Freelance web designer recently relocated to Austin, Texas. Loves helping local businesses, artisans and organizations design, create and manage websites that connect them with their clients.

Skillset:

    Software:
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Filemaker
  • Acrobat Pro
    Web skills:
  • CMS template design
  • Blog theming
  • Flash animation
  • Handwritten HTML and CSS

Professional Experience:

    Webmaster, Pearl Street Grill & Brewery
    Buffalo, NY February 2010 - Present
  • Managing a Joomla! website for one of Buffalo's two local breweries
  • Create graphics, update text content, install components
  • Also providing freelance design services for other clients
    Program Director, Young Audiences of WNY
     Buffalo, NY April 2009 - January 2010
  • Completely redesigned the organization's website
  • Built out all pages except the program catalog
  • Designed images, layout and stylesheets
  • Rewrote 250 program descriptions
  • Acted as project manager to coordinate staff and PHP developer, ensure milestones and artist needs met
  • Created coordinating HTML e-mail layout for monthly e-newsletters
  • Designed various print pieces
  • Redesigned Filemaker database, including creating a new table, modernizing layouts, and cleaning data
  • Provided office IT
Traveled in Europe and US
May 2008 - January 2009
    Recruiter, Choice Creative Staffing
    New York, NY April 2007 - May 2008
  • Recruited creative talent for the advertising industry
  • Maintained current knowledge of trends and market requirements for design, development and copywriting positions
  • Wrote and posted jobs
  • Analyzed resumes, interviewed for current and potential openings
  • Sourced photos and assisted with marketing
  • Scheduled candidate-client interviews, negotiated rates and hours
Lame jobs, writing a novel and several screenplays
September 2000 - April 2007