
Front-End Designer/Developer at Bernstein-Rein
Kansas City, Missouri Area

Front-End Designer/Developer at Bernstein-Rein
Kansas City, Missouri Area
I'm a designer / developer with four years experience working with brands big and small.
I take part in conceptual thinking, layout design and the production of DHTML and CSS by hand. When making time for freelance work, I keep my skills sharp in writing object-oriented php and SQL. I embrace front-end standards, semantic markup and mod rewrites.
In 2008, I participated in the redesigns of Carando.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. I also took part in a usability audit for Blockbuster.com.
I love the interweb!
Designing, building and deploying ideas and websites on the Internet.
I create things with Photoshop, I build things with Textmate. I learn & share things on Twitter.
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
Web design and development by way of the ad industry. I am assigned projects from start to completion, which makes me responsible for initial thoughts and designs as well as every detail in production.
Specialties and expertise:
• Photoshop design
• Semantic DHTML & CSS (including Rails front-end development)
• Organic search engine optimization (SEO) and best-practices
• Email marketing templates
• Javascript / jQuery
Client Experience:
• Bayer
• BeautyBrands
• Bernstein-Rein
• Carando Foods
• Commerce Bank
• Clayton Homes
• Cook's Ham
• Crave Cupcakes
• Farmland Foods
• Home Depot
• Hostess Snack Cakes
• Road Runner High-Speed Online
• Time Warner Cable
• UMKC
• USAA
(Design industry)
December 2003 — Present (5 years 8 months)
Branding, Web Design and Programming, Internet and Email Marketing Strategy, Organic SEO, Facebook Development, Virb.com Profiles
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; 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.
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Sports industry)
May 2005 — July 2005 (3 months)
Malika Sports organizes Hawaii-based tournaments for college teams (D-II, D-III and NAIA) competing in soccer and basketball.
As the sole application developer for this company, I built web-based software to manage user-registration. 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
I enjoy the things that designers are supposed to love (coffee, macbooks, google). I spend my free time playing piano and I find things like tru tv and the History Channel quite relaxing. Anything in HD is worth watching. Anything. Snowboarding is fun so long as I don't break my neck while doing it.