Michael Bruns

Front-end web designer with a focus on seeing site design through from start to finish. Focused on creating beautiful, hand-coded, easy-to-use websites while emphasizing semantic markup and accessibility. Enjoy working in a team on projects while being able to handle individual responsibilities as well. Driven to learn and grow as the web continues to develop as a medium for creative communication.

Millennium Marketing Solutions
Web Designer - September '11 - Present

Baltimore Sun Media Group
Web Designer - December '10 - September '11

Facilitate creation of web ads for The Baltimore Sun's revenue generating websites. Web ads range from static images to dynamic rich media ads. Responsible for design and implementation of both advertiser and in-house email blasts sent via E-Dialog. Maintain an e-commerce store that utilizes the Drupal CMS and Ubercart.

New Village Media
Lead Web Designer - March '08 - December '10

Design visual layout for clients in the tourism promotion industry, regional news, and non-profits. Generate semantic XHTML templates utilizing CSS driven table-less layouts. Integration of templates into TYPO3 CMS. Setup CMS backend, prior to client training, ranging from page creation to extension customization. Maintain client websites on a daily basis.

RPI Marketing, Inc.
Web Designer - March '07 - November '07

Worked closely with marketing department and clients in developing information architectures. Generated visual layout based on client needs and hand coded table-less layouts using XHTML and CSS. Worked on internal website projects for company affiliate sites. Maintained client websites on a daily basis.

Matrix Solutions, Inc
Freelance Web Designer - August '06 - December '06

Tasked with redesigning existing static website as well as modifying the functionality and styling of company's OSCommerce based online store using XHMTL and CSS. Modified existing logo for better visualization on the website.

DFW Consultants
Freelance Web Designer - December '05 - August '06

Worked on several websites for client over the course of several months. All sites were designed and hand coded utilizing table-less layouts with XHTML and CSS. Projects ranged from a database driven website for gamers to the design of a site for selling personalized gaming computers.

Philadelphia Eagles, LLC
Video Production & Web Design Intern - July '03 - April '05

Handled all aspects of video production for PhiladelphiaEagles.com. Filmed games, player interviews, press conferences, & video segments on a daily basis. Digitally edited using Adobe Premiere and exported for viewing on the website. Also handled creation of flash introductions to website on a weekly basis during the 2003 season.

University of the Arts
BFA - Multimedia - 2001 - 2006

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• XHTML & CSS

• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Premiere
• TYPO3 CMS

• jQuery
• Drupal CMS

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