Michael Alden

A rewarding career that is mutually beneficial to both my employer and myself. I bring the skills and talent to make any company stand out from the crowd with fast-loading, visually appealing graphics and presentations that make customers and clients take positive action. I am looking for a position that allows me creative freedom to demonstrate to my employer that incredibly productive websites and advertising materials can also look better than that of the competition.

I started freelancing in 1997. Throughout the years I have freelanced under different monikers. APGFX, LLC is the current incarnation for my freelance activities.

Primary business is conception and creation of entire websites. I also create software application "skins" and advertisements of every size and shape imaginable for both print and the web.

Responsibilities included designing various Internet properties with a primary focus on lead generation, with a secondary aim of strongly interactive jQuery banners. I also did full-site design and development for their corporate site, billing site and their flagship property, an online dating portal called uFlirts.

This was an independent contractor position, working remotely.

Salary: $45,000

Responsibilities included redesigning Corporate Website, banner advertisements, trade-show marketing materials, graphical product templates, graphical product headers and also writing all sales copy for corporate website. Additionally, I designed the skins for their primary theaters...properties that generate in excess of $10,000,000 in annual sales. Excellent time-management skills and meeting deadlines were required.

This was a full-time, in-house position.

Salary: $92,000

Telecommute position GIM Corp. as a graphic designer. I was charged with designing various creatives from advertising banners (Flash) to designing the blogs for both of their cash programs. I also did forum skins as well as a print instruction manual for the WAVE Exerciser.

This was an independent contractor position, working remotely.

Salary: $48,000

Responsibilities included creating and maintaining Corporate Website and all product websites as well as affiliate website. I was also the sole designer for all advertising creatives and also wrote all sales copy. I had one employee under my direction. This employee was a web scripter and junior graphic designer. Projects undertaken also included writing extensive server-side code (PHP) to run the Corporate Website as well as the development of a back-end administration application that allowed any employee to add content to the live corporate site. The site originally comprised of more than 17,000 pages, all driven by a MySQL backend. Excellent time-management skills and meeting deadlines were required.

As Creative Director, I also had an integral role in developing our overall sales message and marketing strategies. I also created systems to greatly improve customer relations.

This was a full-time, in-house position.

Starting Salary: $85,000

Ending Salary: $93,500

Responsibilities included creating Corporate Website, banner advertisements, trade-show marketing materials, graphical product templates, graphical product headers and also wrote all sales copy for corporate website. Excellent time-management skills and meeting deadlines were required.

This was a full-time, in-house position.

Salary: $65,000