BERT MAHONEY
e-mail	berchman@berchman.com
twitter	@berchman
mobile	805.798.3430

OVERVIEW
18 year Internet industry veteran with a unique combination of experience as a designer, marketer, and technologist. 
Have both agency and client experience with superb customer service skills. I have worked as Founder and Chief Creative Officer for three web agencies and I have held staff positions with three non-profits.
Deep background in all facets of web work: strategy, design, development life cycle, programming, and analytics. Current focus is developing integrated inbound and outbound marketing campaigns concentrating on improving user experience with web analytics.
Passionate about typography, information design and architecture, user interface and experience.

EXPERIENCE
Director / Berchman.com / January 2009 - Present
Provide website development consulting and WordPress website design and development to clients worldwide.
Cofounder, Chief Creative Officer / Dennison+Wolfe / January 2009 - December 2011
Developed vertical website networks using WordPress within specific industries; Non-Profits, Law Firms, Restaurants, etc. Creative direction, design, and production for all Dennison+Wolfe branding.
President / HamiltonBerchman Design Group, Inc. / June 2005 - January 2009
Founded HamiltonBerchman Design Group focusing on small business communications. Design and production for both web and print projects for clients within many different vertical markets.
Director of Communications / The Thacher School / February 1999 - June 2005
Art direction and design of all institutional communications both print and web based: monthly magazine, website, and all periodic communications. Creative Director for The Campaign for Thacher, the school’s $80 million dollar Capital Campaign. Faculty Advisor to the student yearbook, El Archivero.
IT and Production Manager, Web Developer / JDA, Inc. / May 1996 - February 1999
Information Technology Manager, Production Manager, Primary Web Developer. Managed 10 workstations and file servers, managed and produced all digital archives. Designed and developed all client websites. Developed pre-press standards and processes sought by commercial printers for their high level of excellence to distribute to their clients.
Art Director / On the Boulevard Publishing / September 1994 - May 1996
Art directed four monthly publications totaling over 120 pages of monthly design and production for editorial and advertising. Managed art department staff. Managed all computer systems for art department.
Freelance Graphic Designer / J.R. Navarro & Associates / May 1994 – August 1994
Designed and produced corporate print collateral and advertising from concept to camera-ready artwork for wide range of clients in the automotive, entertainment, and customer service industry.
Advertising Artist / Albany Times Union, Hearst Corporation / June 1992 – May 1994
Design and advertising services for clients of 40 sales representatives across a wide range of industries.
Advertising Artist / The Record, Troy Publishing Company / December 1991 – June 1992
Design and illustration services for advertising and special-section tabloid covers.
AWARDS
American Web Design Awards 2012
My work for Access Communications website received a design award from Graphic Design USA.
Fine Arts Library Collection Award : Stevens-German Library : Hartwick College
My painting was selected from annual student art exhibition by faculty jury for placement into Hartwick’s permanent art collection.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science Degree : Information Science : Hartwick College
Bachelor of Arts Degree : Fine Arts : Hartwick College
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
AIGA
Founding member of AIGA Santa Barbara chapter. American Institute of Graphic Arts, the professional association for design.