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Dori Smith

Bio

Dori Smith is co-author of best-selling books on JavaScript and Dreamweaver and a contributor to numerous tech industry magazines, both online and print. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is Publisher and ListMom for the Wise-Women's Web organization. She is on the Steering Committee of the Web Standards Project along with being co-lead of the DOM Scripting Task Force and a member of the Adobe and Microsoft Task Forces.

Dori contributes to the long-running Backup Brain weblog, and can also be found online at her personal site dori.com.

Work History

  1. Digital Facades/Rare Medium

    Director of Web Development
    May 1998 - October 1998

    Head of technology for multi-million dollar web development firm, including clients such as Epson, Bugle Boy, Nissan, Butterfingers, Friskies, Braun Oral-B, Starbright, BAX Global, and Beckman-Coulter.

  2. Dori.com

    Author, Programmer, Speaker
    January 1997 - present

  3. The Workbook

    Webmaster
    October 1996 - May 1998

    • Programmed web pages with a combination of JavaScript, HTML, Frontier, and FileMaker Pro. • Administered corporate web site, using RAIC'd WebSTAR servers. • Site used by Apple at Print '97 and Seybold conferences as dynamic web publishing example. • Featured by UserLand in the Galleria of Great Frontier Web Sites, 1998.

  4. Lakeshore Learning Materials

    Senior Systems Programmer/Analyst
    June 1993 - May 1996

    • Programmed inventory, payroll and sales management package. • Using AppleScript, created CD-ROM based software distribution system for retail demo kiosks. • Recommended, specified and purchased computer systems for affiliated chain of retail stores. • Supported PC and Macintosh computers (both network and stand-alone). • Programmed interface with Bank of America check reconciliation service and between PC-based POS system and mainframe.

  5. Fiserv

    Systems Programmer/Analyst
    April 1991 - May 1993

    10/92-5/93 Systems Analyst • Designed software for a real-time transaction-based credit union package used by over 400 clients. • Taught classes on SQL and federal regulations. • Consulted with customers to establish user needs. 4/91-9/92 Systems Programmer • Programmed systems-level enhancements, including an interface with Mellon Bank's ATMs involving communication protocols verifying that Mellon Bank's transactions properly updated Fiserv's database. • Designed and implemented efficiency protocols for SQL programmers, resulting in 20% improvement in transaction processing.