Daina Reed

Current

• Freelance Web Designer at Web Designer/Coder

Past

• Web Designer/Developer at Wingate Ventures
• Web/Graphic Designer/Developer (front end) at Myself
• Web/Graphic Designer at www.oleh.com

• Web/Graphic Designer at Freelance
• Web/Graphic Designer at VFinance.com
• Web Developer at Virtacon
• Web Designer at Newagecities.com

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Education

• Tel Aviv University

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Connections

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Industry

Graphic Design

Daina Reed’s Summary

Originally from Detroit, Michigan, I moved to Florida right after high school to get to warmer weather. My career began at age 19, working at internet start-ups in Boca Raton. The 2000 dotcom collapse was my cue for some world exploring, which led me to Silicon Valley East- Tel Aviv- in ‘03. I’ve been back in the biz since ’04, leading an instantly successful freelance web development business.

I bring you a decade of experience, creating sites that have it all: beauty, brains, and business sense. Not only do I turn out boutique quality, custom-tailored sites, I assemble a team and manage your project from start to finish to create your dream site in real time.

Together we will discover and produce the site you never thought you could have, but always wanted.

Daina Reed’s Specialties:

I come from a background of hand coding sites according to the current standards. I can bring professional front end code with in depth knowledge of what is possible and what is not in a dynamic site.

Daina Reed’s Experience

• Freelance Web Designer

  Web Designer/Coder

  (Design industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Web Designer and Coder specializing in high-end websites that are simple, user-centric, and achieve a powerful effect with stunning colors, layout and thoughtful unique touches.
  
  I focus on the communication of a site and make sure it it meets your business objectives.
  
  Achievements in this period include:
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  - Designing with a UI expert's wire frames to create http://tonepedia.com a impressive user generated/social site for electric guitar and all associated gear. An impressive and unique site!
  
  - Learning a customized CMS system called Expression Engine and setting http://lamdeni.co.il to it so that Rabbi Cutler can not only write new blog posts but also make adjustments to EVERYTHING on the site without touching or looking or learning HTML
  
  - Designing a Web Application for a very promising company
  
  - Starting to expand from simple business websites to social user generated websites with a focus on UI and UX. Working with a team to understand the flow and architecture and how to best design for it.

• Web Designer/Developer

  Wingate Ventures

  (Design industry)

  October 2007 — July 2008 (10 months)

  I did design and front end code (XHTML/CSS) for websites, mainly in the Forex Industry with a focus on making the sites current, marketable, usable and flexible for multiple languages.

• Web/Graphic Designer/Developer (front end)

  Myself

  (Design industry)

  December 2006 — October 2007 (11 months)

  I managed my own successful freelance business and worked on numerous exciting community 2.0 websites

• Web/Graphic Designer

  www.oleh.com

  (Online Media industry)

  September 2006 — December 2006 (4 months)

  I did a lot of web design, print design, Email Newsletter design and logo design for this company.

• Web/Graphic Designer

  Freelance

  (Design industry)

  April 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 5 months)

  Web Designer/Developer, Freelance, Tel Aviv, Israel
  I worked with several companies and got them up and
  running with websites and logos.
  
  I also designed for creative types such as dj's, musicians, photographers, and events.

• Web/Graphic Designer

  VFinance.com

  (Public Company; VFIN; Financial Services industry)

  May 2001 — August 2001 (4 months)

  Web Designer, VFinance.com, Inc., Boca Raton, Fl
  An online venture capital resource directory that provides research,
  investment banking, brokerage and trading services to more than
  10,000 corporate, institutional and private clients worldwide.
  My role included all web updates and all graphic design for web and
  print. I also designed and developed slogans for a banner ad
  campaign.

• Web Developer

  Virtacon

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Design industry)

  September 2000 — January 2001 (5 months)

  Web Designer, Virtacon, Inc. , Boca Raton, Fl
  A full cycle e-commerce web design and development firm.
  I worked in the creative department in a team setting of a full cycle
  website design firm. I regularly held meetings with clients and
  presented design comps.

• Web Designer

  Newagecities.com

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; NACT; Online Media industry)

  September 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Maintained and updated all content, Graphic Design for Web, and designing banner ads.

Daina Reed’s Education

• Tel Aviv University

  Mechina 2006 — 2007

Additional Information

Daina Reed’s Interests:

Coding HTML without tables in CSS/DIVS, designing web sites with a focus on layout, conversion and copy, yoga, alternative medicine, promoting my musician friends, anthropology, space design, simplifying, de-cluttering, blogging

Daina Reed’s Contact Settings

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