Jeremy Jarratt

Web Developer/Designer * Graphic Artist * Content Manager

Professional Profile

• Experienced, savvy Web developer/designer with 8 years of rising talent and vision
• In-demand as a mentor among peers for expertise in web standards compliance and among colleagues for quick content production and stylish web presence
• Self-taught, realizes qualities of initiative and goal-orientation
• Producer of browser- friendly, clean, well-formed, structurally semantic markup and styling
• Innovative: early pioneer of semi-transparency on the Web

Advanced Skills

• HTML 4.01 – XHTML 1.0
• CSS
• PHP
• Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash
• text-based HTML editors
• Corel Paint Shop Pro
• GIMP 2.0
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Windows, Mac, Unix/Linux OS
• Dynamic content
• Animation for the Web
• Page load optimization
• Compression optimization
• Image formats
• Audio formats
• Sound design
• Multimedia content
• Animation
• Databasing
• Accessibility
• Intermediate JavaScripting and DHTML
• Browser quirks
• Blogging, CMS, and message board platforms
• Wordpress, phpBB, Joomla!, b2evolution, PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, b2\cafelog: installation, configuration, template/theme customization, management

Experience & Employment Highlights

Freelance

• Web Developer/Designer

• Dayton, OH
• 2000 — present

• Brilliant By Design
  • June 2008 — present. In development. Wordpress-powered web site to enable a small local business to achieve web presence and self-empowerment in managing web content. Original theme based on the client's design.
• Technothrope
  • 2003 — 2007, 2008. Relaunch of a tutorials site geared toward web technologies and techniques. Original version used PHP-Nuke as core CMS; shortly after Joomla! was released in 2005, that platform was used instead. Currently using Joomla! for 3.0 redeployment.
• Mars Site Templating System
  • 2003 — 2005. Mars S.T.S. used PHP, XHTML, CSS, and cookies to create a database-free Content Management System featuring automatic content linking and a user-selectable theme. Also featured what was at the time bleeding-edge cross-browser semi-transparent backgrounds, using PHP-generated dynamic cascading stylesheets based on the client browser's user agent string. This started as a prototype web site for the local chapter of a space research advocacy organization.
• Tecumseh Local Music Boosters
  • 2002 — 2005. Designed and developed extensive site featuring a dynamic photo gallery. Implemented using HTML, DHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and Flash; original graphics. Also responsible for some copy writing.
• The VAT Magazine
  • 2004. Companion site to print magazine. Built with XHTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL; featured a utility allowing editors and writers to upload files and have links to content automatically generated for them by the site's engine. This was useful, as in the early stages, a secure database was not then available. Also produced content including graphics, Flash, copy, and advertisements. Original, custom-built CMS + b2evolution blogging engine, designed to mimic the look and feel of the print version.
• Tecumseh [Local School District] All-Class Reunion
  • 2001 — 2002. Internet chair and Media/Publicity co-chair for steering committee. Designed and developed for a local not-for-profit organization; used Flash, HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL; original graphics. Produced content, including copy and all graphics. Message board by phpBB. Also produced compilation CD of alumni musicians. Voluntary work, done pro bono.
• The Loving Scares
  • 2002. Site for local independent artist/musician Anthony Dawson. Used HTML, CSS. Images used are artist's own.

Robert Half Technologies

• Consultant, web development

• Dayton, OH
• 4/2008

Worked on site at DealCorp converting existing documents from ASP (classic) to XHTML/CSS + JavaScript. This involved making corrections and cleaning code after automatic processes had already been run and extensively testing the final result to ensure that no core functionality had been lost.

BathandBodyWorks.com

• Intranet Site Developer

• Dayton, OH
• 11/2005 — 4/2006

Company intranet site using accessible, standards-compliant, cross browser markup and modern styling techniques.

Victoria's Secret Direct

• Internet Services Representative

• Kettering, OH
• 9/2004 — present

Technical troubleshooting, answering e-mail from clients

GE Consumer Finance

• Customer Service Representative

• Kettering, OH
• 11/2003 — 9/2004

Account management, data entry

Powertel PCS

• Customer Service Lead Representative

• Jacksonville, FL
• 3/1999 — 9/2000

Mentoring 20-25 associates, training, technical troubleshooting, client escalation management, reporting call center statistics, cellphone activation & programming

AT&T Wireless Services

• Customer Service Cube Leader

• Jacksonville, FL
• 2/1997 — 8/1998

Mentoring 5-10 associates, technical troubleshooting, remote cellphone programming

Education

The Recording Workshop

• Certificate, Audio Engineering & Production
• Certificate, Studio Maintenance & Troubleshooting
• grad. 11/1991

Wright State University

• Coursework: English, Practical Mathematics, Physics
• 8/1990 – 3/1991

Tecumseh High School

• Diploma
• grad. 5/1990

Summary

My objective is to secure an entry-level position in New Media that will allow me to develop and exploit my skills. I am self-motivated, and have been commended for attendance, and communication skills, as well as for taking a hands-on, self-motivated, yet "team-oriented" approach. Learning new skills and techniques comes easily and I am excellent at finding and developing process improvements.