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John F. O'Melia
www.johnomelia.com
Technical Skills | Full-time Experience | Freelance/Consulting Experience | Previous Career Experience | Education
CAREER SUMMARY
  • Full time experience on web design teams
  • Independent freelance experience creating entire web sites
  • 19 years experience in currency trading, including trading room and team management
TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • Core Skills: Web design, Graphic design and manipulation, HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Homesite, Photoshop/ImageReady, Dreamweaver Ultradev
  • Working Knowledge: Flash, Adobe Illustrator, javascript, PHP, JSP, ASP, XML, MySQL
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FULL-TIME EXPERIENCE

Tangoe, inc. New Haven, CT 1/2003-present
Business Analyst
Analyze business requirements, create specifications and designs for telecommunications expense management software (CMP)
Responsibilities include:

  • Work with clients to determine client requirements and incorporate them into CMP design.
  • Design screenshots of application interfaces using Photoshop, Dreamweaver.
  • Write technical specification for the developers
  • Work with developers to ensure proper back-end coding of the components
  • Assist developers in coding
  • Perform QA upon completion to track bugs and suggest solutions

divine, inc. Fairfield, CT 5/2001-4/2002
Project Designer
Designed UI's to integrate external content into enterprise portal product (IBM WebSphere, BEA Weblogic, CA CleverPath, Sun iPlanet, divine Enterprise Portal)
Responsibilities include:

  • Analyzing content provider's technical API.
  • Design a portlet UI based on the API using Photoshop, Dreamweaver.
  • Create HTML/javascript pages of portlet component for developers
  • Write a technical specification for the developers
  • Work with developers to ensure proper back-end coding of the components
  • Performed QA upon completion to track bugs and suggest solutions

Components created:

  • Reuters; EDGARonline; Thomson Financial/ First Call; Factiva; Multex; Northern Lights

In addition to premium content portlets, was given and completed a number of projects independently including:

  • Reuters Energy Markets component, consisting of real-time price displays and charts for oil, gas and electricity commodity markets, cash and futures. Included retrieval of historical data for spreadsheets.
  • A dynamic web-based e-content catalog of over 15,000 publications and sources, with searching and sorting functionality. Created Access database as model for Oracle db used later. Created print PDF catalog from the Access db.
  • An internal time tracking web application to allow creation and tracking of teams for project management. Included entry page for team members to enter their hours, as well as a complete admin section to enable team leaders to create teams and generate reports.

Netzee (formerly Concentrex) Trumbull, CT 5/2000 - 2/2001
Software Engineer
Support designers and programmers for an online-banking internet product. Responsibilities include HTML work (including heavy CSS work), Photoshop work, cleaning up ASP and JSP files. Created an (HTML) online customization guide for new customers, and worked with a JSP programmer to connect the site to a database. Created images in Photoshop for the print version.

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FREELANCE/CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Darien Arts Center Darien, CT 11/2004 - perform ongoing maintenance
Webmaster
Created new website for Darien Arts Center using Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Photoshop, including complete administrative section for class schedules, event listings, teacher bios, etc. using PHP/MySQL.
Darien Arts Center

Nu~Yoga Studio, Norwalk CT created 11/2004 - perform ongoing maintenance
Webmaster
Designed and built site using PHP and MySQL for yoga and exercise studio. Includes class calendar, Flash splash page. Also includes complete admin area with tools to add and edit classes, clients, send email newsletter, and news administration.
Nu~Yoga Studio

Critter Yard Cards, Ansonia CT created 6/2004 - perform ongoing maintenance
Webmaster
Designed and built site using PHP and MySQL for business delivering lawn greeting cards. Includes ordering page, Flash banner ad. Also includes complete admin area with tools to add and edit products and clients.
Critter Yard Cards

Alan Simon Music Consultiants, Falls Village CT created 7/2003 - perform ongoing maintenance
Webmaster
Designed and built site using PHP and MySQL for music consulting business, providing bands and musicians for various events. Includes cd's for sale through Amazon and PayPal, Flash Video, song samples, photo gallery, planning tool for events. Also includes complete admin area with tools to add and edit performances, send email newsletter, etc.
Alan Simon Music Consultants

Allegiant Technology, Stamford CT 9/2002 - 12/2002
Consultant
Design and code web sites for small to medium businesses. Created HTML/JavaScript pages incorporating existing JSP for travel/online booking engine for corporate travel sites. Worked with Java developers and graphic designer to ensure timely release of initial product in mid-October. Created event calendar and photo album web applications written in PHP/HTML for small business sites.

IPC Trading Systems, Fairfield, CT 5/2002- 8/2002
Consultant
Designed UI's of telephony applications for touchscreen and browser, as well as UI's of cross-application administrative tools.
Responsibilities include:

  • Design UI using Photoshop and Dreamweaver
  • Write Use Case studies detailing user experience.
  • Write technical specification for developers.

Urstadt-Biddle Properties Greenwich, CT 3/2000 - perform ongoing maintenance
Consultant
Completely reworked company web site for the second time in two years. Site designed with DreamweaverMX using pages coded in PHP connected to a MySQL database. Includes an XML call to update company stock prices on a regular basis. Continue to update site as needed. www.ubproperties.com

New Resources Group Fairfield, CT 7/2001 - perform ongoing maintenance
Completely redesigned existing HTML website, using PHP and MySQL with Dreamweaver Ultradev. Created MySQL database to track customers and inventory. Continue to update site as needed.
www.nrgideas.com/new

Crystal Theatre Publishing, Inc. Norwalk, CT 7/2001- perform ongoing maintenance
Webmaster and Partner
Joined as partner in a music publishing arm of Crystal Theatre (see below) to publish original musicals for youth and community theaters. Created and continue to maintain website built with PHP and MySQL using Dreamweaver Ultradev.
www.crystaltheatrepublishing.com

Aquent Norwalk, CT 2/2001-5/2001
Worked in various short-term projects for Riss Designs of Norwalk and Clarion Marketing in Greenwich.

Crystal Theatre, Inc. Norwalk, CT 9/1999 - perform ongoing maintenance
Webmaster
Created and maintain web site for a non-profit children's theatre group. Site designed with Dreamweaver consisting of more than 50 HTML pages with CSS, including Java applet, Flash animation, working sign-up forms, CGI mailforms, graphics and photos created and/or optimized in Photoshop.
www.crystaltheatre.org

i3 NewMedia Wilton, CT 2/2000 - 5/2000
Programmer
Contractor. HTML programming using Homesite and Dreamweaver. Light graphics work using Photoshop and Imageready. Working on web sites of various clients, including ESPN, Black and Decker, Paxar, Purdue Pharma, creating new pages and maintaining existing sites.

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PREVIOUS CAREER EXPERIENCE

Chase Manhattan Bank New York, NY 6/1995 - 8/1999
Vice President
Global Trading Division, Foreign Exchange

Dresdner Bank New York New York, NY 7/1994 - 3/1995
Vice President - Foreign Exchange

Banco Espanol de Credito New York, NY 12/1989 - 7/1994
Vice President and Chief Dealer - Foreign Exchange

Citicorp Investment Bank New York, NY 9/1984 - 12/1989
Vice President - Foreign Exchange

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EDUCATION

University of CT Storrs, CT 6/1978

  • Bachelor's Degree - BA in Economics, minor Psychology

New York University New York, NY

  • Web Page Development with HTML
  • Web-Based Multimedia Development
  • Web Server Development.

New Horizons Trumbull, CT 01/2001

  • Javascript Fundamentals

Westlake Internet Training New York,NY 10/2002

  • Advanced JavaScript: Dynamic HTML

School of Visual Arts New York, NY

  • Adobe Illustrator 7/2002
  • Advanced Flash - Actionscripting 09-12/2002
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Jack O'Melia
jfo@johnomelia.com