Richard Ihle

619 Kirkcaldy Way, Abingdon, MD 21009 • 443-922-7741 • 443-417-6597 • Rich_Ihle@hotmail.com

Excel at communicating and understanding specific customer needs and desires. Currently focused on enhancing the way people use the web and constantly seek to improve the overall web experience using innovative programming and graphical interface techniques.

Experience

Web Coordinator / Designer                                                            November 2007 to Present
The Catholic Review, Baltimore, MD

Assists with the growth and development of web services

• Design and maintain websites; review designs to improve consistency, quality, and efficiency
• Gather content (text, audio and video) for assigned websites
• Communicate with clients for web design projects and answer inquiries regarding new websites
• Manage projects from concept to completion

Graphic/Web Designer                                                                    January 2006 to Present
Freelance, Baltimore, MD

Design commercial websites, marketing material, customized business card graphics and designs

• Develop survey style sheets to support capture of clients needs and business requirements
• Execute a formal project design brief for customers and continually gather information and data from customer to minimize re-work of design issues
• Execute project management controls to ensure jobs meet cost, schedule, and client expectations

Software Configuration Specialist                                             November 2006 to August 2007
Arrowhead Electronic Healthcare, Austin, TX and Baltimore, MD

Created documents and designs for development of new electronic patient diaries

• Managed corporate website per direction from Sales and Marketing
• General administrative duties in support of software development activities, including research, maintenance, building demos, managing translations and special projects
• Executed formal project design briefs for customers and continually gathered information and data from customer to minimize re-work of designs

United States Marine Corps                                                     October 1998 to October 2003
Marine Corps Graduate, Paris Island, SC

Education

Master Certification in Digital Graphics, Digital Multimedia, Digital Video, and 3D Animation
The Computer Career Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia, MD                 December 2005

Applications

• Microsoft Office Applications
• Adobe Products: Photoshop CS-CS4, Illustrator CS-CS3, InDesign CS-CS3, Premier Pro 1.5/CS3, After Effects 6.5, Fireworks
• Macromedia Products: Dreamweaver MX 2004 / CS4, Flash MX 2004 / CS3
• Discrete 3D Studio Max
• HTML, CSS, QuickTime, Action Scripting, Intro to C++