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reza@shinza.net

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Objective:
To secure employment designing, implementing and maintaining multimedia projects, web sites and their associated networks.

Summary of Qualifications:
I have five years solid design & production experience focusing on web based media, 7 years digital editing with Adobe Photoshop, and web design skills with a solid background hand coding html. I paid my way through college creating, deploying and maintaining sites and now I'm focusing more on IT and backend. During my time at Cal I’ve done System Administration and support on several platforms including Mac OS 7-10.3, PC (Win 98, Win XP and Win 2000) and have acquired administrator level experience on several UNIX/linux platforms including Free BSD and Red Hat linux 6.2. At home I maintain a mixed Mac OS 10.3, Win 98, win 2000, Free BSD network routed by a debian linux box. I am Comfortable maintaining efficient Apache web servers, and enjoy supporting users with hardware and software conflicts. Design experience with most Adobe and Macromedia products, Photoshop 3-6.0, Imagready 3, Flash 4, Fireworks 3, Dreamweaver. BBedit, HomeSite, Kai’s Power Tools, Peak Audio and other digital editing tools.

Work Experience:

Oct. 2002- Oct. 2003 Formac Electronics, Inc. Berkeley, California
Lead Tech Support

• Managed junior tech support staff, quality control and warehouse staff.
• Responsible for phone and e-mail technical support for all Formac products.
• Populated interactive online tech support database.
• Repaired defective Flat panel Displays, Firewire DVD Recorders, and digital video bridges.

Dec. 1998 - Present Capital Advantage, Inc. Lafayette, California
Chief Web Engineer

• Responsible for the design , production and maintenance of company web sites.
• I designed and produced two commercial web sites, establishing Capital Advantage, Inc.’s primary web presence as well as launching it’s first web based product, E401k. I performed legal research on emerging intellectual property law issues and uncovered pertinent case law to assist in Trademark dispute with multi-billion dollar corporation Fiidelity Investments in response to their e401k product

Sep. 2000 - Dec 2000 Dancesafe.org
Webmaster and Mac Specialist

• Responsible for secure content management, releases and updates to www.dancesafe.org.
• In addition to routine edits I addded search functionality and deployed source control to insure secure management of sub sites. In conjunction with the system administrator I helped organize, maintain and fine tune linux based production and test servers running apache, and was responsible for the maintenance and troubleshooting of a mixed ethernet and airport tcip network with 5 machines.

Mar. 2000 - Present Creative Assets
Web Developer/Consultant

• Short term production contracts. (Cross browser compatible html implementation.)
• 3/20/00 - 4/20/00 Assisted Extension 11 in the production of a web browseable multimedia cd-rom for www.cahoots.com (2 million plus copies produced!) Duties included: html hand coding, troubleshooting of other contractors pages, rich media integration, custom flash production for radio Alice 97.3, final content integration and cd mastering.
• 5/01/00 - 6/5/00 html build of Net Dot World's, new site www.ndw.com, supervised by extension 11. Duties included html hand coding, table layout, template creation, CSS, custom javascript, graphic production, slicing and editing.

July 1998 — July 1999 Computer Assistance Program, Office of Media Services University of California at Berkeley
Senior Web Designer and Senior Mac Tech

• Functioned as a consultant for Campus entities, duties included system administration for the Chancellors office, Assisting in coordinating, and producing several high profile web sites for UCSF, miscellaneous system installs and technical support for students, departments and faculty.

Jan. 1998 - Jan. 1999 Simeone Design. Berkeley, California
Consultant / Web Developer / Programmer

• Helped Simeone Design, a firm primarily experienced with fine art and print media, to expand into web design. Duties have included everything from scanning and editing graphics to writing simple Java scripts. We used Go Live, and BBedit to express design concepts in HTML with the majority of images being scanned, edited or created in Photoshop 4, Illustrator 7, and DeBabelizer. Print jobs were implemented via Quark Express. Most recent sites produced include Becker Zeyko, Interplas and Wiley Publishing.
• Responsible for the design and production of the Interplas Site

Jun. 1996 - Nov. 1996 Berkeley Integration Group Berkeley, California
Web Developer, Summer Intern:

• Duties included extensive use of HTML, Photoshop, and gif construction set for scanning, editing and implementing the Dole 5 a Day children’s educational web site. Responsible for implementing monthly updates to the site including self contained modules.

Jun. 1995 - Present. Me, Myself and I Berkeley, California
Consultant

• Freelance Consultant ranging from web design, pc/mac network installation and technical support to volunteer web tutoring for Berkeley Public Library and Oakland Youth Community Centers. Volunteer web projects include Gateway Sound Systems, Burning Man and other nonprofit organizations.

Education:
1993 - 1999 University of California at Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts / Rhetoric

• Studied Rhetoric and focused on intellectual property law. Additional course work in Cognitive and Computer Sciences, Neurobiology and Music.

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