Soh Tanaka

Current

• Senior Web Designer at 4 Wheel parts
• Owner at SohTanaka.com

Past

• Ad Trafficer at Gorilla Nation Media

Education

• DeVry University

Recommended

5 people have recommended Soh

Connections

36 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• Torrance Web Design
• CSS Tutorial
• CSS Gallery

Soh Tanaka’s Summary

Passionate web designer / front-end developer. Experienced in working in a fast paced environment, and can produce both usable and aesthetic designs and xhtml/css structure very quickly and accurately. Has a wide range of knowledge and experience in the field, and can manage projects with multiple members and clients. Has an eye for detail and thinks from a user perspective, never sacrificing the "prettiness" over usability. Always designing for the user and not the other way around. A problem solver that always loves a challenge.

Soh Tanaka’s Specialties:

XHTML, CSS, SEO, jQuery, Usability, Photoshop, Illustrator

Soh Tanaka’s Experience

• Senior Web Designer

  4 Wheel parts

  (Automotive industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years)

  Developed the expertise to work within the highly developed website structures using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML). Assumed primary responsibilities for projects including but not limited to general oversight, assigning tasks to other designers, and seeing jobs through from concept to completion. Assisted with project scheduling and planning. Provided training to department employees and assisted department head with web design standards compliance. Acted as the main contact for design group in absence of the department head.

• Owner

  SohTanaka.com

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

  Designing effective and professional websites ensuring that the websites are unique, clean and aesthetic, SEO friendly, user friendly, built with semantic coding, consistent design, cross browser compatible, and maintained.

• Ad Trafficer

  Gorilla Nation Media

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  August 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Offered advertisers site-specific advertising solutions on high quality sites. In charge of implementing Flash, DHTML, Script Tags, and audio/video ads on over 100 high trafficked sites. Managed each ad to target specifc geo-locations (i.e., country, state, zip code), user connection speeds, frequency capping, click capping, weighted delivery, etc. Responsible for optimizing campaigns to increase click through rates and managing the revenue on each ad. Offered advertisers the opportunity to target their message using site-specific content integration such as tutorials, editorial coverage, text links, floating ads, interstitials/Intermercials and unconventional units like quizzes, polls, and surveys.

Soh Tanaka’s Education

• DeVry University

  Bachelor of Science , Computer Information System , 2002 — 2005

Additional Information

Soh Tanaka’s Websites:

• Torrance Web Design
• CSS Tutorial
• CSS Gallery

Soh Tanaka’s Groups:

http://www.behance.net/sohtanaka

•    Designers Talk

Soh Tanaka’s Honors:

4 Wheel Parts - Employee of the Year 2007
DeVry University Senior Project Winner - 2005

Soh Tanaka’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• job inquiries
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