Brandon Taylor

Current

• User Interface Architect at StoredIQ

Past

• Senior Presentation Layer Developer at Avenue A | Razorfish
• Graphic Designer / Web Developer at AzroTech Web Solutions
• Graphic Designer / Web Developer at Penloyd, LLC

• Graphic Designer / Web Developer at Bernard Design
• Graphic Designer / Web Developer at The Ad Ranch / Frenzy Group
• Creative Director at Striegel and Associates
• Art Director at Brothers & Co.
• Graphic Designer at Wal-Mart

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Education

• Oklahoma State University
• Tulsa Community College
• University of Southern California

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Websites

• My Website

Brandon Taylor’s Summary

In a nutshell, I'm a formally trained graphic designer, and self-taught web developer. Django and Python are my specialty, but my experience spans a variety of technologies including: Rails, PHP, ASP.NET, classic ASP and some Java.

I've been a professional web developer for a little over 12 years. I still enjoy coding very much, and like being in the trenches, solving problems.

My business goal is to design and create websites that generate high ROI for my clients, using technologies that I know add value to my clients' bottom line and are easy to maintain.

Brandon Taylor’s Specialties:

Django, Python, Rails, Ruby, jQuery, JavaScript, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, VB Script, , XHMTL, CSS, SQL and Graphic Design.

Brandon Taylor’s Experience

• User Interface Architect

  StoredIQ

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  June 2009 — Present (2 months)

  I'm an architect on the UI portion of the StoredIQ development team. We build the web interface for our software/hardware products using Python, Java, Cheetah and jQuery.
  
  Django is on the radar :)

• Senior Presentation Layer Developer

  Avenue A | Razorfish

  (Public Company; MSFT; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  December 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 3 months)

  At Razorfish, basically I was a senior dev specializing in front end work. I work with a broad range of technologies from .NET to Java to Rails to Django. I do a lot of prototype work in addition to public-facing sites for major clients such as Southwest Airlines, AT&T, Dell, Microsoft and Nokia. I also help in the hiring process by screening presentation layer developer candidates and occasionally help with tech aspects of business development proposals.

• Graphic Designer / Web Developer

  AzroTech Web Solutions

  (Internet industry)

  August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)

  I think this company is now defunct. They merged with another company and I was laid off.

• Graphic Designer / Web Developer

  Penloyd, LLC

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  August 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  I basically held a creative director's position, as I was responsible for all branding efforts, advertising and design to internal and external clients. I also did a lot of ASP.NET web application development, both internal and external facing.

• Graphic Designer / Web Developer

  Bernard Design

  (Graphic Design industry)

  May 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 4 months)

  Concepted, designed and produced printed materials such as ads, brochures and logos.
  
  Designed and developed ASP and ASP.NET Websites using Access and SQL Server 2000.
  
  Working with Gary Bernard continues to be a pleasure. I still provide freelance ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails and Django development services in addition to technical support. I designed and developed an ASP content management system and was awarded three placements in American Corporate Identity 22 from work done at Bernard Design.

• Graphic Designer / Web Developer

  The Ad Ranch / Frenzy Group

  (Graphic Design industry)

  February 2001 — May 2003 (2 years 4 months)

  Developed static and dynamic Websites and Web applications using Macromedia Studio, VB Script, SQL Server 2000 and Access.
  
  Concepted, designed and produced logos, direct mail and other printed materials.
  
  The Ad Ranch was an absolutely wonderful experience, and I have lasting friendships with my former co-workers. We produced some very high quality work for companies such as IBM, Vignette and other tech companies and had a great time doing it.

• Creative Director

  Striegel and Associates

  (Design industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years)

  Oversaw all creative services of agency and managed other on-staff designers.
  Concepted, designed and produced a wide range of materials including radio, print and Web.
  
  I won two Addy Awards, one Addy Citation and was published in American Corporate Identity 17. I was the youngest creative director in the company’s 30 year history. I streamlined and organized the creative workflow, implemented best practices for development and archiving of creative materials and increased billing by nearly $70k and received two raises. I enjoyed working at Striegel very much.

• Art Director

  Brothers & Co.

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 1997 — August 1998 (1 year 1 month)

• Graphic Designer

  Wal-Mart

  (Public Company; WMT; Retail industry)

  April 1996 — August 1997 (1 year 5 months)

  I was a graphic designer in the signing/special projects group at the home office in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Brandon Taylor’s Education

• Oklahoma State University

  Associates in Applied Science , Graphic Design , 1993 — 1996

  Ackerman Portfolio Award Winner

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Beta Kappa

• Tulsa Community College

  Japanese Language 1992 — 1994

  4.0 GPA

  Activities and Societies:

  Exchange student to Japan, summer 1994.

• University of Southern California

  1992 — 1992

Additional Information

Brandon Taylor’s Websites:

• My Website

Brandon Taylor’s Interests:

New technologies like Google App Engine and the Django web framework, teaching the Hawaiian martial art of Lua, Bicycling

Brandon Taylor’s Groups:

Austin on Rails, Django People, Austin Django User group

•    AvenueA-Razorfish Alumni
•    Austin.Javascript

Brandon Taylor’s Honors:

Published in American Corporate Identity 22 & 26
Ackerman Portfoio Award Winner at OSU Tech
Seven Addy Awards and two Citations from the Tulsa Advertising Federation

Brandon Taylor’s Contact Settings

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