CHRIS BECKLEY cbeckley@gmail.com PORTFOLIO: www.chrisbeckley.net OBJECTIVE: To become an integral member of a quality design team that creates quality visual communications and ideas that affect people in a positive way. EDUCATION: Media Arts, Associates in Applied Science Degree Graduated December 2003 Phoenix College, Phoenix, Arizona GPA 3.95 (Summa Cum Laude) ACCOMPLISHMENTS: . Designed and Developed a new website for the Creative Children's Center Preschool and Elementary . Designed a large sign for an Oregon organic food market . Ranked FirstAmericanStock.com in the top 10 results for 10 popular keyword searches in Google, Yahoo, MSN . Designed the GUI and managed the development of the inventory/fulfillment system used by TextLinkBrokers.com . Designed Landing Pages for high profile drug rehab centers . Increased the inventory of Vendors' websites from 20 to over 5,000 for TextLinkBrokers.com over 5 years PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Freelance Graphic Design, Web Design, Web Development and SEO Consultant, 1989 (SEO since 2004) – Present Phoenix, Arizona and Portland, Oregon . Web Design for Websites, Landing Pages, Emails/Newsletters, Infographics and Ads . Web Development - coding HTML, XHTML, CSS, along with basic PHP and JavaScript . Graphic Design for Signs, Logos, Brochures, Business Cards, CD Covers and Inlays, Handbills, Posters . SEO/SEM Consultant/Practitioner . Wordpress, CMS, E-commerce, Social Media, Viral Marketing, Web Analytics Portfolio available at http://www.chrisbeckley.net/portfolio.html Web Designer, Web Developer, SEO Consultant, Webmaster, August 2005 – March 2010 First American Stock Transfer, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona Lead designer, Developer, Webmaster, SEO Consultant and Pay-Per-Click advertising campaign manager for the website www.FirstAmericanStock.com. Portfolio available at http://www.chrisbeckley.net/portfolio.html Fulfillment & Inventory Manager / Project Manager, February 2004 – April 2009 TextLinkBrokers.com & 360 Enterprises, Inc., Gilbert, Arizona . Managed up to 8 people in-house and up to 12 people remotely . Was responsible for making sure all orders were fulfilled in a timely and efficient manner . Identified opportunities for improvement and implement changes . Interacted with Executives and other departments to develop new processes and identify and resolve issues . Facilitated custom modifications in the company's CRM system . Managed 100's of Vendors' issues and questions . Created Specifications, Design User Interfaces and Consult on the development of in-house systems . Trained staff on applications, systems, processes and procedures . Designed websites, logos, user interfaces, banners, posters and flyers for in-house projects and client's projects . Developed Websites in XHTML/CSS for in-house and client's projects . Identified W3C compliant coding issues on websites and implement changes to validate them . Identified and alter elements of landing page websites to optimize them for better conversions Portfolio available at http://www.chrisbeckley.net/portfolio.html Assistant to the Director of Interior Design, October 2001 – December 2003 Phoenix College, Phoenix, Arizona . Reproduced architectural floor plans and elevations in AutoCAD, including blueprint of the Wrigley Mansion . Scanned and adjusting images in Photoshop, and creating PowerPoint presentations . Created Bitmap animations of step by step drawing directions for instructional purposes . General Design, such as flyers and the backdrop wall for Phoenix College Graduation ceremony Portfolio available at http://www.chrisbeckley.net/portfolio.html Customer Care Representative, July 1997 – July 2001 Excel Agent Services, Tempe, Arizona Worked with a large and diverse client base problem solving and working with client's needs multi-tasking computer applications, written documents and email. Application Skills: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Flash Adobe Director Adobe Dreamweaver MS Word MS Excel MS PowerPoint MS Outlook MS Visio MS Paint Corel Paint Shop Pro Corel Draw Newtek Lightwave 3D Architectural Desktop AutoCAD Salesforce CMS SmartDraw Navicat (for MySQL) DVD Studio Pro Language Skills: CSS HTML/XHTML Internet Skills: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Landing Page Optimization (LPO) Pay-Per-Click Ad Campaign Mgt. Google Webmaster Tools Google AdWords & Adsense Yahoo Search Marketing Wordtracker