Lenny Burdette
lenny@averyIV.com
644 Landfair Ave Apt 102
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310 869 7623

Objective

After ten years of self-taught and self-motivated work with computers and the world wide web, I am ready to take my design degree out into the real world and find an interesting and creative career alongside a team of web professionals making usable, beautiful, engaging things.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles (2003 - 2007)
Bachelors of Arts in Design | Media Arts
Summa Cum Laude
Grade Point Average: 3.925

Experience

Peace Over Violence Summer (2006 - ongoing)

I worked as a consultant for this LA-based domestic abuse non-profit, creating a custom content management system in Ruby on Rails as well as dynamic Flash movie players and slideshows. Working with the graphic design team at RMCD, the goal was creating an easy to use, flexible system that “just worked” with the beautiful new branding, launched in October 2006. We launched the sister site, Denim Day in LA, in April 2007.

Rebeca Mendéz Communication Design (Spring 2006 - ongoing)

The goal of her site is to cleanly display all of her great work while creating a distinction between Rebeca the designer and Rebeca the artist. Custom content management system in Ruby on Rails, with smart file management and a simple image request application.

The Mighty Psi.org (2005 - 2007)

I learned Ruby on Rails while making the first three or four iterations of my fraternity chapter's web site. A large, multiuser private section, with access control, attendance tracking, and various data exporters, I designed to be used long after I graduated.

Processing.org (Summer 2005 - Winter 2005)

I assisted in moving the existing Processing web site to web standards, first porting the XML-based content management system from perl to PHP, and recoding all the templates to a CSS-based layout.

UCLA Department of Special Collections (Spring 2005 - Spring 2007)

My day job during college, I spent over two years as a public service assistant, which entailed patron supervision, photocopying and scanning (with some image manipulation), invoicing and mailing, and preparation of rare and special materials for storage and transportation.

Technical Skills

(x)HTML/CSS * Javascript/DOM/Ajax * Actionscript * Web Standards * PHP, MySQL * Ruby, Ruby on Rails * Photoshop * Illustrator * InDesign * Flash 8 * After Effects * Logic 7 * Processing * Subversion * Mac OS X * Windows * Unix/Linux/FreeBSD

Miscellaneous

I gained valuable leadership experience as Drum Major of my high school band and Equipment Crew leader as part of the Solid Gold Sound at UCLA.

I spent a few weeks in the summers of 2005 and 2006 teaching web design to high school kids at the UCLA D|MA Summer Institute.

I was elected to the position of Recording and Corresponding Secretary for the Psi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi at UCLA in 2005 and 2006.