Daniel Brinneman https://danielbrinneman.com
[email protected] Currently self-employed as a freelance custom WordPress theme designer and have been looking and applying for full-time web design positions for three years while I do part-time jobs for my clients. 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. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Preferred to hand-code with Panic’s Coda for Mac or other text editors so my code is readable and symantec 12-yrs web design experience and HTML/CSS, UI/UX 9-yrs PHP for WordPress theme design from scratch 7-yrs jQuery/Javascript understanding, using it for responsive design, Google Maps API (building a map to plot points from a WordPress Custom Post Type) 1-yr college training on Adobe Dreamweaver and other Adobe Creative Suite products Built and managed 13 websites since 2009 2-yrs landscape photography hobby IG/FB @DanielBrinnemanPhotography 14-yrs writing blog posts for myself Used for several years: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, and countless others
Education South Piedmont Community College Associate Degree of Advertising and Graphic Design Monroe NC – May 2009 ● Two years intensely focused on print design: Adobe Creative Suite 2-4 (InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator) ● While attending college, HTML, CSS and WordPress were self-taught to fill my free time. Despite earning a graphic design degree, I focused more on web design outside of college.
Testimonials Marta Kovacs and Samuel Borinsky New York City Psychotherapist/ SamuelBorinsky.com Daniel was a great resource for the update we needed on my husband's professional website. Starting with the initial response to our inquiry, his communication was to the point, articulate and friendly. He attended to all of our questions promptly, did the work with attention to detail and very quickly. We gladly accepted his offer to do some behind-the-scene clean-up, as well. We are very pleased with Daniel’s work and will happily recommend him.
Michael Hutchinson, Freelance Photographer/Creative Director at Hutch Photography Daniel is an excellent tech person/web designer/photographer. He has advised me on technical problems. He also accompanies and assists me on photoshoots due to his keen eye.
Doris B. Motte, Owner/Therapist at Courage Counseling Services Daniel has done a good job of updating and maintaining my website for 10 months. He is methodical and detail oriented. (October 30, 2017)
Amy Hamm, Operations at Mosquito Authority Daniel is a great person to work with, bringing expert knowledge, integrity and a very easy to work with approach. In each of my interactions with Daniel, he, myself and the teams involved were able to collaborate very effectively on every project from start to finish. Additionally, Daniel delivers high-quality documentation which allows for the efficient transfer of knowledge and future training.
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 [TMA] 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, Sr. Project Manager at TMA Franchise System, Inc. Daniel has an amazing skill set when it comes to web development and just about anything IT. I can bring him a problem and he comes back with a solution, no questions asked. Highly recommended from our company.
Josh and Melissa Mitten, 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, Winston-Salem Writers 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, Saint Dwayne Associates 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.
Work History Samuel Borinsky, New York City Psychotherapist samuelborinsky.com January 2018 ● Replaced Mapbox map on Contact page with custom-built Google Maps with Info Window for red pin to match Mapbox appearance using Google Maps API v3 and Javascript. They were not able to login to Mapbox or reach the original developer so it was a walled-garden situation and they wanted the map to look the same as the original and have new information in the info window. I built the code from scratch within three hours with some troubleshooting on CodePen temporarily. I’ve stored it privately in GitHub. Also ran backend backup and system updates to themes and plugins after recovering full admin menus that were hidden by two plugins by original developer.
El Shaddai Ministries International, Inc. www.esmihome.org 2017 ● Upgraded CentOS WHM server from v5 to v6 ● Re-installed PHP and other elements through SSH in terminal, upgraded to PHP 7 ● Troubleshooted and removed a broken plugin that brought the site down ● Upgraded old plugins with newer alternatives compatible with PHP 7
United Church of South Royalton www.unitedchurchofsoro.org South Royalton VT 2017 Rebuilt a new WordPress theme for the website with a larger slider and used Elementor Pro for some of the pages. Recently installed HTTPS on the site.
Doris Motte Counseling of Courage Counseling www.dorismottecounseling.com Salisbury NC 2017 ● Moved website to new hosting ● Installed SSL and HTTPS/2 ● Upgraded WordPress code, hardened security ● Added custom code ● Implemented my marketing plan (on-page and local SEO)
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 / www.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 homepage 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.
Sweet Needle Company 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 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.
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 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.
Buddy Boy Candy website 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 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
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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
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Video recording/ editing Mobile Responsive Web Design (RWD) creative blogging Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, Instagram 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 custom themes, setup and hosting Google web research web boilerplates, 960gs WordPress setup and hosting Google Analytics basic setup email newsletter design OpenOffice/LibreOffice Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, iMovie, Quark Xpress 6-8.5, Google SketchUp, Microsoft Server 2003, Microsoft XP Professional, A+ training and on-the-job learning MailChimp, Constant Contact Ubuntu Linux (6.04-16), Windows (3.1-10), macOS (10.2.8-present), computer tech desktop support
