About Drew
drew liverman
education and experience
graduated 2002 with degree in digital media from full sail with the following honors..
- valedictorian highest overall grade point average
- advanced achievement award (selected by graduating class vote)
- course director’s award: advanced web design
- course director’s award: introduction to 3d arts
- course director’s award: fundamentals of web design
- course director’s award: computer graphics
work experience
- 2002-2006 : web/graphic designer : owned and operated full service design and web development shop from 2002-2006 (frontside design), managing a small team in a production environment while maintaining lead design and direction on many projects.
- 2006-2008 : web application designer/developer : worked with an outer banks web design/development firm developing a large-scale web application.
- 2008-2009 : director of interactive media, park group : spearheaded the interactive media division of a full-scale post production firm from creative concept, pitch and approach phases through design, development and project delivery
skill set
in-depth knowledge and experience in…
- semantic xhtml/html markup and designing for web standards
- intuitive frontend/UI design
- website usability, graceful degradation, accessibility
- css layout and typography
- scripting and development architectures
-> PHP (primarily with MySQL database)
-> Ajax/Javascript/DOM scripting several libs and flavors including jquery, mootools, prototype/scriptacualous, EXT, YUI, several others
-> Coldfusion
-> RESTful web services, JSON objects, XML, RSS -> MVC frameworks
-> Source Control Procedures (SVN) - content management systems (with experience in many, primarily MODx CMS + Application Framework, Expression Engine, Joomla! and Drupal)
- custom page types and template/theme conversion
- administrator backend customization
- multi-user/multi-author/multi-site custom configuration
- web content creation engines/suites (primarily WordPress and Textpattern)
- mass email marketing campaign design and deployment
- terminal/ssh/ftp/apache
- flash, actionscript 1/2/3, amfphp, flv encoding (and several other video encoding tactics, compression schemas, delivery methods) and xspf playlist multimedia protocol
- Google Analytics integration/tracking, SEO/SEF best practices, tactical traffic targeting concepts/usage/monitoring, and online marketing methodologies (ie. Google AdSense profit generation)
- logo design, branding and identity, style guide creation and integration
production software proficiencies
- mac os x/environment (as well in-depth experience using windows and various linux operating systems)
- coda (panic)
- cssEdit/espresso
- textmate
- firefox/flock + firebug + web-dev extension + ySlow
- adobe creative suite 4
- navicat
- basecamp (small-team collaboration webapp)
- iTerm
ongoing explorations
- Ruby on Rails
- CodeIgniter / CakePHP / Symfony PHP
recent clients
- the tyra banks show
- ellen (ellen degeneres)
- virginia lottery
- syke energy drink
- rubbermaid
- monster.com


















3 Responses to About Drew
Martha Thomson
May 6th, 2010 at 5:35 am
Ellen is also very lucky to have a sweet and beautiful girlfriend like Portia De Rossi *
Jacob Patel
July 4th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
I often watch the Tyra Banks show late in the afternoon. Great show and great host.;~*
Charles Davis
August 1st, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Tyra is a great tv show host and i love watching her TV show, i learn a lot from her show`;-