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Career Summary
ASCII Corporation | Tokyo, Japan, 1994-1996
  new product/software testing and reporting for Japan's No.1 PC entertainment magazine corporation (primarily LOGiN magazine, but often reported for several other publications)
       
RealtySouth | Birmingham, AL 1996-1997
  marketing department production team
       
Freelance Designer/Programmer | Birmingham, AL 1997-1998
  print, web and interactive design
       
BLR | Birmingham, AL 1998-2000
  multimedia design/programming
     
TriptychDesign, LLC | Birmimingham, AL 2000-2002
  Founding partner
  multimedia design/programming
  website design & development
     
  Primary Accomplishments:
    Integrated print, web, and interactive projects for clients in order to unify their branding efforts. Often produced projects for some of Birmingham's largest advertising agencies and their clientele, including projects for: HealthSouth, RealtySouth, Southeast Toyota, Mercedes Marathon, Birmingham Summerfest, Brookwood Medical Center and UAB.

Agencies for which we produced projects included: Intermark Interactive, Jackhammer, Slaughter Hanson, Visual Images, Hare Advertising, and FitzMartin.
     

KickMail, LLC | Birmingham, AL 2002-2006
  CIO/CTO/Founding Partner
  new product/software concept & development
  Systems Administration for all IT-related functions
  managed programming and IT teams
  headed all programming efforts
  conception and production of both internal and public products/tools
     
  Primary Accomplishments:
    Produced a new product line of web-based applications under the label KickMail to enable companies of any size to easily send CAN-SPAM compliant, branded, trackable, html e-mails to their customers or colleagues. The packages included the ability to send fully designed, html e-mails, manage your own contacts, send multiple types of documents (announcements, letterhead, sales sheets, newsletters, thank you cards, birthday cards, memos, etc.), archive all transactions, embed opt-out functionality to all deliveries, contained an e-commerce module so that clients could pay via credit card or paper invoice, embedded "hot" actionable buttons within the documents to trigger client processes, delivered automatic notices to customers as to actions being taken by their clients... and much more. The product boasted customers in nearly all of the fifty United States.

Produced a wysiwyg e-Newsletter product called BYÖEN (Build Your Own e-Newsletter) simplifying the often complicated and expensive tasks of producing and delivering a well-deigned, compliant e-Newsletter.
     

Reader's Digest (Taste of Home Entertaining) | Birmingham, AL 2006-2008
  Sr. Programmer / Sr. Designer / Analyst
  new product/software concept & development
  managed design team
  headed all web-based design efforts
     
  Primary Accomplishments:
    Working with an already strong team of .NET programmers, I enhaced their programming efforts by being able to implement a much higher standard of interface design across all internal and public-facing applications.
     

bullet Bendi Productions, Inc. | Birmingham, AL 2008-present
  bullet Founder & CEO / Sr. Programmer / Sr. Designer
  bullet new product/software concept & development
     
  Primary Accomplishments:
    Strong focus on creating truly useful web-based solutions for small to medium-sized businesses.
     
Education
  Bachelors Degree (Foreign Language-International Trade), Auburn University, 1994
    Languages: Japanese & Spanish
  Double Minor (Visual Arts), Auburn University, 1994