Resume

Experience:

Culture Jam

Los Angeles | Present | UI, UX, Frontend, jQuery, AJAX, Rails, GitHub
Culture Jam needed some design and css work with a few of their custom PromoJam applications. Since then I have have done a total 5 apps in addition to front end code for the PromoJam CMS. I have worked in their LA office and remotely in PDX.

Trackers NW

Portland | 2008 - Present | UI, UX, Development, PHP/MySQL, SysAdmin
Initially I was hired to build a custom CMS and product cart system and since I have assumed role of sys admin, UI and UX design. We are still developing the cart system as well as rebranding numerous different portal sites for the school different divisions.

Freelance Design + Web

Portland | 2005 - Present | Freelance Web / Graphic Design, Editing, Etc.. I have done design work for print, web, and motion projects. I have edited short films, documentaries, and commercials. I have been a creative director, a project manager and a hired gun and various agencies in LA and PDX.

Coffeehouse Northwest

Portland | 2007 | Co-Owner For the majority of 2007 I co-owned and managed Coffeehouse NW with Adam McGovern in Portland OR. I worked especially with developing a branding identity for the company and remodeling the shop to cater to more upscale crowd.

Flyer Entertainment

Los Angeles | 2004 - 2005 | Freelance FX, Designer Duties include rotoscoping, pre-visualization, compositing, music selection for trailers, dubbing, and driving.

Reverse Productions

Los Angeles 2003 - 2004 | Editor, Digital Effects
Complete post production of four short films. This includes editing, digital compositing, sound, and DVD mastering.

Redcar Editing House

Santa Monica | 2002 | Multimedia Designer / Production Assistant Duties: Maintaining company website, fixing computers, running errands, producing multimedia presentations for clients, making tape dubs.

Lemon Chicken

Los Angeles | 2000 - 2001 | Interactive and Graphic Design Created educational Flash websites that utilized video & audio, designed promotional artwork for LemonChicken.

Icom

Los Angeles | 1998 - 2000 | Webmaster Responsible for both internal and external websites for the company. Started development of a Macromedia Flash prototype of the companies external site. Did graphics and UI that eventually became prototype of vDeck

Technologies:

HTML & XHTML
CSS / Javascript / jQuery / AJAX
PHP / MySQL
Ruby On Rails
GitHub / XML

Programs:

Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, After Effects
Apple Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Logic Pro, Quicktime
Digidesign ProTools, Avid

Education:

Art Center College of Design,
Pasadena, Ca. - Graphics/Film

Santa Monica College
Los Angeles, Ca - English