Zach Ashley

Web Design, Digital Imaging,
Page Layout, Email marketing
zach.ashley@yahoo.com

Education:

 

December 2001

 Schoolcraft College Livonia, MI
Computer Graphic Technologies Associates Degree

December 2005

 SkillPath
Attended a seminar on brochure design

January 2006

 Bruce Clay, Inc Simi Valley, CA
Completed 2 day Search Engine Optimization Conference

Experience:

  

April 2008 - Present

BNP Media
- Web Desginer
- Maintaining approximately 30 different events websites
- Coordinating with managers and organizers of these events in order to keep information on these websites current.
- Creating email marketing pieces specifically designed to maximize conversion rates

October 2007 - April 2008

Wolverine Technical Staffing
- Contract-to-Hire Position at BNP Media
- Maintaining approximately 20 different events websites
- Coordinating with managers and organizers of these events in order to keep information on these websites current.

March 2000 - October 2007

Baron's Wholesale Clothiers
- Web Designer and Ad Layout Specialist
- Maintain five independent retail websites
- Manage layout and design of newspaper advertisements and monthly mailing pieces
- Optimize sites for best results on search engines including Google, Yahoo!, Lycos, and MSN
- Utilize Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Dreamweaver on a daily basis
- Troubleshoot and resolve internal technology problems

January 2009

 GMI - Global Management Innovations
- Put together a website that focused on using drop-down menu navigation

April 2008

 Abe's Fine Tailoring
- Designed and built a website showcasing the tailor shop and its tuxedo rental service.

June 2006

 Redford Township District Library
- Filmed and edited a promotional video for their summer reading program.

March 2006

 ARISE! Detroit
- Colaborating with another designer, I created and implemented a design template for use throughout the site.

December 2005

 Nolan and Cummings
- Designed a website template that their programmer could implement on their website. Due to a disagreement between the owning partners, this template was only used for a short time.

July 2004

 Motor City Youth Theatre
- Created pro bono website which I still maintain.

Additional:

 I am proficient in the following programs
Photoshop
Image Ready
Dreamweaver
Flash
Director
Microsoft Word
PowerPoint 		Quark Xpress
PageMaker
Illustrator
Premiere
iMovie
InDesign
© 2009 Zach Ashley