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------Work Experience-----------------------------------

Reddawg Mobile Marketing Solutions – Grand Ledge, MI (2010 - Present)
Positions: Owner / Sales Manager / Marketing Director

Synergy Soup, Inc. – Grand Ledge, MI (1994 - Present)
Positions: Owner / Project Manager / Designer / Developer / Video Editor / Audio Editor / Photographer

MAXanim Computer Animation – Lansing, MI (1991-95)
Positions: Owner / Animator / Project Manager

Video Crossfire Productions – Lansing, MI (1990-92)
Positions: Producer / Director / Host / Editor

Bezil Design – Williamston, MI (1990-91)
Positions: Graphic Designer

Corporate Image Advertising – Lansing, MI (1988-90)
Positions: Graphic Designer

Uncle Sam’s Sport Shop – Mount Clemens, MI (1982-85)
Positions: Graphic Designer / Shop Manager

------Education-------------------------------------------

Lansing Community College: (Lansing, MI)
Associate Degrees: Commercial Art & 3D Animation

Olivet College: (Olivet, MI)
Two years – Studio Art Major / Art Teaching Minor

South Lake High School: (St. Clair Shores, MI)
1985 Graduate

Over 19 Years of Web Design Experience
& 28 Years of Graphic Design:

Mastered Software:

• Dreamweaver
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Flash
• Contribute
         (Adobe's CMS software)
• All MS Office Products
• Adobe Audition
         (Audio Software)
• InDesign
• Adobe Designer
         (PDF developer software)
• Pinnacle Studio 11
         (video editing software)
• Various FTP client software

Other Areas of Extensive Experience:

• HTML / XHTML / CSS
• JavaScript
• E-Commerce solutions
• SEO & Social Media Marketing
• Cross-Browser Compatibility
• Virtual Tour Development
         (from photos to panoramas)

Additional notes:
• I originally learned to write HTML code from scratch in a text editor. This gives me the ability to quickly correct errors that are caused by coding using software to create code.

• I have a good knowledge of PHP and some experience writing PHP code. I primarily have used staff/programmers to produce PHP code and related databases, but I have some experience maintaining PHP code.

Achievements / Accolades:

• I designed the first web site in Michigan and one of the first public sites in the country for Voyager Information Systems (now CoreComm – core.com).

• 1994 - Awarded a “Yahoo Top Five Pick of the Day” for my Michigan Department of Agriculture website.

• 1995 - Awarded a “Yahoo Top Five Pick of the Day” for my Michigan Secretary of State website called “Kidz Discover Michigan”.

• My “Lunchgoddess.com” website was a Finalist in the 2001 Webby Awards.

• 2001 Finalist in the Greater Lansing Entrepreneurial Awards.

• NY Times awarded Talkinsites.com as a “Top 25 Finalist” in the 2002 Ad Innovations Awards.

• The Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest awarded me 2nd place in their 2003 Business Plan Awards.

• Sports Illustrated called my Lansing Lugnuts website “A Major Presence for a Minor League Team”.

• The Lansing State Journal compared me to the great R.E. Olds founder of Oldsmobile as a tremendous innovator in our time.