Gordon E Fernandes

STRENGTHS

High standards, flexible, positive attitude, sense of humor and the passion for doing great work!
Advanced skills in HTML, XHTML, HTML5, CSS3 and XML with the ability to hand-code.
Extensive knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office 7, Mac OS, Windows XP, Windows 7, Dreamweaver, Flash and general desktop support issues.
Comprehensive knowledge of, JQuery, JavaScript, Perl and UNIX.
Experience in designing and updating printed marketing materials and publications.
Strong understanding of web standards and cross-browser issues.
Sound problem solving, analytical and management skills.
Solid project management skills.
Excellent communication skills.
Implementation, support, design, management, administration and initiation of home-grown, web-based, data management applications for numerous government program intranets/extranets.

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To become part of an organization that can create a difference in our world by lending my skills and abilities to furthering those goals. I am looking for an excellent opportunity to utilize my creative energy to the fullest. My major strengths are devotion to quality, aggressive continuous learning, and the ability to use creative resources for problem solving. I believe that quality customer support is the key to every system's success. I possess the ability to work effectively and efficiently under minimal supervision; however, I also thrive in a team–oriented environment.

EXPERIENCE

Lockheed Martin L–3 Communications Services Group

Software Engineer 3
11955 Freedom Dr. Suite 10000
Reston, VA 20190
July 1999 to May 2011

Development, design, operation, support and maintenance of a collaborative electronic environment providing enterprise–wide design review capabilities, product development and document/data life cycle management of over 15 intranet/extranet customer sites.

During my 11+ years with Lockheed Martin – L3 Communications I designed and developed multiple websites and tools using complex web applications with various integration techniques. This included meeting directly with the customer to determine what their requirements were for the project and working with team members to complete each deployment on schedule within budget. New sites were created by either modifying an existing tool or creating new templates to fit the team's needs. Tools used to implement these changes were HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, UNIX, VI, Photoshop, Adobe Creative Suite as well as well as other web–authoring tools.

TechWeek

Metro States Media, Inc.
Graphic Artist
1156 Aster Avenue, Suite B
Sunnyvale, California 94086.
January 1998 to July 1999

Responsible for creating and embedding ads as they come in through Ad send, using QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Illustrator and/or whatever tool was necessary to get the paper out on time, traveling to Southern California Offset Printers twice a month to do the press check, formatting and designing logos and graphs as assigned by the art director and making revisions to articles as required; typesetting displays and classified ads as requested for the news paper and web site.

Profile Digital Services

Digital Imaging Technician
2045 Martin Avenue
Santa Clara,
California 95050
May 1997 to January 1998

My job was the operation and calibration of the drum, leaf, and flatbed scanners. Creative photo retouching, composting and re–creation of digital images using Photoshop. Operation and maintenance of small and large Ink Jet printers. Utilized different Ripping software and files for producing the best quality images.

EDUCATION

Foothill College – Los Altos, CA – DeAnza College – Cupertino CA

Digital Graphic Arts and Web Publishing 2005 - 2007
Associate of Arts Degree in Computer Science. August 2011 to present.