Jared Dunn
Nonprofit Social Media and Tech Consultant
http://jareddunn.org
217-294-1102
jddunn at gmail dot com

OBJECTIVE:
To obtain freelance web development and user experience work in the nonprofit
or political sector. My long term goal is to build a client base of smaller 
underserved groups and individuals gradually over time, with the object of helping 
them to use the web to civically and socially engage people on a grassroots level,
and in this way further their organizational and societal goals. My other
object in undertaking this is to learn more about how to better accomplish
these goals in a variety contexts, with the aim of eventually becoming an authority
in the field. 

EXPERIENCE:
1. 1999 - University of Illinois, Plant Biology Deptartment, Urbana, IL

 -Lab assistant in Dr. Govindjee's plant biology laboratory(20-40 hrs/wk.)
 -Duties included lab organization, data gathering, processing and entry, preparation 
of culture media and stock solutions, library and internet research, and upkeep 
and design of the lab website and documentation.

2. 2000-2001 - Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, IL

 -Lab assistant for Dr. Weidong Chen(10-40 hrs/wk.)
 -Duties included DNA isolation, PCR, gel electrophoresis, preparation of stock 
solutions and dilutions, data entry and analysis, and other tasks related to a study
of the genotypic relation between fungal infection and soybean plants.  
 -Also, design and upkeep of lab website.

3. 2002 - University of Illinois, Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL

 -Web developer for Dr. David C. Wilkins(20-40 hrs/wk.)
 -Re-organization, maintenance, and expansion of a 10,000+ document digital library. 

 -Regular duties included scanning documents, editing and filing them, entering 
them in the database, and maintaining the associated web and intranet frontend, 
as well as hardware/software troubleshooting. I also devised and implemented a 
new organizational scheme for the library, did a major overhaul on both the web 
frontend and the database, and co-wrote thorough documentation for the entire 
project. 

4. 2002-2003 - Dunn's Lakeland Towing, Mattoon, IL   
 
 -Manager, Bookkeeper, Driver(40 hrs/wk)
 -Worked in and supervised multiple departments in the family business.
 -Responsibilities included: money management, production and maintenance of 
customer billing records, and many other tasks and skills associated with the
day-to-day operations of a small business.

5. 2003 - Genzyme Biosurgery(Contracted through Randstad Group), Cambridge, MA
 
 -Manufacturing Tech in the Carticel Divsion. Executed and documented a variety
 of complex and precise manufacturing protocols working with human tissue cultures
 in a sterile, cleanroom environment.


6. 2003-2008 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
 
 - Lab Manager in Dr. Matthew Wilson's laboratory.
 - Duties include administrative assistance and travel planning for the principal investigator.
 - Co-responsibility for finances and purchasing on multiple research grants, totalling in
 the 7-figure range per year. Also, supervision and coordination of the NIH grant and fellowship
 application process for lab members. 
 - Oversight of general operations, safety, workflow, supply, animal regulation compliance, and
 various other administrative tasks for a research group averaging 15 members during my tenure. 
 -Miscellaneous IT support work, as well as development and administration of the lab 
 intranet which collected and organized the lab's data, software, whitepapers, and publications.

7. 1999-Present  - Freelance Web Developer and Consultant
 - Design Portfolio http://jareddunn.org/web/history
 - Over the years I have done contract or pro bono work on a large number of business, non-profit,
 and political websites. I've also completed several web projects under the auspices of
 my more permanent jobs, and done a large amount of personal and collaborative work as an
 independent labor of love. 

8. 2008-Present - Nonprofit Social Media and Tech Consultant

- Since the fall of 2008 I've been consulting with local nonprofits in central Illinois to
help them use social media more effectively and get their message out via the web. I've also had
a key role in a regional effort to bring the nonprofit community together online initiated by
the Lumpkin Family Foundation. which resulted in the launch of http://goodworksconnect.org in
August of 2009.


EDUCATION:
1. 1993-1997 - Mattoon Senior High School, Mattoon, IL
 
 -Class Rank 4 / 250, GPA 5.625 / 5.0
 -Jr. Class President, National Merit Scholar Finalist.

2. 1997-2002 - University of Illinois - Champaign/Urbana, IL
 
 -James Scholar(1997-1998.)
 -B.S. in Cell and Structural Biology and B.A. Philosophy.
 -3.22 GPA in 141 graded credit hours, 18 non-graded hours from proficiency exams.
 -Member: student ACLU, Amnesty International, College Democrats. Founding member: Unaffiliated 
Illini(a religious tolerance and exchange/debate organization.)

3. 2001-2004, 2006 - SXSW Interactive Conference
 
 -Attended numerous panels and symposiums regarding information design, e-
commerce, web standards, cross-platform design, accessibility, and other aspects 
of web design and development.

SKILLS:
 
 -Excellent at problem solving, critical thinking, multitasking, learning new skills quickly,
 and working with others. Self-motivated, versatile, and well-organized. 

 -Web publishing and design/layout including HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java applets,
 cross-browser and platform compatibility issues, web-authoring tools, content
 management systems, graphic design, and working knowledge of CGI/Perl, PHP, MySQL,
 and DHTML. 12+ years of internet experience, including research, publishing,
 writing, design, online communities, social media, netiquette, and nearly all other 
 aspects of internet culture.

 -Experience with Windows 3.1/9.x/NT/2k/XP/Vista, MSDOS, Mac OSX, Unix/Linux platforms,
 and associated networking, and security issues. Experience with MS Office, Adobe
 Photoshop, Acrobat, and Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro, Dreamweaver, Apache, FTP servers
 and clients, scanners/OCR software, and most common compression, audio, document, and
 video formats. I'm not a sysadmin or an IT person by trade, but I can solve most problems
 I come upon with a combination of my experience and research abilities.

 -Considerable writing experience and skill, including general rules of usage, structure,
 grammar, grant, scientific and technical writing, and copy editing. Also fact-checking and library
 research. I have a significant body of self-published and some externally published work,
 both online and off. Samples available upon request.


REFERENCES:
                                      Upon request