Skills Summary
Timothy Borkowski
www.kickingdesings.com
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Web Design Skills
- Graphical user interface (GUI) design using HTML/XHTML/CSS, Adobe Fireworks & Flash
- Web standards compliance and basic accessibility issues (as they pertain to XHTML)
- Planning, designing, and implementing web site structure and navigation layout with server side includes and dynamic content
- Designing and planning additions to sites
- Flash presentations
- Design & layout of e-mail newsletters
- Design & layout of press releases & white papers
- Image optimization
- Knowledgeable with TITLE & META tags and page content for search engine optimization
- Understanding of screen resolutions and how to design for them
- Testing with multiple browsers and operating systems to ensure the best compatibility possible
Video Editing
- Able to perform basic video editing (standard captions and transitions, but no special effects)
- Video output to DVD or optimized for the web
Graphic Design/Desktop Publishing Skills
- QuarkXPress & Photoshop in Macintosh & PC environments
- Designing and laying out advertisements from business card size to full page car ads for mechanical paste-up
- Image scanning & related software knowledge
- Digital camera knowledge
- Samples provided upon request
Application Software Experience
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Fireworks
- Adobe Homesite
- Adobe Flash
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator (beginner)
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Premiere Elements
- QuarkXPress
- Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Access
- Microsoft Outlook
- Lotus Notes
- Bradsoft TopStyle
- Various FTP applications
- Various CD burning apps
- Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
- Macintosh OS 7.0 - 10.4
Other Computer Skills
- Software installation and updating
- Windows OS maintenance - file clean-up and hard drive de-fragmentation
- Hardware upgrades and installations:
- CD/DVD drives
- Hard drives
- RAM
- Power supplies
- Video, sound, SCSI & multimedia cards
- Printers & scanners
- UPSs
- External drives