Cody Silva - Creative Design and Development - Making the web a better place by promoting accessibility and usability with web standards.

Resume

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Objective To make the web a better place by promoting accessibility and usability through the use of web standards in my designs and development.
Education Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts Media
University of California, San Diego
GPA: 3.4
Conferences Attended An Event Apart 2008
New Orleans, LA

Web Design World 2007 – Designing the Future Web
Seattle, WA
Honors 2004 Edward L. Bernays Award – 1st place for video news release (Gemological Institute of America)

Provost Honors (UCSD) – Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Winter 2003, Spring 2003
Software & Knowledge Expert level: XHTML and CSS hand coding as well as the implementation of javascript with libraries such as jQuery. Also, expert knowledge of cross browser compatibility on both Mac and PC platforms. Dreamweaver (I use Dreamweaver but I hand code all my XHTML and CSS), Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.), Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro

Intermediate level: Flash, Actionscript, XML, PHP, After Effects and a hint of ColdFusion
Experience Multimedia Specialist
Gemological Institute of America – Carlsbad, CA (October 2004 - Current)
Responsible for the branding of a prominent Gemological Research Conference. My online branding efforts then carried over into a large print campaign that maintained the look and feel of the conference over both mediums

Responsible for the design and development of corporate microsites, the editing of corporate video productions as well as arranging and supervising video shoots and voice over studio sessions

Worked with a 3rd party vendor to form email marketing campaign templates for our various departments and events

Implemented web analytics tracking software on all of the organizations websites/microsites and compiled reports on an ongoing basis to track our many advertising efforts

Responsible for the creation of all online marketing material for the promotion of GIA's classes, programs, and events

Perform daily updates to the GIA corporate website by using a Content Management System (CMS)

Web Developer
Freelance Ecommerce Website Development – (July 2004 - August 2004)
Developed website for Italian home furnishings store

Used Dreamweaver for development along with an online database to manage over 900 products

Incorporated an online shopping cart and payment options through Pay Pal

Director
Freelance Video Production – (February 2004 - May 2004)
Produced, directed, and edited a surf video that documented the 2004 winter surf season in Hawaii

Multimedia Coordinator
Gemological Institute of America – Carlsbad, CA (September 2003 - February 2004)
Responsible for the maintenance of the corporate website through a Content Management System for every department at the Institute

Assisted in the creation of scripts for video production

Responsible for organizing resources for video productions