Kathryn M. Barto
Web Designer
kathy@kmb-designs.com 

Qualifications/Skills:

  • Detail-oriented
  • Committed to doing best job possible
  • Independent worker 
  • Able to take initiative and get the job done
  • Reliable and dependable
  • Knowledgeable in the field of good, functional web design and optimizing due to continued association with present employer, including the following software:

Kathryn M. Barto - Professionl Freelance Website Designer

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Image Ready
  • Macromedia Flash
  • MS FrontPage 2003
  • MS Office Suite 2003
  • Website Optimization
  • Advanced HTML Coding
  • Cascading Style Sheets
  • Basic Knowledge of JavaScript, CGI and Perl

Work Experience:

May, 2000 to October, 2005  
Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Web Designer

Blizzard Internet Marketing is a leading internet marketing company specializing in the lodging and hotel industry, and they employed me from May 17, 2000 to October 24, 2005. Blizzard provides full service website hosting, design and promotion plans for their clients. My position required extensive customer service skills, as well as the ability to explain the technical nature of our company in layman's terms to the client.

My position was as a web designer, involving personal contact with the client and designing a website that not only met their vision, but also met their needs; and that website had to be visually appealing, fast loading, and search engine friendly. I was required to help the client differentiate between ideas that were good for them and those that were bad for their project and future search engine ranking.

I was responsible for making their website from scratch, making the necessary graphics (unless specific graphics were supplied by the client), formatting the text supplied by the client and adapting it for search engine optimization. I decided the number of pages, devised the navigation, and performed the basic optimization of the page titles and tags for search engines. Part of my job was to get the home page keyword density as high as possible using online tools to accomplish this task. (More detailed optimization was handled by the Promotion Department.)

I also had assigned clients that I would make updates and changes to their websites on a regular basis, advise them on issues regarding keeping their websites current in the optimization field and recommend when design changes were warranted; as well make sure that their websites were always functioning properly.

In addition, for the last three years of my employment, I was in charge of the company's 100+ email marketing newsletters clients. Designing their newsletters, sending, adding clients, and maintaining the current accounts.

I left because my husband took a job at the Grand Targhee Ski Resort in Alta, Wyoming, which resulted in our move to Idaho.

Organizations:

I am the webmaster and designer of two organizational websites located in Rifle, Colorado: Rifle Elks Lodge #2195 (www.elks2195.org) and the Rifle Sportsmen's Club (www.riflesportsmensclub.org) since 1998. 

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