I am a digital designer, currently working and living in Niagara Falls, with a passion for grids, typography/videography and photography.
I currently work for Future Mobility Healthcare, a Mississauga-based distribution center, consists of Sales, Marketing and Customer Service departments as a Digital Designer (SEO Specialist)
Specializing in wedding photography, as well as other photography genres such as costume shots, portraiture, venues and landscape.
I sit down with a Squared Moleskine and begin creating schematics and wireframing out the designs, giving careful thought to position, size and proportions. The next step is delving into Illustrator to finalise the wireframes to ensure a great user experience.
It's Photoshop time! Taking the carefully crafted wireframes and userflows into consideration, I start to flesh out the user interface until I'm happy with it. Then it's the time for little tweaks until the client is as well.
Here's the really fun part. Taking those designs and using my front-end skills to make them awesome. Whether it be a quick static site, a content-managed site, or even an e-commerce store - it's going to work extremely well.
Accomplished web designer and front-end developer with extensive experience building WordPress driven websites, HTML5, CSS3, and various web scripting technologies, web standards, and project management.
Provide a diverse range of services including custom theme/application design, photography, videography and development, SEO/SEM, and branding to an array of clients from a variety of industries.
Digital New Media Design / Computer Art Design Deploma
International Academy Of Design
Electronic Desktop Composition / Web Pages Design Diploma
Georgre Brown College
Co-manage the social media departments and assist with creative initiatives
Providing marketing/program training to new employees as required
Working within a marketing team structure to plan items of joint responsibility, such as sales meeting content, website updates, SEO, content contribution to internal publications etc.
Responsible for the overall development and implementation of the firm's marketing strategy to support growth.
Develop departmental tools used by the marketing team to organize, track and measure the successful execution of marketing initiatives.
Manage all social media and digital media platforms (track growth and performance to support investment).
Enhance the firm’s overall marketing and sales culture and drive growth.
Work with Business Development and Operational managers in translated their needs into actionable design proposals / solutions
Design, develop and deploy design enhancements across the company’s web portfolio.
Designing sample page layouts including text size and colors;
Designing graphics, animations and manipulating digital photographs;
Work with IT partner in determining the ideal server infrastructure / architecture in delivering top performance and page load speeds to web
Active participation in preplanning development activities regarding the design strategy of new web properties. In essence pitching design ideas to stakeholders and development teams.
Display flexibility and knowledge in working with different content management systems.
Driving search engine optimization (SEO);
Designing the company’s wide ranging web properties with HD visual imagery and ensuring it's in line with company requirements and branding policy;
Liaise with outside agencies where and when necessary.
Be an integral member of the QA and testing teams for all new and existing web property development activities.
Researching and implementing current / new design trends;
Exhibit continual professional development to keep up to date with new software development
Provided high-level creative solutions for print, multimedia and web with focus on both mobile and desktop.
Handled cross browser/platform compatibility issues (IE, Firefox, and Safari) on both Mac and Windows.
Created interactive, pixel-perfect, clean code webpages using jQuery, HTML and CSS.
Performed coding, styling, testing of reusable JavaScript, CSS3, html5 widgets/libraries for complex UI controls.
Modified WordPress and Shopify themes to improve and complement brand and project needs.
Through Marketo and Paradot, created email marketing with corresponding landing pages with form integration.
Performed strong SEO optimization including use of effective high-ranking keywords and phrases, formatted titles, and meta tags throughout the website. As well as optimization of all contents and design for best ranking.
Worked on social media integration and its use in online marketing: blog creation, daily blog submission, blog site SEO. Social media site include Facebook, Google+, Tweeter, Pinterest, Feedly, LinkedIn, Youtube and community forum.
Executed photo and video shoots from planning, photo/videography and post production (retouching, editing, gallery and launch).
Designed flash animations and videos (promotional and informational) for online applications such as corporate website, email marketing and social media.
Worked closely with a team of designers, writer and director to develop concepts, strategy and design elements to enhance website usability.
Managed web support on a daily basis including image and copy updates, redesign, adding and updating of interactive online forms.
Responsibilities included design, site structure (information architecture), and daily maintenance of a global website and many of its localized sites
Key player in design and layout of several sites, interactive CDs and other projects
Video editing and preparation for online launch
XHTML and CSS coding, image editing, Flash
Basic use of JavaScript and PHP script
WaySpa.com, the spa industry's fastest growing website
Built and designed new sections of the website, web applications and print media
CSS, HTML, Javascript, CS4
Created interactive components to enrich websites by use of banner advertisements, website introductions and visual presentations. Example: Hydroxycut and HydroxycutMax - created Flash-based multimedia elements that don’t require heavy coding
Developed projects from illustration and animation, file optimization and compression, Action Script Coding, video editing and audio manipulation
Developed and programmed interactive websites by using Flash action scripts 2 and 3, and DHTML
Developed projects from their initial concept to final publication with optimized graphics, HTML/CSS and Photoshop files
Received an award for the best design of 2008, known as the Excellence In Iovate Creative Marketing of HydroxycutMax
Created and modeled existing sites from start to finish.
Maintained and developed all web sites from CLIENT & SERVER side, control & survey all aspects from web site.
Ability to communicate with technical staff for back-end solutions, including database integration, CGI scripting
Responsible for all the Front & Back -end coding using Photoshop format put advanced DHTML, CGI, and JavaScript…
Developed & programmed of interactive websites by using Flash action scripts & Dhtml, cut &paste html & put into JSP.
Having strong conceptual skills to create, layout, design graphics for web in several different markets segments.
Created Flash animated logo and interface design
Created well-structured HTML pages using CSS, DHTML and PHP
Flash, Action Script, PHP, ASP, DHTML, JavaScript
Expert level experience with Flash Action Script v.5 and MX
Experience using Lingo in Macromedia Director / Shockwave
Responsibilities included layout and coding (HTML and JavaScript) of client website based on concepts provided by design team
Analyzed and reported all trends relating to performance, navigation and functionality of clients’ website.
Responsible for basic graphics and layout design on both company’s corporate websites and clients' website as needed.
Produced and completed some projects for Mac Artist’s weekly magazines and community publications.
I'm currently looking for a full-time job as a digital designer in Toronto.
Feel free to send me a message, I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible.
416 418 8669
charlie@charliedesigner.com
