Experience

Current 10 plus years in Website Design and Web Studies with an attention to detail and organization.

Got my feet wet with Web Design in 2009 through 2013 while attending Platt College finishing off a Bachelor Degree with my second internship assisting Eydie Gilley Pinney, the AVP of User Interface Design Strategy of LPL Financial.

Breadth of experience covering a career background in Graphic Design, Production Art, and Prepress.

10 years of customer service oriented experience before during and after everything working as a Graphic Designer and Production Artist in Prepress for Minuteman Press Downtown, BCT, H & H Printers, the Daily Miner, Allen West, Sea World, and Stats.

1 year with Express Jet Airlines as an ASA and Ramp Lead, and 1 year with FedEX Ground as a Package Delivery Driver.

5 year mid career in supervision in the casino environment with Harrah's, Ramada Express Hotel & Casino, and the Flamingo / Aquarius.

10 year early career entrepreneur, 5 years with Western Gold as a tradeshow representative, and 5 years with EKO in graphic design producing monthly newspapers and event programs for Pacific Western Publications, the San Diego Police, Deputy Sheriff, and Firefighter Associations.

Originally had my very first internship while attending Otis Parsons School of Design with Ken Meek of the design agency Kenneth Meek Design Office in Pasadena as a Production Artist, and Ren Wicks and Fred Hatzer with the Group West Incorporation as a freelance Production Artist back in 1983.

Strengths

Professional with the Creative Suite design programs, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver, creating websites, animations, wireframes, flow sheets, and PSD comps.

Expert in taking PSD files from design and creating pixel perfect, hand-coded, cross-browser tested, functioning Websites, and WordPress themes.

Highly proficient in Front End Semantic Code with a Responsive Mobile capability, CSS3, XHTML, HTML5, SEO, User Experience and Accessibility.

Strengths with PHP queries, breaking a website into PHP Includes, XAMPP, PHP Admin, and MySQL. Additionally used Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, GitHub Desktop, A/B Split Testing with Google Analytics, Angular 1.7.2, and Node.js 8.12.0 with Angular 6.1.10 CLI.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Media Arts, Platt College

• Specialized Web Diploma, Platt College

• Associate of Applied Science in Multimedia, Platt College

• General Education, SDCCD Mesa College

• Communication Arts Major, Otis/Parsons School of Design