Resume

Education:

M.A. in Music, American University, Washington, DC
Concentration in piano performance
Masters thesis/lecture recital: The Return of Romanticism in Late 20 Century Music. Awarded a graduate assistantship to the Music Librarian.
B.A. in Literature, American University, Washington, DC
Concentration in 20tth century poetry and creative writing

Certification:

Certificate, Desktop Publishing, August 2000, Center for Professional Development, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2000
Certification, Macromedia Dreamweaver Developer, August 2002, Macromedia, Inc.: http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=22343
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Certified Developer, July 2004

Professional Experience:

Macromedia Education Leader, November 2004-present
Partner in Community MX 2004-present (my partner bio) a group that helps Web developers extend their knowledge with 2 new pieces of content, extensions, templates, or tutorials every business day of the year. I run the JumpStarts program that develops Web Standards templates with valid CSS, XHTML, and WAI and 508 Accessibility features.
Instructor, Institute for Federal Printing and Electronic Publishing, Government Printing Office, 2000–present
Courses taught in the Washington, DC GPO training labs and in the field in location such as Las Vegas and Cheyenne, WY: Dreamweaver Levels One and Two, Adobe GoLive, Intermediate HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and 508 Accessibility, and Database Driven Web sites
Instructor, for IFPEP GPO, DODDS (Dept. of Defense Dependent Schools), June–July 2001 San Diego Community College, CA
Trained 20 art teachers, who taught children of US military personnel stationed in Korea
and Japan, in the use of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Painter
Adjunct Faculty, Trinity College, Washington, DC, Fall 2000–present
Teach media technology courses, such classes as Electronic Imaging, The Digital World, and Web Page Design, for the Communications and IT programs
Workshop instructor, Trinity College, April 2003-present
Teach the following faculty and staff workshops in tandem with PT3 Grant requirements: Mac OS, digital imaging: hardware and software basics, and Dreamweaver
Web Page Designer, Swanilda’s Studio, 1995–present
In 1994, the Web really started to take off. I learned HTML, as well as other technologies geared to the newly emerging business of Web design. I published my first sites in 1995, and have continued to do so professionally in my home-based studio. My studio includes a network of Macs and Windows, with a high-speed connection, scanners, printers, digital cameras, CD burners, Web cams, and all of the other necessary paraphernalia for a successful Web design business. Please visit my web portfolio page.
Independent Contract work for A&M Enterprises, 1996–1999
Web sites such as Michael Martin Murphey, Country Western singer, West Fest, and Summit Trail Rides. PDF versions of these Web sites available upon request.

Professional Development

Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
Receive ongoing training in Web and publishing technologies such as XML and Acrobat
MacWorld Creative Pro Conference, July 2003, New York City
Attended a series of lectures and classes on new directions in Web technologies
Format and Style, Summer 1999, GWU, Washington, DC, as part of my Desktop Publishing program, intensive course in use of The Chicago Manual of Style and The Government Printing Office Style Manual

Professional Activities

Presenter on the topic of Web Standards at TODcon (Macromedia software and related technologies) conference April 24-27, 2005. I was part of the team that developed the TODcon web site.
Presenter on 508 Accessibility, April 23–25, 2002, DoD Interlaboratory Committee on Editing and Publishing Conference ILCEP (Sponsored by the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD) 508 Accessibility Laws and Creating Web Sites (Synopsis available in Word document format upon request.) Represented the Government Printing Office Institute for Federal Printing and Electronic Publishing
Presenter, Power Users Special Interest Group, Rockville, MD
Setting up PHP and MySQL on the Mac OSX Apache Web server (February 2003)
Creating Web Blogs using Open Source software (June 2003)

Publications in Print

This is a brief listing of some of my articles that are published on the Web and in various journals.

CMX CSS Snippets Collection Part One and CMX CSS Snippets Collection Part Two. April 1, 2005

Processing Basic Forms Part One and Part Two Dec. 2004

WebQuests for Teachers published at Community MX on Sept. 8, 2004

The following articles, which were published in the Washington Apple Pi Journal, can be viewed at the Washington Apple Pi Electronic Journal Online: http://www.wap.org/journal/

Connecting to a MySQL Database using PHP
http://www.wap.org/journal/mysqlphp/default.html

Laying the Groundwork for Database Driven Web Sites
http://www.wap.org/journal/phpMyAdmin/default.html

Creating Forms in Adobe GoLive
http://www.wap.org/journal/webforms/default.html

From Eunuchs to UNIX: How Popeye Gets His Spinach (also reprinted in the San Francisco User Group Journal
http://www.wap.org/journal/eunuchs/default.html

Using the new Dreamweaver PHP Authentication Extension
http://www.wap.org/journal/dreamweaverphp/default.html

Accessibility and Web Standards
http://www.wap.org/journal/webstandards/default.html

Training Manuals

The following training manuals were written for the Government Printing Office, where I teach.

Dreamweaver Level One
Dreamweaver Level 2
GoLive Level 1
Intermediate HTML
Mac OS X Panther
Writing for the Web

(I am in the process of preparing training manuals for new classes, which will be offered in Fall 2004: Creating Accessible Web sites according to 508 Accessibility Laws, Cascading Style Sheets, Separation of Content and Presentation, and Goals of the WaSP (Web Standards Project.)

The authors of GoLive in 24 Hours and Adobe GoLive specialists reference my Golive tutorials on their web site: http://www.golivein24.com/tips/. (For more information, scroll down to Installing and setting up phpMyAdmin in OSX, by Sheri German

Database expert Marc Liyanage references my PHP/MySQL tutorials on his website: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/mysql/. (Click on Additional Information and then on Sheri German’s link to integrating MySQL with GoLive).

Tutorials, by Sheri German: http://swanilda.com/tipIndex.html

Software Proficiencies

Macromedia: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Contribute
Adobe: Photoshop, GoLive, Acrobat, Pagemaker, InDesign, Illustrator
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Apple iLife: iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, iDVD, QuickTime
Roxio Toast CD/DVD burning software
Cascading Style Sheet Software: Bbedit, StyleMaster 3