Frank Farm

Résumé of Frank Farm

Summary

32-year multidisciplinary background of web site design and programming, information architecture, database programming, technical writing and editing, systems administration, technical support, and computer science.

Key Strengths

Fast: I'm extremely fast at hand-coding XHTML and related scripting.
Organized: I intuitively create logical information architectures.
Independent: I don't need to rely on others to solve most problems.
Communicative: I can communicate well in speech, writing, and print.

Key Differentiators

Web Standards: I hand-code using web standards.
(Why are web standards important?)
Validation: I hand-code XHTML and CSS that validates.
(Why XHTML?, Why CSS?)
Accessibility: I make web sites accessible to people with disabilities and a wide range of devices.
(Why is accessibility important?)
Jack-of-all-trades: My knowledge transcends traditional role boundaries. Don't have the budget to hire an information architect, a graphic designer, a markup specialist, and a database engineer? I don't just perform all those roles; I excel at them.

Work Experience

Webmaster and Managing Editor

Lodestar Quarterly
10-11-2001 to Present (23.2 years)

Art Director, Graphic Designer, Site Architect, Web Programmer, Database Engineer. Once all the content was gathered, coding this site took about 13 days.

Webmaster & Programmer Analyst

University of California, San Francisco
07-16-2001 to Present (23.4 years)

Technical lead, writer, editor, and primary coder for the redesign of the School of Pharmacy web site at pharmacy.ucsf.edu, March 2002. The redesign had about 225 pages and took 4.5 months. I hand-coded more than 90% of the pages. Within one year, the site grew to over twice this size.
Webmaster, database programmer/analyst, and systems administrator for the School of Pharmacy.
Provided Windows NT 4.0, 2000, & XP desktop support and Windows NT 4.0 & 2003 server administration for a small network of 12 workstations.

Hiatus & Freelance Work

03-29-2000 to 07-15-2001

Took time off to: travel in Europe and California; relocate from Seattle to San Francisco; set up a web server at home; learn PHP, MySQL, XHTML, VB, ASP, XML; and develop some small web sites.

Web Technologist & Programmer Analyst

Adobe Systems, Inc.
05-01-1996 to 03-28-2000 (3.9 years)

Co-designed and co-programmed Adobe's web community forums, adobeforums.com, using Web Crossing software by Lundeen, January 2000.
Technical lead for redesign of the Support section of the adobe.com web site, October 1999. This redesign had several thousand pages but took only 1.5 months. Special recognition award from Adobe Senior Vice President Jim Stephens.
Designed, programmed, maintained, and published 3 web databases using Lotus Notes. Special recognition award from Adobe Customer Support Web/Online Services Manager Tom McIntire.
Designed and managed web pages representing the core of the Adobe Support subsite using HTML, CSS, and SSI.
Wrote Bourne shell and Perl scripts and performed basic server administration in a Sun Solaris environment.
Restructured and managed the Adobe downloads library, which involved packaging and uploading files, writing and editing technical content, and programming and populating a web database of metadata.

Technical Support Specialist

Adobe Systems, Inc. & Aldus Corporation
02-15-1993 to 04-30-1996 (3.2 years)

Provided technical support for Adobe Photoshop, PageMaker, Illustrator, and four other Adobe products on Macintosh and Windows on the phone, by letter, and on bulletin board service and web forums.
Wrote and edited over 200 technical documents for the Aldus and Adobe customer support knowledgebases using a custom application in Lotus Notes.
Created and maintained databases of important support information.

C++ Technical Support Engineer

Borland International
01-06-1992 to 12-09-1992 (0.9 years)

Provided technical support on the phone and by letter covering eight product lines in the Borland C++ language group.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Computer and Information Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Crown College, 1994. College Honors.

Selected Training and Events

An Event Apart; December 2012; San Francisco, California
DrupalCon Denver 2012
DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
Drupal Camp LA 2009; Irvine, California
An Event Apart; August 2008; San Francisco, California
California Web Accessibility Conference; April 2006; San Francisco, California
Web Sites That Work, Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal of User Interface Engineering
Principles of Project Management, Steve Giesen, The Versatile Company

Technology Experience

Platforms	Apple Mac OS; Microsoft Windows 3.1x, 95, 98, NT 3.51, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, and MS-DOS; Linux; Solaris UNIX, OpenBSD.
Web Servers	Apache, Netscape Enterprise 2.5, Web Crossing 3.0.
Web Design	Hand-coded HTML, XHTML, CSS, SSI. Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Capture, GoLive, Illustrator, ImageReady, Photoshop. Bare Bones BBEdit. Macromedia FreeHand. Microsoft FrontPage.
Programming	UNIX Bourne shell scripting, PHP, Perl, C++, Visual Basic, Active Server Pages.
Database	Lotus Notes. Microsoft Access. MySQL.
Print Production	Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator, ImageReady, InDesign, PageMaker, Photoshop, PostScript, Streamline, Type Manager. Macromedia FreeHand. scanning, image editing, typography. QuarkXPress.
Software Delivery	InstallShield, CD-ROM production, InstallerVise, PKZip, WinZip Self-Extractor, WS_FTP Pro, Aladdin Systems StuffIt, Dartmouth Fetch, compress, ftp, gzip, tar.
Miscellaneous	Adobe Acrobat Capture. Lotus cc:Mail. Macromedia Fontographer. Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Outlook Express, Word. Qualcomm Eudora Pro. Visio. backup and restore operations, GIF animation, icon editing, digital audio editing, computer hardware, lynx.

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