| PROFILE | Hard working enthusiastic Web Designer and Programmer, I know and can learn new and evolving web Technologies |
| EDUCATION |
BYU
- currently studying in the Information Techonlogy Major (going on Sophomore)
High School Graduate, Springville High School |
| AWARDS/ HONORS |
Team Leader BYU - Was the Team Leader at BYU Web Development team, oversaw the creation of over 20 websites on BYU Campus. CanDo Award - Award earned at Prosper Learning for willingness to work late and accept hard tasksBest Website Award - Won during a High School competition won a $50 gift card to Borders |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS |
PROGRAMMING: - CSS (Expert)- HTML/XHTML (Expert) - PHP (Expert) - JQuery (Expert) - Javascript (Medium) - MySQLDatabase (Medium) ------------------------------- Operating Systems: - Windows All Versions (Expert)- Mac OS X (Medium) - Linux Apache Server Admin (Expert) - Linux (Medium) ------------------------------- DESIGN: - Adobe Photoshop (Expert)- Adobe Fireworks (Expert) - Adobe Illustrator (Medium/Learning) - Adobe Flash (Medium) - Gimp (Expert) ------------------------------- MARKETING SKILLS - Search Engine Optimization (Expert)- Split Testing (Vertster) Finding out what really works in sales. (Expert, Pioneer was one of their first clients) - Google Adwords Landing Page, Keyword Research, and Direct Marketing. (Moderate) - Know main Office Programs (Open Office, Microsoft Word etc..) ------------------------------- CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Wordpress (Expert)- Drupal (Expert) - Joomla (Expert) - Buddypress (Medium, Pioneer company one of their first users, integration of Facebook™, Twitter™, and other Social Media properties) ------------------------------- |
| WORK EXPERIENCE |
Dynamic Science (Current) At Dynamic Science my focus is on the Graphics Design for various websites selling Health related products, my major skills used are HTML, CSS and other web programming, in addition to writing Sales Copy and promotional ads and material designed to get people to buy. I also am responsible for the Keyword Marketing campaign in Google, Yahoo, and Bing (formerly MSN Search). ------------------------------- BYU (Brigham Young University) Web Developer - Team Leader I worked at BYU programming the social websites for communities at BYU including, InternationalServices.byu.edu, YServe.byu.edu, Clubs.byu.edu, BYUSA.byu.edu, among others. ------------------------------- Prosper Learning, ltd. I worked for prosper in Technical Support, Search Engine Optimization Advisor, and Web Programmer. My main responsibilities included handling issues with Prospers Content Management System (Vermotion, Site Creator Plus), helping new businesses optimizing their websites for Search Engines, as well as programming designs that the Prosper Design team gave me and putting them into a WYSIWYG editor ------------------------------- Missionary (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) I volunteered as a Missionary doing door to door type teaching. |
| WEBSITES/ PORTFOLIO |
PSDesignZone.com
- A website which teaches you how to use Photoshop, Gimp, PHP, CSS etc.. Boasts a large assortment of training materials from around the world AvatarTheLastAirbenderOnline.com - A Fan-Site dedicated to the TV Show "Avatar the Last Airbender", caught the attention of several creative individuals, including M Night Shyamalan (Movie Director) who invited me to come interview him about his live-action adaptation of the TV show. The site is one of the first of it's kind to use a system known as "BuddyPress" which is the probable future of social communities and networks online. JordanGarn.com - My personal website |