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
  

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  -> PHP (primarily with MySQL database)

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  -> Ajax/Javascript/DOM scripting several libs and flavors including jquery, mootools, prototype/scriptacualous, EXT, YUI, several others

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  -> Coldfusion

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  -> RESTful web services, JSON objects, XML, RSS -> MVC frameworks

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  -> Source Control Procedures (SVN)

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• 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

contact info

• via email -> drew.liverman@gmail.com
• via phone -> 252.202.2694
• view past project samples here
• references available upon request
• read most recent employer’s letter of recommendation here