
Web/Interface Designer, Garmin.com
Kansas City, Missouri Area

Web/Interface Designer, Garmin.com
Kansas City, Missouri Area
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 crafting front-end solutions.
More specifically, I take part in conceptual thinking and layout design. Aside from all else, I take high stock in craftsmanship.
Art Direction • Brand Positioning • Cross-Browser and Cross-Platform Quality Assurance • CSS • Dreamweaver CS4 • Email Marketing Best Practices, Standards and Production • Illustrator CS4 • Java • Javascript • jQuery • Mac OS/X • Mod Rewrite • Object-Oriented PHP • Photoshop CS4 • Ruby Templates • Shopify Liquid Templates • SQL • UX and Web Usability • W3C Standards and Semantic Markup • Wordpress • XHTML
(Public Company; GRMN; Consumer Electronics industry)
February 2010 — Present (2 months)
(Design industry)
December 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)
Designing, building and deploying Internet solutions.
Client Experience:
Campus Crusade • Fellowship of Christian Athletes • Jon Shirley • Nerdbots
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2006 — January 2010 (3 years 10 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 • Beauty Brands • Blockbuster Online • Carando Foods • Clayton Homes • Crave Cupcakes • Farmland Foods • The Home Depot • Hostess Snack Cakes • Time Warner Cable (Digital Cable, Pivot Mobile, Road Runner High Speed Online) • UMKC • USAA (Insurance, Investments, Retirement)
(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.
(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.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2005 — April 2005 (4 months)
University Relations office.
B.S. , Interactive Digital Media: Computer Science , 2001 — 2005
IDM is an undergraduate degree with instruction from three colleges: Art, Mass Communications and a core emphasis in Computer Science. Most all of my senior elective hours consisted of 400- and 500-level courses that provided further training in either computer programming or advertising.
Undergraduate GPA: 3.64
ultimate frisbee, rock shows, trips to Colorado, hoodies, chilly Saturday mornings, coffee, midtown Kansas City, folk music, reading