Pete McCormick - Graphic Designer, Rockland Web Design

What's to say? In a nutshell I was born in and grew up in the lovely suburbs of Bergen County New Jersey. At the age of 15, my family and I moved to Daytona Beach, Florida and lived in the sunshine state for about eight years.

During those eight years I made a couple of lifelong friends, graduated high school and learned a bit about life in general. It was here that I was introduced to two of the best musicians ever, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Jimmy Buffett.

In 1993, When I had enough of the fun and sun, I bid farewell to my friends and I moved back to New York. This is where I met my beautiful wife-to-be Danielle while tending bar in one of the local restaurants.

In 1996, we got married and were blessed with a beautiful little girl named Mackenzie. In the spring of 2002, I received my Bachelors of Arts Degree from Marymount College in Tarrytown, NY. In April 2003 we were blessed once again with another beautiful little girl named Emma.

Since 1999 I have designed and developed websites at a Municipal Bond Brokerage firm in downtown Manhattan as well as my own business Precision Graphic Design and have enjoyed it tremendously.

Computers

I started to dabble with computers around 1997 and have never looked back. I was introduced to Photoshop in 1998 and got absolutely hooked on designing web pages, banners and working with anything remotely having to do with graphics. It's pretty cool knowing that there are potentially millions of people looking at my work.

I also enjoy all different kinds of music and if I'm not working on the computer you will either find me in the kitchen cooking some elaborate meal, or if it's football season, screaming my head off at the television at the New York Jets.

With my Bachelors of Arts degree completed, I am now hoping to go for my Masters Degree in Fine Arts soon to get more direction.

Skills

  • Operating Systems
  • Unix - Sun Solaris 2.6 / Sun Solaris 2.7 Certified
  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 / Red Hat Linux 7.1
  • Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP
  • Apple OS9, OSX

Graphics Programs

  • Adobe Photoshop 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, CS2, CS3
  • Adobe Imageready CS2, CS3
  • Adobe Illustrator 9.0, CS3
  • Macromedia Flash 5 / MX 2004, CS3
  • Ulead Gif Animator
  • Quark Express 5.0

Text Editors

  • VI Editor
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver / MX 2004, CS3
  • Allaire / Macromedia Homesite

Languages

  • HTML Programming (hand coding)
  • CGI / Perl Programming
  • Cascading Style Sheets
  • C Programming
  • Javascript
  • Database
  • MySQL
  • Sybase

Misc.

  • Visio
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office

Thanks.
-Pete

Pete McCormick, Graphic Designer

 

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