Coroflot

Resume

EDUCATION | CERTIFICATION

Bachelor of Science, Fine Arts — Design Specialization, August, 2007
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
• 3.6 Cum Laude distinction (4-point scale)
• Honors in Fine Arts

Associate in Arts, Social Science, May, 2004
Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
• 4.0 GPA in major (4-point scale)
• 3.95 cumulative GPA

Certification: HTML Developer, certified by the World Wide Web Consortium 2009

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
- HTML/XHTML - Advanced CSS - Hand-coding - Cross-browser consistency - Progressive Enhancement - Standards-compliancy - WordPress CMS - HTML5 - MySQL - JavaScript - jQuery library - PHP - SEO - Color Scheming; Adobe Creative Suite: Dreamweaver Code view - Flash - Photoshop - Illustrator - Fireworks - InDesign

EXPERIENCE

Hudson News Group, East Rutherford, NJ | Feb., 2011 – Present
WEBSITE CONTENT MANAGER (contractor)
• Developing the corporate intranet for the last three years to meet the changing demands of company departments and securely deliver sensitive information to field operations
• Modeled the information architecture of the seasonal Buy Book, as well as publishing all updates of location-specific Buy Book and planogram files for use by field operations
• Optimizing graphics and videos for the Web

Insight Design Studio, Neptune City, NJ | April, 2010 – Present
WEB DEVELOPER / INTERACTIVE DESIGNER
• Designing, producing and developing Website content including full sites, landing pages, headers, Flash banners, photo galleries, mockups, logos, favicons and more
• Customizing PHP and optimizing WordPress-driven sites on the front-end and MySQL database on the back-end or hand-coding accessible, standards-compliant, cross-browser compatible content using HTML, XHTML and HTML5 styled with a separate CSS document
• One site currently being considered by the Independent Music Awards judging panel
• QA testing cross-browser compatibility in all major browsers on both OS and mobile iOS
• Highlights: customized HTML5 audio player with Flash alternate, #1 in targeted searches

Staffing Agency: Robert Half International

Hudson News Group, East Rutherford, NJ | Dec., 2008 – Feb., 2011
WEBSITE CONTENT MANAGER (freelance)

Audible, Newark, NJ | Aug. – Sep., 2008
WEB PRODUCTION ARTIST (freelance)
• Quickly produced approximately 100 Flash banners using Photoshop, Flash and XML
• Took flattened, square audiobook covers artwork that was provided and reverse-designed static Web banners in two completely different rectangular dimensions from the original spec

SourceMedia, New York, NY | Sep. – Nov., 2007
JUNIOR WEB DESIGNER (freelance)
• Styled a variety of Web pages for several groups of financial magazines using CSS
• Laid out Website elements using the CMS tools and coded their content using HTML/XHTML
• Designed forum pages, icons and favicons for the Websites

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Hofstra School of Communications, Hempstead, NY | July, 2005
WEB DESIGNER FOR AWARD-WINNING MAGAZINE

Awards: Award for New Media in FA Show 2006, The National Dean's List Award 2002 – ’07, Academic Honors Scholarship 2004 – ’07, Thomas A. Orphanos Endowment for the Arts, Trustee Rudolph Zinsser Memorial Scholarship, Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship 2004 – ’07

Affiliations: Pulse Magazine Club Charter Member, Golden Key International Honor Society, Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Psi Beta National Psychological Honor Society