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15
Mar

Portfolio

Leontine Linens

Leontine Linens Home Page

www.leontinelinens.com

Incredible SEO turn around with a traffic has increased well over 90% and considerably more in page views since launch of a slimmer, well-organized site structure using best practices.


Dr. McGillicuddy’s

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Concept design for the Dr. McGillicuddy’s line of liqueurs. While with The NetcomGroup LLC.


Morgan & Company

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www.morganandco.com/

Website design, unique html typography, and programming for Morgan and Company website. While with The NetcomGroup LLC.


Malouf Construction

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Site concept for Malouf Construction website.


The King Pin Bar

King Pin Bar Home Page

www.kingpinbar.com

Short and sweet WordPress site for a local bar, including plug-ins for a robust newsletter and gallery management. A simple and effective solution allowing the owners to keep in touch with their patrons interested in activities at The King Pin.


Womans Hospital

Womans Hospital

www.womans.org

Contributed a CSS-based navigation and basic AJAX to the web presence for the Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge: for The Netcom Group


Isleworth

Isleworth

www.isleworth.com

Flash-based site featuring XML-driven home listings for Isleworth, an upscale golfing community and one of Tavistock’s primary real estate holdings: for The Netcom Group.


SOM

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLC.

Early work pioneering WDDX packets for dynamic content population and UI interaction with images and text: for Thirdwave LLC.


MBHB

MBHB

Flash Actionscript and Javascript menu interaction: for Thirdwave LLC.


Gerhardt & Clemons

Gerhardt & Clemons

www.gerhardtclemons.com

Dynamic Actionscript and XML-driven menu system and content population for this design companies portfolio section: for Thirdwave LLC.

01
Mar

Resumé

Professional Experience

THE WEEK Daily

www.THEWEEKDaily.com

Freelance: Webmaster

Content, Newsletter, Ad managment. Social networking design.

  • CSS / XHTML

Wenner Media

Freelance: Interactive Design and Development

Customer Service back-end and subscription services integrating with Wenner Media’s fulfillment house.

  • CSS / XHTML
  • Javascript Interaction

COX Communication

Freelance: Interactive Design and Development

Creative design for email blasts to COX Communication subscribers. Updated email designed to work cross platform, attract attention, and create a more cohesive brand while creating mass email with as little flagging as possible.

  • CSS / XHTML
  • Richmedia
  • Mass Marketing

Leontine Linens

www.leontinelinens.com

Freelance: Interactive Design and Development

Incredible SEO turn around for a site that started as a table based layout. Now this site validating almost entirely site wide as XHTML 1.0 transitional. Site traffic has increased by 19.5% and considerably more in page views since launch of a slimmer, well organized site structure and standards based coding.

  • Information architecture redesign
  • CSS / XHTML coding restructure
  • SEO
  • Analytics tracking
  • Contact tracking
  • Content updates

The King Pin Bar

www.kingpinbar.com

Freelance: Interactive Design and Development

Short and sweet WordPress site for a local bar. The site includes plug-ins for a robust newsletter and gallery management. A simple and effective solution for the owners to keep in touch with their patrons, and for the patrons to keep up with the activities of The King Pin.

  • Hosting and DNS transfer
  • WordPress installation and SQL database management
  • CSS Design
  • Installation of Newsletter Management

The Netcom Group , New Orleans

www.netcomgroupllc.com

Senior Interactive Designer

  • Design of collateral for print, web, and interactive media.
  • Programming for interactive applications
  • Development of business standards on multiple platforms
  • Coordination of multiple projects through the life cycle: design, programming, analysis
  • Creative online advertising media including banner ads, bulk email, and interactive presentations.

Thirdwave LLC, Chicago

www.thirdwavellc.com

Interactive Designer / Programmer

  • Business site design
  • Creation of interactive interfaces and navigational hierarchy
  • Flash Actionscript based interaction with dynamically managed content
  • Creation of dynamic content, menu, and interaction for Flash web applications
  • Wire frame design
  • Logic flow design

Mindwave, Chicago

Pre-print / Design Assistant

  • Pre-print tasks
  • Design
  • Director Lingo

Adobe Systems

Student Representative


Proficiencies

Current language capabilities and software aptitude

  • Adobe Web Development Suite
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Open Office
  • CSS 1.x, 2.x, 3; XHTML 1.strict, 1.1, 2; X/HTML 5; XML
  • Actionscript 1
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • Studying PHP & SQL
  • Constant Contact
  • WordPress
  • Text Pattern

Achievements

  • 2006 — Gold ADDY® Award: Louisiana Office of Culture, Recreation & Tourism - Multi Media Presentation
  • 2006 — Silver ADDY® Award: Tavistock.com
  • 2006 — Silver ADDY® Award: IsleWorth.com
  • 2006 — Silver ADDY® Award: Womans.org
  • 2003 — Featured Illustrator for Echo Magazine; 3 Published Illustrations (black and white, computer, and marker)
  • 2003 — Columbia College Chicago Academic Computing Senior Art Show: Thread
  • 2003 — Guest Speaker for Animation for the Web I: Flash Animation at Columbia College

Education

Bachelor of Art, Columbia College Chicago

Digital Media Technology Major

  • Interface and Navigation
  • Interaction Design
  • Digital Imaging
  • Flash Actionscript 1
  • Desktop Publishing

Knowledge Base

  • Standards compliance
  • Device independence
  • Interface and navigation
  • Interaction design
  • User experience
08
Feb

Contact

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2400 Valence St.
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70115
United States

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08
Feb

About

Allan Kukral:

allan kukralI’m a interactive designer/programmer. Originally I hail form the cold land of Chicago, but as recently as December, 2004, I relocated to the Big Easy, where I have been working since.

My B.A. is in Digital Media Technology which only meant to compliment the skills and practices that I had been acquiring as an employee of a design firm and a programming firm, throughout my college career. The ideals that I strive to exemplify in my work now include, but are in now way limited to: standards compliance, device independence, interface and navigation, interaction design, usability and user experience. Although, I’m reasonably adept at working with what I’m given, my personal tools of the trade are xhtml, css, actionscript, most adobe software, things some people still call macromedia, a cork screw and a tooth pick.

When I’m not busy feeling ways about stuff, I pay bills by working at a New Orleans interactive agency Netcom. On the weekends I practice grifting between freelance jobs. I spend an inordinate time in bars and watching Adult swim, in between frequent and violent boughts of dart playing, golden tee, eating, sleeping, and mild self-preservation.




 

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