Meryll Larkin
1620 NW 87th St
Seattle WA  98117
email:   contact.cgi
domain:  www.alwanza.com
cover letter:   www.alwanza.com/professional/cover.html
 

Objective:
Perl Web Application Developer
 
Projects of Note:
  • Self-updating dynamic Table of Contents pages, coded in Perl/CGI
  • Dynamic What's New page showing all recent updates, coded in Perl/CGI
  • Web application to access a flat-file virtual database which returned or updated employee skills and experience, organized as either skill by employee or employee by skill, coded in OO-Perl (used by Marketing department for bidding jobs and by Administration for assigning projects)
  • Perl program for comparing live pages against back-ups
  • Web-based Perl program to update back-ups in CVS
  • Perl program to create updated sitemaps
  • On frames sites, coded a <noframes> page with links to all internal pages for search engines
  • Researched search engine requirements and created appropriate metatags
  • Coded Web forms, including RDBMS (MySQL DBI, DBD) and modules
 
Experience:  
FREELANCING WEB DEVELOPER AND SPECIAL PROJECTS 1/01 to present
Learning object-oriented program design in the Java language through NSCC.
Completed UW Extension Certificate Courses in Perl Programming and Unix/Linux Administration.  Set up home network, built computers.  Configured 3 Apache Web Servers, installed and familiarized myself with mod_perl, MySQL through self-directed projects.  Freelance web development for small business and non-commercial clients, portfolio available.

ISē INC, WEB DEVELOPER 8/99 to 1/01
Development, maintenance, and updates of public marketing site, 3 extranets, 1 intranet.  Extranets exceeded 500 pages each and were used for ongoing communication between our company's team and the client's team (clients included Sony Europe and 3COM/ITN).

Coded and Maintained Public Web site:  
  • Received mock-ups from design company & communicated with them to improve design
  • Edited text provided by Marketing for syntax and content
  • Arranged file and navigation architecture for 80-page site
  • Coded all pages, including complex JavaScript triple roll-over
   
Created and Maintained Company-wide Intranet (as team lead):  
  • Lead 7-person intranet team of department leads, administration
  • Coordinated meetings to assess needs, including:  contents, design, architecture.
  • Established architectural, coding, and design standards.
  • Coded (HTML, Perl, JavaScript) & provided content for 100 of 400 pages
   
Maintained Extranets including CVS Back-ups
  • General maintenance (links, headers, titles, style uniformity), site map updates
  • Created and maintained site navigation to include new areas

NORTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, TUTOR 1/99 to 6/99
Tutored in subjects: Unix, Excel, Access (including SQL); levels:  beginner through advanced.

ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY,
ACCOUNTANT & LAN ADMINISTRATOR
7/97 to 7/98
AP/AR/Payroll, taxes, benefit admin, financial statements.  Network back-ups, software installation.

WEDGEWOOD COLLEGE of Allied Health Professionals,
TEACHER
1/96 to 6/96
Curriculum & course development, lesson preparation, information presentation, documentation.
 
Education:  
  • Linux/Unix Administration Certification, UW Extension (8/02)
  • Perl Programming Certification, UW Extension, (6/02)
  • Certificate in Computer Programming, North Seattle Community College, GPA 3.7 (6/99)
  • Supervisor's Certificate, Seattle Central Community College, GPA 3.7 (2/92)
  • B.S., Biology, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, GPA 3.2
 
Affiliations:
 
Keywords for automatic resume scanners:
OO-Perl, Perl/CGI, mod_perl, HTML, CSS, XML, Adobe PhotoShop, CVS, JavaScript, DHTML, SQL, MySQL, DBI, DBD, RDBMS, Access, Filemaker Pro, Unix, Linux, C++, Java, Windows98, WindowsNT, Windows2000, Macintosh.
 
Last Update:  1/16/03