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ELINA GORELIK

SUMMARY
• 6+ years online fundraising and non-profit e-communication experience
• Demonstrated success in leading development, management, and expansion of non-profit Web sites
• Solid knowledge of content architecture principles, Web authoring and design tools, design principles and trends, usability and platform compatibility issues
• Proven track record of efficient project facilitation, including requirements collection and assessment, planning, and hands-on execution
• Benchmarking, success measurement, and reporting proficiency
• Effective team coordination and leadership experience, including collaboration with third parties
• Thorough understanding of non-profit operations

 

EXPERIENCE

June 2004 - present
Programmer Analyst
Loyola University Chicago, Office of Advancement, Chicago, IL

• Collaborating with university technical staff and consultants on system conversion to PeopleSoft™
• Developing mapping documents, testing implementation of modifications
• Writing reports under both, the old and new systems, utilizing PL/SQL and WebFOCUS
• Administrating user rights and security
• Assisting director of communications on strategies for creating an external Web site
• Maintaining departmental Intranet Web site

 

February 2001 -May 2004
Webmaster
Northwestern University, Office of Alumni Relations and Development, Evanston, IL

• Project manager with hands-on responsibility for overall online presence of the department
• Redeveloped and expanded the Giving to Northwestern Web site, dramatically increasing site traffic and donor participation
• Managing, updating, and enhancing the above Web site by posting new content, creating graphics, converting print publications to online format, developing new features, and troubleshooting
• Supervising support staff responsible for maintenance of their respective sections of the site, providing necessary training, managing workflow and FTP access
• Collaborating with numerous vendors on projects such as development of the online giving application and online event registration and payment service
• In coordination with IT team streamlined data exchange between online alumni network (serviced by an external provider) and in-house alumni database
• Assisting Director of Communication on integrating the Web and e-messaging into the overall marketing strategy, by establishing and following unified graphic identity and design standards
• Creating traffic analysis and fundraising reports, presenting to senior management and making recommendations for improvement
• Serving on the Northwestern Web Steering Committee, facilitating school and unit collaboration on Web and multimedia projects throughout the University


February 1998 - December 2000
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Britannica Dot Com Inc, Chicago, IL

• Led a team of up to five analysts on quality assurance projects, analyzing and testing online products
• Collaborated with developers on resolving errors and implementing bug fixes
• Managed projects by constructing test plans, distributing workload, evaluating test data, and compiling bug reports
• Assisted creative and marketing teams on concept development for new feature sites
• Served as liaison for creative, technical, marketing, and editorial teams
• Performed training and supervised consultants
• Developed and maintained the Quality Assurance Team Intranet Web site


TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, Flash, FTP
Graphic Design: Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Acrobat, QuarkXPress
Productivity: MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Word
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, NT, 98, 95, Mac OS
Programming and Databases: ASP, PHP, Perl, C, C++, Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland C, SQL, PL/SQL, WebFOCUS

 

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 2000

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