Kevin Davison

OBJECTIVE

To expand my career as Technical Producer for Creative, Marketing, and Engineering teams, with proven Web production experience and technical skills.

EXPERIENCE

2007 - Present, Owner and Manager, "Quevin, LLC" - www.quevin.com - San Francisco, CA

  • A full-service web design and development company, specializing in Acquia Drupal CMS customization.
  • Present clients include Cisco, Oracle, Expedia Corporate Travel, Redfin, Doremus (Intel, Ryan Homes), Revcube (Healthline, HomeGain, FRS), SendMe Mobile and various other Bay Area small businesses.

2006 - 2007, Technical Producer, SendMe, Inc. - www.sendmemobile.com and www.solow.com - San Francisco, CA

  • Followed Ebates' VP of Marketing to help start SendMe, Inc.
  • Produced (hand-coded) and launched sendmemobile.com (10/16/06) in cooperation with one graphic designer, engineering, and a small team of company founders.
  • Reproduced and re-launched solow.com on 4/4/07 (Mason/Perl) after Bidinski acquisiton.
  • Coding (Shell/vi/CVS) within Perl/Mason and cooperating with Engineering to alter the front-end effectively.
  • Utilizing the newest DOM scripting methods, and proactively learning AJAX along with helpful JavaScript libraries: prototype and Yahoo! UI.
  • Developing effective landing pages and producing new templates for targeted mass-production.
  • Administering bi-weekly content pushes, and establishing process to avoid production conflicts.

2005 - 2006, Technical Producer, Ebates Shopping.com, Inc - www.ebates.com - San Francisco, CA

  • Reproduced (hand-coded) and launched ebates.com on-schedule (10/1/05) as challenged.
  • Daily creative collaboration with the Graphic Designer, producing Web pages true to mock-ups.
  • Overcame previous Web marketing schedule limitations, with role managed within Marketing to successfully increase conversion rates by launching campaigns weeks sooner than before.
  • Utilized Velocity Template Language (VTL), along with a proprietary "Web Publishing Service".
  • Produced dozens of effective landing pages and site-wide promotions.
  • Awarded twice the quarterly employee "All-Star".

2000 - 2004, Webmaster/Web Producer, Plumtree Software, Inc. - www.plumtree.com (now BEA) - San Francisco, CA

  • Produced the (former) corporate Web site (DHTML, CSS-P, ASP/.NET/JSP) on a strict deadline in concurrence with the first major Plumtree Corporate Portal release.
  • Coded hundreds of landing Web pages and micro sites for weekly marketing campaigns.
  • Developed a lead generation system with the Director of IT (Javascript, ASP, MS SQL DB).
  • Produced e-mail templates, edited content and delivered hundreds of e-mail campaigns.
  • Detail oriented with exceptional Web production and Web site management skills.

1998 - 2000, Web Producer or "Web-Captain", Hornblower Cruises & Events - www.hornblower.com - San Francisco, CA

  • Advanced the company's role as leader in the industry, coding their first Web reservation system.
  • Improved Sales team efforts by qualifying private charter leads on-line and distributing via email.
  • Produced and developed Hornblower.com , on-schedule, in cooperation with the Art Director.

1998 - Present, Entrepreneur/Independent Consultant, Davison Systems, LLC - www.davisonsoftware.com (under dev.) - Portland, OR

  • Assist regularly with Father's software business: QA, Web production, SEO & SEM/AdWords.
  • Presently installing and customizing WorPress 2.0 as a CMS and Blog.

1997-2000, Internet Entrepreneur, The Internet Marketing Group - (Ft. Worth, TX) - Vacaville, CA

  • Marketing and Web Development for local, national, & international businesses.
  • My very first Web site is still live (slightly altered since): www.videotransfers.com.

1996, Web Developer/Internet Entrepreneur, Kingdom Innovation - Ft. Worth, TX

  • Established an Internet business (T1 & LINUX server) with entrepreneurs from my local church who took advantage of the then new Internet business opportunities (Yahoo! was gray).
  • Designed marketing collateral and logos, even utilized an SGI system.
  • Developed Web sites for local business and worldwide non-profit ministries.

EDUCATION

Presently Full-time at SFSU

  • Finishing my BA in Technical & Professional Writing.
  • Previous education: Dallas Baptist University, City College of San Francisco, and CFNI

SKILLS

(X)HTML, CSS (hand-coding-NO WYSIWYG), JavaScript (DOM scripting), Shell/vi, Velocity (VTL), PHP, basic Perl, HTML:Mason, basic JSP, ASP, basic ASP.NET; MySQL, MS SQL Server (management & web applications), CVS or SVN. Omniture, Urchin, WebTrends, WebSideStory; MS Access, MS Excel; MS Powerpoint, Flash (basic animations & action scripting), Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/Fireworks/InDesign/Acrobat Writer

INTERESTS

The Web, creative writing, high-tech gadgets, Krav Maga martial arts, SCUBA, travel (14 countries), cycling, guitar and amateur video editing & production.