Michaelbox

Per­sonal State­ment | Ser­vices | Resume | Tes­ti­mo­ni­als | Port­fo­lio

Per­sonal Statement

As I went through my time at col­lege study­ing graphic design and multimedia/web devel­op­ment, I was taught on many of the indus­try stan­dard soft­ware pro­grams. The pro­grams that every designer and devel­oper know inti­mately, espe­cially Adobe’s prod­uct line.

Some­time in 2007, dur­ing my last semes­ter, I acci­den­tally fell in love with the Linux oper­at­ing sys­tem, and this effec­tively changed the way I’d have to work. The indus­try stan­dards do not work natively on Linux. I also could not afford legal copies for use after leav­ing the school envi­ron­ment. Since I was not about to throw away five years worth of edu­ca­tion out the win­dow, I went in search of alter­na­tive pro­grams while retain­ing the con­cepts I learned.

This does not mean I would be com­pletely lost if I was put in front of a com­puter with all of your famil­iar pro­grams. It would just be a dif­fer­ent user inter­face envi­ron­ment, some tool vari­a­tions, and dif­fer­ent learn-able features.

I feel that I can still pro­duce pro­fes­sional qual­ity work with the tools I’ve come to use and love, and will pro­duce the best work I can.

Ser­vices

• Word­Press Instal­la­tion, con­fig­u­ra­tion, and theming
• • Imple­ment­ing designs cre­ated by sep­a­rate designers
  • Still need a design? Con­tact me and we’ll talk
• Logos and var­i­ous graphics

Resume

Objec­tive:

To cre­ate and man­age dynamic inter­ac­tive web­sites or graphic projects for a com­pany with sights set on pro­gress­ing forward.

Edu­ca­tion:

• Dakota State Uni­ver­sity, Madi­son SD
• B.S. in Multi-Media and Web Development
• Com­ple­tion Date: May 2007
• B.S. in Com­puter Graphic Design
• Com­ple­tion Date: August 2007
• Minor in Art
• GPA: 3.400
• Dean’s List: Fall 2002, Spring 2005
• Mont­gomery Pres­i­den­tial Schol­ar­ship 2002 — 2003

Expe­ri­ence:

• Graphics/Web Assis­tant for DSU Alumni and Foun­da­tion, May 2007 through July 2007
• Lay­out Edi­tor for Tro­jan Times, Dakota State University’s Stu­dent news­pa­per, Jan­u­ary 2006 through Jan­u­ary 2007
• Redesigned web­site for music group Fluttr Effect, Late August 2006 through Decem­ber 2006 fluttreffect.com
  note: has been touched by oth­ers since ini­tial redesign

Pro­fes­sional Skills:

• XHTML/CSS
• Photoshop/The Gimp
• Illustrator/Inkscape
• Quark Xpress/Scribus

Activ­i­ties:

• Art and web­site team mem­ber for Fedora Linux Oper­at­ing System
• DSU Drama Club (FA03-SP07)

Ref­er­ences:

Avail­able on request

Print­able copies of my resume includ­ing more con­tact infor­ma­tion avail­able upon request

Tes­ti­mo­ni­als

Rachael E.C. Acklin

“Michael is one of my favorite word­press web devel­op­ers to work with. Over the past year, he has devel­oped cus­tom Word­Press themes from design files for me. His atten­tion to detail and pen­chant for per­fec­tion make him a great devel­oper. Not only that, but he’s great at com­mu­ni­cat­ing both with me and with the client, mak­ing him an asset to any great design project.”

Amy Crook

I’ve worked with Michael on sev­eral projects and have been very impressed with his qual­ity of work. I’ve worked with a num­ber of dif­fer­ent ven­dors over the years, and Michael’s atten­tion to the details has been awe­some, ele­vat­ing Michael’s work from “good enough” to “excel­lent.” He takes crit­i­cism as a chal­lenge to go above and beyond, while still keep­ing to dead­line, and has a great sense of humour about it all. Michael has been really great to work with, and I’ve already got plans to hire him again soon.

Port­fo­lio

Imple­mented Web­site Designs

Logos and Graphics