Employment

2003 -  2003

I spent 6 months traveling through Western Europe and parts of Eastern Europe, increasing my cultural and global awareness and developing a better understanding of the global community.

Countries visited include : France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic and Greece.

2001 -  2003
Senior E-commerce Web Developer

Assisted E-commerce Director with documentation, project life cycle implementation and meeting facilitation.

Wrote up project meeting notes and distributed then along with list of deliverables to fellow team members.

Assisted in creating an effective team atmosphere between individuals from varied backgrounds.

Worked as part of a small team responsible for the design, development and daily maintenance of www.vitaminshoppe.com.

Provided 24x7 technical support following website or server failures, backend connectivity failure, etc.

Supported applications, : ATG Dynamo 4.5 iPlanet, WebMethods, Verity and Oracle, running on Solaris.

Developed, presented new design solutions to the Business Unit, in an effort to stay ahead of industry trends.

Gathered requirements from the Business Unit and researched our competitors.

Designed and created mockups for new pages and components using Adobe Photoshop 6.0.

Used Adobe Image Ready to optimize images used on the website.

Wrote all design and technical specifications and presented to the Business Unit for approval.

Coded new enhancements to customize the Application, Personalization and Commerce Servers.

Designed, created and modified new and existing tables, wrote stored procedures and triggers for Oracle8i database.

Performed Analysis of industry standards and trends relating to Search Engine Optimization, Browsing Functionality and User Interface and presented to Business Unit.

2000 -  2001
Consultant

Programming worked on development team for Bizzed.com using Java, JavaScript, jhtml and ATG Dynamo 4.5. Developed a prototype for an online pharmacy using BEA WebLogic.

Web Design responsible for creating the look and feel of the my. bizzed.com web portal. Used Photoshop 6 ImageReady and HTML to create several mockup versions of the website and its components. Created additional mockups and graphics for use on internal company website and for upcoming project proposals.

Business Analysis prepared Power Point presentations and wrote competitive analysis on Internet Web portals for Bizzed.com. Presented to clients, gathered additional feedback and requirements and produced final proposal for Web Portal project.

Database wrote SQL scripts and stored procedures for Bizzed.com.

KEY INTERNSHIPS

Merrill Lynch New York City, NY Summer term 1999 Enterprise Technology Systems Internship a prestigious internship program developed to give selected interns greater responsibility, an opportunity to impact the company through research and innovative thinking and job opportunities upon graduation.

Worked with Global Database Team Managers to develop, implement internal group intranet

Taught a series of HTML classes to the Database Administrators on my team, so they could publish their documentation on the intranet.

Presented new ideas to executive level management on how online trading and e-commerce would have an impact on the future of Merrill Lynch, a competitive analysis of the current leaders in online trading at that time.

IBM Corporation Research Triangle Park, NC Summer term 1997

International Software Development Team Intern

Worked on international team testing software for new release of personal PCs in English, German and 5 other foreign languages.

Conducted meetings entirely in Spanish with partner team from Guadalajara Office.

34 Howard St.3rd Floor New York, NY 10013

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Alumni : Delta Gamma Sorority

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Project Management for IS/IT Professionals

Decker Communications Training Mt.Laurel, NJ

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Spanish Advanced verbal and written skills.

2004 -  Present
Jazz Dance Instructor and Choreographer New Jersey

Education

Miscellaneous

Independent National Competition Color Guard for Young Adults

Traveling, karate, skiing, dancing, rollerblading, reading, foreign languages, basketball, skydiving and extreme sports.

34 Howard St.3rd Floor New York, NY 10013

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