Brian L.

## BIO **Education:** > Rochester Institute of Technology, B.S., Graphic Media, July 2005.**General Knowledge:** > Windows 95/98/XP/Vista/7/Server and Mac OS 9/10.x. Some experience with Linux Fedora and RedHat.**Experience** > Worked as a Lab Assistant in the RIT School of Print Media PPL, DCL, and Print Hub Computer and Printing Labs, Rochester, NY. Responsible for assisting students with various publishing and media applications, trouble shooting software and hardware problems, and assisting professors with classroom and presentation related technologies. > Worked as a Consultant/Assistant from 03/2003 - 11/2005 for CIP4 and B2B Marketing Inc. Part of a team responsible for designing, producing and organizing materials for various Print/Publishing industry trade shows including web-based kiosk applications, printed signage and instructional materials, and other various decorations. Worked at the trade-show booth for CIP4, interacting with attendees, booth employees, and booth presenters. Was also responsible for scheduling and technical support for numerous industry presentations at the booth. > Worked as an Adjunct Faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology from April-May 2007 in the School of Packaging, instructing the "Computer Applications" class. Taught packaging students how to use Adobe Illustrator to merge Ardios CAD package structures with design elements. > Currently work as a Developer/Programmer for Flower City Printing Inc. in Rochester, NY. Responsible for maintaining and developing new functionality for Flower City Printing’s information systems. Frequently develop and deploy systems designed to add value to Flower City Printing clients accounts and train those clients on usage of those systems. Responsible for design, programming and maintaining Flower City Printing’s job scheduling system. Other duties include support for computer hardware, various office software technical support, extensive work with shipping, receiving and inventory management systems. ## Area of Expertise **Programming Languages:** > Advanced knowledge of HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Flash ActionScript and Adobe Flex. Knowledge of various data interchange standards like SOAP, (Web Services), XML-RPC, iCalendar, JDF, CIP3/4, ODBC, and SQL. Some knowledge of Java, Python, Perl, ASP.NET, AppleScript, Ruby, SVG and VB Script. Advanced knowledge of automation/scripting of MS Excel, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat and some knowledge of OSX 10.x AppleScrpting.**Programming/Collaboration Frameworks** > Subversion, Redmine, Ruby on Rails, AMF-PHP, Esclipse IDE, various blogging and website generation applications like Wordpress, Blogger and Google's web tools.**Database / Information Systems** > Advanced knowledege of 4D, MySQL and PostgreSQL**Applications** > Advanced knowledge of MS Office, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, Flex, Dreamweaver, Fireworks), Xinet systems, Esko Backstage Prepress Software and other Print Industry Software Packages.