Resumé › Walker Hamilton.com

What does this all mean? It means I can help you attract users, achieve goals, find bugs, avoid pitfalls, and think about the future. Get ahold of me.

Skillset

Management

Project Management
Client Relations
Scope Management
Search Engine Advertising & Visibility Tactics

Information Architecture

Wireframing (Omnigraffle, tool of choice)
Usability Analysis
Search Analysis
Taxonomy, Thesauri, & Navigation

Programming & Scripting

PHP (cakePHP, Zend, CodeIgniter)
Ruby (Rails)
Python (Django)
JavaScript (jQuery, MooTools, Prototype)
HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT
SQL, mySQL
Version Control (git, svn, bzr)

Experience

2009 (February – present) › Senior Information Architect

Paradowski Creative

My duties at Paradowski Creative include providing guidance on social media use to clients, business development, information architecture for ongoing internal and client projects, and assisting Paradowski Creative in defining and refining processes in their quest to transition from a creative print shop into a full-service agency offering interactive and new media services.

2008 (June – November) › Site Architect

Obama for America Inc.

I architected and implemented the deployment mechanisms and technologies for the campaign’s various web properties, including, but not limited to, barackobama.com and voteforchange.com. Other work involved building applications to improve some processes, automate others, and facilitate in-state/headquarters communications for some of the departments within the campaign. Miscellaneous duties included general maintenance, day to day content administration, feature planning and development of technologies to bring the myBO social network closer to the main site’s content and navigation. I also worked on the wireframes for the neighbor to neighbor application and several of the other web properties.

2007 – 2008 › Part-time Faculty

Interactive Arts and Media Department, Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago is one of the largest arts and media colleges in the country. Part-time faculty teaches the majority of classes at Columbia College. Part-time faculties are allowed to teach a maximum of three classes per semester. Within the Interactive Arts and Media department, I teach Authoring Interactive Multimedia, Programming Web Databases, and Emerging Web Technologies. These classes range from theoretical to practical and beginning to advanced in content. I developed and continually revise the syllabi for the Programming Web Databases and Emerging Web Technologies classes.

2005 – 2008 › Lead Strategic Developer

Visicswire LLC

While running Visicswire as my own company I have tackled business development, operations management, production, website design and development, web application design, development, and deployment. In this position I have produced web applications for Columbia College Chicago, advised and produced web sites and applications for a number of businesses and artists, and consulted for non-for-profits on how best to utilize and streamline their technologies and processes.

2003 – 2006 › Technician

Photography Department, Columbia College Chicago

Mac OS X server installation, configuration, upkeep. Workstation, Imacon Scanner, and printer (networked and non-networked) support. Web server installation, configuration, and administration. Technology implementation and planning on a department-wide level.

2001 – 2003 › Technical Associate

Apogee Strategies, LLC

Client relations, domain configuration, web design, business technology consulting, server and workstation support and administration. Web development and design of sites and html email newsletters.