Benjamin Dean's Resume / CV
Who is Benjamin Dean
Benjamin Dean's ResumeBenjamin Dean
Phone: 317-620-1227
benjamin@benjamindean.com
Career Objective
To be valued at my place of employment based on my commitment to excellence, reliability, honesty and integrity as an artist who has learned to think like an engineerand brings over 15 years of creative, engaging and user-centered interactive media experience.
Professional Experiences
Lead Web Developer:
January 2009 -> Present
Bellwether International
Interactive Media Specialist:
October 2008 -> October 2009
Indy Acres Paintball / Hanna Haunted Acres
Interactive Media Design Instructor
January 2007 -> August 2008
The Art Institute of Indianapolis
Art Director / Project Manager
May 2005 -> January 2008
Shiver Studios Inc.
Instructional Designer / Programmer / Streaming Media Developer
March 2004 -> May 2006
Bolden’s Manufacturing Inc.
Web Master (Internship and Production)
August 2003 -> May 2005
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School
Commercial Artist & Graphic Designer
1992 -> August 2003
Freelance, contract based commercial art
Skills & Experience
Mastery knowledge of following ( 7+ years continuous use ):
Adobe Master Collection (all applications) CS3 / CS4· Windows XP, 2000
· OpenOffice, MS Office
· XML, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Table-less design
· Procedural PHP
· ActionScript (Procedural)
· MySQL, PostgreSQL, Access RDBMS
· JavaScript
· 3DStudio Max, Maya, MEL, MaxScript
· Digital Photography, Image Editing, Post-Processing
· Traditional Arts (drawing, painting)
· Web Design, Team management, cross-browser/platform, compliance, SEO
Expert/Proficient knowledge of following ( 2-5 years continuous use ): AJAX, XML JavaScript
· OOP PHP 5
· OOP ActionScript 3
· Linux: Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSe
· Mac OS X: Tiger, Leopard
· Project Management: BaseCamp, OpenProject, ActiveCollab
· Project Planning: Budgeting, Resourcing, Scheduling, Management
· Email Marketing: Planning, production, Lyris, PHPList, client compatibility
· Report Development
· LMS (E-Learning): Moodle, Angel, Blackboard, WebCT
· E-Learning content development, instructional design
· RIA development
· ViM, Emacs
· Apache
Novice/Intermediate knowledge of following ( 0-2 years continuous use ): CMS: Joomla, PHP-Nuke, Mambo, WordPress, phpWiki
· Adobe Captivate, Adobe AIR, Flex, Flex Builder 3· Lightroom 1, 2
· Oracle SE, SQL Server
· Mobile Platform Web Application Development
· PERL, SHELL, BASH, RegEx
· MS Project
· SOAP, Pear, Ruby on Rails, ASP, Visual Studio
Education & References
Education
T.C.Howe High School1988 - 1992, GPA @ graduation: 3.4
Major: Art
Purdue University
2001 - 2005, GPA @ graduation: 3.67
Major: Mechanical Engineering Technology (3D Animation & Technical Graphics)
Minor: Japanese
References
Jason Schmidt ( Lead Application Developer )
· 317-345-0327, zannalov@gmail.com
Supervisor: Shiver Studios, Co-Worker: Shiver Studios
Years Known: 5 years
Jason Deiwert ( Airbrush Artist, business owner )
· 317-656-9955, deiwertdesigns@gmail.com
Supervisor: Deiwert Designs
Years known: 14
Meats Meier ( World-renowned 3D/Media Artist )
· phone: (request to not publish), meats@sketchovision.com
Supervisor: Dozo Music video
Years known: 2