Pennsylvania's largest health insurer, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

• Collaborated with the UI Team to overhaul Highmark's web sites to meet the government's Section 508 standards for accessibility to users with disabilities.
• Restructured XHTML framework, optimized CSS layout and inheritance hierarchy, and rewrote custom JavaScript using jQuery, all in an effort to better separate content, presentation, and behavior, allowing for a more consistent user experience, greater accessibility, and a more maintainable codebase.

An advertising, design, multimedia, and web design agency focused on the strategic delivery of effective marketing communications.

• Utilized my decision-making abilities in concert with a wide array of development skills to offer creative and effective web solutions to clients of many different kinds.
• Engaged in client interaction, concept development, project planning, interface design, technical implementation, copywriting, deployment, and ongoing maintenance of a wide range of client web sites.
• Utilized technologies including (X)HTML, PHP, cross-browser CSS, JavaScript, XML, MySQL, Flash, ActionScript, and Photoshop.
• Handled search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising with AdWords, user tracking and analysis with Google Analytics, and affiliate marketing using LinkShare.
• Implemented a social networking and viral marketing strategy for a regional tourism bureau, incorporating Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and a WordPress blog.

A provider of analytical services, technical consulting, information management, and expert testimony in materials characterization and forensic engineering.

• Developed software using technologies such as Java, Eclipse, VB.NET, C#, SQL, XML, Flash, and ActionScript in a small-team development environment.
• Maintained the existing corporate website using OpenCMS, HTML, PHP, CSS, and Flash, and participated in the design process of the new website.
• Designed graphics for splash screens, logos, web pages, and user-interface prototypes using tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks, and Flash.

Designer and webmaster for RogerHaydenJohnson.com, the official artist web site, as well as several other sites.

• Worked with client to develop and maintain pages for artist biographical data, recent news, art gallery information, artist contact form, and a dynamically-generated web gallery of available artwork using PHP and a MySQL database.
• Engaged in management of domains and hosting plans, search engine marketing (SEM), user tracking and analysis, and site advertising using Google AdWords and AdSense.

A comprehensive provider of information systems solutions, support services and communications products to the federal government, especially to the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.

• Developed software tools to model systems in nuclear weapon and natural radiation environments.
• Designed and implemented a user-friendly graphical Java application for editing response/susceptibility matrices stored in XML format.
• Co-designed and co-implemented a browser-based interface to a complex thermo-mechanical analysis tool using Java Server Pages (JSP), Servlets, and MySQL under Apache Tomcat.
• Automated the analysis of ultrasonic sensor data toward the development of improved ventilators for newborn infants.

A publisher of math curricula, blending textbook instruction with cognitive tutor software based on theories of learning, memory, and performance developed through cognitive science research.

• Designed and implemented intelligent cognitive tutoring software using Java and Lisp.
• Maintained and extended rule-based tutors, implemented and improved user interfaces, and facilitated communication between tutors, interfaces, and learner management systems.
• Engaged in product performance testing and tuning, troubleshooting and support, documentation, process management, installation, recruiting, and customer relations.

Investigated multi-robot communication and behavior using a software robot simulator as well as the Khepera miniature robot, both using a C-based API.

Designed and applied artificial neural networks for medical and industrial prediction and diagnosis, and incorporated them into Windows applications using C++ and Visual Basic.

Developed extensions to the Quark Publishing System software using C and C++.