William M. Mason

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SKILLS:

General skills: professional; extremely hard working; excellent at multi-tasking; able to complete 99% of work before deadlines; highly proficient problem-solver and troubleshooter; team player; superb writing, editing and proofreading skills; fast learner; multi-talented and highly adaptable
Web and coding skills: HomeSite, Dreamweaver, and others; HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.0, XML, CSS, JavaScript
Graphic skills: Adobe Photoshop
System skills: Windows NT, Unix, Linux, Macintosh, Apache; QA tester/developer; hardware/software technical support for variety of products via telephone and E-mail
Writing skills: book author; newsletter producer, editor and writer; departmental procedures; technical manuals; training materials and manuals; web encyclopedia; various web content author; report writer; testcase writer; over 12 years writing experience in a variety of mediums.
Office skills: MS Office (includes Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Powerpoint), MS Project; WordPerfect, ACT, FileMaker, and more; type at 99 wpm with 98%; 10-key at 98% accuracy; accounting; data entry; phones; filing; shipping

EXPERIENCE:

CollegeNET, Portland OR (2003-present) -- Lead Web Developer

creates and edits web-based college application forms
uses XML-based applications written with in-house XML tool (Snapp)
image editing with Adobe Photoshop
creates/edits flat HTML/CSS application instruction pages

Mozilla, Mountain View CA (2002-2005) - QA tester/bug writer

triaged bugs filed on the Mozilla product
replicated/confirmed bugs reported
wrote testcases for engineers to use in fixing reported bugs

Freelance (2000-present) - Content Writer/Web Coder

content rewrites, site design/coding
owns/administrates own business specializing in creating fully accessible web sites for those with disabilities
compatibility with all browsers/platforms, full HTML-compliance, and minimum turnaround time
converts sites to XHTML/CSS, cleans up invalid code, improves search engine results
writes training documentation for site maintenance/updates
2002 3rd place winner web development team member in the Accessibility Internet Rally of California

Oxygen Media, San Francisco CA (1999-2001) - HTML and Documentation Guru

Coding duties:

spearheaded accessibility coding
coded programs for the award-winning ThriveOnline site (closed); samples available upon request
developed within Interwoven/Teamsite environment
implemented 2 migrations from ISP to ISP/no content management system to Interwoven system; included recoding (HTML/CGI), QA testing; documenting results
primary JavaScript coder
multiple platform environment (NT, UNIX, Mac)

Writing duties:

training documentation/intensive tutorials for in-house staff on coding/updating per company standards; samples available upon request
wrote materials and trained technical and non-technical staff in CSS and Teamsite template use

Other duties:

created Teamsite templates with accompanying documentation and tutorials
implemented company/site CSS standards with accompanying tutorial documentation
image editing

EDUCATION:

Neumann College, Aston PA (1984-1988)

B.S. in Business Administration with Concentration in Computer and Information Management. Achieved 3.6 GPA out of a possible 4.0. Listed six times on Neumann College Dean's List and three times in The National Dean's List.

ASSOCIATIONS:

W3C (2007-)

Invited expert on the HTML Working Group.

glasshaus (2002-2003)

Co-author, The Web Professional's Handbook. Wrote the chapter on Cascading Style Sheets.

Evolt.org (2000-2002)

Contributed several articles to the evolt.org web developer site.

Michael Wolff & Company Inc., New York NY (1995)

Contributing Writer. Composed several items for the book Net Trek.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING:

Introduction to C, Clark College (2004)
How To Build Accessible Web Sites, Phill Jenkins (IBM, W3C) (2002)
Local Area Networks Implementation, Applied Network Solutions (1996)
Quality Education System, Philip Crosby (1992)

REFERENCES:

former Oxygen Media co-worker Shifra Raffel
Chairman/CEO of Oxygen Media Geraldine Laybourne
former ThriveOnline vice-president Wendy Marx
SPAWNERS Project Coordinator Martha Berthelsen

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