John Bedard

General skills

• Standards-Compliant HTML/XHTML hand-coding
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Web-optimized graphics
• Social Media Consultant
• Theme Design for Content Management Systems (WordPress)
• Requirements Gathering
• Business Analysis

Computer skills

• Microsoft productivity software (Word, Excel, etc)
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• Fireworks
• Dreamweaver
• IBM Telelogic Focal Point

John Bedard Web Solutions (formerly SSDD Web Design) Freelance Web Consultant - East Helena, MT - 11/2006-present

Sole proprietor for small business focused on defining customer needs, crafting web sites and offering solutions to enhance business operations in central Montana. JBWS' focus is on style and substance while delivering timely solutions for businesses needing web services for the first time, or enhancements to existing web services. Consistently creates powerful web-driven marketing and/or services tools on extremely short timelines, including business requirements, design, development, site registration, testing, content management and training.

• Ellison for City Commission
  • Logo design, web site implementation and maintenance, blog and social media coaching
  • http://www.ellisonforcitycommission.org/
• Women's Leadership Network
  • Custom WordPress Template, implementation and maintenance
  • http://www.wlnhelena.org/
• HKM Engineering, Inc. (now Dowl HKM )
  • Web design and development (client maintained, logo changed)
  • http://www.hkminc.com/indexold.asp

Northrop Grumman Web Software Developer 3 - Helena, MT - 3/1998-present

Interface Designer for large Web-based applications for state government human services with an eye on usability, accessibility and ease of maintenance, XSL template designer for document generation applications creating documents in Adobe PDF and Rich Text Format, Business Analyst and Focal Point Global Administrator (Requirements Management Software), and Graphic Designer of info-graphics, local marketing materials and community involvement projects.

• Combined Healthcare Information and Montana Eligibility System (CHIMES)
  Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS)
  Web-based User Interface, Correspondence (Notices, Forms and Reports) XSL Templates for Adobe PDF output, Business Rules
• System for the Enforcement And Recovery of Child Support (SEARCHS) DocGen
  Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS)
  Web Interface Design and XSLT document templates for a document generation system that combines data from user inputs, legacy and Oracle databases creates Word/RTF output
• Child and Adult Protective Services (CAPS) DocGen
  Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS)
  Web Interface Design, application page design and XSLT document templates for a document generation system that combines data from user inputs, legacy and Oracle databases and creates PDF output.
• Discovering Montana
  Montana Information Technology Services Division (ITSD)
  Web site design and development (first generation), from strategy to delivery and training, and subsequent agency web site adaptation (from custom templates to full conversions):
  • Department of Revenue
  • Department of Corrections
  • Information Technology Services Division
  • Risk Management and Tort Defense Division
  • Commissioner of Political Practices
  • State Tax Appeal Board
  • Montana Consensus Council
  • Montana Historical Society, Encountering Montana: Lewis and Clark in Montana (design change)
  • Legislative Services Division (design change)

Computer Associates, Nethaven Division Web Graphic Artist - Englewood, CO - 8/1997-3/1998

Created custom design themes for Nethaven's off-the-shelf e-commerce products (primarily for an industrial-grade web-based shopping cart application). Processed product and integrated client identity graphics. Created ancillary static web pages matching the custom themes. Also supported sales staff with customized design comps and info- graphics for sales presentations.

International Learning Systems, Inc. Graphic Designer - Genesee, CO - 5/1996-8/1997

Create graphics for training programs (logos, page layouts, collateral material) for companies including Blockbuster Video and JD Edwards. Revamped and redesigned five learning-based games including traditional game boards, posters, handouts, case-based newsletters, flash cards and packaging. Primary contact between ILS and printing vendor(s), managing bidding process and press checks. Subject matter expert on graphic software and supported coworkers in this regard. Designed company web site.

MACTEC Graphic Designer - Golden, CO - 4/1995-2/1996

Created graphics for proposals in the environmental remediation industry, and performed page layout design and desktop publishing duties. Responsible for marketing materials and for the employee newsletter.

Colorado State University - Fort Collins, Colorado

Major: BFA '94 , Graphic Design
Activities: Tae Kwon Do Club

Montana State University - Bozeman, Montana

Majors: Graphic Design, Architecture
Minor: English Writing
Activities: Tae Kwon Do Club, Residence Halls Films Coordinator

• "Quick Start with IBM Focal Point," April 2009, IBM, Inc.
• "How to Gather and Document Requirements," April 2007, ESI, Inc.