Résumé
Amanda Woods
Email: awoods@8thdragon.com

Qualification Summary
• Currently employed as professional website designer / developer for Lulu Enterprises.

• Member of the HTML Writer's Guild.

• 9+ years experience developing attractive, accessible, and interoperable websites. Hand-codes XHTML and CSS to strict W3C compliance. Familiar with Section 508 accessibility standards, blogging and RSS feeds, and other web standards and trends. Strives to design sites to clients' exact specifications. Believes strongly in creating web experiences both enjoyable and accessible to all users.

• Has installed and modified dozens of Javascript and PHP scripts. Eager to gain more experience with both languages. Experience with MySQL. Experience in creating basic information architecture for large amounts of data.

• Lifelong artist and writer. 5+ years experience with Photoshop 5-7 and Paint Shop Pro 4-7. Comfortable with just about any raster-based image editing program. Familiarity with Illustrator, Freehand and other vector-based illustration programs.

• Types 85wpm with 90% accuracy. Lifelong computer user. Extremely familiar and comfortable with any Windows environment, the Internet, and basic office suite software.

• Wide variety of interests and hobbies. Eager to work in a non-traditional office environment. Motivated, creative thinker who seeks to find practical and unique short and long-term solutions to problems. Takes inspiration and experience from all aspects of life and incorporates it into both personal and professional projects.

• Clear and concise communicator, strives to be professional, level-headed and courteous at all times.

Experience
2006
Created graphical layout and coded to 508 web accessibility standards website for the Combined Educational Services of New England ® ( In progress )

Created graphical layout, coded, and managed blog and website for small independent publisher DragonWood Books

Created personal online resume, portfolio for freelance web design services, 8th Dragon Productions

2005
Hand-drew, wrote, designed, coded, and consistently updated 120+ page online graphic novel and its website for over a year, Worldweave

1997-2004
Created numerous personal sites, using a variety of design elements and styles, for creative projects, art galleries, role-playing games, and other interests.

Education
Entirely self-taught in art, writing, and all aspects of website development and coding. Enrolled in Patrick Henry Community College for the Spring 05 semester, and took Technical Writing, Human Relations, and Logical Thinking courses. Maintained a 4.0 average. Home-schooled, largely self-taught and motivated, holds GED. Enthusiastic about learning, willing to adapt and aquire any new skills required for the job.

References
References available on request.