William M. Mason 7608 NE 144th Avenue * Vancouver, WA * 98682 (360) 896-7293 * (360) 907-6324 (cell) * billm@accessibleinter.net SKILLS: * General Skills: professional; extremely hard working; excellent at multi-tasking; able to complete 99% of work before deadlines; highly proficient problem-solver and troubleshooter; team player; superb writing, editing and proofreading skills; fast learner; multi-talented and highly adaptable * Web & Coding Skills: HomeSite, Dreamweaver and others; HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.0, CSS, JavaScript * Graphic Skills: Adobe Photoshop * Writing Skills: book author; newsletter producer, editor and writer; departmental procedures; technical manuals; training materials and manuals; web encyclopedia; various web content author; report writer; testcase writer; over 12 years writing experience in a variety of mediums. EXPERIENCE: CollegeNET (2003-present) – Lead Web Developer * creates and edits web-based college application forms * uses XML-based applications written with in-house XML tool (Snapp) * image editing with Adobe Photoshop * creates/edits flat HTML/CSS application instruction pages Mozilla (2002-2005) – QA tester/bug writer * triaged bugs filed on the Mozilla product (http://www.mozilla.org/) * replicated/confirmed bugs reported * wrote testcases for engineers to use in fixing reported bugs Freelance (2000-present) – Content Writer/Web Coder * content rewrites, site design/coding * owns/administrates business specializing in creating fully accessible web sites for the disabled (http://www.accessibleinter.net/) * compatibility with all browsers/platforms, full HTML-compliance, and minimum turnaround time * converts sites to XHTML/CSS, cleans up invalid code, improves search engine results * writes training documentation for site maintenance/updates * 2002 3rd place winner development team member in the Accessibility Internet Rally of California Oxygen Media, San Francisco CA (1999-2001) – HTML and Documentation Guru Coding duties: * spearheaded accessibility coding * coded programs for the award-winning ThriveOnline site (closed); samples available upon request * developed within Interwoven/Teamsite environment * implemented 2 migrations from ISP to ISP/no content management system to Interwoven system; included recoding (HTML/CGI), QA testing; documenting results * primary JavaScript coder * multiple platform environment (NT, UNIX, Mac) Writing duties: * training documentation/intensive tutorials for in-house staff on coding/updating per company standards; samples available upon request * wrote materials and trained technical and non-technical staff in CSS and Teamsite template use Other duties: * created Teamsite templates with accompanying documentation and tutorials * implemented company/site CSS standards with accompanying tutorial documentation * image editing EDUCATION: Neumann College, Aston PA (1984-1988) B.S. in Business Administration; concentration in Computer and Information Management. Listed six times on Neumann College Dean’s List and three times in The National Dean’s List. ASSOCIATIONS: W3C (2007-) Invited expert on the HTML Working Group. Glasshaus (2002-2003) Co-author, "The Web Professional's Handbook." Wrote the chapter on Cascading Style Sheets. Complete chapter available online as a book sample at http://www.glasshaus.com/samplechapters/1221/default.asp Evolt.org (2000-2002) Contributed several articles to the evolt.org web developer site. * Successful Inline Lists in Netscape 4 (http://www.evolt.org/article/Successful_inline_lists_in_Netscape_4/17/60192/index.html) * Revisiting “Table Layouts, Revisited” (http://www.evolt.org/article/Revisiting_Table_Layouts_Revisited/25/38350/index.html) * A Revised Method of Defining Link Pseudo-Classes (http://www.evolt.org/article/A_revised_method_of_defining_link_pseudo_classes/17/35541/index.html) * New DOCTYPE Sniffing in Upcoming Mozilla Releases (http://www.evolt.org/article/New_DOCTYPE_sniffing_in_upcoming_Mozilla_releases/1/32271/index.html) * Getting XHTML from HomeSite 4.5 (http://www.evolt.org/article/Getting_XHTML_from_HomeSite_4_5/21/3466/index.html) Michael Wolff & Company Inc., New York NY (1995) Contributing Writer. Composed several items for the book "Net Trek." ADDITIONAL TRAINING: * Introduction to C, Clark College (2004) * How To Build Accessible Web Sites, Phill Jenkins (IBM, W3C) (2002) * Local Area Networks Implementation, Applied Network Solutions (1996) * Quality Education System, Philip Crosby (1992) Personal and professional references furnished upon request.