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Dori Smith

10736 Jefferson Blvd. Suite 264
Culver City, CA 90230
Fax: 310-448-3009
Email: dori@chalcedony.com Website: http://www.chalcedony.com/dori/

Objective: Web developer and experienced manager seeks challenging leadership position with cutting edge company.

Keywords	Accounting AIMS Applescript AS/400 ATM Author Banking Basic BBEdit C CD ROM CD-ROM CGI Consultant CQCS Cross Platform CSS Data General DBA DEC DHTML DOS DreamWeaver Dynamic HTML EDI Editor Educational EIMS Filemaker Pro Financial 4GL FrontPage GoLive CyberStudio GUI HTML IBM INFOS Internet Explorer ISDN Java JavaScript Macintosh Macromedia MacOS Metrowerks CodeWarrior Manager Modem Mosaic MSIE Netscape OOP PageMill Pascal PC POS PPP Programmer Programming Project Management RAIC Scripting Speaker SQL SSI SSL Standards Supervisor TCP/IP Teacher Telecommunications Trainer UNIX User Interface UserLand Frontier UserTalk Visual Café Webmaster Webmistress WebSTAR Windows 95 Windows 98 Win95 Win98 Wintel Writer WWW XML

Languages	Java, JavaScript, CGI, C, AppleScript, UserTalk, HTML 3.2, HTML 4, CQCS (Multi-platform 4GL), PL/1, BASIC, Pascal
Hardware	Macintosh, PC, Data General, Basic Four, DEC
OS's	MacOS, Windows, UNIX, DOS, AOS/VS
Databases	SQL, FileMaker Pro, INFOS, 4D
IDEs	Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Userland Frontier, Symantec's Visual Café, Symantec's Think, QBasic
Skills	Webmaster, Telecommunications, DBA, Banking, Manager, Writer, Teacher, Editor

Experience

5/96-present Partner

Spoke at CNET Builder.com Live! on Advanced Cross-Browser DHTML in Navigation Design.
Spoke at JavaScript '98 on Advanced Dynamic HTML, Scripting the User Interface (with Danny Goodman), Beyond Rollovers: Interactive Images, and Faster and Better: Optimizing and Debugging (with Nick Heinle).
Wrote Java for the World Wide Web, Visual QuickStart Guide for Peachpit Press.
Steering Committee member for the Web Standards Project.
Contributing Editor for NetProfessional magazine, and a member of the Advisory Board.
Taught classes at California State University, Long Beach on "Advanced Web Graphics" and "Web Developer" (certificate course).
Magazine writing, including Macworld (SiteWarrior review, May '98 and BBEdit review, May '99) and MacTech (JavaScript feature, May '98).
Working on Macintosh and Wintel systems, specializing in JavaScript and DHTML Web projects, for clients such as the Getty Conservation Institute.
Co-authored JavaScript for the World Wide Web, Visual QuickStart Guide, 2nd Edition for Peachpit Press, 1997.
Spoke at Macworld Expo SF on Tools for Web Page Designers, 1998.
Keynote panelist, MacWest Expo, 1997.
At MacFair LA, taught "Beyond HTML: Java, JavaScript, and Dynamic HTML" and "Serving Your Site With a Mac" (1997) and "Intro to JavaScript" and "Intermediate JavaScript" (1998).

5/98-10/98 Director of Web Development

Head of Technology for multi-million dollar web development firm, including clients such as Epson, Bugle Boy, Nissan, Butterfingers, Friskies, Braun Oral-B, Starbright, BAX Global, and Beckman-Coulter.

10/96-5/98 Webmaster/Web Programmer

Programmed web pages with a combination of JavaScript, HTML, Frontier and FileMaker Pro.
Administered large-scale corporate web site, using RAIC'd WebSTAR servers.
Site was featured by Apple Computer at the Print '97 and Seybold conferences as an example of dynamic web publishing.
Site was featured by UserLand in their Galleria of Great Frontier Web Sites, 1998.

6/93 - 5/96 Senior Systems Programmer/Analyst

Programmed inventory, payroll and sales management package.
Using Applescript, created CD-ROM based software distribution system for retail demo kiosks.
Database Administrator (DBA) for 4GL conversion of company-wide operations system.
Recommended, specified and purchased computer systems for affiliated chain of retail stores.
Supported PC and Macintosh computer users (both network and stand alone).
Wrote software to interface with Bank of America check reconciliation service.
Programmed interface between PC-based POS system and mainframe.

10/92 - 5/93 Systems Analyst

Designed software for a real-time transaction-based credit union package used by 400 clients.
Taught classes on SQL, JYACC Application Manager and federal regulations.
Consulted with customers to establish user needs.

4/91 - 9/92 Systems Programmer

Programmed systems level enhancements, including an interface between credit union product and Mellon Bank's ATM product. This involved working with communication protocols, to verify that Mellon Bank's transactions properly updated Fiserv's database.
Designed and implemented efficiency protocols for SQL programmers, resulting in 20% improvement in transaction processing.

7/88 - 3/91 Programming Supervisor

Managed a staff of ten programmers working on enhancements to a financial software package.
Coordinated conversion of the application from INFOS (DG proprietary) to SQL relational database, a two year project that came in on time and under budget.
Responsible for performance evaluations; interviewed prospective employees; trained new hires.
Estimated and priced contract program enhancements.

8/85 - 6/88 Programmer/Analyst

3/84-4/85 International Small Systems Support Intern

Provided technical support for sales staff during launch of their first UNIX-based workstation.
Supported WAN-based Email system used by the sales staff world-wide.

6/82-1/84 Software Manager

Member: AIP, DNRC, HWG, LAMG, SOCALM, and WSP.
Member, Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Macintosh Group (LAMG) 1994-1998.
Created and designed the Spring Internet World '98 Party Page, which received hundreds of hits with minimal publicity.
Contributed to Yahoo Unplugged, 1995 (IDG Books).
Taught seminars & classes: "Choosing an Online Service" 1995; "Introduction to Java," "Introduction to Telecommunications," "Choosing An Internet Service Provider," 1996; Hands-on Beyond HTML 1997.