Tracy Adams

Current

• Owner / Web Designer / Project Manager at Twist of Lime

Past

• Director of Internet Services at Dodge Schmitgall Inc.

Education

• Arizona State University
• Mesa Community College

Recommended

1 person has recommended Tracy

Connections

5 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• Twist of Lime

Tracy Adams’s Summary

SKILLS and TRAITS

WEB DESIGN

* Concept, design, organize navigation and content flow
* Code HTML, CSS, and integrate third-party DHTML, PHP, CGI, and Perl
* Format page content, incorporate assets
* Test performance, user experience, and browser compatibility
* Launch, celebrate, and maintain

WEB HOSTING

* Domain purchases, renewals, and transfers
* Host client websites
* Manage user accounts, email, FTP, and MySQL databases
* Install and update server applications

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

* Write and present proposals, determine costs
* Determine online strategy, project scope, and content development
* Track progress, assign responsibilities, scheduling
* Seasoned professional, tactful, a highly motivated multitasker
* Train individuals to manage content
* Innovative thinker and problem solver
* Independent self starter who tackles complex projects
* Fast learner, flexible, adapts quickly to manage change effectively
* Works well under tight deadlines, resourceful

SOFTWARE/WEB APPLICATIONS

* 5+ years of working with Movable Type’s content management system (CMS)
* BBedit, Dreamweaver, and CSS applications
* Expert Photoshop user, familiar with Illustrator, Freehand
* Intermediate Flash experience designing Web banners and other eye candy
* Install, customize, and operate a variety of photo gallery applications

PHOTOGRAPHY

* Digital portraits, product shots, stock photography
* Digital work flow with Capture One, Portfolio, Graphic Converter and Photoshop

Tracy Adams’s Specialties:

web design, web development, web hosting, branding, training, project management, consulting, digital photography, Photoshop

Tracy Adams’s Experience

• Owner / Web Designer / Project Manager

  Twist of Lime

  (Internet industry)

  June 1999 — Present (10 years 2 months)

  Provide creative, budget-friendly Web services to client’s seeking Web design & development and Web hosting services.
  
  -Consult and provide expertise regarding project scope and development
  -Oversee server administration and maintenance, setup hosting accounts, e-mail, databases and FTP logins
  -Develop website architecture, user interface and navigational hierarchies to create compelling, easy to use applications
  -Create design concepts, layout and other website features in an organized, easily maintained, scalable framework
  -Convert designs into website code, format copy and insert assets
  -Integrate back-end features including shopping carts, surveys, forums, content management systems (CMS) and online reservation systems
  -Test websites on different computers using popular browsers and evaluate the user-experience
  -Launch and update content, or train clients to make online edits

• Director of Internet Services

  Dodge Schmitgall Inc.

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  July 2000 — April 2002 (1 year 10 months)

  Responsible for designing and developing websites for this creative agency’s corporate, non-profit, municipal and small to medium-sized business clients.
  
  -Presented proposals to potential clients, answered design and technical questions and initiated followup conversations
  -Collaborated with agency team on marketing direction to ensure website goals fit overall advertising strategies
  -Responsible for designing, building and maintaining client websites
  -Assisted clients with search engine optimization (SEO)
  -Worked with 3rd party developers to connect back-end features
  -Managed project resources, costs and timelines from start to finish
  -Assisted clients with website analysis software
  -Test sites and graphics across platforms and browsers for the best possible load times and display
  -Maintained agency’s computer network, hardware and software

Tracy Adams’s Education

• Arizona State University

  B.A. , Marketing , 1992 — 1994

  Before switching from International Business to Marketing I completed nearly two years of Japanese language classes. I often wonder where I'd be had I not veered off the path with the video production class. Would I be in Japan, speaking Japanese, reading and writing in katakana?
  
  Learning to think and perceive the world in another language was refreshingly different. If you're going to do it, become an exchange student and fully immerse yourself. Or, marry into it.

• Mesa Community College

  1990 — 1992

Additional Information

Tracy Adams’s Websites:

• Twist of Lime

Tracy Adams’s Interests:

Digital Art, Web site design, photography, twisted humor, soccer, photoshop, photo manipulation, the bizarre, lifting weights, wheaton terriers

Tracy Adams’s Contact Settings

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