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Philip Hallstrom
  • Probably just me, but if you own ceritakelly.com, why not setup an email address at that domain instead of gmail? iam@ceritakelly.com or cerita@ceritakelly.com. Not a big deal, but something I notice.

  • Skills. Find a way to not list HTML first. It's one of those that is almost implied by being a front end developer. I'd still put it on there, just not first. Your other skills are more important IMHO.

  • Why the 4 lines for skills? They appear to be grouped, but have no sections. What would happen if you just made it one long comma separated list? Might read easier.

  • PROJECTS is indented and uses a different format than the WORK HISTORY. Those should be consistent (personally I like the WORK HISTORY formatting).

  • Why no links to those projects? If they are available, it might be useful to see that.

  • EPEK says ".... using HTML and CSS" while Hexadecimal Clock says "...; HTML, CSS". Consolidate those.

  • UAT == I know what it means, but will others? I know you expand it above in skills, but might expand it here as well so it's easier to reason about.

  • Personal pet peeve is the first bullet point under Website Coordinator. It wraps, but loses the indent of the bullet.

  • Deployed over 3000+ ipads... can you talk more about the coordination there? Does it mean you simply handed them out? Or had to manage the entire project. The latter is much more interesting.

  • Why isn't Wordpress, Photoshop, Microstrategy, and Adobe Experience Manager in your skill list?

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Cerita

Thank you, Phillip!

  • I hadn't considered the email address before, but I will now
  • Am I correct to assume that you would want to see JavaScript listed first?
  • I will put more care into consistent formatting - some of the error is from moving between MS Word and Google Docs but I need to pay more attention to it regardless.
  • The projects show as links from my end; I think maybe the formatting I use for the link color makes that unclear. If you click on the title, a box with the URL pops up.
  • For the iPads, I was part of a team that manually configured and distributed them throughout the district. I was responsible for maintenance of about 300 in my assigned school - things like app requests, software updates, tracking inventory.
  • I had been told in the past that some of the skills I put in the descriptions was redundant to also put in my skills list if I wasn't using them currently, but I would agree that they should be there.
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Philip Hallstrom
  • I think JavaScript first would be good. Mostly I just don't think HTML should be first :)

  • As for skills, I get the point about redundancy. My concern would be if someone skims and/or simply skips to the skills section then they'll have missed those. Perhaps you could break out skills you used to use, but don't anymore. It's still interesting information.