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RESUME OF QUALIFICATIONS
SUZANNE L. NIKOLAISEN
801.250.8090 Home
801.631.5576 Cell phone
801.231.6007 Msg #
nikolaisen@yahoo.com
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To obtain long term, employment with a company that maintains high standards
for job performance and quality. I want to work in a dynamic atmosphere where
technical education is encouraged and there is a potential for career growth.
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| WORK EXPERIENCE:
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2001 Acclaim Entertainment Salt Lake
City, Utah
Web Designer/Consulting (February - present)
Working with IS Manager to redesign Intranet. Architecture, graphic design, navigation system and quality assurance. HTML, JavaScript, SSI, CSS, editing Perl and ASP script HTML to fit new
format. Working with forms. Editing HTML in CodeWright and FontPage2000 (including the HTML
view).
Freelance Web design work during this time.
www.Mostlytrains.com, www.repeatables.com
(accessibility redesign), www.movinTrailers.com,
www.ondre.org
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2001 CDI (Contract work at Intel)
Riverton, Utah
Web Designer
Worked with web team to build department
intranet; defined CSS, SSI's, and successfully fine tuned the look and feel of the site.
Tested and kept the development and staging servers in synch with the production server.
Created graphics for the intranet; buttons, headers, etc. ASP, CSJS editing (maintenance not writing script).
Created Demo sites for use with internal projects. Site layout, architecture
and graphics (also researched graphics).
Responsible for front end design and
graphics while working on some of the Intranet application
tools, worked with SQL DBA. Participated in application prototype research,
and idea layout, brainstorming sessions.
Research: Web Accessibility, Voice synthesizer browsers,
WAP and WML: http://www.tagtag.com/story (Note:
must browse WAP site with WAP device or emulator like WAPJAG.)
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2000 Digital Signature Trust Salt Lake
City, Utah
Web Designer Analyst
Responsible for multiple site maintenance, changes, graphic updates, navigation. Responsible for some project specific graphics, project specific site structure, navigation. Responsible for working with QA to keep sites clean of broken links.
Intranet architecture, graphic design, navigation.
Helped maintain legacy web: www.abaecom.com
Helped build, and maintain: www.acesaccess.com
Helped maintain: www.digsigtrust.com
HTML, Unix, VI, Secure CRT,
Photodraw2000, Paintshop Pro, CSJS
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1999 Applied Research Technologies Salt Lake
City, Utah
Web Designer
Responsible for design and maintenance of assigned client portals. Front end application development.
HTML, Front Page 2000, Cute FTP,
Unix.
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1997-1999 Baker Process Salt Lake City, Utah
Information Specialist
Responsible for designing, programming, and implementing department Intranet.
This included 10 international sites. Developed invoice tracking tool in conjunction
with moving paper system of tracking incoming jobs to the Intranet. Developed computer
FAQ's and a PDF document library. Also administered a Personal Web Server (PWS), including
IIS. Moved job tracking system to Intranet (from paper system).
Designed database and front end to track incoming jobs (ASP pending when I left). Set ODBC and DSN connections to enable
connectivity to Access databases.
Editor in Chief of the SLC site newsletter team - spring of
1999. Worked in conjunction
with senior level DBA on department electronic library. Jr. level database design and
integration with Intranet using ASP. Indexing and publishing documents increasing information
shared within department. Computer/network support - source of information for department before
they would call the help desk.
Coded in HTML and used Front Page, also used Allaire's Homesite as a demo. Developed Java hover class buttons,
and Java banners. Used Photodraw 2000 and PaintShop Pro to develop web art. Created forms that e-mailed results and pulled up confirmation
of the form information being submitted. Developed conference room request form,
travel tracking form, and FAQ new question request form.
Freelance Web design work during this time: American Translators
Group, and Defining
Solutions. URLs available on my portfolio page
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| EDUCATION:
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1997 On-site training Baker Process
MS Front Page
1999 Productivity Point
MS Access - Beginning and Advanced
1990-1991 Phillips Junior College Salt Lake City, Utah
Associate of Science
Certificate of Paralegal
1984-1987 Brighton High School Salt Lake City, UT
Graduate
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| JOB SKILLS:
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Web: HTML, CSS, Server Side
Includes, Cross browser design, Internet, extranet and Intranet site architecture and
design, JavaScript, Visual InterDev, MS Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Jaws,
Accessibility,
Frames pages, Unix, VI, Pico, Secure CRT, Linkbot, WAP, Front
Page 2000, CodeWright, DreamWeaver, Homesite, WS FTP, Cute FTP - Jr
Scripting skills: CGI/Perl, ASP, WML
Design: MS PhotoDraw 2000, Photo Shop (Adobe), PDF-Writer (Adobe), Paint Shop Pro,
Flash 5, MS Publisher, Fireworks
General: CYMA, CPR/First Aid, DOS, Inventory, Legal Research and Writing, Lotus 123 for Windows, MAS90, MS Access, MS Exchange, MS Excel, MS Office 97, MS Project, MS Power Point, MS Publisher, MS Word, Paper Port, Paralegal (Certificate, Proofreading, Public Relations, Scanning/Imaging, Technical
editing, Typing 75 WPM, Westlaw Certified, Win 95, Win 98, Win NT, WP 5.1 DOS, WP 6.1 for Windows, Writing Fiction/Non-Fiction
Writing Samples: Click
here for some general writing samples. Here are links to
technical articles that I have written: Spam - It's Not Just for Lunch Anymore,
An Active Web is a Happy Web -- Using ASP Technology,
Tapping the Power of your Intranet
Web Design Portfolio: Click
here to review my portfolio
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References available upon request.
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