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Web Geek. Husband. Father. Student. Cyclist. Musician.
All of these titles belong to me and I am happy to simultaneously juggle all of these roles on a daily basis. The title you're probably interested in is Web Geek, so here's a quick and dirty list of my credentials.
 Experience.
The City of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta 2008-present)
- With the arrival of our sweet little daughter Chelsea, it was time for me to get a steady paycheck!
- I develop plans and strategies for various business units found within the City to help them achieve their communication goals via the calgary.ca website and through various intranets as well.
- I also do information architecture work and some visual design work as well.
Little Orange Dots (Calgary, Alberta 2006-present)
- After taking parental leave from Karo Design in the first half of 2006, I decided it was time for me to try running my own business, so I started up Little Orange Dots.
- I am the owner, operator, creative director, lead developer and account manager all in one. the incredible one-man show!
Karo Design (Calgary, Alberta 1999-2005)
- Senior designer and/or developer for numerous website, CD-ROM, Flash and PowerPoint projects—from small stuff to really big stuff and everything in between. Some projects won awards, some didn't but they were all really well done.
- Managed several clients with ongoing site maintenance, which typically included time-sensitive updates with really tight deadlines and no margin for error.
- Worked in many different team environments and collaborative situations - I love that stuff - go team go!
Mosaic Studios (Calgary, Alberta 1998-1999)
- Junior multimedia author, worked primarily on CD-ROM projects using Macromedia Director and various sound and video editing tools.
- My stay at Mosaic was relatively short, but I did complete two CD-ROM's while employed there.
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (Calgary, Alberta 1998)
- As a fresh SAIT grad, I ended up working for the school over the summer immediately after graduation.
- Summer project entailed creating a prototype for an online course delivery system, part of the Access program. Not sure if this ever got completed.
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (Calgary, Alberta 1998-1999)
- Web Design Instructor for the New Media Program.
- I taught introductory web site design and development over four semesters.
- Class work included basic theory on how to use Dreamweaver, hand-code HTML, visual design considerations, page "weight", and an introduction to Flash.
Skills and know-how.
Here's a list of stuff I'm pretty darn good at. I'm also good at other things too, like riding my bike.
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, Director and Fireworks
- Microsoft Word, Access, Excel and PowerPoint
- ASP and PHP
- XHTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, VBScript and JavaScript
- Comfortable on both Windows and Mac
The other titles.
Other than being a Web Geek, I spend the rest of my time hanging out with my wife and two kids, working on my Communication Studies degree (only one more class!), riding my bicycle(s) and occasionally playing my drums or my guitar - I like to rock out. |
