About Me:
Christopher Kennedy

Web Designer & Expression­Engine Developer at The Shotwell Company

Lately, I seem to be less of a gun-for-hire in the web design community, and have been more and more a gunslinging consultant. That’s fine by me. As long as I get to wear the cowboy boots, I'm happy.

Experience

The Shotwell Company

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Web Designer & Expression­Engine Developer
November 2010 — Present

Design and develop Expression­Engine sites, assist clients with developmental consulting, providing the client with the knowledge of what methods will be most effective, in terms of time as well as cost.

PWL Studio

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Lead Designer & Expression­Engine Developer
June 2007 — November 2010

Planned, designed and developed client sites. Brought Expression­Engine into the company’s toolkit, enabling PWL Studio to begin accessing larger client prospects.

Copy.com

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Graphic Designer
May 2005 — June 2007

Managed customer workflows, processed design orders, maintained in-store displays, manually updated products on company site.

ADV Films

(Website no longer active)
Marketing Web Designer
July 2004 — May 2005

Managed marketing websites for various products, updated contests, maintained custom CMS for company-wide site and various properties.

iTechLabs, div. of BRSG Houston

(Website no longer active)
Web & Graphic Designer
January 2003 — July 2004

In charge of developing interactive websites for various clients. Designed and created custom interfaces for promotional CDs. Designed mail outs for client business, in both print and electronic format.

So you want to know a little more about me?

I’m a web designer in the San Francisco / East Bay area with a specialization in front end development using the Expression­Engine Content Management System. I have in the past used other CMSes like WordPress and Joomla, but time and again, I think the best product for most of my jobs is EE.

I got into this industry about 10 years ago in order to help my mother’s flower and design shop, where I quickly learned I have a passion for all things code and semantic. After that, I enrolled in the Art Institute of Houston to get my degree in Multimedia and Web Design.

Since graduating I have worked for a wide array of companies, ranging from small mom n’ pop retailers to marketing for national companies, always providing solutions based on any number of problem sets.

The one thing I love more than anything else is being given a problem and then getting to figure out how to solve it. Let me know if you’d like me to solve your next project. Let’s make more awesome!!

I work at The Shotwell Company.