Leonard R. Brandriet
765 Rand Ave., Apt. 304
Oakland, CA 94610
(510) 832-3849
rez@lennyweb.com
http://www.lennyweb.com/

Objective:

A position or contract situation in the digital graphics and Web-publishing industry.

Education:

CDI-Career Development Institute—San Francisco, CA 1991 Certificate, Programming and Operations. Documenting, coding, debugging COBOL, BASIC, PASCAL.

Center for Electronic Art —San Francisco, CA 1996 - 1999 Design levels I - III, Web publishing, levels II - V, Macromedia Director 5, 6.0, levels I, II, Traditional animation techniques, production, DeBabelizer, 3D Studio Max, 3D Studio Release 4 fundamentals, Advanced Photoshop 3.0, Adobe Premier, Adobe Illustrator 6.0, Fractal Painter I, II.

City College of San Francisco—San Francisco, CA 1987 - 1999 Watercolor I, II, Macintosh basics, introductory Desktop Publishing classes, Pre-press Camera, Paste-up, Typography, Design, Basic drawing, Photoshop 3.0, beginning, intermediate.

San Francisco State University College of Extended Learning—San Francisco, CA 1995, 1999 QuarkXpress 4.0 I, II, Basic Web Publishing, Inside Multimedia Industry, Beginning Macromedia Director (Windows).

ZDU—Ziff-Davis Online 1998 - 1999 HTML Frames, Illustrator 7, 8 level I, II, Intermediate, advanced Photoshop 5, Photoshop 5 Web Techniques, Photoshop 5 Scan, Print Techniques.

Experience:

Cycle Sports—Oakland, CA

Web site design, production, now in progress. Emphasis functionality, design. Primarily hand-coded, using HomeSite 3.0 and Dreamweaver 2.0. Scanned photographs and custom graphics using Photoshop 5.5, Illustrator 8.0, ImageReady 2.0.

Independent Projects:

Lennyweb.com site (http://www.lennyweb.com) Self-promotion site. Emphasis layout, design. Hand-coded, using HomeSite 3.0. Artwork and custom graphics using Photoshop 5.5, Illustrator 8.0, ImageReady 2.0, Painter 5.0.

California AIDS Ride 7 site (http://www.lennyweb.com/car7) My fund-soliciting and general interest site. Emphasis design, functionality. Hand-coded, using HomeSite 3.0. Site maintenance using Dreamweaver 2.0. Scanned photographs and custom graphics using Photoshop 5.5, Illustrator 8.0, ImageReady 2.0, Painter 5.0.

Cabweb.com site (http://www.lennyweb.com/cabweb) Taxicab business and public information site. Emphasis functionality. Originally posted March of 1998, updated until April, 1999. Built with Dreamweaver 1.0 and HomeSite 2.0. Scanned photographs, artwork and custom graphics using Photoshop 5.0, Illustrator 8.0, ImageReady 1.0, Painter 5.0.

Yellow Cab Co-op—San Francisco, CA 1986 - present Night Cashier. Counting cash and non-cash monies, data entry, generating summary reports and bank deposits. Lot security, customer relations, driver training. Taxi driver, 1986 - 1995

Baskin & Associates Advertising—Antioch, CA 1986 Account sales, representative. Generating and following sales leads, maintaining sales accounts. Assisting clients in ad copy, layout and pre-press issues.

Additionally, thirteen years culinary background, various establishments, primarily Minneapolis, MN 1972 - 1986

Skills:

Intermediate to advanced skills in the following:
Photoshop 5.5, HTML 3, 4, ImageReady 2.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver 2.0, HomeSite 3.0, Adobe Illustrator, 8.0, Painter 5.0.

Basic to Intermediate skills in the following:
Macromedia Flash 3.0, Adobe GoLive 4.0 (Win), Equilibrium DeBabelizer, QuarkXpress 4.0, Macromedia Director 5, 6.0, Microsoft Front Page '97, Fractal Painter 4, 5.0, 3D Studio Max, Adobe Premiere. Implementing, editing CGI scripts (Perl).

Web site layout and design:
Functionality design, Web graphics-graphic file optimization, vector graphics, illustration, animated GIF, image maps, design theory, color theory, gender issues, user testing.

Cross-platform flexibility:
Intermediate, advanced Windows '95,'98, Mac System 7.5, 8+, basic NT 4.0, UNIX, various Internet Protocols.

Other related skills:
Intermediate Microsoft Word 7.0
Excellent interpersonal, communication, customer relations skills
Type 40 wpm., extensive 10-key experience
Effective sales skills

Relevant Personal Qualities:
  Excellent team worker
  Self-sufficient
  Detail-oriented
  Punctual, faultlessly reliable
  Irrepressible sense of humor

 

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