Virginia Van Vynckt
Objective
Using my web development and communication skills to help your company increase revenue. Available for contract/temp assignments.
Work experience
Web development and design, 2002-present
Duties include:
- Client consultation and training
- Site setup, design, maintenance and troubleshooting
- Graphic design
- Information design
- Installation and tweaking of content management systems
- Coding (HTML, PHP, CSS, some Javascript)
Web content writing and editing, 2000-present
Various sites and genres, but primarily food/nutrition.
Chicago Sun-Times, 1977-1994 (500,000+-circulation daily newspaper)
Food/nutrition reporter (1986-1994)
Was part of a four-person team that helped make the Food section one of the Sun-Times’ most popular and profitable features sections.
Features copy desk chief (1983-1986)
Supervised a staff of 13.
Copy editor (1977-1983)
Skills
Proficient on both PC and Mac platforms.
Expert level in WordPress (theme customization, custom posts, plugins, filters and hooks, etc.)
Considerable hands-on experience with Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, MS Office suite, Dreamweaver, Coda, HTML, CSS, PHP, Jquery, MySQL, ecommerce, basic SEO concepts and implementation, Twitter, Facebook, Linked In.
Some experience/proficiency: rich snippets/microdata, mobile/responsive site development, Genesis and Foundation frameworks, PayPal, YouTube, Pinterest, Google +.
Education
B.A. in journalism, Indiana University.
Digital Design Certificate from Sessions.edu, an accredited online school of graphic design. Courses included Web design, graphic design, Flash, JavaScript, information design, digital illustration.
Courses in XML, JavaScript, and Flash through HTML Writers Guild.
Samples of web design work at https:/v3graphics.com/web-design-portfolio