Experiences at Demand Media / Hillclimb Media

User Experience Engineering (design and development) for Hillclimb Media's collection of niche recreation web properties, notably Run.com, RunThePlanet.com, GardenGuides.com and GolfLink.com. Current projects include developing websites for recreation markets with web-standard user-interfaces, solid information architecture and a light-weight code base. The company specializes in acquiring older, well-ranked specialty websites, which are then redesigned, re-developed and expanded with Hillclimb Media's unique recreation content. Beyond UX planning, front-end development and an small amount of design, typical work includes conceptualization, mind-mapping, usability heuristics and SEO & SEM strategies, as well as competitive analysis and search analytics. Hillclimb Media's development environment includes working with SQL, ASP, XHTML, CSS, DOM scripting, a smidge of AJAX, and lots and lots of regular expressions....