413 12th St NE, Apt A, Washington, DC 20002
770.256.0568
jason at platypusdream dot com
Washington, DC
01/2007 – Present
Responsible for maintaining and overseeing the design integrity of the NRF website – ensuring consistency and adherence to the NRF style guide. Also responsible for supporting in-house marketing campaigns for events and conferences, including web, email, and print projects. Works with the internal web users group to add images and presentations to the user group and business unit portions of the website. Managed the websites for the NRF as well as its sister sites: RAMA, NRF Foundation, NCCR, ARTS, Stores, and Shop.org.
Washington, DC
06/1996 – Present
Create, develop, code and update websites as a freelance consultant. Website clients include: Region 4 website of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Network Telco, a local Atlanta cover band Roxis, Nichols and Stone, Pediatric PAH Resource Center, Sidekick Trailers, Shepard, Smith and Edwards LLP, Spur Digital, Darvish Persian Teahouse, Granduca Hotel, Houston Museum of Natural Science, San Jacinto College, US Family Health Plan, Prepared 4 Life.org, New Point Energy, Bri-Mar, Unruh Fab, Unruh Fire, and the Austin Area Chapter of the Academic Language Therapy Association. Troubleshoot and provide technical support to clients on hardware and software systems. Train beginning users and senior staff in the most efficient methods to use software.
Stone Mtn, GA
05/2002 – 3/2006
Developed, maintained and expanded the redesigned Westminster Ceramics site to include secure dealer and retailer specific sites offering downloadable PDF product re-fit diagrams and schedules, price updates, sales sheets, online catalog purchasing, discontinued and liquidated products, as well as new merchandise and product display boards. Setup internal graphic company’s website, Inner Core Creative, to supply photos of new products offered to Home Depot and an online calendar displaying re-fit schedules. Troubleshoot various PC and MAC network issues with the large format printers and instructing others in the correct procedure of use.
Marietta, GA
04/2001 – 04/2004
Developer on Diane’s Nails website, in charge of updating and expanding site to include a shopping cart and gift certificate purchases. On-call IT service consultant for various PC issues, including setup of a childcare center WAN to installing and maintaining the internal LAN of several chiropractic offices and a health spa. Assembled numerous PC's ordered through Beers2k.com for office and home personal use.
Tucker, GA
12/2000 – 01/2001
Assisted in the production and optimization in the redesign of www.jerzees.com; utilizing the Adobe software packages and FTP. Optimized several hi-res photographs from CD of Cadmus's clients for placement on their respective websites, along with the creation of CD's to send out to their distributors of their current catalog.
Atlanta, GA
10/2000 – 11/2000
Designed and optimized domestic and international animated advertising banners for a new domain start-up: Dot.tv as well as their business-to-business affiliate program during its one month creative trial period with Ant Farm using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Image Ready.
Atlanta, GA
08/2000 – 06/2001
One of a team in the creative design and flow in the complete site redesign of www.weather.com, while supplying any needed graphics for the current website including new section banners and animated gifs. Provided requested background images for various PowerPoint Sales presentations. Provided various look-and-feel compositions of potential webpage layouts for approval before preparing them for output to the HTML programming team.
Norcross, GA
06/1999 – 05/2000
Maintained and updated company website, www.vernlib.com. This included the design and creation of new web graphics and HTML programming. Worked both on the Mac and the PC to design all marketing materials. Performed system network administration for twenty-six workstations and 3 servers. This included the setup up of email accounts and securing a web server behind a firewall. Would also solve user computer hardware and software issues by determining a proper solution from past experience or technical documents.
Norcross, GA
09/1998 – 05/1999
Developed Help Desk logo used in new software rollout support stickers. Helpdesk support for consumer applications, custom applications, networks, printers and workstations. Provided quality control for users from their internal technical support. Insured customers’ issues were handled correctly and in a timely fashion. Trained new employees with GE applications and status procedures.
Norcross, GA
09/1994 – 09/1998
Multimedia Director in charge of development, programming and distribution of company's software demo. Magic 7.0 conversion clean-up programmer and web site developer. Work included graphic design, site architecture, page design and layout, HTML authoring, quality assurance, report construction and assistance in development of their help desk. Handled finances and payroll. Telecommunications Manager of internal phone network. Assisted in development of the corporate identity.