Mike Escutia

Resumé

Technical Skills

Professional Experience

Web Developer

April 2014 – January 2023

School Specialty Inc., Nashua, NH (through Creative Circle, Boston, MA)

  • Developed new pages on websites for Delta Education and Frey Scientific, including building content areas in HTML and CSS, populating new pages with content, and ensuring pages are usable across multiple platforms
  • Maintained existing pages, making content updates as requested and ensuring that all content was well-presented and used standards-compliant HTML and CSS
  • Assisted in migration of content from the previous versions of both sites to new versions which ran on Kentico CMS, and in transition of CPO Science, which became part of FreyScientific.com
  • Front-end development on the previous version of DeltaEducation.com, including UI improvements, updating existing HTML to more recent standards, replacing presentational elements with CSS where needed, and creation and development of new pages
  • Developed HTML emails based on provided mockups, as well as text-only versions
  • Worked with content specialists to ensure that content was readable and followed best practices for search engine optimization

Web Content Developer

September 2010 – December 2012

Intertek Testing Services NA, Inc., Boxborough, MA

  • Updated content on both the public-facing and intranet websites using the Ektron content management system
  • Developed new pages and organized content as needed
  • Migrated content from Intertek-owned sites to Intertek's public-facing website
  • Uploaded documents and images associated with site pages
  • Provided technical assistance and performed other duties as needed

Web Content Developer

March 2010 – May 2010

Intertek Testing Services NA, Inc., Boxborough, MA (through Aquent, Boston, MA)

  • Migrated content from the company’s old intranet site to a new site that used a different CMS
  • Uploaded documents and images associated with site pages

Interim Webmaster

January 2009 – April 2009

Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA (through Digital People, Boston, MA)

  • Updated content in various sections of the college's current website
  • Uploaded documents as needed
  • Ensured that content changes made by Contribute users were uploaded to the live site
  • Performed ongoing edits and additions to the site's CSS files as needed

Contract Web Producer

October 2008 – December 2008

The MathWorks, Natick, MA (through Aquent, Boston, MA)

  • Formatted HTML emails for marketing campaigns related to seminars, webinars, conferences and other events
  • Developed and maintained web pages for events, including both static pages and pages generated via the content management system used for sections of the site
  • Provided updates to event listings on the MathWorks websites, including international sites
  • Developed pages with content in languages such as German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese and Korean

Web Developer

July 2008 – September 2008

Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA (through Digital People, Boston, MA)

  • Migrated content from old website into new site design
  • Edited and reorganized content, prepared images and documents for inclusion on site, and changed filenames to match new filename conventions
  • Reworked some sections to fit into the new site
  • Edited HTML in the site templates to help streamline code where possible
  • Performed ongoing editing and additions to the site's CSS files as needed
  • Assisted co-workers in solving problems involving HTML and CSS

Web Content Coordinator

December 2007 – January 2008

Intertek Testing Services NA, Inc., Boxborough, MA (through Aquent, Boston, MA)

  • Migrated content from the company's old intranet site to a newer site
  • Uploaded documents and images associated with site pages

Freelance Web Developer

May 2007 – August 2007

Staples, Inc., Framingham, MA (through Aquent, Boston, MA)

  • Prepared, organized and imported email templates into Salesforce.com system
  • Organized image files and uploaded them to Staples' own server for hosting
  • Turned Photoshop compositions into HTML email templates
  • Developed copies of existing corporate responsibility section from company's main site that would appear on the contract division site
  • Recoded pages to use cleaner XHTML and CSS

Education & Training

Nashua Community College

Nashua, NH

  • Associate Degree in Website Development, Magna Cum Laude

Northern Essex Community College

Haverhill, MA

  • Associate Degree with High Honors: Computer & Information Sciences: Applications and Operations Specialist
  • Certificate with High Honors: Web Page Design and Development

University of New Hampshire

Durham, NH

  • Courses in Computer Science