Work

I’m available for hire and interested parties can contact me for more information. Professional experience spans several fields including marketing (SEO, SEM, PPC), graphic design (Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, & Illustrator), and programming (xHTML, CSS, Java, PHP, Actionscript & MySQL).

Green Card Capital Spring 2009 – Present – Currently work as a internet marketing manager and IT director for a publicly traded holdings company in La Jolla, Ca.

Tweeter Winter 2009 - Built a Twitter knockoff that demonstrates a shift from web 2.0 to web 1.0. Completed for a computing arts class.

GBSS, Inc Winter 2009 – Performed one month of social media marketing consulting work for PrintCountry.com and TestCountry.com.

Durrani Design Spring-Winter 2008 – Worked as a Production Design Assistant. Transformed Photoshop mockups into working websites using XHTML, PHP, and CSS.

Sigma Chi Fraternity Spring 2008 - Designed and programmed a informational website for a fraternity at the University of California-San Diego. Also programmed a full intranet portal for the fraternity members to communicate and plan events.

SEO, Inc Winter 2008 – Completed a 3-month internship at the top search engine optimization company in the nation. Worked in the Paid Search Marketing department where I created and maintained client accounts.

LiveNote Spring 2008 – Designed a homepage interface that streamed and recorded lecture notes. Completed as a final project for a design prototyping class at UCSD.

GroupStack Winter 2007 Developed the concept for a community-based group planning website aimed at helping groups better collaborate and plan events using the internet. Also see Groupster (Original Prototype).

E-nnovate Winter 2007 – Interface designs for a team of UCSD PhD students in the inaugural UCSD 50K business plan competition.

TritonEye.com Fall – Winter 2007 – Conceptualized, designed, and managed the development of an online book swap service for the UCSD community. Students would signup and enter ISBN numbers for any textbooks they wanted to either purchase or sell, and the system would email both students once a match was found. System was fully developed, but never launched.

LeTutor Language Services Fall 2006 – Hired by Arizona entrepreneur Aaron Kuroiwa to build a brochure style website to promote his language learning company. Also see the subpage design.

Walamu.com Summer 2006 – I was hired by entrepreneur Rohail Rizvi to design and program an online college classifieds network for Rutgers University in New Jersey.

FeedShot Fall 2005 – Redesigned and programmed an already popular blog pinging service. After the new redesign submissions increased 63% and monthly revenue nearly doubled.

“Thanks to the awesome team over at PixelTorch, FeedShot has received a long overdue makeover. The new look is leaps and bounds above the old one, and the entire process was virtually pain-free due to the design skills of PixelTorch. If you’re in need of some web design, definitely drop them a line.”
- Rob Walling, Founder

PixelTorch Web Solutions Summer 2005 – Founded a small web design studio in Santa Clara, California. Designed and managed all projects while outsourcing the programming. Successfully completed 11 projects before selling the company in the Fall of 2006.

Pure Five Audio Fall 2003 – Summer 2004 – Built a company based around selling dropshipped audio products through an online store. Desgined and modified a fully custom online store based on the OSCommerce PHP Platform. Performed most company duties, including: accounting, marketing, web development, order processing, and customer service.

TeenPoint.net Summer-Fall 2003 – Built and managed an online Christian teen community that featured articles, news, music player, and a forum. Website grew to over 1000 active members and 200 posts per day before selling the web portal.