Hello and thank you for visiting.

My name is Gregg Pechenik.

Graphic Designer / Web Developer

I launched Digital Lobotomy in 1999.

FLASH FORWARD > 2011

After too many years coding PHP / mySQL

I'm compelled to revive why I started ...

To be creative! - My new endeavor?

To reinvent myself as a photographer
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EDUCATION

Miami-Dade Community College
Majored in Fine Art / Art History

June 1989 - 1991
Miami, FL

Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
Graduate in Graphic / Desktop Design

Aug 1996 - June 1997
Fort Lauderdale, FL

After high school I began taking classes at Miami-Dade but never really found my niche. One semester I decided to I take a drawing class (my first art class since elementary school). To my surprise I enjoyed it and did well. The art department encouraged me to seek a grant that was eligible and I received it. With a goal in focus my grades improving, my art was on display and I had a sense of accomplishment. That I'd never had before.

Shortly after that Hurricane Andrew came and so did my priorities. I fell in love and joined the working class for the next 5 years. At which time I decided to go back to school for graphic design.
SKILLS I am proficient with Photoshop, Dreamweaver (HTML5, CSS, PHP, MySql, Javascript, XML, Wordpress, Joomla) including web hosting environments (Plesk, WHM & cPanel).

Proficient but rusty with Quark Xpress, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash.

I have also dabbled with nearly every graphics program written, video editing, audio recording, and most recently iPhone and Android application development. As technology rollover is faster then ever, it's easy to fall behind, I attempt to grasp as much as possible.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Dugent / Princeton Publishing
Art Director / Web Master

Sept 1996 - Jan 2000
Miami Shores, FL

I started as a part time image scanner. Advanced to Assistant Art Director and eventually became the Art Director of three nationally marketed adult magazines. When the company downsized, I was moved to Web Master.

MyCity.com
Graphic / Web Developer

Jan 2000 - Oct 2000
Miami Beach / Downtown Miami, FL

Long days of designing, led into longer nights of coding. Catered meals and in house masseuses made it a fun place to work. Most of my time was spent creating GUIs for various sections of MyCity.com.

MyCity was probably the first location driven portal. Unfortunately, it burst with internet bubble and poof went my stock options : (

Roxy / Everything Wireless
Graphic / Web Developer

Oct 2000 - Mar 2001
Hollywood / Miramar, FL

I was initially hired as a Flash developer. However, my first task was to build a Yahoo! store (My first experience with a CMS). After the success of the Yahoo! store, I collaborated with Oracle programmers to recreate main site. Together we launched a robust and dynamic eCommerce store front.

Additional day to day tasks included working with the marketing team on email ads, banner campaigns, affiliate and sale tracking.

* Roxy was to be purchased by DirectTV, the merger failed, Roxy closed.

Freelance Graphic / Web Developer
The Boss – Digitallobotomy.com

Mar 2001 - Present
Hollywood, FL

After Roxy closed their doors, I decided to try freelancing. Flash forward 10 years and I'm still freelancing. Over the years, I've had jobs as small as posting ebay listings to developing multi-tiered systems; eCommerce (shopping carts), affiliate programs, charities, fishing supplies and tournaments, band site and even a political campaign. I'd be surprised if there's a subject that I didn't work on at one time or another.

CONTACT


gpchicken@gmail.com