Resume
My Resume
Graham Russ
E-Commerce Web Developer
- e: gruss@grahamruss.com
- w: grahamruss.com
- p: (910) 550-4201
Professional Profile
Career-minded and self-motivated team player offering 11 years of progressive IT experience with the last five years as a Master Ecommerce Manager with a leading wholesaler of telecommunication products. Seven years of web development and web design experience. Strong design sense with ability to convert verbal directions into sophisticated designs. Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure and keep up with rapidly changing technology. Results-oriented web designer and web developer with a high level of integrity, strong work ethic, high sense of responsibility, and ability to respond well to leadership while serving as a dedicated and highly respected team member.
- Strengths in communication, organization, implementation, managing, planning, and controls.
- Creative advisor in meetings to help determine what is needed and present concepts and final design.
- Understanding of web file server structure and search engine marketing.
- Share best practices with the goal of improving and enhancing web-based projects.
- Strong familiarity with web browser capabilities and differences across different operating systems.
- Able to work on multiple projects concurrently, while maintaining highest possible quality.
- Knowledge of Internet best practices, particularly around security, usability, and accessibility.
- Able to communicate complex technical details to non-technical audience.
- Skilled in applying a logical, common sense approach to seeking practical solutions.
- Proficient in creation, design, and production of a single project from conception through production.
- Offering ability to conceptualize and create original layouts of web pages, modify existing web page elements, and offer support to online advertising team.
Work Experience
Jun 2010 - Jan 2011
E - Commerce Web Developer
Global Test Supply, Full-Time
Wilmington, North Carolina
- Developer and graphic designer of a e commerce website that sells test and measurement equipment.
- Produced new ColdFusion code to maintain existing website.
- Updating legacy ColdFusion code to newest best-practices, optimized for speed, high-availability and scalability.
- Migrated one dedicated server to two new dedicated servers. One server runs ColdFusion and the other server runs Microsoft SQL Server database and Smarter Mail.
- Compressed website files with gzip for faster downloading of web pages.
- Optimizing website with Google Firefox Firebug Page Speed add-on for better indexing of website.
- Moved over 50,000 product images to the Amazon S3 Cloud.
Jan 2009 - Jun 2010
FreeLance Web Developer
Self Employeed, Full-Time
Wilmington, North Carolina
- Designed and developed websites for clients.
- Graphic art was designed with Adobe Fireworks, and Photoshop.
- Using ColdFusion 9 Google Maps tag in websites.
- Built affiliate marketing niche websites by using WordPress.
- Setup and administrate dedicated web hosting server.
- Setup credit card processing system on eBook website.
- Developed with ColdFusion, a real estate gallery for a home building company.
- Designed motion graphics in flash.
May 2004 - jan 2009
E-Commerce Manager
SoTel Systems, Full-Time
Lancaster, South Carolina
- Wrote, designed, and produced code in ColdFusion 7, and 8.
- Developed database of online stores with MS Sequel Server, and MySQL.
- Designed web page layout and added graphics to enhance look of pages by using Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop.
- Developed websites in Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash.
- Integrated content provided by other departments such as sales, shipping, marketing, and business development into marketing of the websites.
- Managed, trained, developed, and motivated technical staff. Achieved significant improvements in their productivity in the Google Adwords, Links Manager, and Yahoo Keywords.
- Incorporated content management system into company’s website allowing non-technical personnel to contribute to the site.
- Tracked traffic through website with Google Analytics, and advised management of the results.
- Submitted site to search engines and added keywords to all pages to improve placement in organic search results.
- Developed applications with Adobe Flex Builder.
- Designed and developed company’s first Ecommerce website that grossed $890,000 in 2004. Implemented development strategies to secure organic top 10 ranking on all search engines.
Education
Clark University
Master E-Commerce Web Developer � 3.9 GPA
- Master Certificate in Ecommerce Development
- Certificate in Ecommerce Development with ColdFusion
- Certificate in Web Design
- Certificate in Web Development
