Website design, development, programming, and consulting.
Writing, critical editing, open-minded thinking.
Experience
Blue Anthem Media. San Francisco, California. 2010-present Web Develper / Founder. Web design and development firm. Extensive skills and background with programming and design. Beautiful websites from scratch to launch. For diverse client projects, I have taken Photoshop mock-ups into concise hand-coded HTML, created pixel-perfect CSS sheets, implemented new mobile-friendly HTML 5 tags, and set up real-time form updating tools via AJAX, hand-coded Javascript, and Javascript libraries such as JQuery. For other projects, my tasks have included developing custom content management tools to control content across websites in ColdFusion and MySQL, and hand-coding theme templates and navigation in PHP.
Development: Dreamweaver (websites), Premiere Pro (video)
PARTIAL PORTFOLIO:
FOOD STAMPED documentary film
GREEN BARREL WINE start-up business
DOUBLEHAPPY.BE author website & blog
TUBER CREATIONS creative artist community
EMBODIED TOUCH massage therapist
NICK LOVES WENDY destination wedding
SACRED RELATIONSHIPS life coach
HORSTMEYER HOOPS basketball summer camp
Experience
Civic Ventures. San Francisco, California. 2005-2009 Webmaster. Developed the websites for this progressive think tank and social justice organization, including the launch of the website for The Purpose Prize, a major movement-starting prize program that awards $500,000 annually to five socially-engaged seniors across the United States to fund inspirational and ground-breaking projects. Perfected cross-browser DHTML for the sites experiencecorps.org and civicventures.org. Worked with JQuery libraries in our public-facing Drupal site encore.org. Developed RSS feeds for "In the News" media articles via XML and XSLT.
American Society on Aging. San Francisco, California. 2001-2004 Webmaster. Designed, developed, and maintained a wide array of websites for this nonprofit professional organization.
Created graphic design templates, wrote interactive Javascript client-side scripts, coded ColdFusion database references, engineered SQL reports on a 400+ table relational database, and managed Bank of America e-commerce transactions. I conceived and implemented various projects ranging from ASA's own research, conference, and publications websites, to membership database interfaces, to graphic-intensive stand-alone websites for our partnerships with organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control.
AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING annual conference (2005)
AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING annual conference (2005)
AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING annual conference (2004)
AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING annual conference (2004)
Experience
Garlic & Grass. San Francisco, California. 2002-2004 Publisher & Webmaster. Conceived the format, look-and-feel, and editorial direction for this online poltical magazine. "A Grassroots Journal of America's Political Soul." Wrote many articles myself, acquired permission for others, and assigned to other writers the writing of the rest. Figures I've interviewed include Green supervisor Matt Gonzalez, author David Ray Griffin, and presidential candidate David Cobb. I also manage the 2000-record subscriber database (SQL), design the graphical layout for each issue, and manage the interactive discussion content.
PartnerCommunications.com. St. Louis, Missouri. 1999-2001 Web Developer. Designed and maintained the central websites for this Internet start-up, as it grew
from 8 to 65 employees. Conceived, designed, and implemented numerous additional portal websites for use by each of the apartment communities outfitted with then-state-of-the-art high-speed wireless Internet access.
Programming: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS.
Software: Flash, Photoshop, Xara, FrontPage.
Experience
Washington University. St. Louis, Missouri. 1998 Assistant Librarian, Library of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Catalogued information and entered online data on all the library's multifarious documents, maps, surveys, and
books. Coordinated research projects and course reserves with professors and
students of the department. Trained student interns and assistants.
Experience
Princeton in Asia.
Princeton, New Jersey, and Guangzhou, China. 1996-97 English Teacher. Enjoyed the wonders and challenges of intense cultural exchange while teaching
English to Chinese students in Southeastern China.
Education
Amherst College. Amherst, Massachusetts. BA, 1996 Computer Science. Received a broad-based background in the human use of computers. Languages: C, Pascal, HTML, Prolog. Operating Systems: Windows, DOS, Macintosh, Unix, VAX/VMS. Software: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Desktop Publishing, Digital Layout. Bachelor's in Computer Science.
Extensive additional liberal arts studies in Political Science, English, and Creative Writing.
Additional
My forthcoming book, Double Happiness, which recounts my experiences in China, was excerpted in both China, an anthology of travel writing on China, and in TravelMag, a British online travel magazine. Other writings of mine have been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and elsewhere.
I speak, read, and write both Spanish and Mandarin Chinese (and English, too).
I play soccer and guitar, and center with meditation and yoga.
References
Furnished happily upon request.
Contact me: tonybrasunas@gmail.com.
