Jonathan Van Dalen
email: tzakiel@gmail.com
phone: 912.224.7336
web: www.jonvandalen.com
Objective
To continue to use my web design, coding and project management skills to create appealing and effective web sites which best meet the company goals.
Work Experience
2007 - National Association of County and City Health Officials, Washington DC, Web Specialist
Promotion. Designed, maintained and programmed NACCHO web site and related web sites as well as e-marketing materials. Created conference web sites and marketing materials. Redesigned organization web site. Implemented a variety of new technologies including CMS, CSS Layouts and Google Search. Led small groups of staff to accomplish web related tasks. Worked closely with consultants to accomplish programming tasks.
2006 - 2007 National Association of County and City Health Officials, Washington DC, Web Assistant
Designed, maintained and programmed NACCHO web site and related web sites. Created graphics and layout for web and print. Worked as part of a large organization on complex web site.
2004-2006 Graduate study as well as various independant projects including logo design, web design and photography for small clients.
2001 - 2003 Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Residential Computing Connection, Web Designer / Tech Team
Developed and maintained university rcc web page and worked on other technical projects such as cd-rom design and graphics. Worked as part of a collaborative team. Promoted from connection tech.
2000 - 2002 Pocono Web Works, Pennsylvania, Web Designer
Worked as part of a small team to develop and maintain web sites for various local companies and businesses.
Education
Savannah college of art and design - interactive design and digital media, 2004-2005
Graduate work towards masters degree in fine arts (interactive design).
Bachelor of fine arts - digital arts - bowling green state university, 1999-2003
Fine arts curriculum included primarily 3d and 2d computer art courses including character animation. also drawing painting, printmaking, ceramics, and other fine art courses. 12 credits (4 classes) drawing including figure and narrative drawing.
Nagoya gakuin university, Japan, 2002
Japanese language and culture study.
Technical Proficiencies / Experience
Project Management // Working with multiple vendors and consultants
CSS and xhtml // Design, creating stylesheets, coding
Creation of new graphics and images for use in design
Site planning // Usability and logical layout
PHP, mySQL, Coldfusion // Editing and integrating existing code
Hand-coding html
Search engine optimization and integration
Video editing
Dreamweaver
Flash
Illustrator
Photoshop
Sound forge
Premiere
After Effects
Painter
3d modeling and rendering experience including but not limited to Maya, 3d studio max, game editors, Softimage, Lightwave
Windows based systems / mac / sgi / octane / indy / onyx / media 100i - extensive knowledge of many types of hardware and operating systems. Building systems and replacing hardware components.
Other Information and Skills
Professional photography skills.
Some programming experience and education with c++, java, actionscript, coldfusion, PHP.
Active in local and online workshops, events, conferences and meetups for web design and photography.
Extensive travel experience to asia and europe.
Japanese language and culture studies, studied in Nagoya, Japan summer 2002.
Understanding of 3d modeling practices and methods in polygons, nurbs and sub-d surfaces understanding of uv mapping, texturing, rigging and animation (straight through and pose to pose) as well as rendering, post-production and video game art techniques.
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