Simon Dabkowski

Current

Senior Web Designer at Tisha Creative, LLC

Past

Front-end Designer Vendor at Web Events Global
Web Consultant at Better Leadership America
Web Consultant at East Village Development

Art Director at Designer Outlet
Author of "Livemotion 2: A Beginner's Guide" at McGraw-Hill

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Education

City University of New York-Hunter College

Connections

63 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

Simon Dabkowski’s Summary

I’m currently employed at Tisha Creative, a creative solutions agency based in Hoboken, NJ. I’ve watched my industry blossom over the past 10 years of my professional experience in building and developing websites. I’m keen on staying up-to-date, absorbing and contributing to the ever-changing technology, constantly exploring new design and development methods and I’m extremely compulsive in developing content with Web Standards.

I’m also a photography addict. I shoot with a Canon Digital Rebel XSI DSLR camera and utilize a Sigma 10-20mm and a Tamron 55-200mm lenses. My post production workflow is done in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

My backend programming experience is composed of using PHP and MySQL in developing dynamic content including Content Management Systems. I prefer hand coding over using WYSIWYG editors, although I’m very fluent in Dreamweaver - having used it since it was formerly known as Cyber Studio.

I’ve been fortunate to be a part of the Adobe Beta team in the past which led me in having the opportunity in beta testing Adobe Livemotion which in turn landed me a book deal in writing a 544 page How-to book for McGraw Hill entitled Livemotion 2: A beginner’s Guide.

I’ve recently started heavily exploring working with JQuery in creating Ajax interactions. I’m also keen in developing SEO friendly content. I’m currently exploring creating applications for Facebook.

Simon Dabkowski’s Specialties:

Web UI Design, Web Development, Javascript, Ajax, PHP, mySQL, Interactive Animation, Branding & Identity, Online Marketing, Web Standards, Hand Coding, SEO, IT, Social Media Optimization, Photography, Digital Image manipulation, RAW file processing

Simon Dabkowski’s Experience

Senior Web Designer

Tisha Creative, LLC

(Online Media industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Front-end Designer Vendor

Web Events Global

(Privately Held; Events Services industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Web Consultant

Better Leadership America

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Political Organization industry)

June 2007 — October 2007 (5 months)
Web Consultant

East Village Development

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)

February 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 8 months)
Art Director

Designer Outlet

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

March 1999 — 2003 (4 years )
Author of "Livemotion 2: A Beginner's Guide"

McGraw-Hill

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MHP; Publishing industry)

April 2001 — February 2002 (11 months)