About

I Matthew Kilander who lives and works in Traverse City, a graduate from Northwestern Michigan College in 2005, with an associates degree in “Visual Communications”. Since 1998, I have been designing & developing web sites that range from: my own personal site, school projects, and businesses around the USA and Canada.

Knowledge

After working hours I'm always expanding my library of knowledge by experimenting with new code and techniques.

Applications

Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Flash
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Lightroom
FileZilla FTP
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft Word
Mozilla Thunderbird
Pixelmator

Coding/Languages

CSS
HTML/XHTML
JavaScript / Java
PHP

Miscellaneous

Domain Purchases / Transfers
SSL Certificates
SWSoft Plesk, cPanel
Multilingual Web Sites
Joomla
WordPress
*Cross-Browser Compatibility
**Microsoft Windows
**Macintosh OS X
***Manipulating / Compiling Code

Work Experience

Pro Web Marketing

1/19/2010 - Current
Full Time Employee
Web Designer/Graphic Designer

Sutherlands Web Services

9/1/2006 - 2/23/2010
Sub-Contractor
Web Designer/Graphic Designer/Photographer

Traverse Digital Group

5/1/2003 - 9/1/2006
Self-Employment / Partner
Web Designer/Graphic Designer/Photographer

Traverse Magazine

6/18/2002 - 9/12/2002
Part-Time Employee
Web Designer

America's Carpet Barn

5/3/2000 - 10/6/2001
Part-Time Employee
Web Designer

*Cross-Browser Compatibility meaning, the web sites that I design and code are to work with internet browsers IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari on both Macintosh and Windows operating systems.

**Operating Systems, that I am familiar with include: Microsoft Windows: XP / Media Center Edition "MCE", Vista, Windows 7- Macintosh: Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard.

***Manipulating Code involves gathering code created by others like free/paid resources, editing and combining them to work with each web site.