Professional Experience
Personal Professional Development
May 2017 - Current
- Continuing professional development with web technologies that refresh and expand my skills.
- Continuing work on personal website projects. Project sites can be accessed on my portfolio at http://joshchambers.me/portfolio.php.
Virginia Tech
Web Design Specialist
June 2006 - May 2017
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Office of Communications and Marketing
Blacksburg, Virginia
Responsibilities and Achievements
- Worked individually and with a team on projects from inception to post-production, including user testing, prototyping, design, development, training, and support.
- Multiple website redesigns and migration projects, including Virginia Cooperative Extension websites.
- Maintained websites using multiple content systems, including Adobe Experience Manager, Wordpress, Percussion Rhythmyx, Contribute, and Expression Engine.
East Tennessee State University
Graduate Assistant
August 2004 - May 2006
Office of Information Technology
Academic Technology Support
Johnson City, Tennessee
Responsibilities and Achievements
- Conceptualized, developed, edited and managed content for the East Tennessee State University website and specialized sub sites.
- Created original web templates and fashioned web content based on requested designs using Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Front Page, MS SQL Server and ASP.
- Developed web templates for departments, as well as a news and events system and multi-tiered navigation system for college websites.
Education
East Tennessee State University
Computer Science, Masters of Science Johnson City, Tennessee
Date of attendance:
August 2004 - May 2006 (Coursework)
August 2008 - May 2009 (Capstone Project)
- Capstone project involved helping write XSLT to transform XML documents as part of a graduate project to develop a faculty evaluation system.
Syracuse University
Information Management and Technology, Bachelors of Science
Political Science, Bachelors of Science
Syracuse, New York
Date of attendance:
August 2001 - May 2005
- Graduated with Honors.
- Dean’s List in five of six semesters attended.
Skills
- HTML 5
- CSS 3
- JavaScript / jQuery
- PHP / mySQL
- Wordpress
- Responsive Design
- WCAG Web Accessibility
- Information Architecture
- Project Management
- Google Analytics
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Git / Mercurial
- Manual Code Writing
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Drupal
- SEO
- Video Editing
Awards
- CALS Employee of the Month - May 2015
- 2015 ACE Gold Award for Media Relations Campaign
- 2015 ACE Bronze Award for Websites
- 2014 University Relations Communications Excellence Award (x2)
- 2013 NAADA - 1st Place Electronic Newsletter (group award)
References
References available upon request.