Front-End Designer & Developer | 2007—2009

JPMorgan | New York, New York

  • Responsibilities included:
    • Complete visual and user interface design overhaul of JPMorgan’s EventCenter, a web application that allows JPMorgan administrators to easily create branded websites for the various conferences and events they are sponsoring, and allows invited companies and individuals to manage their participation in these conferences and events
    • XHTML and CSS front-end development

Note: JPMorgan EventCenter is viewed by invitation only. Some coded mockups can be viewed by navigating through some of the pages on my server.

Web Designer & Front-End Developer | 2008

Far Western Anthropological Research Group | Davis, California

Responsibilities included:

  • Design of completely new user interface
  • XHTML and CSS front-end development for Plone back-end

Note: Site is still in development. View designed pages here: http://manisheriar.com/clients/far-western/toc.htm

Web Designer & Front-End Developer | 2009

Shodan Imports | Fayetteville, Arkansas

Responsibilities included:

  • Design of new user interface
  • XHTML and CSS front-end development for Zen Cart back-end

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Web Designer & Front-End Developer | 2009

ISPNE (International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology) | Davis, California

Responsibilities included:

  • User interface design
  • XHTML and CSS front-end development for Plone back-end

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Web Designer & Developer | 2009

Chris Donohoe | San Francisco, California

Designed and developed ChrisDonohoe.com.

Web Designer & Front-End Developer | 2008—Present

Bay Nature | Berkeley, California

Responsibilities included:

  • User interface design
  • XHTML and CSS front-end development for Plone back-end

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Web Designer & Developer | 2008—Present

Sufism Reoriented | Walnut Creek, California

Assisted with the design and executed the development of SufismReoriented.org. Also responsible for ongoing updates and maintenance.

Web Designer & Developer | 2008

The Bottle Tree Restaurant | Ancram, New York

Designed and developed site for The Bottle Tree restaurant, which has since closed it's doors. Initial design can be viewed here: http://manisheriar.com/clients/bottle-tree/dinner.htm

Web Designer & Front-End Developer | 2009

Mission Statements | Arlington, Virginia

Responsibilities included:

  • Logo design
  • User interface design
  • XHTML and CSS template creation

View:

Web Designer & Wordpress Theme Developer | 2008

Rose Edge LLC | San Francisco, California

Completely redesigned and developed a Wordpress theme for Kristin Rose, a motivational speaker, healer, and coach.

View:

Web Developer | 2008

M3iworks | San Jose, California

  • Worked as part of M3iwork’s team under a tight deadline to create standards-compliant XHTML and CSS templates from wireframes for Mediazone’s beta launch of RugbyZone, a one-stop rugby destination with targeted broadband content
  • Used Subversion to control the flow of production

Wordpress Theme Developer | 2008

Ameritex Industries | Litchfield, Illinois

Designed and developed FDLblog.com, a Wordpress blog for Factory Direct Linens that will integrate seamlessly with their current site.

Web Designer | 2008

iCohere | Walnut Creek, California

Designed new interface mockup for iCohere.com to aid the in-house design team in coming up with some new ideas.

Design can be viewed here: http://manisheriar.com/clients/icohere/

Web Designer | 2008

Gold Star Events | Altadena, California

Designed new interface mockup ideas for GoldStar.com to aid the in-house design team in coming up with some new ideas

Front-End Designer & Developer | 2007 – 2008

More Than Salad | New York, New York

Designed and skinned MoreThanSalad.com, a vegetarian/vegan restaurant database where users can search for, rate, get maps and directions, add menus and upload pictures for restaurants worldwide.

Responsibilities included:

  • Logo Design
  • User Interface Design
  • XHTML and CSS front-end development of PHP back-end
  • Use of Subversion to control the flow of production

Web Designer & Developer | 2007 – 2008

MichaelRehl.com | Lafayette, California

Designed and Developed MichaelRehl.com for a local chiropractor.

Responsibilities included:

  • Logo Design
  • User Interface Design
  • XHTML and CSSdevelopment

Web Developer | 2007 – 2008

iMoondo | Boston, Massachusetts

  • Created standards-compliant XHTML and CSS templates from Photoshop files for iMoondo, a free community video classifieds site
  • Used Subversion to control the flow of production

Note: Website no longer active. For coded mockups examples see:

Web Developer | 2007 & 2008

GPShopper | New York, New York

Created standards-compliant XHTML and CSS templates from Photoshop files for Slifter, a local product search tool that integrates with your mobile phone.

Lead Front-End Designer & Developer | 2007

Writr.com | Williamstown, Massachusetts

  • Responsibilities included:
    • Logo Design
    • User Interface Design
    • Information Architecture
    • XHTML & CSS skinning of Ruby on Rails back-end
    • Use of Subversion to control the flow of production

Note: Development halted. See http://www.manisheriar.com/writr for coded mockup.

Web Designer & Developer | 2007

Consortium of the Arts | Walnut Creek, California

Designed and developed website for a production of Annie Potts in Love Letters.

Web Designer & Developer | 2007

Nicole Kidd Designs | Alameda, California

Web Designer & Developer | 2007

Katie Byron | Ojai, California

  • Designed interface for an online seminar entitled "Freedom From Financial Worry" by Katie Byron
  • Developed templates for all major page types

Note: Website no longer active. See http://manisheriar.com/clients/thework/ for coded mockup.

Web Designer & Developer | 2007
Our Doings | Beverly, Massachusetts

  • Designed logo, and simple user interface for OurDoings.com, a photo organizing and sharing site
  • XHTML and CSS front-end development

Lead Front-End Designer & Developer | 2007
Web Developer / XHTML & CSS Consultant | 2004—2006

Deluxe Digital Media | Berkeley, California

  • Responsibilities included:
    • User Interface Design
    • Information Architecture
    • XHTML
    • CSS
  • Clients included:
    • Ahnu Footwear
    • Backroads
    • Birkenstock
    • Bushtracks
    • Canadian Mountain Holidays
    • High Country Passage
    • Mountain Travel Sobek
    • San Francisco Zoo
    • Woodruff-Sawyer

Web Developer | 2007

Life Directory | Norfolk, Virginia

Created standards-compliant XHTML and CSS templates from Photoshop files for Jonathan Bendiner, of Life Directory.

Web Designer | 2007

JustJen.com | Torrance, California

Designed new interface mockups for JustJen.com.

Note: Project was terminated before new interface was implemented. See http://manisheriar.com/clients/justjen/coded/ for coded mockup example.

Designer | 2006— 2007

Scripps Networks: HGTV.com | Knoxville, TN

Responsible for designing the monthly and bi-monthly gardening newsletters for HGTV.com.

View the HGTV Portfolio section to see designs.

Web Designer & Developer | 2006—2009

Gay Weddings | Arlington, Virginia

  • Responsibilities included:
    • User Interface Design
    • XHTML & CSS skinning for MonsterCommerce-powered site
    • Ongoing site updates as requested

Web Developer | 2006—2009

Lowell General Hospital | Lowell, Massachusetts

Web Developer | 2006

At The Plate | Alamo, California

Created standards-compliant XHTML and CSS templates from Photoshop files for At-the-plate.com, a small retail site for salad dressing & marinade.

Web Developer / XHTML & CSS Consultant | 2005—2006

Namaste Interactive| Los Angeles, California

Web Developer / XHTML & CSS Consultant | 2005—2007

Sparkplug | Portland, Oregon

  • Responsible for redeveloping some of Sparkplug’s websites from outdated table-based layouts into CSS-driven designs
  • Responsible for xhtml and css coding of many of Sparkplug’s current projects
  • View selected examples (sites may have changes since originally coded):

Web Designer & Developer | 2006

Show The Unseen | Los Angeles, California

Designed and Developed ShowTheUnseen.com, a personal portfolio site for a photographer.

Web Designer & Developer | 2006

Auburn Dog Training | Auburn, Alabama

Designed and Developed AuburnDogTraining.net, a brochure site for a new professional dog trainer.

Note: Website no longer active. See http://manisheriar.com/clients/auburn-dog-training/ for coded mockup.

Web Developer | 2006

Contra Costa County Assessor’s Office | Martinez, California

Completely recoded the Contra Costa County Assessor’s Office website based on the existing design to comply with accessibility requirements for government websites and to work across the various platforms and browsers.

Note: site may have changed since initial coding.

Web Developer | 2005

Abstrakt Designs | Los Angeles, California

Created standards-compliant XHTML and CSS templates from Photoshop files for Abstrakt Designs, an interactive design firm.

Web Designer / XHTML & CSS Consultant | 2005

Zend Technologies, Inc. | Cupertino, California

Worked with programmers to begin to move Zend’s websites from table-based to css-based layout.

Web Developer | 2005

Malmquist Designs | Berkeley, California

Based on PDF sketches, used xhtml and css to develop the website for Malmquist Design, a design firm in Berkeley, California, which specializes in identity and branding, print, packaging, and publishing graphics.

Web Developer | 2005

Form Studios | San Francisco, California

Created standards-compliant XHTML and CSS templates from Photoshop files for Form Studios, an interactive design firm.

Web Developer / XHTML & CSS Consultant | 2005

Briarpress.org | New York, New York

Cleaned up xhtml and css files that already existed, created new standards-compliant templates from Photoshop files, and integrated a content management system into a complex site.

Note: Mid-project the design was taken to table-based layouts. Some of my efforts before that point can be seen here:

Web Designer & Developer | 2005

myMPO.com | Santa Monica, California

Designed and developed three templates for myMPO.com, which enables artists to set up their own individual digital music stores. Like in the Zen Garden, templates were delivered using CSS and images only.

View templates:

Web Developer | 2005

Percepticon | Walnut Creek, California

Used xhtml and css to code one of Percepticon’s many projects.

Web Designer & Developer | 2005

Fabkom Online | New York, New York

Hired to design and code the user interface for Fabkom’s internal applications.

Web Developer / XHTML & CSS Consultant | 2005

Sustainable Marketing | Berkeley, California

Hired by Sustainable Marketing to create standards-compliant XHTML and CSS templates for a PG&E website from Photoshop files.

Web Designer & Developer | 2005

WeddingPath | UK

Designed and developed two templates for WeddingPath.co.uk, which offers couples an easy way to create a wedding website by choosing from several templates and then uploading their own photos and content.

View Templates:

Web Developer | 2005

MACH Energy | Walnut Creek, California

Based on an initial design by Eliot Larson of OneHouse.net, developed the xhtml and css as well as contributed to the design of the MACH Energy Asset Manager online application.

Note: The above URL takes you to a visual representation of the online application only. The actual online application resides on MACH’s servers and is password protected for client use only.

Web Designer & Developer | 2005

Other Shore LLC | Washington, D.C.

Designed and developed the Digital Atelier website, which aimed to offer access to work from innovative film & video artists.

Note: Project no longer active. See http://www.manisheriar.com/clients/otherShore/ for coded mockup.

Web Designer & Developer | 2005

LiveWrong Inc. | San Jose, California

Designed and developed, which includes product ordering through PayPal.

Note: Website no longer active. See http://www.manisheriar.com/clients/livewrong/ for archive.

Web Developer | 2005

10x Media, LLC | Orem, Utah

Developed the xhtml and css layout for InsideRealty based on layered Photoshop file provided by Shane Helm of 10xMedia (website may have changed since initial coding).

Web Developer | 2005

Clark Realty | Bethesda, Maryland

Developed online application form using xhtml and css.

Web Designer & Developer | 2005

William Lenihan | International Musician

Designed and developed the personal website for William Lenihan, a highly-accomplished international composer of jazz, classical, and film music, and one of the top jazz and classical guitarists in the U.S.

Note: Site is not curently active. View archive here: http://www.manisheriar.com/clients/william-lenihan/.

Web Designer & Developer | 2005

Jeff LienKaemper | San Rafael, California

  • Designed and developed MarinToday.com, a small site to advertise local vendors
  • Designed and developed GlobalRocket.com, a small web development and hosting company

Note: Sites are no longer active. View archives here: http://www.manisheriar.com/clients/marin-today/ and http://www.manisheriar.com/clients/global-rocket/.

Web Designer & Developer / XHTML & CSS Consultant | 2004—2005

Polimetrix, Inc | Palo Alto, California

  • Reworked all the XHTML and CSS code for www.Polimetrix.com, a company developing cutting-edge techniques for opinion measurement on the internet
  • Designed and implemented a visual update of www.PollingPoint.com, a company that conducts surveys over the Internet about public affairs and other topics of general interest

Note: sites may have changed since initial coding.

Web Production | 2004—2005

PureLip | Santa Monica, California

Responsible for ongoing maintenance and updates to www.PureLip.com (no longer active), a retail skin care company, and it’s four mirror sites.

Web Designer & Developer | 2004

Hilton Memory | Los Angeles, California

Designed and developed www.hiltonmemory.com for Hermine Hilton, memory-master for the Fortune 500 companies and known around the world as America’s Memory Motivator.

Web Designer & Developer | 2004

Nomad Ecological Consulting Group | Martinez, California

  • Designed and developed www.nomadecology.com, a full service environmental consulting firm
  • Responsible for maintenance and updates

Note: site may have changed since initial coding.

Web Developer | 2004

Sounds in Silence | Carlsbad, California

  • Developed and contributed to the design of www.soundsinsilence.com
  • Responsible for regular maintenance and updates

Note: site may have changed since initial coding.

Web Developer | 2004

DesignHeroes | Santa Rosa, California

  • Responsible for developing websites based on layered Photoshop or Illustrator files provided by designer.

Web Designer & Developer | 2004

Open Source Technology Group | Fremont, California

Developed and contributed to the design of the high-profile OSTG website under a crushing deadline, with all files delivered on time, just nine days after development began.

Note: Site is no longer active. View archive here: http://manisheriar.com/clients/ostg/.

Web Designer & Developer | 2004—2005

Alamo Capital Financial Services | Walnut Creek, California

  • Designed and developed complete overhaul of Alamo Capital’s corporate website
  • Responsible for regular maintenance and updates of new site

Note: That version of the site is no longer online. See http://www.manisheriar.com/images/portfolio/alamo_capital_large.jpg for screenshot.

Web Production Assistant| 2004

Hunt, Weber Clark Associates | San Francisco, California

Responsible for content management for the firms many hotel websites.

Computer Support Specialist / Database Developer / Webmaster | 2002—2003 (full time)

Sycamore Associates LLC | Walnut Creek, California

  • Overhauled and maintained company website:
    • Redesigned and optimized site to ensure fast downloads and easy navigation
    • Updated the interface using JavaScript
    • Designed, created, scanned, and manipulated images
    • Expanded content by converting printed material to web format
    • Maintained and updated changing content
  • Redesigned graphic layout and thoroughly revised organizational file structure of all marketing materials
  • Designed, developed, and maintained several multi-functional custom database solutions for various departments to facilitate efficiency, consistency, and tracking of data
  • Defined and implemented company-wide stylistic standards to enhance quality and professionalism of all documents
  • Implemented a high standard of professional quality and uniformity by designing and creating custom MS Word templates for standard scientific and legal reports and work documents
  • Edited, formatted, and proofread outgoing reports and proposals for quality control
  • Trained and supported staff in use of their computers and software
  • Performed internal technical support and troubleshooting

Computer Support & Database Developer | 2001

CareQuest | Walnut Creek, California

  • Analyzed software needs for small company
  • Purchased, installed, and trained staff on new software
  • Organized company computers for maximum efficiency and ease of use
  • Worked with staff to increase general computer competency
  • Designed and developed custom database for tracking data, performing detailed queries, and creating mailings and flyers

Administrative Assistant / Computer Support / Webmaster | 1999—2000 (full time)

TechProse | Lafayette, California

  • Performed regular maintenance, updates, and layout changes to company website
  • Designed promotional mailings and exhibition booth for trade show
  • Created custom graphics for in-house documents
  • Worked with Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations
  • Edited and formatted large and complex documents and contractor resumes
  • Provided general office support, including trouble shooting computer problems
  • Answered phones, greeted clients, and operated fax during receptionist’s lunch hour

Program Tester | 1999

Kaplan Consulting Group | Walnut Creek, California

  • Designed, managed, and executed a testing strategy, including Y2K compliance, for a large and elaborate set of relational MS Access databases

Tutor | 1998—1999

Private Contracting | Walnut Creek & Lafayette, California

  • Tutored Junior High and High School students in math, English, history, and science

Art, After Care, & Assistant Teacher | 1996—1999 (full time)

Meher Schools | Lafayette, California

  • Planned and taught art lessons to children K-2
  • Collaborated with director to enrich and restructure after care program
  • Provided support and substituted for head teachers
  • Regularly taught math lessons in fourth and fifth grades

Exhibiting Artist | 1990—1996

Washington, D.C. and San Francisco Bay Areas

  • Exhibited and sold own artwork at private galleries and restaurants