Objective:
Seeking a position as a Web Developer in a development team which can use my management, Java programming, content and web development experience.

Summary of Qualifications

• Ability to combine management and technology skills
• Project and resource management
• Web site development
• Java programming: five months formal instruction, one year informal application
• Proposal writing and marketing
• Excellent analytical and logical skills
• Strong interpersonal skills; a team player
• International Experience: 5 years working in Russian Federation

Technical Skills

• Internet and Web Technologies: ASP, ColdFusion, CSS, DreamWeaver, Fireworks, FrontPage 2000, FTP, HTML, JavaScript, Photoshop, SQL, VBScript, and Visual InterDev


• Programming Language: Java2, studying for Sun Certification
  Database: Access


• Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT


• Software Applications: MS Office Suite, Visio

Work Experience
Content and Web Developer, Digital Division, Inc., Alexandria, VA, 2000-present.

• Manage individual web development projects, meet with clients, determine project needs, schedule work, and evaluate project progress.


• Code, test, debug web sites for clients. Troubleshoot coding problems in HTML and ColdFusion sites. Majority of work uses Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and ColdFusion.


• Wrote and presented grant proposal on behalf of the company.

Systems Analyst, Cherokee Information Services, Inc., Alexandria, VA, 1999-2000. On-site contractor working for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

• Y2K efforts: played a key role in DTRA's Y2K Outreach Program to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
  - Coordinated procurements of emergency response equipment, prepared contracts for USG approval, and worked closely with the contractors to ensure timely delivery of materials.
  - Medal for Outstanding Y2K Service, The President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, and Certificate of Appreciation, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, for support of Y2K preparedness efforts, 2000.
• Integrated and tested LAN/WAN hardware prior to shipment to Russian Federation.


• Worked with database designer to customize database to track inventory and shipments.

Program Officer, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Technical Assistance, Washington, DC, 1997-1999.

• Managed Treasury's technical assistance program in five countries. Worked closely with representatives of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, the State Department, and USAID in the development and implementation of Treasury's technical assistance response to the Indonesian financial crisis.
  - Certificate of Award, U.S. Department of the Treasury, for establishing a technical assistance program in Indonesia, 1998.
  
• Served as backup LAN administrator and tech support, troubleshooting, interacting with tech support and carrying out necessary software edits to keep my coworkers' computers operating.

Project Manager, The U.S. Feed Grains Council, Moscow, Russia, 1995-1997.

• Managed and developed project activities via the Russian Grain Market Development and Agribusiness Management project, a subgrant from USAID.
  
• Identified office Information Systems requirements, purchased, and installed/configured computers. Installed software and worked with tech support, in Russian, to troubleshoot office systems.

Education and Training
Web Development and Internet Technologies Certificate, Train to Technology Program,
George Mason University, Arlington, VA, January 2001 - Present.

• Intensive computer lab training (256 hours) which covers Information Architecture, web site development, browser and platform issues, client and server side development, scripting languages, Web objects and relational databases, and Web site management issues.
  
• Passed the required entrance examination, the International Programming Aptitude Test, with 96%.

Java Programming, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA, Spring 2001.

• Design applets and Java applications that apply object oriented principles covered in class.
  
• Semester long project developing Java applet which applies skills and experiments with advanced concepts.

A.A.S., Applications Development, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA, expected 2002. Areas of study include: Computer programming theory and design, Java programming, Web development, writing for the World Wide Web, LAN/WAN design and management, and database construction and management. 4.0 GPA

Post Graduate Work in Environmental Science and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Master of Arts, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude), The George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Other Information

• "Russian Agriculture: A USAID/USDA Assessment of Prospects for Revitalizing Agriculture Through Regional Investment," 1997.
  
• USAID Health Profiles for the former Soviet Republics of Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, ISTI/CIHI, 1992.
  
• Languages: Fluent Russian