Music

Drawing from his classical and jazz training, digital affinity, and Chicago’s own rich musical history, Dean brings an unprecedented sophistication to his music, composing intricate tracks that offer something elemental to every ear. Dean has produced albums and remixes as the electronica project Bounte, popular internationally and licensed on MTV and other commercial media. He utilized his production methods and web skills to cofound Beatserv, a boutique-style beat production company featuring creative and unique high-end beats at low prices. As an outgrowth of producing for local bands, Dean started the Zen Dozer music collective, helping great start-up bands from Chicago and the midwest.

Web Design

Dean is a usability-oriented web designer, most highly valuing clarity and ease-of-use for the end-user. Originally educated as a fine artist, his interest in digital painting and computers led him to a career in digital design. Since the mid-nineties, he has worked freelance and fulltime for clients in and out of the music industry including art.com and Blick Art Materials, and has worked with the MediaSpan Group since 2005.

• 10+ years contributing design and development to hundreds of sites, from frontend to backend, conception to implementation, cms, e-commerce, intranet, extranet, social media, multi-media, flash, forms, forums, agile development, giant complex web applications, and more
• Master of Adobe CS (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, AI, Fireworks)
• OS ambidextrous
• Human Firebug
• Hand coder
• Hardboiled
• Browser compliant back to IE6 (but will talk anyone out of that)
• HTML (XML, DHTML, HTML5), CSS (2 AND 3), PHP, MySQL, javascript, jQuery, Actionscript, and other acronyms and ‘scripts
• Shamelessly integrates others’ technologies, like AJAX and Google tools
• Knowledge of web standards / best practices for interaction design
• Aware of user-centered design principles
• Proper grammar acquired
• Speaks Geek and Non-geek

Clients

Music

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, Chicago Children’s Choir, Styx, The Dymaxion Quartet, The Fell Follow, Number Nine, Beatserv, Flagrant^ Records, Zen Dozer Records, Cecil McBee, i:scintilla, Javier Arau, The Atomica Project, Bounte, THAC0, IFEPA, Short to Ground, MDIE, Fight Nice

Radio Stations

major networks including ABC, Citadel, GCap, Clearchannel, Chrysalis, Bustos, TRN/ARN, and countless independent stations

Corporate

MediaSpan, Blick Art Materials, art.com

News Publications

Inside Radio, Las Vegas Downtown News, Mile High Sports