Timothy R. Spangler
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Education
Medill School, Northwestern University
Master of Science in Journalism with New Media specialization (2007)
- Programmer/designer on the New Media Publishing Project, which involved building a community-driven social media site for the Chicago Filmmakers
- Daily deadline, enterprise and multimedia reporting covering consumer affairs for the Medill News Service
- Other deadline reporting covering North Shore transportation
- Gained a solid knowledge of editing copy for the Internet, magazines and newspapers as well as media business and law
- Studied social media marketing in Medill's IMC department
Benedictine University
B.A., Communication Arts (2006)
- Editor, writer, designer and webmaster for the student newspaper, The Candor
- Coursework included layout and design for newspapers and magazines, advertising copywriting, newswriting and editing, feature writing, broadcast writing and television/video production
- Graduated magna cum laude, GPA 3.8/4.0
Experience
Web Intern, Benedictine University
Lisle, IL (2005)
- Designed and developed a Web-based interface for the university's humanities department, facilitating discussion between classes and instructors
IT Support, Graphic Converting, Inc.
Niles, IL (2000-2001)
- Performed a complete overhaul of the company website, including PHP/HTML coding, graphic design and W3C standards compliance
- Created complex, formula-driven spreadsheets to calculate hours and pay for security personnel
- Performed quality control tasks for clients including Upper Deck and Topps
Skills and Abilities
- Coding: Hand-coded, standards-compliant (X)HTML/CSS (10 years), PHP (7 years), SQL, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, Visual Basic .NET
- Software: Photoshop (10 years), InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, QuarkXPress, Final Cut, Premiere, Encore DVD, Office suite
- Operating systems: Windows 3.1 - Vista, Mac OS X, Linux, UNIX
- Networking: Experience writing client-server software in Java, VB and PHP
- Experience running a community-oriented website with more than 1000 members
- Experience with intermediate to advanced search engine optimization techniques
- Experience managing 500+ keyword PPC campaigns with Google AdWords
References
References available upon request.
