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Neal Watkins
1037 S. Cleveland St. #7
Oceanside, CA 92054
760-231-5815
Fax: 253-660-7784
[email protected]
www.constructweb.com
SUMMARY:
Over six years of website/graphic arts design experience to offer, experienced in both front end as well back
end web design development. Extensive interaction with clients, users, analysts and developers. My
knowledge of type, design (usability, SEO), and technical issues involving properly implementing concepts on
the internet are way above average. I am familiar with and have read some of the top names in state of the
art web deployment (Usability of Neilson, Web Standards of Zeldman, CSS of Meyer, Web Accessibility of
Joe Clark). Skills in Flash, Illustrator, and Photoshop are at expert level. Consummate knowledge of CSS and
HTML (hand coding) as well as working with scripting languages (javascript, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET).
SKILLS:
PC/MAC, Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, ImageReady, Quark, HTML, Javascript, Painter, Flash, CSS,
Usability issues, Homesite, Dreamweaver, cross browser issues, and many other Internet related subjects.
Server side scripting languages, worked with PERL, PHP, and ASP.
EXPERIENCE:
Web Designer/Project Manager, Invesdata
9/04 – 12/04
San Juan Capistrano, CA (3 Month Contract Position)
Consultant of Web Redesign project. Put together a Project Plan. Initiated "Discovery Process" for fine-tuning
the goal of the redesign involving client interviews, Information Architecture advice, Site Wire framing,
Development Research and Initial Mocks.
Web/Flash Developer/Designer, Verizon Online
3/04 – 9/04
Carlsbad, CA (6 Month Contract Position)
Build and design for the Verizon Online website. Contribute substantially to the Verizon Online CD with heavy
use of Flash both design/illustration and backend action scripting.
Web Developer/Designer, Procede Software
9/03 – 3/04
San Diego, CA (6 Month Contract Position)
Procede Software specializes in software for car and truck dealerships. Redesigned and spearheaded the
web design process as well as incorporating their proprietary back-end software. Solid use of Flash as well
as building web sites with heavy emphasis on CSS and XHTML.
Web Developer/Designer, Directed.com
5/03 – 7/03
San Diego, CA (2 Month Contract Position)
User Interface redesigns for Directed and their many affiliates.
Extensive use of Flash, Graphic Software, and some backend development in ASP.
Interact with marketing and other departments to determine efficiency of designs.
Web Developer/Designer, OCSN.com
4/01 – 4/03
San Diego, CA
Worked with analysts, users and other designers and programmers to design and deploy websites.
Involved with identifying concepts, goals, and the target audiences for these projects, which
also involved designing DHTML ads, Flash banners, HTML newsletters and other online marketing
strategies. Careful control of optimization efforts for graphics as well as code, to insure
quick download time for users as well as search engine placement.
Web Developer/Designer, TrailBreaker.com
4/00 – 3/01
Oakland, CA
Designed and helped develop TrailBreaker website. Worked on expanding the site and created partners with
TrailBreaker. Spearheaded complete redesign, and was part of a team that focused on company redirection.
Also created micro sites and banner ads, to help drive additional revenue to our customers.
Web Designer, Subaru of New England
2/98 – 4/00
Norwood, MA
Design & maintenance of websites for over 50 Subaru dealers statewide.
Worked with various clients to design, develop and deploy websites. Also revamped the look of their
websites, improving the look, adding more graphics and animation resulting in more user friendly improved
sites.
Utilized HTML (various editors), Javascript, Photoshop, Illustrator, Animated Gif programs, and other Internet
software.
Computer Illustration/Production/Design.
6/97 - 2/98
Freelance & temporary assignments.
Clients included, John Hancock, Deliotte & Touche, Fidelity, Lanier, Polese/Clancy, IKON
Champion Exposition, Eaton, Services and Houghton Mifflin
Utilized Quark, Illustrator, and Photoshop
Computer Illustration, Houghton Mifflin.
2/97 - 5/97
Boston, MA
Developed illustrations, graphs, charts, etc., using Adobe Illustrator.
Followed detailed specifications, created artwork for several various graphic and print projects.
Computer Illustration, Dartmouth Publishing Inc.
4/95 - 2/97
Watertown, MA
Illustrations, graphs, charts, etc., using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Quark.
Imagesetting, PageWorks
2/95 - 7/95
Cambridge, MA
Developed digital output using DTP and other graphic software on MAC & PC platforms.
Computer Graphics, Somerville Community Access Television
Somerville, MA
Designed, and created illustrations, Animations and logos for various projects.
Also taught Graphic Arts Design to studio audience
1/94 - 3/95
Production Artist, Mcdevitt Recruitment Advertising
Boston, MA
Designed and processed advertisements using Corel Draw.
7/93 - 11/93
Production Artist, Allison Associates
Boston, MA
Responsible for production work using Photoshop, Illustrator, and Quark.
5/92 - 7/92
Photo Alteration Artist, Take Two
Arlington, MA
Computerized photo retouching utilizing Photoshop.
2/92 - 6/92
EDUCATION:
New England School of Art & Design
Boston, MA
1/90 - 5/92
Design & Computer Illustration
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA
Animation 1
1/87 - 5/87
State University of New York
Potsdam, NY
B.A. Studio Art and Mathematics
5/80 -
6/84