Phillip Knoll Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

United States

Design & manufacturing of specialty cat furniture products.

United States

Strategically identify marketable business niches based on in-depth competitor analyses. Create responsive, brand-aware websites to exceed all direct competitors' standards of quality with future-proof logos, graphics, and PPC ads using short-loop iterative process. Provide in-person, hands-on training to clients on inbound marketing strategies to ensure ongoing business development.➤ Achieved #1 search ranking organically on Google for targeted search term, "secure translation agency milwaukee”.➤ Increased website loading speed by over 300% after revamp.➤ Built sites acquiring paying customers to increase profits well-above production costs.

Austin, Tx

Created PHP/Javascript/HTML/CSS websites and interactive banner ads for various remote clients. Ensured timely project delivery through continuous clarification of specifications.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Develop, design, promote various projects (music, writing, art, websites, apps) via personal brand of iconoclastic, utilitarian philosophies.

Milwaukee, Wi

Devise promotional and community-building strategies for record label and music production studio. Run "Music Feedback Circle" events (round-table musician forum for exchanging feedback). Record, edit, and publish event videos. Social media advertising and outreach for events.

Chicago, Il, Usa

Worked directly with clients to understand their businesses, developed results-based strategies to penetrate a variety of markets, assigned and tracked internal/external responsibilities and delivery milestones, proactively measured and reported on performance KPIs, retained client investment through chaotic market fluctuations.

Milwaukee, Wi

Develop online learning curriculum for Python instruction. Teach students how to write complete Python applications from the ground up.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Streamlined technical, college-level programming concepts into easily-realized, rapid-fire training during week-long boot camps for classes of 8 students, ages 10-15.➤ Improved on existing curriculum to promote independent, creative thinking and team leaders who garnered camp-wide awards for debugging other students’ projects. 100% of students produced functional projects, presentations, and proofs-of-concept.

San Francisco, Ca

"Lead Client-Side Engineer" on top-ranked Facebook games, "Jackpot Bingo" and "Words of Wonder (mobile)" averaging over 10,000 daily active users.➤ Invested many hours of personal time to reconstruct internal software pipeline and train team members on improved process, increasing team production speed by over 30%.➤ Assigned to prized Disney IP acquisition after surpassing performance benchmarks in other properties.➤ Architected 100% of software and dictated production requirements across 4 departments (art, design, test, code) for Jackpot Bingo's innovative "Maps" feature, which increased user engagement to extend lifespan of project beyond projected estimates.

Austin, Tx

Brought in as ActionScript specialist to architect advanced creative solution to port company's entire suite of 10,000 activities to leading next-gen mobile platforms.➤ Devised completely original white-hat method of conversion, writing a custom language interpreter to process existing code in a previous version of the language and recreate activities programmatically in a new version of the language.

Austin, Texas Area

Streamlined technical, college-level programming concepts into easily-realized, rapid-fire training during week-long boot camps for classes of 8 students, ages 10-15.➤ Improved on existing curriculum to promote independent, creative thinking and team leaders who garnered camp-wide awards for debugging other students’ projects. 100% of students produced functional projects, presentations, and proofs-of-concept.

"Lead Software Engineer" on 5 projects. Trained 1 new developer. Programmed over 15 games and interactives in a fast-paced production studio.➤ Appointed as departmental liaison for Bob Bullock museum exhibit, ensuring reliable deployment of 3 projects; wrote custom security layer to ensure 99% uptime of projects using touchscreens, 3D-gesture controllers, and other custom hardware.➤ Oversaw project development with Sony’s AAA game studio for high-profile DC-licensed titles, coordinating in-house asset production and strict external Sony game designer specifications.

Austin, Tx

Promoted to marketing team after working as DSL Tech Support Specialist. As Web Marketing Specialist, led design and development of new branch's web presence. Created logos, websites, animations, and slideshows for public and private use. Worked with marketing team and IT department.

Milwaukee, Wi

Designed and developed 16 websites and interactives based on strategic evaluation of client needs. Worked in the fast-paced Communications & Public Affairs Department.➤ Redesigned Milwaukee school district portal after conducting user-experience surveys to increase user engagement within the organization.

Milwaukee, Wi

Wrote dynamic, object-oriented system to showcase video interviews and graphically rich content advertising medical agencies within Aurora Health Care. Continued work after project’s success.

Seoul, South Korea

Taught English and liberal arts to children ages 4-15. Developed course-work, lessons, structured daily routines. Helped organize out-of-class gatherings and field trips.

B.S. Cum Laude In Digital Arts & Design, (Computer Science, 3D Animation, Graphic Design)

Activities and Societies: Gamer Developer's Group

Computer Science - Art - Film