April Holle

Current

Interactive Strategist at Santy Advertising
Principal at Made Better Studio

Past

Ninja at Drawbackwards Strategic Design
Front End Architect at Terralever
Web Director at AIGA - Arizona

Project Manager at Holy Click

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Education

Cloud County Community College

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

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April Holle’s Summary

I believe that great work is worth everything. It's worth the time, energy and the thought put into it. It's an investment, something that returns value many times over what it's original cost. With a powerful work ethic and passion for helping others achieve success I assist in creating custom web strategies and solutions for clients and help other agencies deliver great work.

April Holle’s Specialties:

user experience design, interactive strategy, web interface development using XHTML and CSS, web standards, w3c validation, 508 standards compliance, Adobe creative suite, Wordpress development, design and development for Expression Engine CMS, technical support for hosting and web site management, designing for the web and e-mail, interactive marketing, social media, SEO implementation, web project management

April Holle’s Experience

Interactive Strategist

Santy Advertising

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

I'm involved with or responsible for the following: interactive brand strategy, information architecture, interactive user experience, usability assurance, interactive design consultations, search engine cpc and organic analytics reporting and recommendations, interactive project management, and management of interactive partner companies and contractors.
Principal

Made Better Studio

(Internet industry)

June 2001 — Present (8 years 6 months)

Made Better is built on this philosophy and with it a powerful work ethic and passion for helping others achieve success. We create custom web strategies and solutions for clients and help other agencies deliver great work.
Ninja

Drawbackwards Strategic Design

(Internet industry)

January 2008 — July 2008 (7 months)

project management, information architecture, user experience, interactive strategy, brand strategy consulting, branding and design, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, front end architecture and development, Expression Engine templates and development, Wordpress templates and development
Front End Architect

Terralever

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

July 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 8 months)

Created W3C compliant XHTML and CSS from art direction for local, national and international websites and web applications for brands such as Red Bull. Worked closely with C# ASP.Net developers and Flash Interactive teams to create large scale web applications including e-commerce. Positioned on Facebook development teams creating frontend development and FBML for facebook applications.
Web Director

AIGA - Arizona

(Internet industry)

December 2005 — October 2007 (1 year 11 months)

Handled all of AIGA Arizona Chapter online communications. Worked directly with AIGA National to set up the chapters ISK content management system. Implemented email standards and email campaigns for each local event using My Emma. Reported analytics for email campaigns to board members. Created php backend for major fund raising event site to handle artist submissions. Managed a group of volunteers who made made updates to CMS system.
Project Manager

Holy Click

(Internet industry)

June 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Managed timelines, workflow and customer needs for print and web projects.

April Holle’s Education

Cloud County Community College

AAS , Web Development, Graphic Design , 2002 — 2005

Activities and Societies:

Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society President, Yearbook Editor, The Graphic Design Guild President, President of Publications Club