Thank you for visiting! Please browse through my website to find out what I can do for you—web design and development, software development, photography, or any related activity.
I am currently looking for opportunities as a Front End Web Developer or Webmaster. I recently completed a Udacity Nanodegree program in React, in June 2020.
I look forward to talking and meeting with you!
My skills include newsletter writing and production, photography, user interface design, and software development—an unusual combination, but ideal for designing and maintaining websites and web applications.
My experience includes designing and maintaining websites for small businesses and nonprofits, often dealing with non-technical clients.
I've recently started working with WordPress. Sites:
In June 2020 I completed a React Nanodegree through Udacity. Topics covered included React, React Redux, and React Native.
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For seven years from 2007-2014, I worked fulltime at the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD) at Stanford University. I started as a temp worker, coding html pages for their planned new, main website. After several years as a contractor heavily involved in SCPD's web operations, I accepted their offer of a fixed term appointment as a Web Developer and Photographer, which was extended three times.
SCPD provides Stanford graduate engineering courses and professional development programs to working engineers, primarily over the internet. SCPD's websites are crucial to their mission. I maintained the main SCPD site, many mini-sites dedicated to special programs, and hundreds of landing pages.
The first impression that people have of an organization is often made through their web presence. Expectations are high for visitors to SCPD sites, typically very smart engineers hoping to improve their careers through Stanford engineering education. I took ownership of meeting those expectations and making a positive first impression.
For more information on my work at SCPD, see the following blog post.
Screen shots of some representative sites maintained, or created and maintained, by me appear below. I would have provided links, but the actual sites are no longer live.
On the SCPD main website, I maintained the pages which describe the many services provided by SCPD, the complex admission procedures, profiles of engineers who have completed SCPD programs, and more. (Pages related to course registration, provided by Destiny Solutions, were maintained by others.)
The main site, designed in collaboration with the professional design firm Kapow, was typical of the time of its launch in 2008—information-heavy using small type, included Flash, and designed with a fixed width for viewing on desktop monitors. The site had dozens of pages, accessed through a complex menu. Detailed styling was achieved with very complex style sheets. (In 2008, this was state-of-the-art. Over the next few years, with the advent of tablets and smartphones, web design changed dramatically with the emergence of mobile-first strategies and responsive designs.)
Following are two representative screenshots:
SCPD stayed with this version of the main site for nearly six years until July 2014, when it was replaced with a new, responsive, Drupal version.
Mini-sites are smaller websites dedicated to a single program offered by SCPD. Kapow designed a responsive mini-site for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate in early 2013; I extended the original design to other similar programs, standardizing the look and feel, and simplifying maintenance. In all cases, we were careful to incorporate the Stanford branding specified by the Stanford Identity Toolkit.
Following are screenshots of three such mini-sites (desktop view):
The actual mini-sites I created and maintained were later incorporated into sections of a larger, Stanford Online website, after my time at SCPD.
I produced many photographs of the picturesque Stanford campus for use on SCPD sites and marketing materials, see https://gerardlum.smugmug.com/Stanford.
Following are samples of software development positions I held over the years.
Software Engineer, Sable Technologies: led development of Graphical User Interfaces and Database Programs for the Restaurant Industry using Visual Basic/Access. Applications included Employee Timekeeping, Employee Scheduling, Employee Database, and Reporting on all aspects of restaurant operation.
Developer, Myers-Holum: participated in team development of a GUI to a large, character-based accounting program (Masterpiece) using Visual Basic/Access. Major contributions included automated generation of all code modules to transfer records between client and server, and automated linking of thousands of controls to related topics in context-sensitive Windows Help files.
Associate Principal Programmer/Analyst, Morrison-Knudsen Engineers, Inc.: worked closely and synergistically with engineers to develop well-designed application programs; areas included water resources, hydropower, railroad engineering, structural analysis, and graphic displays.
The group photo above is the French Meadows Summer Camp 2015, in the Tahoe National Forest. I photographed the annual camp for many years, helping to publicize it.
While working at the Stanford Center for Professional Development, I took numerous photos of groups visiting Stanford for professional education programs, from countries including Brazil, China, Denmark, and Poland. Each participant received an 8-1/2" x 11" photo as a souvenir of their Stanford experience. I also photographed the picturesque Stanford campus, in all seasons—the photos appeared on the SCPD websites and were refreshed regularly.
Photography has been a serious hobby of mine for many years. I am a member of the Professional Photographers of Santa Clara Valley, and do occasional professional work.
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Gerard T. Lum
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