Work Experience > 1999-2000: PG&E Energy Trading

1999-2000: PG&E Energy Trading, Houston, TX

Permanent staff position with technical documentation group, Information Technology (IT) department

Summary

Intranet Webmaster for energy commodities trading company

Major Assignments

• Assemble and maintain HTML (and graphics) content for new corporate intranet web site
• Conduct orderly transfer of existing intranet web site content and functionality to new corporate offices and web server
• Participate in design of new corporate intranet web site for reorganized company

Significant Accomplishments

• Constructed and deployed (with some assistance from another technical writer and web server manager) a new corporate intranet web site that distributed content provided by human resources, information services, legal, and commodities trading departments—3 months after receipt of look-and-feel prototype graphics from a web site design firm
• Constructed professional quality graphics, menu systems, and dynamic coding to enhance the quality of web site's content and usability
• Coordinated the transfer of the corporate intranet web site to another web server located at the company's new offices in Bethesda, Maryland; ensuring no down time and the orderly propagation of IP addresses to domain servers in the company's wide area network (WAN)
• Adapted coding found in Java servlets to provide same functionality of web forms, but with Active Server Pages (ASP)
• Designed and constructed the following Microsoft Access database applications to serve as helper tools for the busy web master: Webmaster's File Mover, Web Site Changes Log, and Outlook Interceptor (for unattended receipt of email file attachments and posting to web site)
• Improved and deployed a multi-user Microsoft Access application I had previously made for tracking documents, author(s), file locations, and revision status
• Developed new skills in NetObjects TeamFusion use
• Developed new skills in JavaScript, VBScript, and ASP coding
• Developed new skills in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) management
• Developed new skills in Macromedia Fireworks use
• Developed new skills in Visio use
• Developed new skills in RoboHTML use
• Improved skills in Microsoft Access applications development
• Improved skills in HTML coding
• Maintained skills in Microsoft Word use
• Maintained skills in Windows Help authoring
• Increased knowledge of web server setup, domain server trusts, and various intranet issues

Skills and Software Tools

Commonly used software:

• TeamFusion 3 by NetObjects
• Fireworks 2 by Macromedia
• Homesite 4 by Allaire
• Visio 4
• Access 97 by Microsoft
• Word 97 by Microsoft

Commonly practiced skills:

• Collaboration with business department managers for drafting, revising, and approval of intranet web site content
• Web page development and HTML coding
• Web graphics production
• Database application development via Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and MS-Office Automation coding and techniques

Additional software and skills:

• Dreamweaver 3 by Macromedia
• RoboHelp and RoboHTML v7 by eHelp (formerly Blue Sky Software)
• JavaScript, VBScript, and ASP coding

Training

Classroom courses:

• Creating, Managing a Web Server Using Microsoft IIS 4 (Digital Consulting & Software), 3-day, December 1999
• Using NetObjects TeamFusion and NetObjects Authoring Server (Core Software), 2-day, June 1999

Self-study:

• Visual Quickstart Guide: Fireworks 2 for Windows and Macintosh by Sandee Cohen, copyright 1999, Peachpit Press, ISBN: 0-201-35458-6
• Guide to Building Intelligent Websites with JavaScript by Nigel Ford, copyright 1998, Wiley Computer Publishing, ISBN: 0-471-24274-8
• HTML in Plain English, 2nd edition by Sandra E. Eddy, copyright 1998, MIS Press, ISBN: 1-55828-587-3
• Short Order Macromedia Dreamweaver 3 by Steven Moniz, copyright 2000, Hayden Books, ISBN: 0-7897-2150-3
• Professional Active Server Pages 2.0 by Francis, Fedorov, Harrison et al, copyright 1998, Wrox Press, ISBN: 1-861001-26-6

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