Dan Landrum R E S U M E

 

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SKILLS

 

The love that motivates me is innovating and creating. With deep roots in visual arts, I design both "for print" and "for the web"; specializing in creating content-rich, search engine optimized, multimedia websites for personal and business use.

Having managed a successful small business for a number of years, I have an excellent grounding in the many technical and interpersonal skills required to communicate effectively with all parties, keep production running smoothly and deliver the goods on time.

EXPERIENCE

 

2000 – Present, San Diego, CA
Graphic & Web Design
http://www.appleEYEdesign.com
Creating content-rich, search engine optimized, multimedia websites for personal and business use. Specialties: Findability (SEO), Usability (user friendly), clean web-standard HTML & CSS + a touch of javascript, "adding padding" and making graphics & web design look good!

Feburary 2007 – August 2008, El Cajon, CA
Graphic & Web Design for SpeedyPin.com
http://speedypin.com
Graphics & web designer for this online prepaid phone card retailer.

2003 – 2006, Provide Commerce, San Diego, CA
Customer Service Representative
http://www.proflowers.com
Regular duties have included: incoming phone and email customer service, department Point of Contact, internal Solutions support, Email Team lead, Workload Monitoring, interviewing new hires, monthly Growers Report

1985 – 2000, Gerhard Ltd, San Diego, CA
Business & Office Manager/Silversmith
http://www.gerhardjewelry.com
As Business & Office Manager for this small jewelry manufacturer, my duties included full accounting, collections, customer service, telemarketing sales, inventory management, trade show liaison & booth maintenance, computer data entry, invoicing & shipping, generating weekly and periodic reports. As silversmith I performed a variety of silversmithing techniques, both traditional and unique to this particular designer's way of working.

EDUCATION

 

1999 –2004, North City Career Center
http://www.sandiegocet.net
Extensive training including: Adobe’s Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Acrobat, as well as Microsoft’s Word and Excel. Custom web standard, internet optimized coding in HTML, CSS, Javascript and Actionscript.

1990, San Diego State University
Bachelor's Degree (with Distinction) in Fine Art Painting, Photography and Printmaking.

VOLUNTEER WORK

 

2002-2007, San Diego, CA
Alzheimers Association
http://www.sanalz.org
Gave 5 art sessions a week for the Memories in the Making program.

2001-2002, University Heights, CA
Boys & Girls Club
Provided weekly computer & art sessions.

1994-1995, North Park, CA
Head Start
Provided weekly art sessions.

RECOMMENDATIONS

 

Graphics & Web Designer SpeedyPin.com

“Dan worked for Speedypin as full-time designer for approximately a year and a half, since February, 2007. During that time he produced new designs, copy, and collateral materials for many of Speedypin’s websites, as well as printed materials. His design work has been excellent and he has been valued highly by me and our marketing department. He has worked creatively and well as part of a team. When soliciting feedback among other employees in preparation for his most recent performance review, my programming staff related to me the fact that the HTML and other code that he provided in support of his design work was the cleanest and most easy to implement that they’ve received from designers in the past. The loss of a client required a significant reduction of staff--barring that circumstance, Dan would still be on our team. I would recommend him, therefore, without qualification.”

Larry Salzman, CEO, Speedypin.com
managed Dan indirectly at SpeedyPin.com

 

“There's really too many positive things to say about Dan in a short recommendation. To put it simply, Dan is the best graphic designer with whom I've worked. Besides being very artistic, he works extremely well with marketing folks. He's awesome at graphically communicating a product or company message to the customer (B2C and B2B).”

Eric Itzkowitz, Marketing Manager, SpeedyPin.com Phone Cards
worked directly with Dan at SpeedyPin.com

 

Owner appleeyedesign.com

“Dan is a multi-talented designer and media specialist whose work has been paramount to the progress and success of our agency. We rely on Dan for all of our design and technology needs ranging from web design and search engine optimization to book & CD production, CD-ROM , and advertising materials. Not only is Dan extremely versatile, but is a professional that you can count on to follow through with your project, meeting your deadline every time, and remaining highly accessible throughout the entire process. We highly recommend Dan's work to anyone seeking to take their company's image to the next level!”

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity

Michelle Lazar, MA, MT-BC, Owner www.coastmusictherapy.com and www.tunedintolearning.com
hired Dan as a Graphic/Web Designer in 2006, and hired Dan more than once

 

“I have had the pleasure of working with Dan over the last 2 years. He modified an existing template to create my website, www.otconnection.com. His professionalism and attention to detail were excellent. He completed all of the work on our site not just on time, but in advance of any deadlines given to him. He is very knowledegable and offered advice, design ideas, and many other details related to my site's search engine optimization. Dan responds to emails within hours, sometimes even minutes, making communication and the overall design process a breeze. He has been making on-going updates to our site over the last few years, and again, I cannot say enough about his performance and timeliness. Overall, I would highly recommend Dan to any individual or business seeking out professional, reliable, and high quality design services!”

Top qualities: Great Results, On Time, High Integrity

Katie Shaffer, OTR/L, Clinical Director/Owner of OTconnection.com
hired Dan as a Graphic/Web Designer in 2006, and hired Dan more than once