My Work
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The Caribou Group
Twitter redesign for Brisbane Australia based lighting design company The Caribou Group. The design is bright and luminous and plays off of their company name.
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Unfiltered Smoke
The brain child of Jason Wilson, Unfiltered Smoke is an outlet for the creatively gifted. The site features integrated music players and photo galleries. The site is hosted using WordPress, enabling Jason to make updates on his own at his leisure.
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Nicholas Forret Photography
Nicholas Forret Photography is the portfolio site of Fredericton Photographer, Nick Forret. The website features Lightbox photo galleries and a blog/news feed. The site his hosted using WordPress, enabling Nick to update the site at his own leisure.
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Robb and Melinda
What started out as a wedding site for my fiancee Melinda and I quickly transformed into a resource and blog to keep our families up to date with what’s going on. The site uses WordPress as a content management system which makes it ease for Melinda to update. It also features photo galleries, a blog and an integrated Twitter feed.
My Work Experience
Where I Work Now
Graphic / Web Designer
Kiers Marketing Group – Fredericton, NB
February 2010 – Present
Large and small scale print design, branding and web development.
Senior Developer & Lead Designer
Red Cow Marketing & Technologies – Fredericton, NB
November 2007 – February 2010
Large and small scale print design, branding and web development.
Instructor / Educator
Centre for Arts & Technology – Fredericton, NB
July 2008 – Present
I currently teach Internet Publishing classes to aspiring graphic designers at the Centre for Arts & Technology. I have taught all levels of the courses from the 100 level to the 500 level as well as a Portfolio Production Workshop and an Introduction to Logic and Analytical Reasoning class.
Design and Web Application Experience
Design Application Experience
I use a whole host of web design and development related programs on a daily basis; most notably Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Flash CS4 and Coda. I teach students on the Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 platform. I also use Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Adobe InDesign CS4 on a regular basis.
Web Application Experience
Over the years I’ve become familiar with numerous web applications such as, but not limited to; WordPress for blogging and web development, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg and Flickr for social networking, PayPal and Google AdSense for e-Commerce, Google Analytics for statistics as well as PHPBB3 for forums and discussion boards.
Coding Languages That I Know
HTML, CSS, and jQuery are my strongest languages. I’m currently learning Javascript and PHP.
Articles That I’ve Had Published
The Ten Commandments of Social Media
Published: November 30, 2009
http://www.noupe.com/how-tos/ten-commandments-of-social-media.html
Where I Went to School
I graduated from the Centre for Arts and Technology’s “Graphics and Digital Media Design” programme in Fredericton, NB in August of 2006 with honours.
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