Jarrod LaRocco

Performed management and development tasks related to the design and development of Xap Mentor websites. Oversaw design and implementation of individual websites in accordance with the production schedule. Worked with the project manager to determine the client's needs and ensure the website conformed to the specification. Suggested and implemented new web technologies in order to upgrade and enhance the individual websites. Researched new methods of promoting the websites, as well as increasing company revenue.

Key Accomplisments

• Senior designer on the company's flagship website, xap.com.
• Increased productivity by more than 50% by organizing the conversion of the company websites to a template system making use of common files and SSI.
• Initiated the company's gradual move to W3C standards compliance. Initiated the development of HTML/CSS based designs without the use of inline styles.

Design and development of both personal and professional websites.

Responsible for programming a Windows based user interface for reading and manipulating data, and running simulations. Programming was done with Visual C++ 5.0.