Web professional with an ability to move across functional areas of website production.
Hands on experience in most functional areas of website production.
---Ruby on rails projects - design to production (self-taught)
---front-end (html, css, javascript/jquery),
---User experience (user research, wireframes and sitemap)
---Full lifecycle interactive project management
--- Operations analyst
---Video editing, video content management and department workflows
---Account management, content contract delivery,
---CMS implementations and management
---Multimedia creation with flash,after-effects, photoshop, illustrator
---Graphic design trained
Junior Ruby on Rails Developer @ From April 2015 to Present (7 months) Web Developer, User Experience Design, Project Management @ Web development, experience designer, content management, brainstorming, web design and multimedia related projects. From February 2012 to Present (3 years 9 months) Senior Internet Communications Coordinator - Contract @ Account Manager and web developer for internal and external clients on customer facing websites. Decreased new hire on-boarding costs by creating online HR forms using HTML/CSS/Javascript/jQuery. From October 2012 to December 2012 (3 months) PhiladelphiaInteractive Developer/Designer- Contract @ Built out multiple foreign-language educational areas (Arabic, Polish, with some Spanish, French, and Italian) using HTML/CSS/Javascript. Tested, chose and implemented site-wide javascript audio solution. From January 2012 to July 2012 (7 months) PhiladelphiaUser Experience Designer - Contract @ Worked with HR, IT and Marketing to create user experiences (prototypes, wireframes, site maps) for newly implemented Radian sharePoint Intranet portal and created multimedia content to support HR-specific initiatives to employees. From October 2009 to January 2010 (4 months) Greater Philadelphia AreaPortfolio Manager @ Configured, trained and on-boarded employees on Daptiv PPM, wrote in-house Daptiv PPM technical training manual. From May 2009 to October 2009 (6 months) PhiladelphiaManager, Project Management @ Managed interactive website projects for pharmaceutical companies. From November 2007 to May 2008 (7 months) Operations Analyst / Project Manager @ Produced weekly CIM Executive Governance Board for project status decisions. Implemented, Configured, trained and internally on-boarded Daptiv project portfolio management software in newly formed operations team mandated to create interdepartmental PMI processes & Agile/scrum based workflows. From May 2006 to November 2007 (1 year 7 months) Photographer - Alternative sports @ Primarily X-Game competition photos from 1997 - 2006. From July 1997 to August 2007 (10 years 2 months) Video Specialist @ First and only full-time employee in department for three years. Created internal production workflow and wrote CIM video QA submission guide to successfully increase submission acceptance rates to handle video content submissions with over 40 content partners and 45,000 submissions. Increased departmental efficiency 50% by automating major partner content submissions with third party vendor. From October 2003 to 2006 (3 years) Philadelphia, PAWeb Producer - Contract @ Managed agile multimedia post-production scrums for two ivy league online courses: Mass Media and Calculus. Created internal asset tracking systems (flash, video, audio, text & HTML) to simplify integration status tracking. Wrote HTML code. From May 2001 to March 2002 (11 months) NYC, NYGraphic Design Intern @ Designed and animated Flash game interfaces, flash banners and related web media. From May 2000 to September 2000 (5 months) PhiladelphiaProfessional Athlete - Vert ramp @ • Rollerblade Competition Team Skater – Vert Ramp 1996.
• X-Games Participant 1996.
• ASA and NISS competitions
• Traveling shows From 1995 to December 1999 (4 years) Nationwide, primarily based in California
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic Design and Digital Media @ Temple University From 1998 to 2003 Council Rock HS Dana Giordano is skilled in: Ruby, ruby on rails, HTML, CSS, User Interface Design, Usability, Software Development, Git, Content Management, User Experience, Interaction Design, jQuery, Graphic Design, User-centered Design, MySQL, JavaScript, Web Project Management, Video Editing, Content Strategy, Wireframes, Certified Scrum Master..., Information Architecture, Web Development, Flash, Web Design, Agile Methodologies, Web Applications, Ruby on Rails