Vectorliving

Check out my resume when you have a chance. I put up 5 or 6 links to recent work. Let me know what you think!

And that is that I don’t get around to doing them at all or at least as nearly as I would like. Though I have updated one of my clients sites. One of my longest running and best clients Leontine Linens has just released their fall line. Please check it out, they have the most superb products.

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

Allan Kukral:

I’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.