Education:

B.A. Arts and Letters, Minor in Business, Summer 2009
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

  • Internet Design Certificate, Multimedia Professional Program
  • Student in the Recording Arts and Music Production Program
  • Studied filmmaking and video editing through the Northwest Film Center School of Film

Skills:

  • Strong design sense and technical knowledge of web development.
  • Passionate about User Experience Design
  • Experienced with Google Analytics, SEO tactics and techniques
  • Proficiency with PHP 5, Zend Framework, MYSQL, XHTML, CSS, jQuery, Subversion, Selenium and Fitnesse
  • Applications: Aptana, Eclipse, TextMate, The Adobe Creative Suite 3 (including Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash)
  • Experienced with development on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows, cross-browser compatibility testing
  • Experienced with Unit testing, Test Driven Development, Information Architecture

Experience:

Web Design Intern, April 2009 to July 2009
Enrich Media, Portland, Oregon

  • Worked with lead designer and lead programmer to create and maintain client websites.
  • Worked within client budgets to create solutions that would meet their needs.
  • Balanced workflow and timelines to meet tight deadlines

Junior Software Engineer, September 2008 to March 2009
Web Development Intern, July 2008 to September 2008
eROI, Portland, Oregon

  • Worked at an email marketing firm on the product development team, helping to build new web applications, such as an event registration system giving clients the ability to advertise and sell tickets to their events
  • Worked on the product development team, helping to build complex web applications using the Zend Framework, utilizing skills learned from previous internship.
  • Quickly gained valuable knowledge and experience in object-oriented programming, “web 2.0” technologies, various frameworks and architectures
  • Learned and utilized Agile software development methodologies

President, June 2006 to June 2008
Advertising Coordinator, October 2004 to June 2006
Catholic Student Association, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

  • Responsible for all advertising efforts of the Catholic Student Association
  • Created advertising campaigns to reach target audiences
  • Designed flyers, posters, booklets, maintained and improved upon website
  • Lead a leadership council of elected student members
  • Increased funding by 385%
  • Gained valuable leadership skills
  • Planned and implemented large scale events

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