Daniel Ritzenthaler

Current

Web Designer and Consultant at Wurkit

Past

Design Director and Partner at Forty Agency
Planning, Building, and Promoting Social Websites at Social Media Design
Founder / Partner at 30 Second Rule

Junior Designer at Epsilonium Systems (Sole Proprietorship)

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Education

Career Education Corporation

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Design

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Daniel Ritzenthaler’s Summary

Every website can be more productive for the owner, more valuable to it's audience, and more interesting to the world. We just have to clearly define the goals, understand the current reality, and move the features, functionality and visual aspects toward your goals. It sounds easy, but you might need a little help.

If you're interested in working together or are curious about how I work, feel free to contact me or add me to one of your networks and ask away. I can usually get you the information you need within a day.

Daniel Ritzenthaler’s Specialties:

I help individuals and organizations make websites and web-based applications more useful, usable and desirable by:

Strategy and Planning, Clarifying Messages, Prototyping, Visual Design, and Front-end Development

Daniel Ritzenthaler’s Experience

Web Designer and Consultant

Wurkit

(Design industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Wurkit is a web design and consultancy shop (one-man) that helps individuals and organizations make websites and web-based applications more useful, usable and desirable.
Design Director and Partner

Forty Agency

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

November 2006 — October 2008 (2 years )

Forty is a Phoenix-based branding agency specializing web design and strategy services to savvy business owners who want to connect with their customers using the web as their primary medium.
Planning, Building, and Promoting Social Websites

Social Media Design

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 2007 — August 2007 (5 months)

Social Media Design is a division of Forty, a high-end web design, web development, and branding agency based (proudly) in Phoenix, Arizona. We’ve been working on social media since long before there was a name for it, and we’d love to apply our experience toward your next project.
Founder / Partner

30 Second Rule

(Design industry)

June 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 7 months)

30 Second Rule is a small team of honest and dedicated experts building websites and web-based applications customers understand and love to use.
Junior Designer
Epsilonium Systems (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

September 2002 — June 2004 (1 year 10 months)

Design and interface development for small to mid-sized companies and large applications.

Daniel Ritzenthaler’s Education

Career Education Corporation

Bachelor of Arts , Design specializing in Multimedia , 2000 — 2002

Went year-round with maximum credits to finish in two and a half years. Was nominated for Founder's Award and only a few spots away from valedictorian.