About Mark Andrew-Ronald Kimitch

Greetings!

My name is Mark Andrew-Ronald Kimitch. In case there is any confusion, I have two middle names, I'm not two people. You have no idea how many times people have mistaken my name for two names of two seperate people. In the sixth grade, when we had to come up with an invention and do one of those presentation boards (my idea was a heated toilet seat), I decided to put my full name at the top as the inventor. When the judges came around, they were all like, "So are you Mark Andrew or Ronald Kimitch? I thought these were supposed to be individual projects." I then had to explain how awesome I was, and that someone as awesome as I required an equally as awesome name. I showed them.

Anyway, I graduated from the University of Minnesota in May of 2006. I recieved a degree in Journalism with an emphasis on Advertising and Strategic Commuincations. While at the U of M, I was an active member in the University of Minnesota Drumline (I played bass drum) and an active brother in the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. Both of which afforded me the opportunity to practice my Web designing skills. The Drumline Web site, was actually my first Web site and kind of springboarded me into the whole Web site building thing. Jake Carlson, of Dragon Eye Design, also helped get me interested in building Web sites, when he and I took Murray Jensen's Human Anatomy course together in the spring of 2002.

More to come!

Current skill set:

• HTML and XHTML
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Tabless Design
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• W3C Web Standards
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe InDesign

Skills I am learning:

• PHP
• ColdFusion
• JavaScript
• Flash
• ActionScript 2.0
• SQL

Future endeavors:

• Ruby On Rails
• AJAX
• DOM