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marcus grant

Cell: 262-573-6742
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Portfolio: lyraedesign.com
Twitter: cssninja

I am an intuitive and insightful web designer who has an amusing ability to create simple yet masterful Web 2.0 web sites. Under the hood I'm a web developer with CSS ninja skills! Mantra's in my mind are visual appeal, simplicity, functionality and networked. I can bring your vision way upstream in the current web and social media wave.

Skills

Design skills

Graphic design, illustration, typography, information architecture, digital photography and print

Coding skills

HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, cross-platform compatibility and multiple browser functionality

Networking skills

Social media cultivation with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and blogs like Tumblr, high Google positioning (SEO), e-commerce development

Most used software

Image processing with Photoshop and Adobe Creative Suite, coding with CSSEdit, TextEdit, BBEdit, and I'm a skillful 'CSS ninja' with both a) cross-platform compatibility for Mac and Windows OS's and b) multiple browser functionality for Safari, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Experience

Lyrae Design Web Designer (freelance) - Grafton, WI - 2002-Present

  • Designs that draw investment funding for startup companies
  • On top of the social media explosion
  • Simplicity, yes .. CSS, hot .. Web 2.0, high five .. jQuery, woo .. keeping it going
  • Going ballistic with Google (SEO)
  • Doing something I love, an early muse who teaches simplicity being Val Casey

Digital Media Artist - Grafton, WI - 2003-Present

  • The cultivation of print media
  • Fashion modeling photography (have a Model Mayhem portfolio)
  • With a camera in my hand everything I see instantly turns into amazing pixel art
Salary

$60-65,000/year

Education

University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI - 1998-2001

Majors: Graphic Design and Physics
Minor: Asian culture

What I'm Into
Catching up with Michael Phelps (yup I'm a swimmer), Tibetan Buddhist dharma, Lam Rim Radio, design, Facebook, Twitter, internet culture, the art of Andy Goldsworthy, Alex Grey, humor, pondering the nature of π , 1 and 0 and such things, Eureka & Stargate, survival, endangered big cats, holistic medicine, vanilla soy milk, being vegetarian, Indian cuisine, SunChips bags, Imogen Heap, Shiny Toy Guns, A-Ha, Steve Roach, DJ Tiesto, Jay Sean, Paul Van Dyk, The Cars, Black Eyed Peas, Dash Berlin, Step Up, SNL reruns, Forbidden Planet, Millennium Mambo, dragonflies, my connection to life in other galaxies, cosmic mindedness, LOTS of other stuff .. my girlfriend and Americana inspired by my family
References
Really good ones (upon request)