Nicole Sullivan

Location: California | San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: Architecting High Performance CSS | Building Web2.0 Teams | High Performance Websites | Using YSlow to improve site speed | Yahoo!s Latest Performance Breakthroughs
Spoken Languages: French | English

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Nicole Sullivan is a performance guru and CSS Ninja. She is writing about Image Optimization for “Even Faster Websites”, an upcoming book for O’Reilly. She is also working on the redesign of the W3C website.

Previously, she researched and improved the performance of Yahoo sites worldwide as a part of their YSlow team.

She is passionate about CSS, web standards, and scalable front-end architecture for sites with large numbers of pages and visitors. She speaks about performance at conferences around the world, most recently at Ajax Experience and ParisWeb.

She has enjoyed working on large commercial sites including; Yahoo!, SFR, FNAC, Club Med, Accor, Renault, SNCF, and La Poste. She writes on her blog http://stubbornella.org as well as other developer sites such as YDN, Opera, and YUI Blog.

Previous Presentations: 
Architecting High Performance CSS, and High Performance Websites at Yahoo! Frontend Engineering Summit, London
Yahoo!s Latest Performance Breakthroughs, Yahoo! Service Engineering Conference
Ajax Experience
ParisWeb
Performance workshops in Grenoble, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, etc.