Kevin Basarab
kevin@kbasarab.com
904.891.1804

Employment

The Florida Times-Union/jacksonville.com – August 2007 - Present

Digital Media Innovations and Web Developer: February 2009 - Present

• Technical lead for Jacksonville in redesign of jacksonville.com from Drupal 5 to 6. Oversee code revisions through development, testing and production environments. 
• Create and deploy custom database solutions including public employee salaries and area graduates. Replaced Caspio running results database with custom MySQL and PHP that became the official qualifying system for the Gate River Run. It provides searchable results for all area races. Integrates social networking and search widgets. 

Online Sports Editor: August 2007 - February 2009

• Worked on the development team for site relaunch from proprietary CMS to Drupal 5. Brought a journalism background to the development team to ensure workflow and functionality were optimized for a newsroom. Assisted in training of newsroom staff. 
• schools.jacksonville.com - Created a database encompassing all public schools in Florida. Includes search, FCAT data and prep scores using PHP/MySQL. Prep scores system includes football and four other sports. Outputs to newsroom for print agate. 
• Organized all online coverage and staff for two Jaguars seasons, The Players Championship, River Run and other events. Produced videos/blogs at events. 

SECURE-RES/Vizergy – July 2006 - August 2007

• Senior Natural Search Analyst: April 2007 - August 2007
• Natural Search Technician: July 2006-April 2007 
• Performed research and development related to internet marketing, search engine optimization for client sites and all minor client website changes. Developed ASP based systems for press-rooms, call to actions and podcast management. 

Elite Videography – July 2004-present

• Co-founder. Wedding, dance recital and corporate videography. 

Publix Supermarkets Inc. May 2000-present

• Part-time grocery clerk. Previously DSD receiving inventory clerk, dairy clerk and job class trainer. Piloted automated replenishment program for dairy across company. Merchandised displays/planograms and inventory control. 

The Florida Times-Union - Internship. January 2005 - December 2005.

First Coast News - Volunteer. September 2005 - December 2005.

Volunteer Work

Rotaract of Florida's First Coast - Division of Rotary Club (August 2007 - present)

• 2009 - Tickets chair annual gala. Organized and distributed tickets for annual gala. 
• Elected technology chair: July 2008 - present. Implemented use of Wordpress, Google Calendar, Flickr and Facebook for publicity of club. 

Youth Bowling Coach

• Coach kids ages 6-18 in bowling. Teach improvement of of both mental and physical game plus character/team building. 

Education/Technical Experience:

University of North Florida (Graduation: Fall 2005)

• Bachelor of Science: Communications-Broadcast; Minor: Criminal Justice. 

Technical Experience

• PHP, ASP/XML, MySQL Database, Javascript, HTML/CSS. 
• Canon XH-A1 Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4