Joshua E. Chambers

Professional Experience

Personal Professional Development

May 2017 - Current

  • Continuing professional development with web technologies that refresh and expand my skills.
  • Continuing work on personal website projects. Project sites can be accessed on my portfolio at http://joshchambers.me/portfolio.php.

Virginia Tech

Web Design Specialist
June 2006 - May 2017

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Office of Communications and Marketing
Blacksburg, Virginia

Responsibilities and Achievements
  • Worked individually and with a team on projects from inception to post-production, including user testing, prototyping, design, development, training, and support.
  • Multiple website redesigns and migration projects, including Virginia Cooperative Extension websites.
  • Maintained websites using multiple content systems, including Adobe Experience Manager, Wordpress, Percussion Rhythmyx, Contribute, and Expression Engine.

East Tennessee State University

Graduate Assistant
August 2004 - May 2006

Office of Information Technology
Academic Technology Support
Johnson City, Tennessee

Responsibilities and Achievements
  • Conceptualized, developed, edited and managed content for the East Tennessee State University website and specialized sub sites.
  • Created original web templates and fashioned web content based on requested designs using Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Front Page, MS SQL Server and ASP.
  • Developed web templates for departments, as well as a news and events system and multi-tiered navigation system for college websites.

Education

East Tennessee State University

Computer Science, Masters of Science
Johnson City, Tennessee

Date of attendance:

August 2004 - May 2006 (Coursework)
August 2008 - May 2009 (Capstone Project)

  • Capstone project involved helping write XSLT to transform XML documents as part of a graduate project to develop a faculty evaluation system.

Syracuse University

Information Management and Technology, Bachelors of Science
Political Science, Bachelors of Science
Syracuse, New York

Date of attendance:

August 2001 - May 2005

  • Graduated with Honors.
  • Dean’s List in five of six semesters attended.

Skills

  • HTML 5
  • CSS 3
  • JavaScript / jQuery
  • PHP / mySQL
  • Wordpress
  • Responsive Design
  • WCAG Web Accessibility
  • Information Architecture
  • Project Management
  • Google Analytics
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Git / Mercurial
  • Manual Code Writing
  • Adobe Experience Manager
  • Drupal
  • SEO
  • Video Editing

Awards

  • CALS Employee of the Month - May 2015
  • 2015 ACE Gold Award for Media Relations Campaign
  • 2015 ACE Bronze Award for Websites
  • 2014 University Relations Communications Excellence Award (x2)
  • 2013 NAADA - 1st Place Electronic Newsletter (group award)

References

References available upon request.