Admiral's Resume

Last updated by Admiral at 2010-01-31 23:57:52

Salt Lake City, Utah 84105
admiral@nuclearpixel.com

Objective

To obtain a position that allows me to continue to develop an advanced and robust set of programming and graphic design skills specific to the areas of internet and marketing communications.

Skills

Effective communication skills when working with team members, management and clients; in person, on the phone and via email
Effective and efficient workflow development for project production pipelines
Careful attention to detail to meet and exceed project quality specifications
The ability to learn and apply cutting edge technologies and practices to current projects
8 years professional experience with HTML, DHTML, XHTML and Adobe Photoshop
7 years professional experience with CSS
6 years professional experience with PHP, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects
4 years professional experience with Flash, Adobe InDesign and Linux System Administration
3 years professional experience with JavaScript, AJAX, MySQL and Blender 3D
2 years professional experience with ActionScript 3, Papervision3D, XML and OOP practices

Professional Experience

Senior Production Artist, Senior Web Developer (January 2005 - Present)
Zara Media Design Group: Salt Lake City, UT

Concept development and execution - from initial meeting with clients to completion of project
Client interfacing and management to keep projects in-scope and on schedule
2D and 3D pre-visualization of project concepts, depending on medium
Graphic design for motion graphics, print and web
Design, development and on-going maintenance of dynamic, database driven websites
Creation of custom administrative and content management tools with multi-user permission systems
Creation of detailed design and technical documentation for clients on completed projects
Generation of reports on usage statistics of online products for clients
http://zaramedia.com/

Advanced interactive Flash application written using the Flash IDE, ActionScript 3, Papervision3D, XML;
Web Graphic Design & GUI Design, creation of 3D models & texture maps used as interface elements;
SVN checkout used to update local copies of multiple ActionScript 3 Frameworks used in site's development;
Advanced media asset loading framework utilized to preload scene XML data & media assets on page load;
Advanced XML parsing exercised to manipulate complex Collada 3D XML model files and gather essential scene data;
Advanced object oriented programming constructs used to animate and manipulate interactive 3D scene graph;

http://roadredwood.com/

Ecommerce website written in PHP & MySQL, DHTML, CSS
Unified client's catalog of 4000+ items from 57 different inconsistent spreadsheet formats;
Created importer script that populated tables in a relational database with purified product data;
Created script for processing and resizing item catalog's entire image collection: Processing completed in 15 minutes;
Object oriented shopping cart written in PHP to handle on-site portion of transaction handling & session management;
On-site order status displays updated based on SilentPost data provided by Transaction Gateway API (Authorize.Net);
Multi-user administrative permissions system for allowing client's employees access to tools per department;
On-going database and administrative tool optimization & enhancements at client's request

http://lexiconpro.com/

Data Driven website written in PHP & MySQL, DHTML, CSS;
Web Graphic Design & GUI Design, creation of graphic templates & graphic standards for content on site upon release to client;
Multi-user administrative permissions system for allowing client's employees access to tools per department;
On-going database and administrative tool optimization & enhancements at client's request

http://adamheathimage.com/

Photographer Portfolio written using PHP, DHTML, CSS, Javascript, Prototype & Scriptaculous Frameworks;
Web Graphic Design & GUI Design, creation of graphic standards for content on site upon release to client;
Javascript DOM manipulation used for animation and content navigation

Color Correction Artist (May 2004 - November 2004)
The Write Image: Salt Lake City, UT

Development of the company's color correction workflow and related image processing tasks
Color correction on a massive catalog of material & design sample books (500 +)
Graphic material syntheses for large libraries of materials impossible to scan or photograph

Interests & Hobbies

I am a self motivated learner. I spend a great deal of my personal time making sure I am up to date on the latest technological developments in my areas of interest and expertise resulting in a more in-depth understanding of how to execute my goals in the workplace. I regularly use the technologies and applications listed in the above skills section for my own enjoyment and the freelance services I provide to personal clients.