Objective

I want more than a job. I want to follow my passions, push my skills to the limits and celebrate remarkable accomplishments. Do you have a team of highly motivated people I can work with? Do you have a company that I can help grow and grow with?

Accomplishments

• Started and managed several online businesses: Asian Austin, Elastik Pixel Media, 23Dimensions, DHTMLdev.
• Developed entire line of custom multimedia players (video, MP3, and Podcast) for National Instruments.
• Developed custom desktop application to simplify process of creating XML-based HTML Help documentation.
• Helped save National Instruments an average of $100,000/year by personally pursuing and developing a process and custom application for searching categorized PDFs, which was used on an interactive CD to replace printed documentation.
• Increased productivity of Web Team by 30% by developing custom HTML editor tools.
• Administered several Internet and intranet sites, handling all server and database installation and management.
• Ten years of freelance Web development and design for local Austin businesses. Also providing Web hosting for past three years. Developed custom Web sites and HTML/CSS templates for WordPress, Joomla, and Mambo.

Capabilities

• Programming: ActionScript, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, LabVIEW, MySQL, Perl, PHP, VBScript, Visual Basic, W3C DOM, WAP, XML and XSL.
• Design: Creating custom HTML/CSS and Flash designs for small Web sites and new designs for larger sites based on existing templates.
• Applications: Acrobat, Apache, Captivate, Camtasia, Dreamweaver, FAR, Fireworks, Flash, Flash Media Server, FrameMaker, FreeHand, HomeSite, HTML Help Workshop, IconForge, Illustrator, ImageReady, Joomla, Mambo, PageMaker, Perforce, Photoshop, phpMyAdmin, Premiere, RoboHelp, TopStyle, XMLSpy, Visual Studio, WordPress.

Professional Conferences Attended

• FlashForward 2006, Austin TX
• Adobe MAX 2006, Las Vegas, NV

Employment History

National Instruments, Austin, TX
Multimedia Developer, 2006–2007

Main Flash and Multimedia Developer for National Instruments, a fortune 500 company and one of the largest technology companies in Austin, TX.

National Instruments, Austin, TX
Web Developer, 2004–2006

Create HTML/CSS layouts based on design comps for www.ni.com, the main corporate Web site, and create and maintain JavaScript library. Update Perl scripts. Create, administrate and maintain internal Web sites. Create custom internal tools to increase productivity, convert Word and XML documents to HTML. Create HTML pages and Microsoft HTML Help projects for software documentation.

National Instruments, Austin, TX
Technical Illustrator, 2001–2004

Design and create software icons and hardware illustrations.

Web sites

Online portfolios at http://www.mitchwilson.net and http://www.elastikpixel.com.

• Asian Austin
• Gage Record Retrieval
• Ricky Stein
• Personally Yours
• MenuWiz
• Raman Systems
• Tudey Teten
• Austin Bradley
• Harp Flute Duo
• DHTMLDev
• 23Dimensions
• Asian Texans History Project
• Texas Archeological Research Laboratory

Education

University of Texas at Austin
BA Linguistic Anthropology, 1998
GPA 3.7 with a focus on Internet language and culture