A few Notes for a Potential Employer
A few notes for companies that might be interested in hiring me:
- I answer my phone with “Symbiotic Design, this is Doug, how may I help you?” …because I work out of my home office as Symbiotic Design. Please don’t hang-up on me, you have the right number.
- If I’m not at home, my son or wife might grab the phone, and they still answer it as “Symbiotic Design”. And even though my son is only 9, he does a great job taking messages. Don’t hang-up because he’s a little kid, please. He’s an advanced gifted child, holds a black belt and is a member of the local divisional pee-wee football champion team, the Warriors. I will get the message, just be sure to leave your number.
- If the answering machine picks-up, it will allow you to hit a button in order to contact Symbiotic Design, Domain Hostmaster or HD Web Hosting. They are all me, you can hit any button or just wait for the beep.
- I can quit doing work as Symbiotic Design for the right position.
- I am more than happy to relocate right way (immediately) for the right position. I can send for the family later.
- Although you will find this blog (as well as my personal portfolio) a bit gruff, I market myself to potential clients and they do need the personal touch. I am often gruff, or brutally honest. But I am a company man in a corporate environment. My clientele has to know I am a human, they prefer dealing with me in a personal manner. But I will check my personal attitude at home and perform my job as a professional. Unless you require some attitude, of course. 😉
Just don’t take anything I say/do in my personal blog/portfolio too seriously. I’m working on a professional portfolio, but it is all done in HTML5 and CSS3. That’s because that’s what I will need to know next, for you, to do my job.
I have a great work ethic and I am tired of not having a steady paycheck. I need you, you need me if you want a graphic & web designer that is capable of managing a team, understands SEO and both online and social marketing techniques, works well with others and loves to be creative.
I am an expert in Photoshop, Illustrator & Dreamweaver. I have some Flash & QuarkXPress/InDesign smarts. I know (X)HTML, CSS, domains, branding & advertising. I write great online web copy. I also know video & how to leverage it on the web to the company’s advantage.
I’m not saying you would be making a mistake if you pass me up. If you do, you are probably looking for a programmer. But I am the best creative director you could imagine and if you need a creative guy, you would not do wrong grabbing me before anyone else does. 😉
Your call…
Thanks!
-Doug
Domainer’s Names Update and Portfolio Clean-up
I updated Domainer’s Names. I didn’t do much, but I created a new Twibe, “Names“, so I added my Twitter and Twibe links to the site. I also added my Facebook info and a Twitter tweets widget to the bottom of the page.
I still have to add a couple of “Follow Me” buttons for Twitter and for Facebook to the site. I am still looking for a good selection of Facebook buttons, but I did find what I think is possibly the best collection of free high quality public domain Twitter icons ever, at http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/07/50-free-and-exclusive-twitter-icons/ – both raster and vector masters are included so that we can do anything we want with them (whether for personal use or for commercial use). I hope I find some that are near as good for Facebook.
I did start a fan page for Symbiotic Design (my freelance design studio) on Facebook, but all I have done is create it and so I want to actually do something with it before I start linking to it (like design something there). Unfortunately, I just don’t have the time as then I would wind-up messing with my unemployment. I’ll also leave you a link to my facebook profile page as username “symbioticdesign“, even though I’ve never even sat down and looked at how I might actually design a decent facebook profile/wall/page, yet. I need to get that stuff done, but I don’t have a large staff working for me, either.
Once I rewrite my resume (again) and get my portfolio straightened-out for potential employers I probably will be able to tackle that, next. Looking for a decent or dream job takes up a lot of time and energy, though. And I’m not allowed to get too sophisticated with my new designs anymore because unemployment will only let me work a few hours a week on my own websites as that is deemed as work. So I am trying to develop some clean and simple website designs to base others off, for now.
Right now I am just trying to clean-up My portfolio and make sure it’s presentable, as I am sure my next job will count on it, should I be lucky enough to find something in the lines of my chosen career path. There are a few domain names that I need to delete from the domain name portfolio at domainers.name/portfolio/, and a couple to add. But I did update my main portfolio list at Symbiotic.Biz.
I did pick-up four new domains that I will use to showcase some of my photography and art as Twitter backdrops. I’m going to use WordPress and post them via blog at TwiDrops.com (eventually) so that I don’t have to spend time designing a site for them. Backing-up that main TwiDrops.com domain will also be TwiDrop.com, TweeDrops.com and TweeDrop.com. Once again, I am making sure that I cover any possible misspells or misunderstandings of the brand so that the site can easily be found.
These 4 TwiDrops brand domains are the only ones that I have left off of the Symbiotic.Biz names list, but that domain name list is static and is actually short by about 100 other names that are more adult/poker oriented. That list is easier for a kid to access, so I try to keep that one family friendly and kid safe. I do try to list all my domains at Domainers.Name, and I am still updating that name portfolio now.