About Brent Pocker
Instructor: Graphic Design & Adobe Creative Suite
- University of Hawaii Leeward Community College, 2/06 – 1/08, Pearl City, HI
- Responsible for teaching Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat Professional, and techniques of graphic design for Web and print publishing.
Instructor: Web Design & Technology
- Heald College, 1/06 – 1/07, Honolulu, HI
- Responsible for teaching Internet business foundations, networking technology foundations, web site design methodology and technology, and e-commerce strategies and practices.
Web / IT Specialist
- University of Hawaii Psychology Department, 9/05 – 4/08, Honolulu, HI
- Responsible for web site redesign / development as well as creation of maintenance manual for future webmasters.
Advertising Designer / Assistant Production Manager
- Santa Barbara Independent, 6/01 – 7/03, Santa Barbara, CA
- Responsible for advertising design, free standing insert design and promotional material design, prepress file preparation (grayscale, spot, and process color across multiple file types), production scheduling and flow, pagination, preflight check, final quality control, ftp of digital files to print house, and web site maintenance.
Founder / Graphic Designer / Web Designer / Web Developer
- PixelLevel LLC (formerly Pocker Design LLC), 6/98 – present, Miami, FL
- Responsible for all consultation, sales, design, file preparation, delivery, and accounting.
Process Engineer
- Applied Magnetics Corporation, 7/96 – 8/99, Goleta, CA
- Worked with software development team to create user interface for radio frequency diode sputtering systems (RFDs). Solely responsible for process development and process control of multiple dielectric layers in hard disk magnetic read/write heads.
Familiar Technology
- Operating Systems: Mac & PC
- Markup & Layout: XHTML (validated), XML, CSS (validated)
- Programming & Scripting: ASP, PHP, SQL
- Database Management Systems: MS SQL Server, MySQL
Familiar Design Software & Tools
- Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver
- Adobe/Macromedia Flash
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Acrobat & Distiller
- Extensis Suitcase
- FTP
- BBEdit
- File compression utilities (Stuffit, Winzip)
Education
Master CIW Designer Certificate
Certified 4/04
Certificate of Completion in Web Design & Administration (Dean's List)
Heald College, Honolulu, HI, 10/3 – 4/04
Certificate of Completion in Internet Technology & Web Design
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 9/00 – 12/00
BA, Geography – Emphasis in Remote Sensing & Digital Image Analysis
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 1991 – 1998
Four years study of biochemistry & molecular biology
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 1991 – 1998
Interests
song writing & performance, photography, surfing, skiing, bicycling
