A software engineer by training and a passionate artist since childhood, I am a self-employed professional taking on work which interests me the most:  website development, desktop publishing, and portrait drawing.  Currently I am working on publishing an art book of my father Artist Bertrand Mao's work.

If you need a website, a newsletter, a calendar, or a book published, please contact me.  I thrive on creative projects and am obsessed with getting a job done well and in a timely fashion.

If you would like a portrait drawing for yourself or as a gift, please contact me.  My prices are very reasonable.

References available upon request.

Portfolio:

• Recent work:
  • Hands On Science.  Website for MCCPTA-EPI Hands On Science program.
  • Middle School Store.  Website featuring products for middle school students.
  • Chinese Arts.  Used CafePress template to build CafePress store.
  • Shredder Outlet.  In addition to creating this e-commerce website, I also setup the site's dedicated server, security, and backup
  • Info Strat animation.  In addition to creating the Flash animation, I also customized the Flash Player to include closed-captioning, scene navigation, replay loop, and information pop-up.
• The following are other websites I have developed:
• Walter Johnson High School Education Foundation.  This is a non-profit organization.  In addition to creating the site, I added PayPal™ donate buttons to the site for collecting on-line contributions.
• MCCPTA (Montgomery County Council of PTAs).  I revamped this website in 2006 and keep it current with new content that is emailed to me by MCCPTA officers and chairpersons.
• Tilden Middle School.  I revamped this website in 2006 and keep it current with new content that is emailed to me by school staff and PTSA officers and chairpersons.
• Musical Expressions.  I created this brochure website in 2006.  It is maintained by an employee at Musical Expressions.
• Artist Bertrand Mao.  My father's website which showcases his artwork and services.
• The following are websites I have updated:
  • Lucid IDS.  I fixed the code underneath this website so that all pages displayed correctly on the most popular browsers.  When I started work on this website the graphics and content were already there, however the HTML code was terrible which is why it did not display correctly.  I moved a lot of the "hard-coded" display information from the HTML files to a CSS file and also corrected the extremely sloppy HTML code.
  • Artist Susan Goldman.  I have updated Artist Susan Goldman's website with new images and text that she has emailed me.
• The following are links to my artwork:
  • Portrait Art by Lin-Lin Mao
  • Digital Art by Lin-Lin Mao

Background:

• 2006 - Present:  Freelance Website Developer.  Developed brochure and e-commerce websites, and flash videos using Dreamweaver CS3, Flash CS3, Fireworks CS3, Cartweaver PHP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS, HTML, PayPal.
• 2006 - Present:  Volunteer Webmaster for Tilden Middle School, Walter Johnson High School Education Foundation, and Montgomery County Council of PTAs.
• 1995 - Present:  Involved Parent and PTA volunteer/chairperson: yearbook, newsletter, student directory, school wall calendar, Sally Foster giftwrap fundraiser, geography bowl, after school activities, school dance, PTSA secretary, soccer team manager, webmaster, room parent
• 1989 - 1995:  Software Engineer for International Business Machines (IBM).  Developed the graphical user interface for various PC products using IBM Presentation Manager and Microsoft Windows software development toolkits.
• 1985 - 1989:  Software Engineer for Associative Design Technologies.  Developed the graphical user interface for the company's workflow product on Silicon Graphics workstations.
• 1985:  received Master of Science in Media Arts & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Studied under award-winning graphic designer Muriel Cooper at the Media Lab at MIT.
  • Master's thesis - "Computer Art and Creative Tool Making". For my thesis project, I developed a software program that allowed users to create digital brushes and to then "paint" digital images with the brushes where the user was able to change the size and opacity of the brush mark while painting.
• 1985:  Digital art work "Alfalfa" selected by jury for SIGGRAPH 1985 Art Show.
• 1982:  received Bachelor of Arts majoring in Computer Science from Brandeis University

Skilled In:

• Dreamweaver / Fireworks / Flash / Cartweaver
• HTML / CSS / Javascript / PHP / MySQL
• Microsoft Word / Photoshop Elements
• "C" programming language / UNIX / DOS / Windows