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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 development projects. Please contact me at john@johnakin.com for more information.
I am currently available for consulting work and contract development projects. Please contact me at john@johnakin.com for more information.
Front-end developer, web publishing expert and generalist technology consultant with over eleven years of professional experience, over two as manager/department head
- Unique perspective on business and web publishing 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
- Web development and project management skills, designing site structure, information architecture / data structures, working with developers, other designers and vendors as needed, and liasing with other departments and/or company executives. Extensive front-end coding/development experience with HTML/XHTML, CSS, ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JavaScript, VBScript (for ASP), SQL, Joomla, Drupal, et al.
- Extensive web design experience, including web UI design, graphics and animation creation utilizing Fireworks and Photoshop; slicing designs and hand-coding optimized HTML templates using Visual Studio, Homesite, Dreamweaver and other editors; some Flash
- Beyond a typical designer/developer - 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
- Additional print design experience; creating ads for trade publications, marketing collateral, custom reports and displays with Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark, and InDesign
- Web Development, Business and Accounting courses - Santa Monica College (4.0 GPA through 33 credits as of Summer 2008)
- MFA: Film Directing - Columbia University School of the Arts, NY, NY.
- BA: Computer Science, Studio Art and Theater - Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX. (I still keep up the creative work when I can...)
- 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
