BRANDON GUERTNER
Sunnyvale, CA (Silicon Valley)
Portfolio

OBJECTIVE:To utilize my creative and technical skills and experience in UX Web Design, Production & Development in a Senior role within an well established and creative technology-related company.

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

• 15 years of Web site design production and development
• User-centered approach to Web design
• Clean hand-coded, cross-browser compliant, modular (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript code
• Pixel perfect graphic design creation and production
• Flash design, production and ActionScript
• UNIX Administration
• Photography, logo and icon design
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Efficient management of workflow processes and deadlines

CREATIVE & TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: XHTML, CSS, basic JavaScript, PHP, JSP, ASP, XML
Production: DreamWeaver, BBEdit, VI, Emacs, Interwoven Teamsite, CVS, SVN, FTP, DRET, YUI, MooTools
Visual and UX: Fireworks, Photoshop, Flash, Image Ready, Gimp, Illustrator, 3D animation, Video Editing
OS: UNIX (Solaris), Mac OS X, Windows (Vista, XP, NT, 2000, 98, 95)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
WEB DESIGN CLIENT LIST - SF Bay Area, CA -- 2001 - 2009
Sun, Yahoo!, ESR Technologies, WebEx, Sisters of Mercy Burlingame, eBay, HP, Elance, Beam Express, Second Harvest Food Bank, MicroCapital, Market Insight Corp

• Contracted (on-site) for technology-related companies such as Sun, ESR Technologies, Yahoo! and WebEx, as well as (off-site) consulting for companies such as eBay, Sisters of Mercy and ESR Technologies
• UI Design and prototyping for Elance Marketplace corporate home page
• Collaborated with web and marketing teams that included Elance, Yahoo! and WebEx to produce HTML e-mails and landing pages, using both pure CSS layout and table-based layout solutions
• Maintained HTML, JavaScript, CSS and graphics with content management systems as well as editing files directly on the server using UNIX commands and Emacs
• Supported content and graphics localization for WebEx international web sites
• Responsible for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, graphics and Flash production within IDEA Group (Yahoo!'s internal ad agency) for Yahoo! Small Business Promotions such as Y! Domains and Y! Merchant Solutions
• Created and updated Yahoo! Small Business monthly newsletters, using PHP logic to determine content variations on landing pages, through the Yahoo! PromoBuilder content management system
• Produced dynamic Flash ads with Y! Marketing that ran on Yahoo.com and affiliate sites
• Worked with Yahoo! Engineering to ensure backwards HTML compatibility for e-mail blasts
• Managed monthly polls using Yahoo! Poll Manager and PHP
• Fostered solid client relationships by providing detailed project estimates to ensure time and cost efficiency to successfully deliver client projects to small businesses such as Sisters of Mercy, Beam Express, Fit From the Core and Switch Management
• Conceptualized and designed multiple graphical prototypes (mockups) and implemented optimized hand-coded HTML, JavaScript, CSS and PHP for small business projects

SUN MICROSYSTEMS - Menlo Park, CA -- 2005 - 2007
Engineering Web Designer (consultant)

• Responsible for Web development and support for the Sun Partner Advantage Program protected and non-protected web sites and portals for quarterly release cycles and current patches using HTML, VI, UNIX, CVS, CSS, JSP and JavaScript through a shell (terminal)
• Manage and produce monthly Sun Partner Advantage Program HTML newsletter email blasts and statistics for Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe using the Sunmail email management program
• Working with internal Sun requestors and using Bugster and Quato bug tracking tools to manage and update Sun Partner Advantage Program web sites
• Post monthly updates for Sun Partner Advantage Program Development Hardware Offering price lists
• Creation of Sun.com directories, pages, bolt-ons and metadata using Interwoven TeamSite CMS
• Documentation and process updates to internal Sun Partner Advantage Program Web Team Wiki

STARTUPS.COM - Redwood City, CA -- 1999 - 2001
Web Designer/Developer

• Instrumental in implementing the initial launch of the Startups.com corporate Web site by hand-coding HTML, JavaScript and CSS, creating graphics in Photoshop and Flash and using CVS, Absolute FTP and Secure CRT
• Collaborative design and production of ReferralXpert, an online procurement Web application
• Heavy UI prototyping in Photoshop and Fireworks, and implementation within JSP pages, complex HTML tables, Homesite, Dreamweaver, Emacs and VI
• Developed online marketing campaign for Startups.com's Breakthrough 2001 Conference Web site using Fireworks, Photoshop, Homesite and DreamWeaver

SGI - Mountain View, CA -- 1999 - 1999
Web Designer / Intranet Developer (consultant)

• Worked collaboratively with the e-business, engineering and sgi.com teams to deliver Web content through Documentum Workspace, a content management system, in a UNIX/NT environment
• Developer for the "Configure a System" e-commerce application for SGI by hand-coding HTML, JavaScript and tagging content through Documentum Workspace
• Photographed and enhanced digital pictures of SGI workstations using a digital camera and Photoshop

SUN MICROSYSTEMS - Menlo Park, CA -- 1997 - 1999
Web Designer / Intranet Developer (consultant)

• Managed Sun intranet and Sun.com Web sites with HTML, JavaScript, Photoshop, Image Ready, Documentum Workspace and UNIX
• Responsible for Beta testing Nendo, a 3D animation/modeling program designed specifically for Solaris
• Created animated Web banner advertisements for sun.com with Photoshop
• Designed and edited The Sun MPEG-2 Encyclopedia using Photoshop and Illustrator
• Created an animated display presentation for Sun that was featured at a high-tech trade show
• Designed and developed Sun Microsystems brochures using Photoshop, and QuarkXpress

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA - Tucson, AZ -- 1995 - 1996
Multimedia and Network Assistant

• Provided network and software assistance to faculty and students including Mac network and technical support, software, photo scanning and audio/video equipment
• Video Director for a virtual real-time concert in two separate locations at the University
• Photography, development and digital enhancement for a Tombstone (AZ) Newspaper publication produced by the UofA Journalism Department
• Collected and enhanced photographs for a UofA CD-ROM project, "Saguaro & The City", using a digital camera, Photoshop and a slide scanner

EDUCATION
BA Fine Arts (Digital Arts)
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

INTERESTS
Basketball, Bracketology, bocce ball, percussion, piano, painting, warm water surfing, saguaros, my pet turtle and of course Web Design!

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Installed a dimmer switch in the kitchen
Saved a Sonoran Desert tortoise who was stuck on his back
Built a wooden bridge
Repaired some tea lights
Started a saguaro cacti forest

REFERENCES
Gladly provided upon request