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Daniel Brinneman Self-employed, Freelance custom WordPress theme designer https://danielbrinneman.com Design, develop and hand-code custom WordPress themes for self-hosted websites. Two years at South Piedmont Community College (SPCC) was intensely focused on print design while learning InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator with version CS2-CS4. I pay attention to the details of my work and see a job through to completion. I’m honest, trustworthy, responsible and get along with people from all walks of life. With eleven years in web with HTML/CSS, PHP and some jQuery/Javascript. I’ve used Javascript and PHP to interact with Google Maps and Spreadsheet APIs. I learned Dreamweaver in college but I’ve always preferred to hand-code with Panic’s Coda or other text editors so my code is readable and symantec. I’ve used Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google Plus for social media interactions and Page building. I have managed thirteen websites. When I’m not designing a website or at work, I tend to my technology blog, https://danielbrinneman.com/blog/ and I also spend Saturdays on the road with a photography mentor or by myself, photographing landscapes and vintage objects. My photography is on Instagram and Facebook @DanielBrinnemanPhotography.
Recommendations from my clients Pastor Joshua Moore at United Church of South Royalton On behalf of the church council and elders, I wanted to say thank you again for your excellent work on our church website. From start to finish you have been a reliable help and guide as we’ve sought to enter the internet age and further the kingdom of God in that venue. Many have found our church and even attended simply because of our new website! And many others profit spiritually every week by having access to our Sunday morning sermons, blogs, and other content.
Laci LeBlanc, Marketing Director at The Mosquito Authority Daniel is a unique mind with a great deal of skill when it comes to developing WordPress sites. He is on top of the newest developments and does a fantastic job of making the highly technical both understandable and accessible for us as clients.
Brock Bumgarner, Director of Operations at The Mosquito Authority Daniel has been excellent to work with on several different web related projects at our company. His work is always very thorough, detailed, on time and a great value for your dollar. Will definitely continue working with him in the future!
Josh and Melissa Mitten, Owners of Sweet Needle Co. Daniel was great to work with! Highly recommended, very timely and solved all of our issues. We will certainly be using him in the future for our website!
Robin Chalkley, Former Creative Director with Winston-Salem Writers, Owner and Chief Creative Officer at Chalkley/Robbins LLC I’m pleased to recommend Daniel for his thorough knowledge of website creation and his dedication to finding workable and satisfactory solutions when problems arise. He’s dedicated and stays focused on solutions.
Dwayne Cogdill, Owner, Saint Dwayne Associates www.stdwayne.com (under construction) (3-month internship) Dwayne Cogdill offered me a three-month internship (two days / week) at his home office (after I persistently asked him for two years). January 6, 2012 To whom it may concern, Daniel Brinneman worked as an intern in my studio in Autumn of 2011. His title was Production Designer, and his duties included the following: ● Layout and typography for magazines, brochures, and direct marketing. Creating vector logos. ● Trimming, mounting, and building mockups. ● Color selections. ● Production and proofing. ● Photo and illustration research. Answering phones. ● Maintaining the job / production list. Daniel had a good attitude, worked very hard, and was dedicated to quality.
If my firm was larger I would hire Daniel to be my production manager. He is responsible and has good attention to details. After training him in various responsibilities I found him to be alert and dedicated to consistent follow through. Daniel is a team player. He is honest and forthright in his contributions. He is teachable and desires to learn and grow. I recommend Daniel, and I am happy to speak with you about him. Please don’t hesitate to call me. Best regards, Dwayne Cogdill principal creative director There are more recommendations on my website, https://danielbrinneman.com/testimonials/.
Experience USA Mist www.usamist.com Hickory NC The Mosquito Authority bought a company whose Joomla site was hacked, which I discovered while I was moving it across servers. It was a complicated mess, even for me, to figure out how to upgrade it. I recreated the responsive theme for WordPress and it had to be a private ecommerce site, so I installed WooCommerce and configured the site to be private when their users wanted to purchase products. Installed SSL certificate for this site.
The Mosquito Authority www.mosquito-authority.com / w ww.bugsbite.com Hickory NC Late 2013 – September 30, 2014 (My design was active until March 2017.) Almost six months, a collaborative project to build a new custom responsive WordPress theme for them. They found me on LinkedIn and reached out. I met them in person halfway to Hickory and we worked together from then to make their current design. Since 2014, I’ve done more work for them in the design, a home page redesign, custom page templates, Google Apps email setup, tech support, hosting and email support, fortifying the install, installed a learning management system and worked with the original developers to have it modified for our needs. Installed SSL certificate for this site. Built a custom Google Map using the Javascript API version three and it pulls locations from a custom post type and another developer built the ZIP code locator. I also had to move their entire website between two hosting companies and I did
all the footwork with the tech supports on both sides to find a good arrangement. I’ve truly enjoyed working with them. More details and a video can be found on my portfolio, http://lionsdendesigns.com.
Sweet Needle Co. www.sweetneedleco.com Charlotte NC July 28, 2014 They contacted me via email saying they had mobile issues with the homepage loading. I troubleshooted and fixed their site. Also installed the WooCommerce Smart Coupons plugin and a few coupons for them. They were pleased with my work.
United Church of South Royalton www.unitedchurchofsoro.org South Royalton VT November 2013 – July 21, 2014 Custom theme created from a WordPress-yearly theme Added a slider to show latest three blog posts and several custom page templates for pulling posts from a category Set up domain email accounts
Winston-Salem Writers www.wswriters.org Winston-Salem NC January 2013 – March 2013 Moved hosting of WordPress site Updated email addresses Tweaked pages March 2013 – August 12, 2015 Continued to provide monthly technical helps and design custom front-end layouts with PHP/HTML/CSS Occasionally add rich content to Facebook Fan Page to encourage discussions and point traffic to website Created YouTube channel for their Open Mic Nights event. They’ve since decided to move to Wix.
True Blue Carpet Cleaning (since closed) www.truebluecleancarpets.com Indian Trail NC November 13, 2012 Matt Schmidt, of Indian Trail, North Carolina, started True Blue Carpet Cleaning and needed a website redesign. A professional business site that he could update as he needed.
From a designer’s perspective, we chose blues and cream to match his business logo and line of work. jQuery is used for the drop-down form at the top. There are review links to both the business’ Yelp and Google Places review pages. Social links to a Facebook Fan page, Twitter and an RSS feed for the blog which is hidden until there are more posts written. During the design process, I drew out the theme on a grid and colored it. In about three weeks time, the design was done. The longest time taken, was the transfer of the domain name to my client’s account. This was another design opportunity for me to actually take my wireframes into Adobe Photoshop and build out the home page layout. In the end, CSS was used to set some of the gradients and background colors.
aro www.consultaro.com Charlotte NC January 2012 – April 2013 ● Management and site updates of multiple WordPress sites ● Troubleshooted a hacked site and removed Malware ● Upgraded email service to Google Apps ● Designed DVD disc menu, disc print label and DVD plastic case wrap ● Worked on De Piante Consulting logos (it was never completed, so I kept that work) ● Developed spreadsheets for task management
El Shaddai Ministries International, Inc. www.esmihome.org Volunteer non-profit work (Frantz St. Germain and ESMI) July 2011 – May 2012 ● Moved hosting and redesigned site for WordPress. ● Has a similar design to the old but with more refinement. ● Using HTML5/CSS3 for WordPress Theme. ● My first implementation of an SSL certificate ● Google Maps API, PHP, Custom Post Types
Saint Dwayne Associates www.stdwayne.com (under construction) Charlotte NC September 2011 – November 2011 This was a three-month internship as a Production Designer under Dwayne Cogdill. I modified letterheads, mailers, envelopes and business cards. Cut logo mounting boards from Super Black Matte. Learned logo design techniques by using various typographic fonts.
Pepero Korean Restaurant‘s menu redesign http://issuu.com/kg4dni/docs/pepero/ (prices removed) Matthews NC July 2011 Simple and modern layout with dish pictures, 6 pages, ~60+ hours They later changed the fonts, background, and removed my name from it. I learned from this experience to charge for my time, not lower the price, so that I would not be left with a sour aftertaste.
Buddy Boy Candy website (since closed) www.buddyboycandy.com Indian Trail NC Candy store, 1940s – present day candies July 2011 ● WordPress design with HTML5/CSS3 for more current web browsers ● Twenty-Eleven customization for 1940s Retro art design ● Responsive Web Design for iPhone / iPad / Desktop ● Four days of research to study 1940s art and how-to’s ● One week to discover concept of design and meld together research and sketches
Short-term one-week mission trip with Christ Covenant through ESMI Les Cayes, Cambry in Haiti June 2011 ● Raised support to go and volunteered time as an English / French translator. ● Improved speed of satellite Internet access by inspecting their system and suggesting an Ethernet cable replacement. Instructed technicians on how to route the cable to prevent water entry in the future. Changed lab computers from static DNS to auto DNS recognition. ● Provided consultation for what they should do to improve battery storage conditions as they were right under the roof and not protected from falling rain.
Warriors and Warbirds, Inc. www.warriorsandwarbirds.com 2011 contract work Chris Platé and Pete Hovanec City of Monroe ● Worked on the second version of the airshow website. Improved on the old design.
Claudia’s Crescent Kick movie‘s website www.beelzebufoproductions.com Cinematographer Ginger Rotan Cambridge MA March 2011 ● Web Design ● Google Sites, Google Analytics
Bible Science Books for Children www.kidsbiblescience.com Louise Derr, Author Waxhaw NC February 2011 ● Web Design (Complete redesign from old website) ● WordPress, Google Analytics, XHTML/CSS, Photoshop, Video, PHP, jQuery
Lynchburg Regional Airshow www.lynchburgairshow.com John D. Barksdale, John Smoot Lynchburg VA December 2010 – January 2011 ● Web Design, WordPress, Google Analytics, Google Apps, XHTML/CSS, Social, Photoshop ● Website design and management ● EventBrite ticket sales customer service management
Union County Patriots www.ucpatriots.us Terry Glesias and Jack Oldham (In His Glory) Wesley Chapel NC ● Web Design, WordPress, XHTML/CSS, Coda, Google Analytics, Google Apps, Google Groups
Transformation Media Trust www.transformationmedia.org Broadcasting non-profit group Dhaka BANGLADESH ● Web Design, Flash Banner, WordPress, XHTML/CSS, Coda, Google Analytics, Flash
Warriors and Warbirds, Inc. www.warriorsandwarbirds.com Robert Yanacsek – President Monroe NC ● Web Design, Graphics, WordPress, XHTML/CSS, Coda, Google Analytics, Google Non-Profit Apps, Photoshop, Illustrator ● Built their first website from scratch using WordPress and created several graphics to accompany the design.
City of Monroe Graphic/Web Design Non-Paid Internship Pete Hovanec – Communications and Tourism Officer Monroe NC April 2009 – May 2009 ● Music on Main poster ● Photoshop, InDesign (CS4)
Creative Touch Communications Graphic Design Co-Op Waxhaw NC January 2008 – April 2008 ● Forms (Print Design), InDesign, Quark Xpress, Photoshop ● Community Church of Monroe‘s website (set up with Webnode.com) www.cefcmonroe.org
General Skills Video recording/ editing, Mobile Responsive Web Design (RWD), creative blogging, Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, Instagram, woodturning, Amateur Radio ops, French and English languages, Google Apps setup transfer and troubleshooting for 10+ companies, Adobe CS4 Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Adobe Reader Pro, Microsoft Office, Apple iWork, graphic design, print design, web design, WordPress, Google web research, web boilerplates, 960gs, WordPress setup and hosting, Google keyword searches, Google Analytics setup, email newsletter design, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, iMovie, Quark Xpress 6-8.5, Google SketchUp, PLC Allen-Bradley training in college, AutoCAD 2000, Microsoft Server 2003, Microsoft XP Professional, A+ training and on-the-job learning, soldering, fiber optics cleaning and termination, MailChimp, Constant Contact, Ubuntu Linux (6.04-14.04), Windows (3.1-10), macOS (10.2.8-present), computer tech desktop support
Education Self-taught on WordPress theme design and security Starting at the same time I went through the electronics course, I taught myself HTML and CSS to fill the times that I was bored and during the time of studying graphic design, I taught myself how to install WordPress and create themes for it. After getting my graphic design degree, the market was more open towards web design, which I excelled in over time.
South Piedmont Community College Associate Degree of Advertising and Graphic Design Monroe NC – May 2009
Arkansas State University P.A.M. Transport for Class A Commercial Driver License Little Rock AR – 2006
South Piedmont Community College Associate of Science Degree of Electrical / Electronics Technology Monroe NC – 2005
South Piedmont Community College Certificate for CISCO Routing and Switching II Monroe NC – 2005
