Resume
Objective:
To both challenge and enhance my current skill set while expanding it among a group of passionate creative professionals and developers. To make the web a beautiful place.
Skills:
- Proficient in XHTML, CSS, CSSEdit, Espresso, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver.
- Experience with JQuery and Javascript based animation, as well as Flash and AfterEffects.
- Custom theming in WordPress and light manipulation of PHP.
- Some knowledge of Actionscript and C# program languages (OOP Programming).
- Working through browser incompatibilities with standards compliant techniques.
Education:
Current (2 Yrs) - Interactive Arts and Media Major @ Columbia College Chicago
+ Web Development Minor
Previous (1 Yr) - Graphic Design Major @ College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
- Currently Maintaining 3.58 GPA
Clients:
- John Garrido Campaign
- JMK Remodeling
- LR Hein Construction Corp.
- Trophies by George
- Trisha Lynn Simon Foundation
Interests:
- Finding and experimenting w/ emerging Web Technologies
- Personal music production; Electronic music
Recommendations can be provided upon request.
Portfolio: Client Work
John Garrido Campaign
Objective: Create a refreshed style and layout for John Garrido's new campaigning website with support for social networking buttons, adding formatted events, e-mail newsletters, and dynamic navigation.
Tools: Wordpress, XHTML, CSS, JQuery, PHP and Adobe Photoshop.
Garrido 2010
Objective: Develop a dynamic, bloggable home page for John Garrido's 2010 campaign for Cook County Board President with support for Twitter updates, an RSS feed, and user e-mail subscriptions. My first wordpress site.
Tools: Wordpress, XHTML, CSS, JQuery, PHP and Adobe Photoshop.
JMK Remodeling
Objective: Create a brand new page from the ground up using modern web technologies. I designed the site to have a warm, inviting feel while still representing the professional craftsmanship of the JMK Remodeling company.
Tools: XHTML, CSS, JQuery, PHP and Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator.
LR Hein Construction Corp.
Objective: Complete redesign and reorganization of old company website. They wanted a site that is fast loading, client updatable CMS, and retains a focus on their extensive list of previous client projects.
Tools: CushyCMS, XHTML, CSS, JQuery, PHP and Adobe Photoshop.
Trophies by George
Objective: Develop a revamped user interface and experience with a focus on organizing the huge collection of product photos. Also included a basic rebranding with a new logo and color scheme.
Tools: HTML, CSS, Flash, Javascript, and Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, & Dreamweaver.
Portfolio: College Work
Web Animation Portfolio Page
Objective: A simple yet stylized portfolio page to organize all of my semester Adobe Flash & ActionScript based projects. Uses some JQuery for basic color animation.
Class: Web Animation 1
Smell The Truth
Objective: In a three person team we had to create what would be the website for a fictional cult following born out of some insignificant object, ours being the cardboard car freshener. My responsibilities were in the design, some text, and markup of the page.
Class: Authoring Interactive Media 2
Artifact Zero
Objective: I bought the domain for this simply out of the cool-factor of the name. In the future I would like it to be both a resource center to organize vast amounts of info about web design I've found for those new to it and also a blog center for my freelance work.
Class: Not academic; a personal site
OOProgramming Portfolio
Objective: This is an indexing page for my semester's programming projects. It was originally designed to be a one page portfolio site but I converted for use as an assignment index. There is various Javascript at play having both Cufon for custom fonts and also for div toggling.
Class: Object Oriented Programming
