Tyler M. Cole

Relevant Professional Experience

Webby Award–winning online travel community acquired by Travelocity in 2005.

Plan strategy, write functional requirements, and manage implementation of all new online products.
Work with developers, designers, and editors to track projects and meet deadlines.
Key responsibilities include improving site revenue, optimizing for search engines, and increasing user-generated content.

Led successful project to improve page load times and site performance.
Redesigned photo section, increased page views per visitor, and doubled daily photo submissions.
Converted IgoUgo.com front-end code from table-based HTML to XHMTL and CSS.
Instituted and conducted quarterly usability tests.
Managed Design and Editorial teams.

Established project management department and instituted best practices.
Managed B2B projects for the Travel Channel, Duncan Hines, and other clients.
Led implementation and optimization of Google text ads and DoubleClick banner ads.

Personal websites applying design, programming, search engine optimization, and usability best practices.

Designed, programmed, and monetized an online database of user-generated content.
Optimized site for search engines and reached first search result on Google for the term "funny words".
Selected as a featured site on Yahoo!TV's The 9.

Certificate, Internet Design and Technology, 2002

B.A., English Language and Literature 1998

HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Office, WordPress

Search Engine Optimization, Web Usability, Web Standards