Bio:
I currently live in beautiful San Francisco, CA where I am continuing my my journey towards a sustainable creative lifestyle.  In addition to web design and in no particular order, I am also passionate about music, art, photography, yoga, snowboarding, ancient world knowledge, sustainability, vegetarian cuisine, and creating positive relationships . When possible I strive to be involved with and foster community building through cooperative group efforts and projects.  I have always enjoyed the creative process of manifesting ideas into a reality.
My goal with this new portfolio site, is to be able to easily share that vision.

Skills:
I enjoy working in the creative field of graphic and web design. I pride myself in detail-oriented work and customer satisfaction. I specialize in art direction as well as graphic and front-end web design. I have extensive layout and design experience and enjoy working on inspiring, creative projects. In addition to the artistic side of design, I code. I practice table-less design priding myself in writing valid CSS and XHTML. I specialize in designing web templates that slice pixel perfect to the internet. No miss communication between designers and developers when you work with me. Wherever possible, I design and develop websites that are standards complaint (W3C).

I possess over 8 years of experience, built my first website back in 2002. I also have professional skills in print production, camera work, re-touching, branding, flash animation, web development and general web standards. I am highly organized and adept at meeting tight deadlines that are so common in this industry.
I am an excellent self-motivator who is constantly keeping up with new web trends and expanding my skill set. I also work well in group situations where ease of communication is essential.
I use mac and pc, Adobe CS4, Ableton 8, Jedit and I am familiar the majority of popular CMS systems; ie: Wordpress, Joomla, Zencart.

Click here for a pdf version of my resume including education and work experience.

If you are interested in my services and would like more information on custom freelance work or design, feel free to contact me with questions, comments, or suggestions.

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