Web Designer/Developer
Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area
- Current
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- COO & Creative Director at Buttonpresser
- Past
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- Front End Web Designer/Developer at Mobil Travel Guide
- Owner/Opperator at Buttonpresser.com
- Design Integrator at Spout.com
- Layout/typography artist at Take Charge Productions
- Intern at Hanon McKendry
- Education
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- Ferris State University
- Plymouth State University
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Pete Fecteau’s Summary
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 through SEO and social bookmarking methods.
Pete Fecteau’s Specialties:
HTML, CSS, ExactTarget (html email), Social Network Profile Design, RSS aggregation, Blog management. User Interface Design, Content management, Web Standardizing, Social Media Strategy, SEO, Marketing for Web.
Pete Fecteau’s Experience
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COO & Creative Director
Buttonpresser
(Internet industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Working on a beta release of Sworray.com. Expanding into networking and cloud interactions. Buttonpresser is part social network, part web design/development firm and part venture development. We're four people strong and growing. Ask me about seed investment opportunities and out next big idea.
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Front End Web Designer/Developer
Mobil Travel Guide
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
October 2008 — February 2009 (5 months)
One man web des/dev band. Writing XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, SEO, on and on and on.
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Owner/Opperator
Buttonpresser.com
(Design industry)
2004 — 2008 (4 years)
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Design Integrator
Spout.com
(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
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Layout/typography artist
Take Charge Productions
(Publishing industry)
February 2007 — May 2007 (4 months)
did copy layout and advert design.
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Intern
Hanon McKendry
(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.
Pete Fecteau’s Education
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Ferris State University
BFA , Digital Media , 2003 — 2007
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Plymouth State University
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.
- Activities and Societies:
- Was an Residence Adviser (RA) for Grafton Hall. Was on the unofficial PSU Rock Climbing Team. Was a member of the Boxing Club as well.
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I'm honored to be alive
