Wingate Design

Work history-Ben O'Connor

Instructor. Department of Journalism and Technical Communication, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. 2002-present.

Instructor for JTC372 (Web Design and Production). Junior-level course in web design and production. Currenty teaching five sections per year.

Contractor. Wingate Design, Fort Collins, Colorado. Contract web site development. April 1999 to present.

Web site design and maintenance for various clients, including music industry, air quality management, electric utility industry and art.
Sample web sites:
- www.mvea.org (electric cooperative)
- www.airsci.com (air quality consulting firm)
- www.wrapfets.org (air quality organization)
- www.ventriajobs.com (bioscience startup)
- www.midwinterbluegrass.com (music festival)
- www.aaas-swarm.org (science society)

Professional musician. 1999-present.

Approximately 100 dates annually at clubs, festivals, private engagements, principally in the Mountain West region.
Label recording on Rounder Records (Open Road- Cold Wind).
Appearance on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

Web Developer.

CyberCrop. Fort Collins, Colorado. September 2000 to April 2001. Worked in web development environment with Graphic Artist, Java developers, to design and construct web site for agribusiness startup.

UNIX environment.
ATG Dynamo Server pages, CSS, dHTML, Javascript.

Online Production Coordinator. Student Media, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. August 1998 to April 1999.

Advisory role in student newspaper web site
Server management, including NT server, on-line database applications and application software for page production.
Responsible for implementation of Cold Fusion-based on-line news publishing system.

Instructor. Department of Journalism and Technical Communication, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Summer semester 1998.

Instructor for junior-level course in page design and print production.

Computer Lab Supervisor. Department of Journalism and Technical Communication, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. August 1996 to May 1998.

Design and maintenance of department web page.
Installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of department software and hardware.
Classroom instruction and assistance.

Public Utility Engineering Specialist. New Mexico Public Utility Commission, Santa Fe, New Mexico. January 1993 to June 1996.

Expert written and verbal testimony in Commission proceedings, including CCNs, rate cases, complaints.
Field inspections and audits.

Electrical Engineer. Southwestern Public Service Company, Roswell, New Mexico. January 1989 to January 1993.

Negotiation and preparation of service contracts with industrial customers.
Planning and design of electric distribution construction projects.
Classroom instructor for Lineman Apprentice School program.

Programming Assistant. various positions while attending college. July 1986 to December 1989.

Programming in FORTRAN, BASIC, and dBase II+. Concentration was on statistical analysis and data tracking. Designed, implemented, and provided training for several database applications.