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fulltime employment

Monster Worldwide
One of the largest online employment websites in the world which also owns Fastweb.com and AffinityLabs.com
Title: Front End Engineer
Mission: Web design/development, reskinning, CSS

Marketforward
Digital solution provider located in downtown Chicago. Part of Publicis Worldwide
Title: Application Interface Developer
Mission: Design and create SQL-based media asset management applications for clients. Application has both a web front end and a FAT-client.
Specifics:

  • Create client-specific media database web applications
  • User-interface designer
  • SQL database
  • HTML, CSS, and Javascript developer
  • Create automated process to convert hi-res, color-profiled flat files for USPS stamps

Watson Institute for International Studies
Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies evolved from Thomas J. Watson
Jr.'s (class of 1937) vision for a research and teaching center that would address the most
pressing problems of its time.
Title: Web Administrator
Mission: Administer all content and design for Institute's website, as well as handle many technology requests including running audio/visual lab.
Specifics:

  • Manage, administer institute’s website that includes all departments, projects, and people.
  • Design and code site that is developed entirely in Coldfusion using an Access database.
  • Manage events and mailing list databases.
  • Member of technology committee that decides direction of Watson Institute.
  • Designer and administrator of Watson Institute's academic blogging website, Watsonblogs.org.
  • Production artist and desktop publisher for assorted advertising pieces.
  • Run audio and video control room that includes a full lecture space that is attached to A/V
    lab. Knowledge of running sound board, video cameras, and a host of digital DV, DVD,
    CD, and audio options.

Frankel/Brandguard
Marketing agency with innovative digital-to-print solution (Brandguard).
Title: Prepress Content Engineer
Mission: To automate the production of advertising by allowing users to construct layouts on the Web. Users can see the layouts on-the-fly as they are built as well as to send order for print.
Clients: McDonalds, United States Postal Service, Jim Beam, Fleetwood Homes, United
Specifics:

Template programming

  •  Quark reverse engineering (templating, scripting)
  •  Implementation of Logic and decision tree making
  •  Creation on slots
  •  Creation of Telescope database records
  •  Creation of EPS and QTT files for production
  •  Creation of TIF files for JPEG on-the-fly previews
  •  Set templates to specific hot folders in APS for automation

Production Artist

  •  Quark super-user (troubleshoot, template, script)
  •  Photoshop (ICC, raster)
  •  Illustrator (vector)
  •  Retouching
  •  Outlining
  •  PDFs
  •  Pre-flight (Pdfinspector, PitStop, CrackerJack, Tailor)
  •  OPI (Color Central, Sampler)
  •  Profiling (making sure content has correct imbedded profile)
  •  Pipelines

Main contact for Programmers and Auto-Pre-Press Specialists

  •  Coordinate content with programmers and act as an intermediate for more technical issues

Minor programming capability

  •  Maintain seperate application on Development site
  •  OFI creation
  •  Slots

Apple Specialist

  •  Maintain and troubleshoot hardware and software
  •  Recommend and order hardware/software

Manage and create pipelines

  •  OPEN
  •  Adobe Distiller
  •  Color Central
  •  Parachute

Manage graphics database

  •  Tagging database records with BrandGuard content
  •  Grooming database
  •  Creation of new hi-res and samp images

Ftp hi-resolution files

  •  Send high-res PDFs to vendors
  •  Fetch
  •  Wam!Net

Internet

  •  HTML
  •  Flash
  •  Sound editing software (used for implementation of music at brandguard.com)
  •  UNIX
  •  JavaScript (basic scripting)

Font database via Extensis Suitcase

  •  Manage/troubleshoot

Training

  •  Training new Automated PrePress Specialist
  •  Training Electronic Production how to send files
  •  Train core team the BrandGuard way

Indiana University's UITS Education Program
Indiana University's Education Program is a division of University Information Technology and Services group.
Department: Education Program
Title: Education Specialist/Webmaster
Mission:Teach students, faculty, and the public various software and hardware
Specifics:

  • Webmaster for both Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses
  • Assistant webmaster for Student Technology @ IUB
  • subject matter expert for "Web Developer Series".
  • Lead developer of all "Web Developer Series" class material:
    • Create a Web Page Using HTML: The Basics
    • Create a Web Page Using HTML: Concept & Design
    • Unix & Utilities for Web Developers
    • Photoshop 4.0
    • Web Graphics
    • Create a Web Form Using Transform
    • Develop a Search Service for Your Website
    • Using CGI Applications
  • Layout & DTP
  • Administer Ed Program demo Unix accounts

Student Technology Centers
Indiana University's STC is a division of University Information Technology and Services group.
Department: STC
Title: Graphics consultant
Mission: consultant for students in graphics labs
Specifics:

  • Troubleshoot graphic software and hardware questions
  • Maintain Macintosh, Windows NT, SGI, and SUN machines.
  • Operate/manage flatbed scanners, slide scanners, CD-R burners, color printers, laserprinters, SyQuest drives, and iomega Zip and Jaz drives.

contract/freelance

Davol, Inc.
Surgical products company.
Title: Production Artist
Mission: Redesign and update medical manuals and packaging for expanded European 15 languages that includes Polish, Czech, Turkish, and Hungarian.
Specifics: Quark, Pagemaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat

GTECH Corporation
Global information technology company providing software, networks, and professional services that power high-performance, transaction processing solutions. The company's core market is the lottery industry.
Title: Production Artist
Mission: Layout, format, and edit large documents. Create and proof images for manuals.
Specifics: Framemaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat

Providence Business News
Daily metro newspaper
Title: Production Artist
Mission: Create, edit, preflight, and insert ads into weekly newspaper.
Maintain and update Providence Business News websites.
Specifics: Quark, Acrobat, Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, preflight, design, layout

Foster Grant
Eyeglasswear
Title: Retoucher
Mission: Retouching and scanning
Specifics: Hi res photography

Metcalf Institute, University of Rhode Island
Environmental journalism, independent research group
Title: Web designer
Mission: Complete redesign of website
Specifics: HTML, CSS, graphic design, production, layout

Textron
One of America's largest multi-industry companies, that include Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft, E-Z-GO and Greenlee, among others.
Title: Designer
Mission: Create huge digital presentation for yearly global meeting
Specifics: Powerpoint, Photoshop, MS Office

Busy Beaver
Button company
Title: Webmaster/Button designer
Mission: Maintain website and create unique buttons for company
Specifics: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Perl, CGI, Unix, HTML, CSS

Trader Publishing
Vehicle buy and sell agency
Title: Perl programmer
Mission: Creation of Timesheet for Ad and Book Builders
Specifics: Perl Programming and Web design

Ascendants
Consultant groups specializing in e-commerce
Title: Web/print designer
Mission: Creation of web sites and graphic design for a variety of clients
Creation of digital advertising
Specifics:

  • Web designer
  • Graphic Designer
  • Advertising

IT Training & Education
Computer-based training department at Indiana Univeristy
Title: Designer
Mission: Creation of new website for department
Specifics:

Webmaster

  •  Creation of website
  •  Graphic Designer
  •  Creation of all html, SSI, forms, CSS, Javascript
  •  Implementation of Cold Fusion to SQL Server database

Graphic Designer

  •  Creation of new logo for department

client examples

web design

All designs below are openly viewable by the public; internal client-specific sites cannot be shown on my online portfolio.
Watsonblogs
Watson Institute's academically oriented weblogging site.
Mission: Create a dynamic blogging site for all Watson faculty, associates, and grad students.
Duties: Installed Movable Type blog software on Apache/Unix server; HTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, design. Watson members get a choice of three unique templates of my creation.
Nancy Reid Carr Photography
Freelance Photographer
Mission: Create personal photography business for freelancer. Site includes automated templating of client proofs for photographer's work using XML language of Photoshop CS.
Duties: HTML/CSS, Javascript, PHP, automatic templating.
Spablab
Musician
Mission: Personal website.
Duties: Drupal CMS installation; HTML, CSS, design, PHP, RSS, blogging.
Eastwood Condo
Musician
Mission: Internal condo website
Duties: phpWebsite CMS installation; HTML, CSS, design, PHP.
Marissa Nadler
Musician
Mission: Website for musician.
Duties: HTML, CSS, design, PHP.
Busy Beaver
Chicago-based button company which offers a variety of buttons with any design you choose or we can design it.
Mission: Work with illustrator and design entire website.
Duties: HTML, CSS, design, Perl/CGI/PHP scripts for uploading content, contact form, and credit card insertion.
Edgewood Congregational Church
Christian Congregational Church
Mission: Website for sermons, events, directions, etc. Site runs a MySQL database using a PHP calendar.
Duties: Design, HTML, CSS, PHP, SHTML
R Michael Carr | Paintings
Artist
Mission: Design site to showcase artist's work. Created automated process for client to drop art into a folder that is automated by Photoshop.
Duties: HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML
Razy-Kay
Greeting card company.
Mission: Website creation and attach to Paypal ordering system.
Duties: HTML, CSS, design, Paypal configuring.
IT Training & Education
Computer education department at Indiana University.
Mission: Create entire new website and attach site to Coldfusion database.
Duties: HTML, CSS, design, logo design, attach site to ColdFusion database.
Frank Mullin
Photograher
Mission: Create an automated website that would allow the photographer to drop his photography into a folder which would be assembled by an action script and templated on-the-fly.
Duties: HTML, CSS, XML, design, Photoshop Action scripting
Metcalf Institute, Univ of RI
Marine and Environmental Reporting. Graduate School of Oceanography.
Mission: Take existing website, update and migrate to new.
Duties: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Perl, redesign, update.
Artpusher
Artist
Mission: Individual website for artist's design.
Duties: HTML, CSS, Flash, design, Perl
Parmidian One
NYC-based musician
Mission: Simple website containing Flash and music.
Duties: HTML, CSS, Flash
Cynthia Schultz
Consultant
Mission: Individual website for contractor.
Duties: HTML, CSS, design, Perl/CGI
Morley Music
NYC-based musician.
Mission: Simple website featuring an info page, and contact.
Duties: HTML, CSS, design, Perl
Astraea Records
NYC music label
Mission: Create entire website for label and artist's signed to label. Site under development
Duties: HTML, CSS, Flash, design, Javascript, Perl
Grasspig
Personal solo music site.
Mission: Simple website containing music, info, biography.
Duties: HTML/CSS, Php, Paypal shopping cart.

music

The Selfsame
New collaboration project of Todd Carter and myself.

Liquid Crystal Display
Collaboration project of Scott Evans, Ned Baugh, and myself.

Grasspig
Solo project

Emperor Penguin
Played in live shows and recorded on one e.p. (Damn)

Other Art Projects

  • coming soon