Thanks for visiting. This site contains overviews of my experience and skills, as well as a portfolio section illustrating my extensive experience on a variety of projects.

I am currently available for consulting work and contract design / development projects. Please contact me at john@johnakin.com for more information.

Internet publishing expert and generalist technology consultant with over ten years of professional experience, over two as manager/department head.

  • Unique perspective on business, internet publishing and design informed by an unusually broad experience and understanding of different business and industry arenas
  • Conceptual "big picture" thinker, capable of seeing how people, technology and processes fit and work together to make different types of organizations function
  • More than a typical designer, with experience managing all aspects of day-to-day operations at a small online business trade publishing company
  • Excellent communicator and presenter; Expert powerpoint designer, experience writing and developing training and support materials and leading individual and small group workshops
  • Web project management and development skills, designing information architecture / data structures, working with developers, other designers and vendors as needed, and liasing with other departments and/or company executives. Coding/development experience with HTML/CSS, ASP, PHP, JavaScript, VBScript (for ASP), SQL, Joomla, information architecture and content management, and some Cold Fusion, CGI/Perl and XML
  • Extensive web design experience, including GUI design, graphics and animation creation utilizing Fireworks, Photoshop, ImageReady; hand-coding HTML using Homesite, Dreamweaver and other editors; some Flash
  • Additional print design experience; creating ads for trade publications, marketing collateral, custom reports and displays with Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark, and InDesign

  • Business and Accounting courses - Santa Monica College (4.0 GPA as of Summer 2007)
  • MFA: Film Directing, 1999 - Columbia University School of the Arts, NY, NY.
  • BA: Studio Art, Theater and Computer Science, 1994 - Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX.
  • Download full resume.
  • Contact: john@johnakin.com

Looking for John H. Akin, Sr., R. Harry Akin or Akin & Akin, LLP (of Austin, Texas)?
email: john_akin@justice.com or call (512) 476-6258