Paul Billett

paulbillett@gmail.com

Lancaster, PA

A web designer, front end developer and usability specialist with six years of experience using creative tools like Photoshop and Illustrator while building full stack web applications with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and PHP. Examples of work and a portfolio of accomplishments can be found on paulbillett.com.

Experience

Technology Project Specialist at Manheim Auto Auction 2008 to 2011

• Collaborated with teammates, users and management to bring ideas from rough sketches into fully functional web applications by creating intuitive user interfaces by merging MySQL, JSON and ODBC data sources.
• Supported aging web applications by designing modern responsive front ends and developing standards compliant, semantically sound, reliable HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP while maintaining up time and improving usability.
• Guided new concepts through proposal, wireframe layout, graphic design, development and deployment.
• Designed and coded cross-client email for marketing campaigns.
• Created flexible themed templates with image, icon and javascript resources so the development team could quickly launch web apps with a consistent style and intuitive feel.
• Designed and built custom HTML5 and JavaScript interactive interfaces for touch devices including iPads, iPhones and older platforms.

Co-Founder and Web Guy+ for Hoodaman Creative 2009 and 2010

• Worked with a small team, using the Adobe Creative Suite, to design sites for customers in the restaurant franchise and food industries.
• Created a template with HTML and CSS resources for restaurant web design allowing clients who could not afford a custom build to have a unique and dynamic site.
• Designed and implemented a custom WordPress theme for non profit client.

Developer, Audio Engineer and Co-Founder of MyBeeps.com 2008 and 2009

• Collaborated with business partners to create the concept of a Beep.
• Designed marketing materials including flyers, stickers and television commercials to promote the brand and its clients.
• Recorded local celebrities and edited thousands of audio clips to create files that could later be seamlessly concatenated on demand.
• Designed and Co-Developed the website to lead customers through the process of buying a personalized Beep and applying it to their voicemail system.

IT Analyst at Manheim Auto Auction 2002 to 2008

• Worked in small team to maintain the communication infrastructure and audio video systems for the worlds largest auto auction while providing technical support for more than a thousand users.
• Lead yearly PC installation teams to replace hundreds of machines with minimal downtime and zero data loss.
• Designed the interface for a simple online phone directory and grew it through dozens of iterations to become a communications platform used by hundreds of coworkers daily.
• Developed an intuitive inventory tracking system built with PHP on MySQL databases making it quick and easy for the department to keep track of technology resources.

Skills

Web Technologies, Platforms and APIs

HTML, XHTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, JSON, PHP, MySQL, ODBC, Git, .htaccess, RFID, Apache, IIS, FTP, Wordpress, PayPal, Twitter, Tumblr, Typekit

Software

Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver), Pixelmator, Coda, Notepad++, BBEdit, iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Audacity, Garageband, Cubase, iMovie, Sony Vegas