Professional Experience
THE WEEK Daily
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
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
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
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
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
