Web Developer – Xelus, Inc.
December 2000 to November 2001
Provided web development support for the Marketing and IT deparments. (Reported to the Manager of Internet Communications.) (Note: Xelus, Inc. has since been dissolved.)
- Developed and documented new presentation layer architecture for the Xelus, Inc. corporate website (formerly at http://www.xelus.com/). Primary design goals were ease of maintenance by non-technical personnel, and ability to easily alter site-wide look and feel. Both were achieved through careful segregation of content, presentation code, and information architecture. Development required extensive work in ASP, using VBScript and a few third-party components, as well as client-side code for forms validation and browser compatibility detection. (Documentation and code samples available.)
- Worked with the Manager of Internet Communications and sales and marketing support personnel to create site functionality supporting sales and marketing initiatives.
- Developed a web-based employee directory using Microsoft's ADSI to access an LDAP directory of employee data, for internal use at Xelus, Inc. (Subsequently ported to access an Exchange 5.5 directory.
- Neared completion on a web- and email-based forms workflow management system for internal use at Xelus, Inc, using ASP with VBScript, and client-side JavaScript for form validation/control and page redirection.