Jon Bourne's Resume

INTRODUCTION

I am an ambitious, self-motivated and enthusiastic person, and I carry these values into my workplace. I am good with people, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and possess specific technical understanding and knowledge in the Web design and development arenas.

I am interested in obtaining a position with a company whose employees share my passion for the Web.

WORK EXPERIENCE
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Present	Verticentric Design	Fairbanks, AK
Designed custom Web sites for a wide variety of clients—from a birth clinic to construction companies to a personal chef Met with clients to discuss their objectives, site goals and requirements Conducted client interviews to determine how to best suit sites to visitors' needs Crafted concise yet thorough client contracts to outline work to be done Dealt with troublesome clients and diffused potentially tense situations Handled client billing Maintained profitability -
1/2003 - Present New Media Manager	Fairbanks Daily News-Miner	Fairbanks, AK
Responsible for daily updates to the Web site Responsible for major site redesigns in 2003 and 2006 Sold banner and text link advertising and managed inventory Built banner ads Built and implemented new Web features, such as RSS Met multiple departments' needs with custom programming Created many XHTML forms for customer interaction with staff Programmed custom database-driven classifieds application Created database-driven directory of participating area businesses Created and maintained custom online content management system for News-Miner subsidiary Kodiak Daily Mirror Optimized site keywords for search engine awareness Saw top line revenue growth Increased average monthly Web site page views 167%—from 600,000 to 1,600,000 Cut Web site vendor costs by 80% by creating or researching and investing in other solutions -
8/2000 - 5/2001 Managing Editor	Frontier High School	Fairbanks, AK
Edited other students' articles for punctuation, spelling, syntactical correctness, and length Managed other staff editors Assigned stories to individual reporters Ensured overall product quality Helped advertising staff with advertisement copy -
8/1999 - 5/2000 Production Manager	Frontier High School	Fairbanks, AK
Built, maintained and used desktop publishing templates for creation of monthly newspaper Flowed copy into template Placed display ads Responsible for printing paper after final proof -
8/1998 - 5/1999 Reporter	Frontier High School	Fairbanks, AK
Accepted story assignments from managing editor Interviewed sources Wrote articles to specifications outlined by copy desk and production staff -

SKILLS

Languages and technologies:

Semantic (X)HTML

MySQL

Javascript

XML, including RSS

Applications:

Dreamweaver MX

TextWrangler

Photoshop

Illustrator

Operating systems:

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Mac OS X

Mac OS X Server

Ubuntu Linux

EDUCATION
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8/1998 - 5/2001	Frontier High School	Fairbanks, AK
High School Diploma 3.78 Grade Point Average -
9/2001 - 12/2002	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Fairbanks, AK
Computer Science -

KEYWORDS

xhtml, html, css, web standards, php, mysql, web developer, web designer, photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver

Jon Bourne's Resume (Last updated March 10th 2007)