Zeke Sikelianos

Current

• Web Developer / Designer at Gemini SBS

Past

• Design/Development Consultant at Fractured Atlas
• Design/Development Consultant at givezooks!, Inc.
• Design Consultant at Langenscheidt Publishing Group

• Developer at ELC
• Interactive Director at Ideum
• Designer/Developer at Rome & Gold Creative
• Guru Factotum at Neogenesis
• Designer/Photographer at Archetypal 3D

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Education

• Santa Barbara City College
• The University of New Mexico

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Portfolio

Zeke Sikelianos’s Summary

As both a designer and a programmer, I strive to produce work that is both aesthetically and functionally conscious. I enjoy working in stimulating environments with people who are passionate about what they do. I want my efforts to inspire people creatively and intellectually.

Zeke Sikelianos’s Specialties:

Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Max OS X, Linux, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, LAMP Stack, Javascript, jQuery, Actionscript 1-3, HTML, CSS, HAML/ SASS, AWS (S3/EC2), Bash, some Python, SVN, Git, English, French, Spanish

Zeke Sikelianos’s Experience

• Web Developer / Designer

  Gemini SBS

  (Internet industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

• Design/Development Consultant

  Fractured Atlas

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2009 — April 2009 (4 months)

• Design/Development Consultant

  givezooks!, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  2007 — 2009 (2 years )

• Design Consultant

  Langenscheidt Publishing Group

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Developer

  ELC

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 3 months)

  ELC is a programming consultancy providing Ruby on Rails development services to Fortune 1000 companies. As a developer at ELC I oversaw the design, development, and maintenance of a handful of enterprise-level Ruby on Rails web applications. I was exposed to many of the increasingly popular tenets of agile web development, including pair programming, scrum management and iterative development cycles.

• Interactive Director

  Ideum

  (Internet industry)

  April 2006 — November 2006 (8 months)

  Ideum is a small new media outfit working for museums, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations and socially responsible companies. As Interactive Director, I oversaw the production of a variety of educational and humanitarian projects and worked extensively with Flickr and Google mashups.

• Designer/Developer

  Rome & Gold Creative

  (Computer Software industry)

  August 2002 — May 2006 (3 years 10 months)

  Rome & Gold Creative is a branding agency that designs for a wide array of media. I worked as Lead Web Designer/ Developer and Junior Print Designer, focusing primarily on developing database-driven websites with user-friendly content management interfaces, but also doing print, clothing, environmental, and game design.

• Guru Factotum

  Neogenesis

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  December 2000 — September 2001 (10 months)

  Neogenesis was a documentary film production house. I worked primarily on post-video editing using discreet Combustion
  and After Effects, but also produced interactive CD-ROMs and Flash websites, and developed and maintained a networked
  rendering farm.

• Designer/Photographer

  Archetypal 3D

  (Architecture & Planning industry)

  July 1999 — April 2000 (10 months)

  Archetypal 3D is a group of architectural designers. As a production assistant I designed websites, produced IPIX 360-degree photographs, and maintained a network of workstations and rendering machines.

Zeke Sikelianos’s Education

• Santa Barbara City College

  Printmaking, Linguistics 2009 — 2009

• The University of New Mexico

  1999 — 2002

Additional Information

Zeke Sikelianos’s Websites:

• My Portfolio

Zeke Sikelianos’s Interests:

programming, graphic design, typography, linguistics, language, yoga, freestyle walking

Zeke Sikelianos’s Groups:

•    Ruby on Rails
•    Fractured Atlas Community
•    Typophile

Zeke Sikelianos’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch