Zac Gordon

1. Current Employment

2. Experience Designer, Blackboard (July 2011 - Present)

   Conduct user experience testing, design interactive prototypes, develop front-end solutions for production software.

   http://www.blackboard.com/

Owner, The Wide Sky Web Company (2011 - Present)

Provide technical direction for projects and offer strategic consulting for top clients.

http://www.wideskyweb.com

3. Workshop Leader, DaBrook Webucation (2005 - Present)

   Continuously lead workshops on using and developing for ExpressionEngine and WordPress content management systems.

   http://dabrook.org/events

4. Past Experience

5. Professor & Consultant, Montgomery College (2008 - 2011)

   Wrote curriculum for and consulted on implementing WaSP Interact curriculum at the school. Have taught Web Design, Advanced Web Design, JavaScript, and Content Management Systems. Organized Refresh Rockville, which met on campus.

   http://dabrook.org | http://refreshrockville.org

6. Teacher, Springbrook High School (2003 - 2011)

   Built a four-year web design and web development program. Teach web design and development courses. Started a school-based web business for paid student interns. Created a custom project management platform to manage intern projects.

   http://dabrook.org

Owner & Lead Developer, Wide Sky Designs (2003 - 2010)

Designed, developed, and maintained web sites for more than 40 clients. Brought first page search engine rankings to top clients. Developed custom ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter web applications.

7. Instructor, Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts (2009)

   Taught Advanced Web Design, JavaScript for Designers, and PHP for Designers. Developed a custom web application for scheduling web applications.

Education

1. Masters in Education, University of MD (2006)

   Defended a master’s thesis on the importance of strong user interface design in making enaging web applications to help students learn and manage their assignments.

2. Bachelors of Arts, University of MD (2002 - 2005)

   Major in world history, minor in East Asian studies. Worked for the history department making and maintaining web sites for professors.

Expert

1. HTML5/CSS3
2. Responsive Design
3. JavaScript
4. jQuery
5. PHP
6. CodeIgniter
7. MySQL
8. Wordpress
9. ExpressionEngine
10. Drupal
11. Mobile Development
12. SEO
13. Email Marketing
14. Video for Web
15. E-commerce
16. Social Networking
17. Photoshop

Proficient

1. Accessibility
2. Ruby on Rails
3. iPhone Dev
4. Android Apps
5. Python & Django
6. NoSQL
7. Illustrator