.
Education:
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Minor in Music, Lamar
University, Beaumont, TX, December 1994.
4605 Stratford Court
Temple, TX 76502
(will relocate)
(254) 742-0307
[email protected]
Training:
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) expected June
1999.
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Experience
Technology
Siamese Productions, Ltd.
(Web Designer -- Award Winning)
Webmaster Web design and maintenance services for individual clients and as subcontracted
by web presence providers such as QSP Webspinners (http://www.qsp.net) and Quicksilver
Websites (http://www.quicksilverws.com).
Electronic Pre-Press Providing electronic design of presentation materials, brochures,
catalogues, or any other print job on a contract basis, and working with professional printers to
see the job to its completion.
Publisher Providing publishing, binding, printing, distributing, and engraving services for
musical composers, directors and teachers.
Temple Independent School District
Office of Research, Development, and Instructional Technology
Researcher and Developer (1996-1998) Published educational testing research materials.
Analyzed test scores for the entire district. Maintained budgets for testing programs, state
technology purchasing allotments and local office expenses. Coordinated the district’s testing
calendar. Contributed to diverse Internet and other computer technology projects.
Education
Temple Independent School District
Lamar Middle School
School Secretary (1995-1996) Performed various secretarial and clerical tasks, maintained
student discipline, dispensed medication and provided other general assistance.
Business
Temple Bottling Company
Office Clerk (1995) Managed phone system, clerical tasks and accounts receivable.
Ginger C. Mann
4605 Stratford Ct., Temple, TX 76502
Phone: (254) 742-0307 * E-Mail: [email protected]
http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/resume/
Skills
Internet: Web design and HTML coding, Javascript, Perl and ASP implementation, web
server management, CGI access control, FTP file management, graphics design and
animation
Publishing: Pre-press publication layout, binding, printing, and distribution, amateur
photographer, professional webmaster
Writing (See http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/resume/writingsamples/ for samples):
Scientific Writing, Advertisement Copy, Essay, Poetry (Award winning), Short Story,
Humorous Prose
Systems: Microsoft Windows NT Workstation and Server, Microsoft Windows 95,
Microsoft Windows 3.1, Microsoft DOS (all versions), Various Apple and Macintosh
operating systems
Possess a wide knowledge of office and clerical skills
Awards:
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Web Design Creativity Award - A Long Way From Home (http://welcome.to/creative)
1999
Third Prize Winner National Library of Poetry, 1996
First Prize Winner, Poetry Southeast Texas Writers' League, 1995
Information available upon request:
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References
Web site portfolio
Web site journal
Other interests
A similar copy of this resume is available at http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/resume/
Ginger C. Mann
4605 Stratford Ct., Temple, TX 76502
Phone: (254) 742-0307 * E-Mail: [email protected]
http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/resume/
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Web Site Portfolio
(Detailed project Information on selected web sites is available upon request or by
visiting http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/websiteinfo.htm)
(Current Sites)
Candle Makers' Attic
(http://www.saltcitycandles.com)
Bear River Lodge
(http://www.bearriverlodge.com)
Grace Presbyterian Church
(http://members.tripod.com/~GPCTemple)
Quicksilver Websites
(http://www.quicksilverws.com)
Sweet Mornings Mattresses
(http://www.sweetmornings.com)
(Sites turned over for Maintenance)
The Presbytery of St. Augustine
(http://www.staugpres.org)
The Highly Unofficial Orson Scott Card Fans’ Rogue’s Gallery
(http://www.timp.net/osclistgally)
(Under Development)
Siamese Productions, Ltd.
(http://www.siameseproductions.com)
Other Interests
Creative Writing: Short stories, essays and poetry. Samples available at
http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/writing and upon request.
Photography: Sample at http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/landscp1.htm
(More photography samples available upon request.)
A similar copy of this resume is available at http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/resume/
Ginger C. Mann
4605 Stratford Ct., Temple, TX 76502
Phone: (254) 742-0307 * E-Mail: [email protected]
http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/resume/
WEB SITE JOURNAL
Detailed information on Selected Web Sites
Candle Makers' Attic (http://www.saltcitycandles.com) : An on-line web store,
saltcitycandles.com requires constant attention. This site has been designed to use the
full capabilities of Microsoft FrontPage as a web maintenance tool. Its award winning
design was achieved using both Microsoft Image Composer and some of the effects of
Corel's PhotoPaint. The consistent look of the site is a result of cascading style sheets
in the form of what FrontPage calls a "theme." The theme was created via a FrontPage
tool called "Theme Designer" and implemented throughout the site globally, with
specific changes on selected pages when needed. The site is made navigable by a
javascript pull-down menu that lists candle fragrances and automatically takes a person
to their appropriate catalogue page.
Saltcitycandles.com is powered by a Microsoft Access database which is implemented
by Storefront Web Store software (http://www.storefront.net), an e-commerce
companion tool for Microsoft FrontPage. Storefront depends on Microsoft Active Server
Pages (ASP) in order to run an on-line store, so in order to take advantage of Storefront
it was necessary to install an ASP function for FrontPage on both my local workstation
and on the web server. It was also necessary to set up system DSN’s pointing to the
store inventory databases on both machines for the purpose of developing the site and
testing the web store’s functionality. The DSN still exists on the server, as it must in
order for the store to access its product database.
Catalogue pages have been and are continually being set up separately for each
individual candle scent. Slides of each candle taken by the store’s business manager
are scanned and delivered to me electronically. After receiving each, I modify them in
Corel Photopaint by trimming the edges away and making their backgrounds
transparent. I also interlace each image so that it appears to load faster.
A contact form is also running on saltcitycandles.com. Instead of FrontPage’s form
handler, I found another script written in Perl which was better for our purposes.
Implementing that script for use in the contact form required enabling the website to run
Perl, which I was able to do remotely via PCAnywhere, and calling the form properly in
the html code. (See the source code of
https://www.saltcitycandles.com/securecart/contact.htm for specifics.) Site visitors are
tracked on the home page using a FrontPage counter.
Bear River Lodge (http://www.bearriverlodge.com): Bearriverlodge.com is an
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Ginger C. Mann
4605 Stratford Ct., Temple, TX 76502
Phone: (254) 742-0307 * E-Mail: [email protected]
http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/resume/
informational site about a vacation lodge in the Uinta Mountains. The appearance of this
site is held constant by two slightly different sets of cascading style sheets, their only
variable being page background. The site theme was created using original
photographs of the Lodge that I took during a visit there in early September. The scenic
and ad copy photographs on the site are largely mine, too. Careful attention has been
paid to Bearriverlodge.com’s theme design, since its product is its beautiful scenery,
activities, and accomodations. Care has been taken use very warm, visually appealing
site graphics and to strike a balance in every photo between brevity of load time and
quality of appearance. This site’s most powerful function is its contact form, which uses
the same Perl script that saltcitycandles.com uses. A FrontPage hit counter keeps track
of visitors on the site’s home page.
The Presbytery of St. Augustine (http://www.staugpres.org). The Presbytery of St.
Augustine is a site designed by Paige Porter-Brown of QSP Webspinners
(http://www.qsp.net). At the end of her intial design process, Paige contacted me to
request that I take this site and continue the job that she had started. My regular
maintenance assignment has been to convert the site's monthly "Help-Pacs," (in the
News section) which are the news releases that the Presbytery sends out to its
members every month. This includes creating a new main graphic for the site every
month which links to one of the Help-Pac news articles. QSP Webspinners has allotted
ten hours of maintenance for the site every month.
Along with monthly maintenance, QSP requested additional site building from me during
the months of February and March, 1999. This assignment was the building of pages
for 50 churches who did not have web pages of their own. I was given photos for 19 of
the churches and asked to take the photos and design custom graphics for each
church. For the other 39 churches, I was asked to design a stock "placeholder" page
until their photos could be sent to me. Each church page included the same
information: A link to a Yahoo! map with drivinig directions to their locale, their
address, phone, fax, and e-mail (where applicable), links to PCUSA
(http://www.pcusa.org), and back to the Presbytery of St. Augustine, including a
drop-down list of other churches in the Presbytery and links to a page which listed other
churches in that county. Churches who do not currently have a custom graphic with
their photo have a page which is essentially duotone, with a main graphic including their
name and a color scheme which coordinates with the color of their home county on the
Presbytery's Congregation map.
Since Ms. Porter-Brown of QSP webspinners is constantly looking out for users who are
using old computers and browsers, the drop-down menu that she created in javascript
was a dilemma for her. I solved this problem for her by finding a stock Perl script on
line to replace her Javascript menu. Since I am an administrator of the server that
hosts the Presbytery of St. Augustine, I was able to access and enable Perl access to
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Ginger C. Mann
4605 Stratford Ct., Temple, TX 76502
Phone: (254) 742-0307 * E-Mail: [email protected]
http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/resume/
the site using PC Anywhere. I then entered the proper referrers into the Perl script and
modified the pages of the web site to reflect the change.
Plans for the future of the Presbytery of St. Augustine's web site include clickable image
maps of three counties, including maps of individual cities within those counties, and
custom pages for 39 more churches whose photos are due to be sent to me as soon as
they are available.
Grace Presbyterian Church (http://members.tripod.com/~GPCTemple): A pro bono
site, Grace Presbyterian Church is an example of how to use Microsoft FrontPage on a
web server that doesn’t support FrontPage extensions. Since I chose web hosting at
Tripod for this site, I was limited to a single subdirectory level, and had to make certain
that the site’s theme stayed consistent without the use of FrontPage’s cascading style
sheets. I was able to do this by creating a page template and using it for each site
section. I was able to use other of FrontPage’s functions, too, in some of the buttons
and links on Grace Presbyterian’s site; specifically the dynamic links facilitated by
FrontPage’s navigation window and web bots. A map to the church was provided by
using Yahoo!’s maps in one frame of a page and the link bars of the church’s site
around the Yahoo! page. A page counter is in place on the title page of the site via a
free service called Siteflow.com.
Quicksilver Websites (http://www.quicksilverws.com): Quicksilverws.com was turned
over to me for renovation early this fall (1997) by Managing Partner, Scott Tarbet. The
site needed only 20 hours of work since most of the graphics had been designed by
Scott when the site was created in 1996. I used the site’s logo in Corel Photopaint to
design hover buttons for the site’s cascading style sheet theme. I also updated the site’s
malfunctioning contact form using the same Perl script as in Bearriverlodge.com and
Saltcitycandles.com. A page counter was implemented on the first page of the site using
FrontPage’s counter function.
Sweet Mornings Mattresses (http://www.sweetmornings.com): Sweetmornings.com
was my very first web store. Its inventory is catalogued in a Microsoft Access database
which is called by a single ASP page for web store orders. This site’s secure layer never
came to fruition, however, since the site owner changed his mind about it in midstream.
As a result, the site is now an informational one which directs visitors only to an e-mail
address and a phone number.
The Highly Unofficial Orson Scott Card List Members’ Rogue’s Gallery
(http://www.timp.net/osclistgallery): Created for members of the mailing list of the same
name, this site began as a pro bono site for the purpose of "decorating the streets" of
that on-line community. It was turned over to me for maintenance this past summer, and
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Ginger C. Mann
4605 Stratford Ct., Temple, TX 76502
Phone: (254) 742-0307 * E-Mail: [email protected]
http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/resume/
I have set it up as a subweb in FrontPage under its parent directory, /timp. This allows
both the site owner and myself to access the site live through FrontPage for additions or
changes. Maintenance duties include compiling all of the mail from the
[email protected] mailing list, converting that mail to text only format, and archiving it
on the server once a month. Other duties include adding new list members as they
request it and running an ongoing field study of members’ Myers-Briggs profiles. The
site also sponsors a web ring, which was created and is being maintained via
webring.org. Future plans for this site include using the Perl mailing script to create
interactive feedback sections on selected pages of the site, specifically the mail archive
page and the Member Index page. A FrontPage counter is on the site’s home page.
A similar copy of this resume is available at http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/resume/
Ginger C. Mann
4605 Stratford Ct., Temple, TX 76502
Phone: (254) 742-0307 * E-Mail: [email protected]
http://www.vvm.com/~gcmann/resume/
REFERENCES
Scott E. Tarbet
Managing Partner
Quicksilver Websites, LC
75 W. 500 Street
Fillmore, Utah 84631-1285
(800) 346-7320 Voice
(435) 743-6351 Fax
http://www.quicksilverws.com
[email protected]
Stephen Crawford
(Customer of Siamese Productions, Ltd.)
Director of Wind and Percussion Studies
Temple College
2600 South 1st Street
Temple, TX 76504
(254) 298-8560
2600 South First Street
Temple, TX 76502
[email protected]
Nicole L. Thompson
Counselor, Office of Student Financial Aid
University of Arizona
Administration Building, Room 203
P. O. Box 210066
Tuscon, AZ 85721-0066
Work: (520) 621-5783
Home: (520) 743-0313
[email protected]
Paige Porter-Brown
Web Developer and Consultant
QSP Webspinners
(352) 335-2535
http://www.qsp.net
[email protected]
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