CreateSource Resumé

PLEASE NOTE: Createsource now offers development services by special appointment only and has pursued other career options. If you have a project I might be interested in, please contact me.

Services:

Web Applications, Graphic Design

  • Web Authoring/HTML ·
  • CGI/Perl/PHP/ASP Scripting ·
  • Airbrush Illustration ·
  • GIF animation and Flash
  • Image Maps ·
  • Line/tone and Technical Illustration ·
  • Server Programming ·
  • Graphic Design and Layout

Programming

  • Perl ·
  • ASP ·
  • PHP ·
  • Javascript ·
  • VbScript ·
  • Macromedia Flash ·
  • mySQL, other database integration
  • Visual Basic ·
  • minor C/C++ (Windows interfaces)

Desktop Publishing (PC or Macintosh)

  • Photoshop ·
  • QuarkXpress ·
  • Pagemaker ·
  • Paste-up ·
  • Freehand ·
  • Illustrator

Special

  • Flash animation ·
  • Videography & deployment ·
  • Digital photography ·
  • Logo development ·
  • Consultation

Current Rates: $125/hr, negotiable per project.

Employment History

What's Next:

Current:

  • 2019-2020: Credit Union Software Company
  • (NDA precludes providing specific information)

 

General Duties: Software engineer in PHP, Javascript, Kendo framework Perl, API integrations, core banking vendor integrations. Worked in a legacy code base long overdue for modernization. On Pearl Harbor Day 2020 the company was sold and without notice all employees were set free. Awesome sauce. :-)

Current:

  • 2013-2018: Large National Mortgage Company
  • (NDA precludes providing specific information)

 

General Duties: Software engineer in PHP, Javascript, etc. for large internal project to enable loan officers to better service loans.

  • 2008-2013: eBoost Consulting
  • 7125 El Cajon Blvd. Suite #5
  • San Diego CA. 92115
  • 619.664.4691
  • 1265 Carlsbad Village Dr., Suite 100
  • Carlsbad, CA 92008
  • 619.357.4210

General Duties: Full management of site development for in-house digital marketing services; extensive development of sites in ModX, Wordpress, Shopify, Magento, and endpoint API solutions.

  • 5/2004-2008: CreateSource
  • 914 SW 6th Street
  • Grants Pass, OR 97526
  • 619.882.4323

DBA CreateSource, contract site programming, see Portfolio.

  • 6/99-5/2004: UNICOM
  • 225 SE 8th Street
  • Grants Pass, Oregon 97526
  • (541) 472-0733

General Duties: Development of back-end server applications, including mySQL/ASP interfaces, cron jobs, Apache server programming including interfacing with back-end mail, database, and logging functions. Skilled in identifying required dynamic tasks and assembling user GUI interfaces and programming required for platform and browser-independent applications. I work well with Linux OR Windows-based servers.
Supervisor: Rob Naughton, Bend office

  • 3/94-5-99: Ram Offset Lithographers
  • 2651 Avenue G
  • White City, Oregon 97503
  • (800)352-6888

General Duties: Drum Scanning, Processing DTP files, Image manipulation, Computer and LAN network maintenance for both PC and Mac, operation of TaigaSpace system (Unix), research and implementation of new systems, multimedia production, website authoring and CGI scripting.
Supervisors: Joe Perotti, Alan Cornwell, Peter Dale

  • 2/93-3/94: Digital Media Incorporated
  • 225 NE Hillcrest Drive
  • Grants Pass, Oregon 97526
  • (541)474-3535

General Duties: Color scanning, color correction, special image manipulation, imaging (film and RC paper), image control.
Supervisors: Yuri Teshler, Ron Jenner

  • 6/90-2/93: Hi- Rez Studio
  • 115 N.E. Evelyn
  • Grants Pass, Oregon 97526
  • (541)474-3535

General Duties: Color scanning, color correction, special image control, image manipulation, imaging (film and RC paper), 4/c stripping, color proofing of negatives.
Supervisors: Yuri Teshler, Ron Jenner

  • 9/89-6/90, 1985-87:
    Gandee Printing Center, Inc.
  • 625 Market St.
  • Medford, Oregon 97501
  • (541) 773-8203

General Duties: Design, paste-up, and airbrush illustration; copy cameraman, negative stripper, platemaker.
Supervisors: Ted Franks, Ron Gandee Jr.

  • 1/89-9/89:

Worked as freelance illustrator, graphic designer and layout artist.

  • 6/89 -11/89: Pacific College
    of Art & Design
  • One West Sixth St
  • Medford,Oregon 97501
  • (541)772-8018

General Duties: Instructed two seminars; "Art Reproduction for the Printing Industry" and "Beginning Airbrush."
Supervisor: Darlene Heckenlaible

  • 1983-85: Holmes Printing Co.
  • 131 1/2 Will Dodge Way
  • Ashland, Oregon 97520
  • (503) 482-3324

General Duties: Design, paste-up, and airbrush artist; cameraman, negative stripper, platemaker
Supervisors: Chuck Holmes, Art Hewitt

  • 1983-85: Coriander Press
  • Michael Bass & Associates
  • 349 East Main St. #l
  • Ashland, Oregon 97520
  • (415)-383-8312 *

General Duties: Book design & production apprentice, manual book dummie layout
Supervisor: Michael Bass
* Last known Mill Valley, Ca. number

  • 1982-84: SOSC (SOU)
    Publications Office
  • 1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
  • Churchill Hall rm. 210
  • Ashland, Oregon 97520
  • (503) 482-6155

General Duties:Trainee in all phases of graphic design, layout, and print production
Supervisor: Don Kay

Education

  • 1975—Graduated from Nathaniel Hawthorne High School, Harbor City, California, cumulative G.P.A. of 3.5. Primary concentration in Architectural Drafting.

  • 1984—Attended Southern Oregon State College from 1980 to 1984. Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with a concentration in Printmaking (specifically lithography, photolithography, etching, and woodcut.) 3.89 cumulative G.P.A.

  • Awards and Scholarships:
    • 1981—Miller-Doerter Annual Art Award ($200)
    • 1983—John Humbird-Dickey Annual Art Scholarship ($800)
    • 1982—John Humbird-Dickey Annual Art Scholarship ($500)
    • —Marion Adys Humanities Scholarship ($1500).

Project Samples:

 

Last Modified 12-29-2016