Hiring: CSS-Page Optimization Expert

Thanks and look forward to hearing from good people! Please provide me with some reason why I should think you really know how to do the work. I'm saying this because you don't know how many people tell me they "really know" when they have more of a rudimentary knowledge. Thanks for understanding!

I have a vbulletin 4 and Wordpress site (amongst other scripts) that requires optimization to strip down the number of requests that each makes and increase the optimization of load time and performance. For example, vbulletin 4 only has about 15 or so http requests yet my custom design has 105. Evidently there are things that can be done such as using sprites, removing unneeded tags, images, etc.

I don't need someone who has done themes or familiar. I need someone to do the job above in order to reduce the page load and speed up and optimize these pages like good sites are optimized. Somehow vbulletin has reduced many of the same elements to just a fraction of load time and removed so many http requests. This isn't my forte - I can figure it out eventually but don't have time - this is where you come in. I have other work but these items are more important. It's a great, nice looking site and there is longer term work than just this.

ADMIN - realized there is another section but can't delete quickly after posting.