A little bit about me and what I do...
Web Development and Graphic Design are ever-expanding fields. There are hundreds if not thousands of different professions and areas of expertise. I’ve made it my life goal to make a career in this industry. In doing so, there has to be a passion of continued education if you’re to take on such a demanding goal. Graduating college was not the end of learning for me...but more the beginning. I’ve gained invaluable experience working for a daily newspaper as a Graphic Designer and have expanded those skills to the Web.
Education
- B.S. in Digital Communication - Franklin University
- A.A.B. in Information Technology - Zane State College
- CompTIA A+ Computer Support Technician
- W3Schools certified in HTML/CSS, JavaScript, XML, and PHP/MySQL
- A list of my lynda.com Certifications
Skills
- Adobe Flash CS4 Professional/Actionscript 2.0 includes animating interactive banners, creating presentations, and designing for the web
- Adobe InDesign CS4 includes creating advertisements, marketing layouts, graphic design concepts, and multipage documents
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 includes creating static and dynamic websites by incorporating XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, etc.
- Adobe Fireworks CS4 includes creating vector based graphics
- Adobe Illustrator CS4 includes creating custom illustrations, advertisements, covers, and integrating Flash with imported vector based graphics
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 includes photo correction, image enhancement, photo manipulation, and practicing design concepts
- Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro includes creating PDF’s, using optical character recognition software, and using prepress tools to check for spot colors and color separations
- Markup languages including valid HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0 and XML
- Browser scripting languages including JavaScript/DHTML
- Stylesheet languages including CSS
- Basic server scripting and database including PHP and MySQL
- Following web standards in accordance with the W3C
- Understanding of cross browser/platform issues and SEO techniques
Experience
- Graphic Designer - The Daily Jeffersonian
Responsibilities include creating print and digital ads for any publications/websites within the Dix Communications Corporation, as well as creating designs for logos, graphics, newsletters, inserts, and promotional campaigns. - Web Developer (contract) - Professional Service Techniques
Responsibilities included front-end web development of Flash banner, image editing, and page layout including coding of external CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict documents. Other responsibilities included back-end programming of PHP email forms and MySQL database for product inventory search. - Web Developer (contract) - Guernsey County Foundation
Responsibilities included front-end web development of graphics, image editing, and page layout including coding of external CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict documents. Other responsibilities include setting up hosting/domain account and WordPress integration. - Web Designer (contract) - Tuscarawas County Literacy Coalition
Responsibilities included front-end web development of graphics, image editing, and page layout including coding of external CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict documents. - Web Designer (contract) - Gnadenhutten Public Library
Responsibilities included front-end web development of graphics, image editing, and page layout including coding of external CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict documents. - Web Designer (contract) - Cambridge Firefighter local 910
Responsibilities included front-end web development: Flash banner, graphic designs, and page layout including coding of external CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict documents.