BJT Creative

Profile:

For the past 8 years I have been helping companies with their marketing and advertising efforts through web development, graphic design and multimedia production. I've worked as both a freelancer and in-house employee as well as volunteered my time to non-profit organizations. My goal in my work is to find the balance between beauty and function. A great looking site is useless if it doesn't work and an easy to navigate site doesn't keep the end user engaged if there's nothing to pull them in.

Services:

Front End Web Development, Web Design, Graphic Design, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Optimization (SEO), Email Marketing & Branding.

Skills:

Software: The Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver and Bridge), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Final Cut Express and Audacity.

Languages: HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSLT.

Experience:

Jan 2010 - Current: Garmin International, Ltd. - As Web/Interface Designer I work on an array of projects for the online properties of garmin.com. The tools I use to execute these projects are HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver & Expression Engine.

Mar 2002 - Current: BJT Creative - This is my freelance business. I started it up in college from people beginning to request my services. My client base runs from small businesses to artists to non-profits as well as contracting with creative agencies and marketing firms. Projects include website development, graphic design, branding, social media strategy, search engine optimization (SEO)

June 2009 - Dec 2009: Children's Cancer Research Fund - As Interactive Communications Coordinator I was the on staff web/interactive strategist/executioner. Creating new web sections/pages, email campaigns, working with the communications manager on social media integration and even some branding/collateral design here and there. I also worked with the online marketing tool Convio. It manages the eCommerce, email campaigns, online constituent records, fundraising efforts and tools for donor engagement (surveys, registration, personal fundraising pages, etc).

July 2008 - Dec 2008: David Knox Productions - I was the web manager for this company working inside of content management system to create new web sections and pages, make content edits as well as creating and managing email campaigns. Unfortunately they had to lay me off because of the economy in December. It was a simple "last in - first out" decision.

Feb 2005 - July 2008: International Office Technologies - I started here as a part-time graphic designer. After a couple months I was brought on full-time and added web design duties to my position. A few months after that I was promoted to Marketing Manager and from then until I left for David Knox Productions I was the man behind any and all media and marketing efforts. I also managed a handful of interns during my time there keeping them busy with support design projects and art production.

Education:

Dakota County Technical College: AAS in Multimedia and Web Design - 2004