Have spent the better half of my career in the trenches getting stuff done. From designing large format print materials for fortune 500 companies and their ad/buying agencies to doing web design, development and product management for industry leading SaaS and non-profits.
• Platt College San Diego Advisory Board Member
• Top 99 WordPress Influencers of 2015
• Built more than 1700 websites from turnkey to enterprise sites.
• Created over 500 online properties grossing more than $70 million for Autism Speaks in 2010
• Nominated candidate of the 2009 - 2011 Content Management Professionals Board of Directors
• Complete AJAX UI redesign of Kintera's Content Management System in 2007
• Doubled Kintera's ability to migrate client websites in 2006
• $2 million in sales annually attributed to online campaigns at Trykor Rolling Media
Specialties: • CMS - Wordpress, Blackbaud / Kintera, Themes/Templates, Front-end Development
• Web Apps - Designing, Wireframes, Functional Specs, QA
• Overseas Project Management - Primarily Vietnam & India based engineers
• Coding - Hand-coding of pixel perfect XHTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery and PHP
• Social Media, Content Syndication & SEO
• Designing within Adobe Creative Suite
• Corporate & Technology Web 2.0 Design Styles
Founder & Developer @ CMS Code, Inc. provides web development services for non-profit organizations specializing in Blackbaud products including Sphere, NetCommunity and Luminate. Outside of Blackbauds proprietary products, we specialize in developing WordPress themes and plugins unique to our clients needs.
Our mission is to have the biggest impact on the world possible by empowering non-profits to focus on what matters most. We can literally change the lives of millions of people by introducing products that non-profits use daily. From June 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Greater San Diego AreaInteractive Designer II @ Develop websites for non-profit clients using innovative and current technologies. Create scalable site structures and navigation elements that improve usability. Product owner of Blackbaud Sphere related tools including proprietary Dreamweaver extensions, stand-alone .NET applications and their associated development. Frequently assist sales in project scoping, provide advanced design training and write task related documentation for clients and colleagues alike.
Primarily utilize:
• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop & Illustrator)
• XHTML, HTML5, CSS2, JavaScript / jQuery
• Blackbaud Sphere (FAF/Thon & CMS) From September 2010 to December 2012 (2 years 4 months) Greater San Diego AreaGraphic Designer @ Developing design, layout, artwork, and production of web marketing communication materials for collateral, advertising, both public and private websites, email correspondence, tradeshows, corporate communications, events graphics and presentations.
Vistage International and its affiliates have 14,500 members in 16 countries, representing the world’s leading chief executive organization.
Primarily utilized:
• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver)
• Wordpress Design & Development
• Email Design & Development
• Print & Web From March 2010 to August 2010 (6 months) Greater San Diego AreaSenior Web Developer @ Responsible for the design, building, maintenance and replication of Autism Speaks’ awareness and fundraising sites, and electronic communications tools. Also assists in all architecture development and project management for online properties. As a team have created more than 500 online fundraising properties grossing the organization an accumulated $70 million and growing.
Primarily utilized:
• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop & Illustrator)
• XHTML, CSS & JavaScript
• Kintera Sphere (CRM, Thon & CMS) From September 2007 to January 2010 (2 years 5 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaConsultant @ Responsibilities included the design, building, and maintenance of Kintera based fund raising sites for Autism Speaks. This was a contract to hire position at Autism Speaks
Primarily utilized:
• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop & Illustrator)
• XHTML, CSS & JavaScript
• Kintera Sphere (CRM, Thon & CMS) From September 2007 to February 2009 (1 year 6 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaBusiness Systems Analyst / Project Manager @ As a BSA/PM, duties included designing, spec writing, prototyping/wire framing, product documentation and occasionally advanced product training. Gained an in depth knowledge of online content management software, development cycles and various social networking functions. Successes include a complete AJAX GUI rewrite resulting in better cross browser compatibility, more maintainable infrastructure and nearly doubled the efficiency and productivity of more than a thousand clients.
Additionally held the positions of Product Architect, Web Developer 2 and Production Artist before becoming a Business Systems Analyst/Project Manager.
Primarily utilized:
• XHTML, CSS, & JavaScript
• Adobe Photoshop
• Kintera Sphere (CRM, Thon & CMS)
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook) From January 2005 to September 2007 (2 years 9 months) Greater San Diego AreaGraphic Designer @ As a graphic designer, duties included designing, digital printing, and applying custom bindery. Acquired skills were padding, cutting, folding and several others on a retail level. Environment was fast paced with little room for error.
Primarily utilized:
• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• QuarkXPress
• CorelDRAW
• Digital Printers
• Cutting and Custom Bindery Machines From May 2004 to January 2005 (9 months) Greater San Diego AreaInternet Marketing Director @ As the Internet Marketing Director, responsibilities included leading promotional campaigns, project management, product management, graphic design, web development, analytics, and all online brand awareness. Successes include more than $2 million annually attributed to online campaigns.
Primarily utilized:
• Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator
• Macromedia Freehand, Dreamweaver & Flash
• HTML & CSS
• Swish 1, 2 & Max
• PPC (Pay Per Click) & Analytics
• Custom built CMS
• Overseas Project Management for Software & Web Development
• Large Format Printing and RIP systems From October 1998 to May 2004 (5 years 8 months) Greater San Diego AreaInternet Solutions Consultant @ As a consultant for Trimex Mobile Marketing, responsible for assessing company specific needs in the area of Internet representation. Focused efforts on increasing their online presence and created for them an image previously unknown to the industry. As a result of this endeavor Trimex became a top ranking search engine inquiry and experienced an increased flow of sales. From June 2001 to July 2003 (2 years 2 months) Greater San Diego Area
Bachelor of Science (with honors), Media Arts, 3.93 @ Platt College From 2010 to 2012 Internet and Web Technologies @ University of California, San Diego From 2007 to 2008 Associate of Applied Science, Graphic Design, 3.77 @ Platt College From 2003 to 2005 Dave Bergschneider is skilled in: Web Applications, Product Management, SaaS, Wordpress, Web Design, Web Development, HTML 5, jQuery, CSS3, PHP, Graphic Design, CSS, Front-end, HTML, Joomla
Websites:
http://www.crunchingpixels.com,
http://www.blackbaud.com