Travis Richardson
Travis@duanemedia.com
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Experience includes extensive Graphic Design, Web Design, and Web Management. Assisted with company style-guide design, redesign of corporate & government sites, team manager, content management, and design of 4-color print materials.
Employment:
Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.
San Francisco, CA April 2006 – Present
Contract - Web Producer / Information Architect
- Lead developer in research and hand-coding DHTML & CSS driven page tools, launched site-wide on Schwab’s public and customer sites. Tools consist of printer-friendly and text-resize, allowing the user one-click printing and 3 font-size options
- Regular site updates using Rational ClearQuest Content Management: creating, editing and using reusable assets, editing content, filling business request, images, meta-data, and more
- Customizing and hand-coding Cascading Style Sheets, using CSS 2.0 for print and web
- Create wire-frames and mock-ups for new site development and giving direction for site architecture and usability
- Attended training for website analysis: WebSide Story Active Viewer 3.0/HBX Analytics
- Attend meetings with content owners, directors and vice presidents to discuss new development
Prince George's County Government
Upper Marlboro, MD April 2003 - March 2006
Contract - Web Content Manager
- Led creative process in a full website redesign; including helped customize the overall style and user-interface for easier use, navigation and overall layout
- Maintained and updated the Prince George's County web site; created e-mail web forms in ASP with JavaScript validation: hand-coding HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, Cascading Style-Sheets (CSS), de-bugging, ensuring 508 compliance, Quality Assurance and Content Management
- Attended one week training on Percussion Rhythmyx Enterprise Content Management
- Rhythmyx Content Management - maintained and enhanced existing CMS templates through systems analysis design and debugging, assigned user workflow, and administrative rights
- Met with various county officials and agencies to discuss content issues and new development
- Viewed website analysis from WebTrends and sending to different departments
- Graphic development for print and web use
System: Windows 2000 Professional / Windows XP Professional
| * | HTML / XHTML |
| * | DHTML 4.0 |
| * | JavaScript |
| * | Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.0 |
| * | AJAX (beginner) |
| * | XML (mid-level) |
| * | XPath (beginner) |
| * | XSL / XSLT (beginner) |
| * | Server-Side Includes |
| * | ActionScript 2.0 |
| * | PHP 5 (mid-level) |
| * | MySQL (beginner) |
| * | Dreamweaver 8 |
| * | HomeSite+ 5.5 |
| * | Visual SourceSafe 6 |
| * | Visual InterDev 6 |
| * | IIS 5 |
| * | WS-FTP Pro |
| * | Percussion Rhythmyx Content Management 5.01 |
| * | Relational ClearQuest Content Management |
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Graphics & Multi-Media: |
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| * | Fireworks 8 |
| * | Flash 8 |
| * | Photoshop 7.0 |
| * | Premiere 1.5 Pro |
| * | Illustrator 10 |
| * | QuarkXpress 4.1 |
| * | Media Cleaner Pro 4 |
| * | MS Word 2003 |
| * | MS Excel 2003 |
| * | MS PowerPoint 2003 |
| * | MS Visio 2003 |
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Operating Systems: |
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| * | Windows 2000 Professional |
| * | Windows XP Professional |
Enlightened, Inc.
Washington, D.C. July 2002 - December 2002
Contract - Senior Web Designer
- Had sole responsibility for all web design, graphic design, Flash animation, and 508 compliance
- Designed various government sites; ranging from Department of Labor to U.S. Army (SouthCom)
- Hand-coded HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Cascading Style-Sheets, Server-Side Includes, ASP forms, site flow charts, and created two-color marketing materials
- User Interface Design and resolved design issues for the client and the eventual user
- Worked with web hosting companies to setup accounts and administration/ database privileges
System: Windows 2000 Professional
Cisco Systems
San Jose, CA January 2001 - March 2001
Contract - Web Producer
- On a team of 4 designers I redesigned the Partners & Resellers section of their corporate site
- Interwoven TeamSite - content management and file structure between Staging and Live servers
- Organized meetings with Content Managers to discuss site changes and request feedback
- HTML and Server-Side Include coding, page redirects, QA, and web safe graphics
System: Windows 2000 Professional
Eloquent, Inc.
San Mateo, CA June 2000 - January 2001
Webmaster
- Implemented a Phase 1 site redesign, including complete re-coding of all HTML and JavaScript
- MS Access - downloaded and edited customer database for mailing list used by Sales
- HTML and Server-Side Includes, web safe graphics, Flash animations for web and tradeshows
- Daily updates; published press releases, hand-coded HTML/JavaScript, content management, and design of monthly HTML customer e-mails
System: Windows NT
Autoweb.com
Santa Clara, CA August 1999 - June 2000
Art Director
- Hired as a Web Designer and promoted to Art Director
- Managed a team of five designers, led the creative process from conception to implementation
- As a manger I performed quarterly employee performance reviews, hired new employees, trained off-site employees, and rated quarterly employee bonus percentages
- Worked closely with Project Managers, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and IT to solve user interface issues, and ensure successful and scheduled completion of projects
- Assisted advertising agency in designing company style-guide
- Worked with selected vendors for company wide signage and business cards with press-checks and approval
- Coding - HTML, JavaScript, Server Side-Includes
- Coded sponsor pages for Iwon.com, Yahoo, and AOL, along with development of Auctions site
- Edited and optimized video into web safe QuickTime files, and created print materials for NADA tradeshow
System: Windows NT
Informix Software
Menlo Park, CA June 1999 - August 1999
Contract - Web Producer
- Hand-coded HTML, content management on Staging and Live server, and created web safe graphics
- Sole responsibility for updating international employee information on the site
System: Windows 95
Global Marketing Concepts, Inc.
Louisville, KY February 1998 - March 1999
Graphic Web Designer
- Sole responsibility for design of various sites ranging from Home Improvement, Real Estate, to Financial
- Web - design and layout from conception to completion, HTML, graphic and animated GIF files
- Print - print graphics, scanning images, monthly 4-color magazine layout and design
- Worked with postscript files, color separations, and printing bureaus
System: Windows NT
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY August 1996 - January 1998
Graphic Designer
- Developed video presentations, QuickTime movies with animation, advertisements, catalogs, posters, and PDF files
- Scanned images and performed computer maintenance
System: Macintosh
Kinko's
Mountain View, CA July 1995 - May 1996
Computer Services Consultant
- Designed customer business cards, brochures, flyers, posters, newsletters, and scanned images
- Assisted customers with computer related problems
System: Macintosh / Windows 3.1
Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics — May 1994
New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, N.Y. 11568