Adobe Flash/ActionScript

Over the past eight years I have developed many rich media applications in Adobe Flash with a strong focus on ActionScript and 3rd party extension languages.

• Built a 1:24th scale car that can be driven over the internet with a waiting queue for Burger King using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flash Media Server, a phidgets servo controller and custom designed electrical circuits.
• Designed a pre-loader for the Jimmy Buffet Frozen Concoction Maker (Award Winning) site that cut initial site load from over 40 seconds to fewer than 5 by pre-loading content and streaming if required
• Experience in widget and 3rd party development extensions allow the Flash environment to be extended onto more screens

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

I took a keen interest in standards compliant design in college and focused on it for more than a year. I wrote pages from scratch in a text editor such as PSPad but have no problem using Adobe Dreamweaver in a rapid development situation and understand the quirks of that application in a quest for a standards complaint site.

• Published by a University for a Technical Manual I wrote on building CSS standards compliant sites in a manner that presents itself similar in all major browsers, printers, screen readers and other assistance devices
• Created a standards compliant web service for a 500person+ agency that allowed dynamic theme swapping by either uploading or by picking from many pre-defined themes with no changes to the xHTML or server side script

Adobe Photoshop

With over 10 years experience in Photoshop in the professional realm I have been doing freelance site design and Photoshop work since before the text tool was vector. I have an appreciation for Save to Wed and ImageReady as extensions of Photoshop that allow for an optimized web presence that should not be overlooked.

• Multiple award winning designs for high brand equity firms like The Vanguard Group and Burger King
• Directed the current digital brand standards for Childrenʼs Mercy Hospitals & Clinics
• Worked with the Chief Creative Officer on the designs for the current Young & Rubicam site

Skills and Proficiencies