Extensive experience in web design, graphic design and UI design, brand and corporate identity, retail advertising, and sales collateral in the retail, high-tech and professional services industries.
social media expert with substantial online credibility, excellent writing skills and experience in developing multiple company brands, customer communities and delivering business results using web technologies, viral marketing, and social media platforms.
passionate producer of digital still photography for commercial, catalog and portraiture, digital video & audio production, editing and script development.
experienced with SEO/SEM, systems analysis, business process analysis and reengineering, database design and practical programming expertise across multiple object-oriented languages and platforms in the beverage, telecommunications, manufacturing, and technical services industries.
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Providing photography, video production and web consulting services.
Responsible for overall information technology strategy, systems architecture, operations, security, and development life cycle of a startup social group-coupon/charitable-giving web site.
Responsible for the social marketing strategy and content production of eight different brands, each with a distinctive voice, including a direct-to-consumer winery and wine accessories brand, by creating communities on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs and other social media platforms.
Collaborated with business management and marketing to develop a consumer-oriented e-commerce web site and user community for a digital printing and publishing company whose business model was entirely web-based.
Worked closely with marketing teams to transform requirements into award-winning interactive web sites that are user-friendly, maintained consistent styles, used best-practices coding and improved universal search visibility.
Providing web consulting, process analysis and design, web development and support, brand development, and professional photography in a marketing-oriented professional services company for diverse client sites utilizing the latest graphical and development environments and tools.
Consulted with internal clients, gathered requirements, produced specifications, designed, architected and managed projects for numerous multi-tiered information systems, corporate intranet portals, departmental web sites and content management systems within an agile development environment. Defined web back-end database schemas, developed SQL queries and stored procedures, data normalization and performance tuning of MS SQL Server 2000.
Established and managed corporate Internet connectivity, Checkpoint firewalls, intranet web hosting services and automated WebTrends web log analysis on UNIX and Microsoft platforms improving network security and accessibility.
Deployed and managed a large 24 X 7 nationwide internal network of Cisco routers and switches, Synoptics hubs and Xyplex terminal servers that provided operational access to cellular switches.
Primarily travel and stock photography with some commercial, fashion and product photography for national and local businesses including Regence, Spectrum Dance Theater, Deer Stags Shoes, Spectralux, Owen-Sullivan Winery.
Designed and configured complex wide-area networks and subnet addressing schemes for large-scale TCP/IP networks utilizing Cisco, Synoptics, Chipcom and LanNet components, and HP probes and analyzers.
Planned, evaluated and implemented a phased rollout of a company-wide WAN/LAN to 5 manu-facturing facilities, 8 U.S. offices, 3 international offices and over 100 sales representatives.
Evaluated, recommended, purchased, installed, configured, programmed and supported computers, printers and connectivity products.
Commercial, fashion and product photography for national and local retailers including JC Penney, Lazarus, Sears and the Salem Mall.
Pageant photography and model portfolios
American Safari Cruises BIAS, Inc. Car Toys, Inc. Cartograph Wines Core Design, Inc. Dayton Contemporary Dance Co. Deer Stags Shoes Event Electronics, LLC Hewlett-Packard Illusionz Integrex, Inc. King Group Events |
L'Ecole No. 41 Winery Microsoft Corporation MITS Corporation OfficeNinjas Owen-Sullivan (OS) Winery Pastoral Cellars RAF Technologies Sony Spectralux, Inc. Spectrum Dance Theater Stevedoring Services of America William Church Winery * Partial client list |
Wine Bloggers Conference • Walla Walla, Washington & Santa Rosa, California
Web Design World • Seattle, Washington
Microsoft Content Management Server • Redmond, Washington
Project Management Tools and Techniques • Seattle, Washington
JavaScript Conference / Apache Summit • Seattle, Washington
Web Marketing / Web Site Usability Seminar • Seattle, Washington
E-mail Conference & Seminar • Santa Clara, California
Help Desk Management • Boston, Massachusetts
Wright State University • Dayton, Ohio • Computer Science
University of Cincinnati • Cincinnati, Ohio • Urban Planning
Wine judge for the Cabernet Sauvignon Shootout and the Pinot Noir Shootout & Summit
Top 10 finalist (out of 2000) for the Murphy-Goode Winery Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent, a nationwide competition for a coveted social media position.
Grand prize winner, Wine Enthusiast Magazine's Decanter Design Contest.
3 time recipient, AT&T Wireless Circle of Excellence Award.
Editor and graphic designer for the manuscript, Conflict of Loyalties by NW Artist, Kamekichi J. Tokita that eventually was published as Signs of Home, The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita by Barbara Johns
I've produced over 80 videos including 36 for my personal blogs. The following playlist shows some of the videos I've produced for clients. It includes one of my more popular videos, Corkscrew Shootout and a demostration on opening Champagne. Starting off this playlist, however, is a video on grape vine pruning and vineyard management that has received over 100,000 views. (For a wine education video, that's a lot.)
To see all the videos that I have produced,
please visit my YouTube channels:
Eric Hwang (travelwitheric)
edmonds, washington 98020 • travelwitheric@gmail.com
Most of the recruiters who have contacted me are just rude. You blast out mass emailings like a shotgun hoping to hit anyone. You've never even taken the time to read my resume. The fact that I respond is more important than whether I'm qualified, because you're more interested in making a quota than getting me a job. You dangle the promise of getting me an interview with a hiring manager, when in fact, that hiring manager doesn't know you any more than he knows me. You want me to spend time to change my resume, or take 3 hours of my time to come in so you can see me in person and make a snap judgement. In the end, I won't hear from you again until the next time you need a warm body. You hope to get me hired as a temporary, because when I prove myself and the client wants to hire me permanently, you'll receive a big fat percentage. Unfortunately, your rates are too steep and I'll most likely not get a permanent offer because of that. I've wasted enough time. If you're a recruiter, don't contact me. Period.
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dangerous to navigation, by which ships are guided and warned at night.
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