Joshua Dearing
E-mail dearingfilm@dearingfilm.com
Location: Los Angeles, California USA
Career Objective
To pursue a career that will utilize my creativity, communication and computer skills. Areas of special interest include film and video editing, designing Web sites, product packaging and interface design.
Software and Code Knowledge
Graphic Design
Adobe PhotoShop - Adobe ImageReady - Adobe PageMaker - Adobe Illustrator – QuarkXPress
Operating Systems and Office Applications
Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98, NT 4, 95, 3.1 – Mac OS 9.1, X - Microsoft Office
Authoring Programs
Adobe After Effects - Adobe Premiere - Asymetrix Toolbook 2 - Avid Cinema - Macromedia Director - Macromedia Dreamweaver - Microsoft Visual Studio – Macromedia Homesite - Topstyle
Languages
Cascading Style Sheets – HTML 4 – XHTML 1 - XSL
Working knowledge of JavaScript - PHP – ASP – DHTML – XML - JSP - Microsoft Visual Basic
Education
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Bachelor of Arts 1998
Major: Communications
Southeastern Community College
Burlington, Iowa
Associate Arts Degree 1995
Work Experience
Lead Front End Programmer, Designer and User Interface Designer, 2006 – current
Sustain Technology, Los Angeles, California
- Leading the product in design, interface and front end programming
- Laying out the products user interface and programming it
- Designing the stylesheets and color schemes
- Programming in JSP for front end development
Programmer, 2005 – 2006
RPA: Rubin Postaer and Associates, Santa Monica, California
- Working on Honda Automobiles website
Engineer 2, 2001 – 2005
DNA Studio, Beverly Hills/Century City, California
- Worked tight deadlines to deliver motion picture web sites and resort web sites
- Developing sites for new technologies
- Developed standards in the engineering department for front end engineering and site structure.
- Running the front end team, while working as a coder
- Designing SEO standards
Integrator/Site Developer, 1999 - 2000
marchFIRST, Santa Monica, California
- Cut up artists comps and put them in HTML/JavaScript and other Internet based technologies
- Meeting deadlines with artists and engineers to deliver major web sites
- Working with browser issues in the Information Architecture division
Site Developer and Graphic Designer, 2000 - 2001
Vertical Computer Systems, Los Angeles, California
- Enhancing portal sites to make them more efficient and user friendly
- Meeting deadlines with engineers to deliver VCSY web sites
- Working on launching the current version of Globalfare
Web Site Designer, 1997 - 1998
UNI Public Relations Department, Cedar Falls, Iowa
- Maintained all of the homepages, designed all of the graphics and wrote all of the HTML
- Designed all the major pages for the University of Northern Iowa's Web space (www.uni.edu) and many of the departments homepages
Activities
Society of Professional Journalists
University of Northern Iowa Tennis Team
Park La Brea ESL program Los Angeles