Professional/Personal Overview
Consultant & creative professional providing conceptual and production skills of website planning/design/programming, digital layout, pre-press, and knowledgeable execution of all aspects of production to help businesses, agencies, developers and non-profit companies with producing emails, direct mail, trade shows, flyers, websites, live events, ads and multimedia. Web developing is especially rewarding. Actively working on the solution for a customer. Design a website, plan how it works, code it, then build it. A creative professional with proven ability to direct/develop and implement targeted design allowing increase of client base and sales of 20%-60%. Excellent design sense and ability to roll with new technology decisions that affect design and architecture. Put me to work for you and I will see your vision through to completion. Will become an indispensable team member. Prefer to work off-site, but will consider on-site. Will also do some travel if necessary.
Work Info
Expertise
Art Director
4 Years
Designer
4 Years
Web Designer
8 Years
Specialty
Finance
1 Year
Consumer Products
6 Years
Entertainment
8 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
10 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
Loews Theaters (11+), WWE (11+), A&E (11+)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Atrinsic, Inc. (11+), Deutsch Family Wines & Spirits (11+), Electric Media (11+), Fuji Film (1-2)
Computer Skills
• HTML5 (best practices, SEO, semantic use of tags, comments, newest features, browser support) • JavaScript & jQuery • CSS (best practices, newest features, browser support) • Version control (SVN and/or Git) • Multiple CMSs: custom, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla • PHP • Adobe Creative Suite: Flash & actionscript, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver • Eclipse, Notepad++, TextMate, Coda • SFTP • Familiarity with hosting environments and setup- (DNS, SSH, etc) • Social media integrations • Collaboration tools for teams incl. Dropbox, MS Remote Desktop Connection (RDC), Citrix Remote Desktop, GoToMeeting, Skype, Wikis, Google Drive, Google Docs • MSOffice: Excel, MSWord, Powerpoint • Familiarity with .NET • Familiarity with app development • Familiarity with social media api (facebook, twitter) • Dual platform - Windows XP / Mac OSX
Technical Skills
web design, web development, wireframes, photo editing, photoshop rendering, print design and production, 4-color pre-press
Equipment
MacBook Pro, Windows XP
Foreign Language Skills
French, Creole
Work Permits & Visas
American
References
Available on request.
Associations
AIGA, Communications Arts (CA), NAFE
Other
99th percentile on verbal SATs
Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I live near New York, NY. I am willing to travel locally. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.
Work Samples
Print
(Barnum Wash & Dry , 3/30/2011)
Print collateral for small business.
(The Great American Photo Contest , 4/13/2010)
People's magazine ad to promote the website greatamericanphotocontest.com and their baby photo contest
(Restaurant Menu , 12/1/2006)
Printed menu
Web
(Deutsch Family Wines & Spirites , 12/1/2012)
Deutsch web design and development
Design and develop from a Photoshop to HTML5 to Wordpress
Tools: Wordpress CMS, CSS5, PHP, JQuery, MySQL, Apache server.
(Osprey Communications/Grey Advertising , 2/16/2012)
Multimedia page for a prescription drug lecture/conference video
(Electric Media, Inc. , 3/24/2011)
Website design, photoshop rendering, CSS, XHTML.
(Kingdom Kids for Success , 10/14/2010)
Production and development of nursery school website.
Site is available on demand.
(Ayitihealing , 3/10/2010)
Chariti website. Web design, photoshop rendering, and development.
(LiveIntent , 3/10/2010)
landing page for a Twitter app/too for accessing health and beauty secrets directly from the experts.