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About Rick Gann
Web Developer / Web and Video Producer
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Rick has over ten year’s web development experience, he has consistently focused on the integration of new technology, usability and the needs of the client. With a background in the Fine Arts, (he was a sculpture major); Rick approaches each project with an eye for detail a passion to integrate aesthetics with utility. In his spare time he writes and directs.
Skills
Web Development
Project Management
Producer
Writer Director Film Maker
Videographer Sound Recording Lighting
Sculptor Painter
Web Design UI
DVD Authoring
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Tools
Photoshop Image Ready
Premiere Pro
Audition Encore
After Effects
Dream Weaver
HTML DHTML CSS
ASP JSP PHP
XML XSL AJAX JavaScript
Google Analytics & Adwords
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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Benecke Creative Group
Web Development for a San Diego Based Graphic Design Firm
- Created scalable PHP driven site that utilizes a flash based navigation all within a strict XHTML code base
Solutions Consulting Group
Web Development for a San Diego based award winning (Microsoft's Worldwide Partner of the Year 2005) consulting company.
- Implementation of an ASP based web site taking a 150 page static HTML site converting it to a dynamically generated content system, utilizing includes and a XML/XSL based navigation schema.
Fitness Anywhere
Web Development/Web Management for a San Francisco based nationally recognized fitness equipment manufacturer
- Complete site redesign utilized PHP based code allowing client to daily update key site elements.
- Managed site migration to new hosting solution, while keeping site available 24/7 simultaneously converting to new e-commerce platform, during which client received national media coverage which generated highest site traffic in their history.
- Created AJAX based trainer search allowing client to manage content utilizing XML.
- Implemented Google Adwords and Analytics campaign
- Created RSS feed for client, using Feed Burner as the propagation agent
- Managed installation of new Message Board Software and branded application to seamlessly match client’s look and feel.
- General site maintenance consistently refining marketing message as client increases sales.
Howe Caverns
Web Development/Web Management for a nationally known tourist attraction located in upstate New York
- Complete website redesign, keeping in the spirit of the clients long held look and feel while updating the technologies driving the site.
Applied Wave Research
Web Development for A leading supplier of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) products
- Provided customized JavaScript DHTML prototype marketing pages.
TelePacific
Web Development for Regional provider of local and long-distance network solutions and Internet services to small-to-medium sized businesses
- Provided customized Constant Contact email marketing templates.
LampHost
Web Development for Linux based Internet Service Provider
- Complete site redesign utilized a PHP/CSS code base as sites core structure.
GibbonTech
Web Development for a Silicone Valley based startup that is developing large scale server management tools.
- Provided site design and UI for AJAX based application.
Education
1992-1995 Florida International University Miami Fl
- Fine Arts Sculpture Major
- Minor Art History
1990-1992 Miami Dade Community College Miami Fl
Achievements
- Two time recipient of Laura Liebeman Scholarship exceptional achievement FIU.
- Cofounder of Fine Art Student Association (1993) an artists student group focusing on activism in the Arts
- Co-produced public cable access television show "Telezine" focusing on community artists
- Film accepted in "Anti-Film Festival" a south Florida film festival
- Invited to exhibit Film at the Artist's Television Access in San Francisco Ca. 1999
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| CASE STUDY |
When HandCrafted
Metals, a high-end
metal shop in Silicon
Valley, needed a new
look, DeepBLUEPacific
and Jackleg Productions
worked together to create
a new brand identity that
would set these craftsmen
apart from their peers.
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