ANNA M. DARLING
New York, New York
anna-at-cockscrow-dot-com

HIGHLIGHTS
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  • Expertise working in cross-functional teams that deliver projects on time and on budget.
  • Demonstrable leadership experience and strong sense of ownership.
  • Ability to stay positive and enthusiastic under pressure, and to quickly shift priorities as needed.
  • Effective judgement and ability to take action in dynamic environments with ambiguous and changing situations.

    RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
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    FREELANCE - Cock's Crow Communications; New York, NY
    January 1998 to present

  • Web site design, architecture and application development
  • Selected Clients - Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery, Arlington Conservation Council, The Crucible, Hello Direct

    WEBMASTER - The NewsMarket, Inc; New York, NY
    June 2002 to July 2005

  • Created and maintained the first IIS and MS SQL Server/ASP reporting systems
  • Migrated ASP reporting system to Crystal Reports/ASP.NET
  • End-to-end development, management and maintenance of the newsletter application in SQL Server/ASP
  • Presented tech team developments to staff and gave tech overview to new hires
  • Wrote help desk documentation for website end-users and staff
  • Served as tech support for website end-users
  • Created several HTML/ASP websites and emails from Photoshop comps
  • Regularly QA'd the website codebase and functionality
  • Co-authored RFP for outsourcing website development for offshore development company
  • Technical lead and oversight of offshore development company
  • Performed security monitoring and management of n-tier hosting infrastructure

    SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER - Lycos, Inc; San Francisco, CA
    September 1998 to May 2001
    Wired Digital acquired by Lycos, Inc October 1998
    Lycos, Inc acquired by Terra Networks May 2000
    Terra Networks sells Lycos August 2004

  • Developed and coded Perl scripts, including news crawler, XML to HTML conversion, front-end display, and newsletter registration/sign-up
  • Created Perl scripts for integration in Vignette/Solaris mid-tier/ASP front-end for Lycos News
  • Developed and maintained delivery of multi-site news feeds in XML and in Vingette Content Management System
  • Assisted the migration of Lycos News from WPS/single-tier to Vignette/NT/multi-tier architecture
  • Created Perl script to crawl any web page and send it as HTML email for Lycos Music ("email this web page to a friend")
  • Implemented special ad units not available in Doubleclick across Wired News, Webmonkey and HotWired
  • Developed SSI and Vignette to transition Webmonkey, Animation Express, HotWired, and Wired News, from in-house NetGravity ad banner system to outsourced DoubleClick DART system
  • Maintained the Perl/shell script/Sybase/qmail email newsletter system
  • Migrated the CDA for Wired News from in-house Perl/Sybase/SSI-based content management system to Vignette Content Management System/Solaris
  • Solely responsible for maintaining and extending in-house massmail system that delivers more than 1.5 million email newsletters daily
  • Solely responsible for day-to-day maintenance and development tasks for 18 sites under the HotWired domain
  • Pre-launch QA for Animation Express, RGB Gallery, and Web101

    TOOLS
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  • Languages: HTML/DHTML, XML/XSL, CSS, TCL/TK, JavaScript, Perl, SSI, SQL, Shell scripting, ASP.NET, ASP, VB
  • Applications: Visual Studio, Vignette Content Management, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, qMail, Sendmail, Tibco, Perforce, CVS, Visual Source Safe, Homesite, BBEdit, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, MS Office
  • Platforms: Solaris/UNIX/Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/2003, Mac OS
  • Protocols: TCP/IP, FTP, SMTP/POP

    EDUCATION
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    University of California Extension, Berkeley
    August 1996 to December 1998

    University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
    August 1987 to May 1991