Front-End Designer/Developer at Bernstein-Rein
Kansas City, Missouri Area
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- Interactive Art Director at Bernstein-Rein Advertising
- Internet Marketer + Designer + Developer at Self Employed
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- Interactive Designer, Online Marketing at Weld Wheel Industries
- Application Developer / Contractor at Malika Sports
- Graphic Designer at Northwest Missouri State University
- Education
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- Northwest Missouri State University
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Sean Berger’s Summary
I create things with Photoshop. I build things with Textmate. I learn & share things on Twitter.
I design and build things on the Internet. I have a particular interest in user experience design and architecture. I have five years of experience in working with brands big and small. Most days you can find me re-thinking an idea or interface, designing a layout or producing front-end interfaces by hand.
More specifically, I take part in conceptual thinking, layout design and the production of XHTML and CSS by hand. In 2008, I participated in the redesigns of Carando.com, CraveCupcakes.com and ClaytonHomes.com as the lead front-end developer at [BR]. Each of these projects involved more than 100 hours of development, cross-browser testing and creative collaboration. During the year, I also took part in a usability audit for Blockbuster.com.
Aside from all else, I embrace front-end standards, semantic markup and mod rewrites. When making time for freelance work, I keep my code skills sharp in writing object-oriented php and SQL.
Sean Berger’s Specialties:
Brand Positioning • Art Direction • Photoshop CS4 • Illustrator CS4 • Web Usability • XHTML • CSS • jQuery • Ruby Templates • Valid, Semantic Markup • Cross-Browser and Cross-Platform Quality Assurance • Email Marketing Best Practices, Standards and Production • Object-Oriented PHP • SQL • Mod Rewrite • Wordpress • Shopify's Liquid Templates
Sean Berger’s Experience
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Interactive Art Director
Bernstein-Rein Advertising
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)
Web design and development by way of the ad industry.
My primary responsibility at [BR] is to build front-end solutions in coordination with Senior Art Directors and our Ruby Developer. I am assigned projects from start to completion, which makes me responsible for initial thoughts and designs as well as every detail in production.
I concept, design and art direct site experiences as time allows, working in tandem with copywriters. I am one of four team members responsible for email marketing (industry standards, trends, design and production).
Client Experience:
Bayer Animal Health • Beauty Brands • Bernstein-Rein • Blockbuster Online • Carando Foods • Clayton Homes • Commerce Bank • Cook's Ham • Crave Cupcakes • Farmland Foods • The Home Depot • Hostess Snack Cakes • Road Runner High-Speed Online • Time Warner Cable • UMKC • USAA (Retirement, Investments, Insurance) -
Internet Marketer + Designer + Developer
Self Employed
(Design industry)
December 2003 — Present (6 years )
Designing, building and deploying the big idea on the Internet.
Client Experience:
Campus Crusade • Christopher Video • Fellowship of Christian Athletes • Jon Shirley • Nerdbots -
Interactive Designer, Online Marketing
Weld Wheel Industries
(Privately Held; Automotive industry)
September 2005 — April 2006 (8 months)
My core responsibilities included designing and maintaining corporate websites, designing HTML e-mails, copywriting and reporting analytics for our direct marketing program.
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Application Developer / Contractor
Malika Sports
(Sports industry)
March 2005 — July 2005 (5 months)
Based in Hawaii, Malika Sports organizes winter-break tournaments for college teams (D-II, D-III and NAIA) competing in soccer and basketball.
As the lead application developer for this company, I built web-based software to manage online registration for each tournament. Technologies included PHP and mySQL. -
Graphic Designer
Northwest Missouri State University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2005 — April 2005 (4 months)
University Relations office.
Sean Berger’s Education
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Northwest Missouri State University
B.S. , Interactive Digital Media: Computer Science , 2001 — 2005
I received my undergraduate degree in a program that featured the harmonies of traditional Art and Mass Communication alongside a core emphasis in Computer Science.
I used most all of my senior elective hours in taking 400- and 500-level courses that provided further training in computer programming and advertising. I have always been motivated by building and designing things for large audiences; this program was perfect for launching my career.
Undergraduate GPA: 3.64- Activities and Societies:
- AdInk (Advertising Club), Cross Country, Track & Field
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Sean Berger’s Interests:
ultimate frisbee, rock shows, trips to Colorado, hoodies, chilly Saturday mornings, coffee, midtown Kansas City, folk music, reading
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