Benjamin Dean's Resume

Personal Summary

Veteran web designer and web developer, friendly, honest, dedicated, punctual and hard-working. I have been focused in web design, web development, web marketing, UI Engineering, and UX Engineering industry in relation to the internet for over a decade.

Professional Experiences

Flex / Flash / AS3 Developer
June 2010 - August 2010
Herff Jones

Lead Web Developer
January 2009 - May 2010
Bellwether International

Web Development Lead
March 2008 - October 2008
Insignia Sign Shop

Contractor: Web Development / Sys. Admin
June 2005 - October 2009
Hanna Haunted Acres / Indy Acres Paintball

Interactive Media Design Instructor
January 2007 - August 2008
The Art Institute of Indianapolis

Art Director / Project Manager
May 2005 - January 2008
Shiver Studios Inc.

Instructional Designer / Programmer / Streaming Media Developer
March 2004 - May 2006
Bolden's Manufacturing Inc.

Web Master (Internship and Production)
August 2003 - May 2005
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School

Commercial Artist & Graphic Designer
1992 - August 2003
Freelance, contract based commercial art

Skills & Experience

Mastery knowledge of following
( 7+ years continuous use ):

  • Adobe Master Collection (all applications) CS3 / CS4
  • Windows XP, 2000
  • OpenOffice, MS Office
  • XML, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Table-less design
  • Procedural PHP
  • ActionScript (Procedural)
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, Access RDBMS
  • JavaScript
  • 3DStudio Max, Maya, MEL, MaxScript
  • Digital Photography, Image Editing, Post-Processing
  • Traditional Arts (drawing, painting)
  • Web Design, Team management, cross-browser/platform, compliance, SEO

Expert/Proficient knowledge of following
( 2-5 years continuous use ):

  • OOP PHP 5
  • OOP ActionScript 3
  • Linux: Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSe
  • Mac OS X: Tiger, Leopard
  • Project Management: BaseCamp, OpenProject, ActiveCollab
  • Project Planning: Budgeting, Resourcing, Scheduling, Management
  • Email Marketing: Planning, production, Lyris, PHPList, client compatibility
  • Report Development
  • LMS (E-Learning): Moodle, Angel, Blackboard, WebCT
  • E-Learning content development, instructional design
  • RIA development
  • ViM, Emacs
  • Apache

Novice/Intermediate knowledge of following
( 0-2 years continuous use ):

  • Adobe Captivate, Adobe AIR, Flex, Flex Builder 3
  • Lightroom 1, 2
  • Oracle SE, SQL Server
  • Mobile Platform Web Application Development
  • PERL, SHELL, BASH, RegEx
  • MS Project
  • SOAP, Pear, Ruby on Rails, ASP, Visual Studio

Education

T.C.Howe High School
1988 - 1992, GPA @ graduation: 3.4
Major: Art

Purdue University
2001 - 2005, GPA @ graduation: 3.67
Major: Mechanical Engineering Technology (3D Animation & Technical Graphics)
Minor: Japanese

References

Jason Schmidt ( Lead Application Developer )
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Years Known: 5 years

Jason Deiwert ( Airbrush Artist, business owner )
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Years known: 14

Armando Pellerano (Former Instructor in college, currently business owner)
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Years known: 9