Bruce Alan Mushrush
180 Golf Club Rd.
Pleasant Hill, CA, 94523
925.708.1696
bruce85@mac.com

Summary

A highly motivated individual with 11+ years experience in Web Development.
Major strengths in web & interface design/usability, as well as commercial graphic production.
Significant experience with online marketing, ecommerce, client relations, and business analysis.

Skills and Experience

Newcal Industries
Pleasant Hill, CA 2007- Present
Lead Web Designer

• Design, IA, development and project management & maintenance related to corporate site
• Design, IA, development & maintenance related to other company web properties
• Design and development of print and multimedia assets

Shrapnel Records
Novato, CA 2003- 2007
Web Designer

• Project lead for design & development of new corporate website
• Information architecture, design and project management related to site
• Created site flowcharts, wireframes & storyboards
• Created all site animations and graphics
• Perform ongoing content management and site maintenance.
• Worked with company president to develop online marketing strategy
• Designed, developed and distributed company email newsletter
• Developed additional online marketing assets
• Integrated (artist) marketing artifacts with internal company efforts

Verizon Wireless
Walnut Creek, CA 2000-2002
Web Designer

• Project lead for redesign of new shopping experience on enterprise website
• Project lead for coverage map convergence. Develop standardized cartography and graphic specifications to replace coverage maps from 6 legacy websites
• Collaborated with enterprise (web) architecture team to research new technologies and engineer their implementation
• Led client meetings to gather requirements and meet marketing strategy
• Supported eBusiness team with document development.
• Project lead, web accessibility for vision-impaired users
• Worked with outside marketing contractors on look & feel issues for additions to site
• Selected & purchased digital assets
• Researched and purchased hardware and software for design team
• Worked with developer team leads to develop enterprise-wide web design standards

Verizon Wireless
Walnut Creek, CA (contractor) 1999-2000
Graphic Designer/Production Artist

• Web page design for company marketing promotions
• Produced wireframes, storyboards, graphics & animations
• Produced Photoshop, Fireworks and Flash files for website
• Benchmarked competitors to identify strengths and weaknesses and define best practices
• Developed standardized graphics templates

CRT Design
Pleasant Hill, CA 1997-Present
Principal

• Sales, marketing and client relations. Developed a client list comprising numerous successful entertainers & entertainment industry professionals,including Grammy/Emmy winners & nominees
• Designed, developed and maintained 50+ websites for a variety of cients the entertainment, software, education and hospitality industries, among others
• Hired & supervised outside contractors on a per-project basis as necessary
• Designed, produced and distributed email blasts and email newsletters

Technical Expertise

Technologies: Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Premier, Final Cut Pro, Illustrator, Eclipse,
Cleaner 5, Sound Forge, Acrobat, Image Ready, Director, Quark, PageMaker,
Microsoft Office, NetBeans IDE, RealProducer, HomeSite, Visio, OmniGraffle, Ultra Edit, Smart
CVS, Quicktime, Email Marketing Director, Short Message Service

Languages: HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, JSP

Education

College of Marin: Multimedia Development (member Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society)
UC Berkeley Extension: Psychology/CounselingProfessional Training
Ojai Digital Arts Center (Lynda.com), Flash & multimedia development
Photoshop Seminar Tour 2001, 2002

Complete work history and professional references available upon request.