Thomas Chapin (tchapin@gmail.com)

Current

• Business partner at Tornado Design

Past

• Senior Designer at DSB WorldWide
• Business Owner/Operator at Chapin Computer Repair (Sole Proprietorship)

Education

• Grayson Community College
• Homeschooled

Recommended

6 people have recommended Thomas

Connections

113 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Home Page
• My Myspace
• Tornado Design

Thomas Chapin (tchapin@gmail.com)’s Summary

Professional web designer/developer for over 10 years with focus on Macromedia/Adobe products such as Flash, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver. Also has a background in computer networking and repairs.

Thomas Chapin (tchapin@gmail.com)’s Specialties:

HTML, CSS, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, CakePHP, Quickbooks, Customer Service

Thomas Chapin (tchapin@gmail.com)’s Experience

• Business partner

  Tornado Design

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2005 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Helping business partner (Chris Tingom) with running the company and managing employees. Involved with projects all the way from sales and planning to final production and ongoing customer support. Designing web sites, logos, business cards, Flash/Interactive media, and print material, as well as programming with PHP/CakePHP and Javascript/AJAX. In charge of handling hosting and server administration for over 100 client web sites. Other responsibilities include invoicing, billing, and payroll.

• Senior Designer

  DSB WorldWide

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 2000 — November 2005 (5 years 3 months)

  Designed web sites, logos, business cards, Flash/Interactive media, and print material. Involved with hundreds of projects and helped manage other employees.

• Business Owner/Operator

  Chapin Computer Repair (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 11 months)

  Performed computer repair and networking services for a network of businesses and individuals in the Sherman/McKinney/Dallas, TX areas.

Additional Information

Thomas Chapin (tchapin@gmail.com)’s Websites:

• My Home Page
• My Myspace
• Tornado Design

Thomas Chapin (tchapin@gmail.com)’s Interests:

Web Design, Flash, Actionscript, Programming, Javascript, AJAX, CakePHP, Ruby on Rails,

Thomas Chapin (tchapin@gmail.com)’s Groups:

Refresh Phoenix, Phoenix User Experience Professionals, The Flash & Animation Collective, Arizona Flash Platform User Group (AFPUG, formerly FMUGAZ), Phoenix Ruby Users Group

•    Minuteglass Fans
•    Refresh Phoenix

Thomas Chapin (tchapin@gmail.com)’s Honors:

2007 - The Business Journal - "Top Web Design Firms"
2001 - DSB WorldWide - Employee of the Year
1996 - Javascripts.com - First Place Javascript (Frame Detection Script)

Thomas Chapin (tchapin@gmail.com)’s Contact Settings

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