
Web & Graphic Designer
Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Web & Graphic Designer
Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area
Graduated form Kendall College of Art & Design in May of 2007 with a BFA in Digital Media Design. Prior to graduating I took the lead layout and typography artist position at Take Charge Productions, a small magazine publisher. I also was elected Team Lead for the Interactive Production team at Kendall in which I did project management and design direction as well as client relations. In August of 2007 I was hired on at Spout.com, a social network with 200,000 plus members, as their Design Integrator and first in-house designer. I specialized in HTML emails and WordPress blog administration. I also did a bevy of other tasks involving heavy html and css. I also contributed to the marketing team and co-created a marketing campaign that let to the highest traffic in the sites history, I also led the blog to quadruple its traffic trough SEO and social bookmarking methods.
HTML, CSS, ExactTarget (html email), Social Network Profile Design, RSS aggregation, Blog management.
(Internet industry)
August 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Mass HTML emails, Blog administration, Design for web, Multimedia distribution, Site support, HTML, CSS, XHTML, SEO, Code monkey, Hacker, Coffee addict
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
(Design industry)
2004 — 2008 (4 years)
(Publishing industry)
February 2007 — May 2007 (4 months)
did copy layout and advert design.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)
Worked with Dave Braford, head of IT, to create a database of project assets.
BFA, Digital Media, 2003 — 2007
BFA, Graphic Design, 2001 — 2003
PSU was a great introduction into higher education. I started as an Illustration major and added Graphic Design as a second major after the first year. I transfered to Kendall because the art program at PSU was fledgling and I wanted a more focused and challenging experience.
I love disc golf, and am the Capt. of Hucksters Disc Golf League. I have a handicap of -24 and go at least 5 times a week, I also love to play with my 4 year old dalmatian "Logo". He's a handful. I cook exotic foods, play the guitar and love reading and writing. I can solve the Rubik's Cube in under 2 minutes. I have an IQ of 140.
Hucksters DGL
I'm honored to be alive