NET ELEVATION - Founder
November 2007 - Present
Chicago, IL
- Formed company to deliver web solutions to small businesses.
- Managed bookkeeping and set financial goals.
- Implemented sales and marketing strategies.
- Developed on-going relationships with over 60 clients.
- Created systems and processes to ensure client satisfaction and operational stability.
SELF-EMPLOYED WEB DEVELOPER
August 2000 - November 2007
Chicago, IL
- Completed web projects for corporate and non-profit clients.
- Optimized existing web sites for higher search-engine listings.
- Built customized content management interfaces for small web sites.
- Designed brand-identities and logos.
NEAR NORTH NATIONAL GROUP - Web Developer
September 1998 - June 2004
Chicago, IL
- Designed and coded web sites to sell insurance and financial products.
- Built and maintained separate sites for over 80 products.
- Supervised migration of web projects into Zope content management system.
- Built co-branded insurance centers for General Electric, Verizon Wireless, Sony, CDW and others.
- Trained and mentored junior web developers.
POP-CULTURE-CORN MAGAZINE - Co-Editor / Designer
January 1995 - August 2000
Chicago, IL
- Founded and edited online entertainment magazine with 1500+ page views per day.
- Organized weekly editorial meetings to determine content.
- Designed interfaces and page layouts, including annual re-designs.
- Maintained site daily, including regular addition of new content.
- Developed online and offline site promotion—including banner advertisements, flyers, e-mailing lists and search-engine listings.
- Under Brian’s editorial supervision, Pop-Culture-Corn was profiled in Entertainment Weekly magazine.
Online Marketing Strategies, Business Development, Sales and Customer Service, Operations Management, Getting Things Done (GTD), HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XHTML, Adobe Photoshop, Wordpress, JavaScript, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Web Writing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Cost-Per-Click Advertising, Blogging, W3C Standards