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Joshua Bousel

Official Title: Senior Web Designer, Media Production Center

“Working with websites gives you the opportunity to connect with your audience and both teach and learn from them on a global scale. In the field of conservation, it's exciting to know that the work you're doing is helping make a difference for a good cause.”

When Josh was in high school, web design and development were still very new fields. But he had a natural talent in the area, and began educating himself as much as he could by taking on projects for friends and even for his high school, since it didn’t offer web design or anything close to it as a class!

Josh went on to college and studied Photography and Imaging, but he took a couple of web design classes as part of his degree. He also started a small web business - a staffing service for Jewish summer camps - which gave him the foundation to learn more advanced back-end programming (in simple terms, back-end programming means making dynamic, data-driven websites, which is important for interactive sites).

This experience, along with his degree, helped Josh land two jobs out of college: one as the webmaster for Aperture magazine, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to promoting photography, and the other managing a photographer’s archives. He realized that he preferred the web design work and pursued that as his career. Eventually, Josh moved on to become the web designer at a software company, then to WCS.

The WCS websites are important to conservation because they help spread our mission to people all over the world. And this is what Josh feels every day he goes to work. He likes the fact that websites are fluid and demand constant attention as to what works, what doesn't work, and what adjustments need to be made to help improve site visitors’ experience. And as busy as he is with work, Josh has always freelanced and made sites for a broad spectrum of clients. He always tries to take challenging projects that require him to learn something new, so he’s constantly developing his skills and staying current.

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