Travis Bredehoft

About

Howdy, I am Travis Bredehoft.

I'm a Senior Full Stack Designer for TownCloud and formerly a Frontend developer for Gaia TV. I also do many different freelance projects including graphic design, web apps, web design, and web development for projects that I find interesting, challenging or exciting.

I also enjoy experimenting with photography and videography. Check out some of my work on Instagram or 500px.

Please contact me if you would like to work on a project together.

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/* --Resume-- */

/* SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS */

  • Received a Bachelors degree in Visual Communications at Westwood College in Denver, Colorado.
  • Excellent organization, self-motivation, and problem-solving skills.
  • Approaches problems, solutions and opportunities with an entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Creative, strong communication skills and consistently meets deadlines.
  • Passionate about design, development and new technologies.

/* Experience */

// CTO, CMO, Full Stack designer and Developer at TownCloud, Inc.
// JAN 2015 - PRESENTBroomfield, CO
  • Leading the UI/UX, products, services and development initiatives at TownCloud. Designing and building responsive SaaS web apps in Angular 7 and Ruby on Rails with custom backends (Postgres and MongoDB) and RESTFUL API's. Product development, design and building for several municipalities in the United States. Leading multiple small but mighty teams to create a large set of suites that put local governments into a modern, cloud based toolset.
  • Using Angular, NodeJS, Rails to develop a local government SAAS ERP.
  • Product and UX/UI lead for most of the app suites, designing and development for the current set of tools we are creating. Utilized Angular to build a component / design system.
  • Marketing and branding for TownCloud, inc. Setting brand guidelines and style guidelines for the company and the current set of products. Designed and created TownCloud's logo and brand idenity.
  • Rapidly prototyped designs for the design process and user testing.
// Freelance UI/UX designer/developer, Web designer/developer, Graphic Designer, Consultant
// JAN 2000 - presentFort Collins, CO
  • Work with many different companies to solve branding, marketing, and digital problems/opportunities.
  • Design and build web sites, branding packages, web apps.
  • Rapidly prototyped designs for the design process and user testing.
// Front-End developer for Gaiam TV.
// JUNE 2014 - July 2015Louisville, CO
  • Built and maintained the Gaiam TV digital media platform across the web site, FireTV, Xbox, Playstation 3, and Roku.
  • Worked with team on an enterprise level, subscription based Drupal project with 1.5m+ page views per month, and over 100k paying subscribers, helped to architect the project through multiple iterationsCustom Drupal module, theme, and panels plugin development, Drupal hooks, Drupal Form API, Drupal coding best practices, and Drush.
  • Implemented and deployed gaiamtv.com migration and site redesign.
  • Built a new sass framework to replace the stand alone css workflow
  • Worked with team to implement new best practices for "atomic design" to speed up development time
// Full Stack Web Developer at Bluetent Marketing
// OCT 2007 - MAY 2014Carbondale, CO
  • Planned and designed an Agile approach for the nex-gen release of BlueTent's vrFusion product. Leading design, develop and implementation of a responsive mobile first solution for the Vacation Rental industry.
  • Plan, design, build and maintain web sites for Blue Tent’s entire client portfolio.
  • Maintained and built websites for the travel and hotel industry.
  • Took initiative on internal projects to advance direction of department.
  • Tested and troubleshot slow application speeds as well as slow front end load times on existing websites.
  • Built responsive, CMS based websites with rapid turnaround.
// Director of Communications at The Roaring Fork Club
// August 2005 - August 2007Basalt, CO
  • Communicate and market all Member events, parties, news, and special events.
  • Advertise through strategic multi-format campaigns including mail, e-mail, website, flyers, posters and in person.
  • Design, maintain, and produce a bimonthly newsletter. Plan, produce and deliver a yearly member guide book and event calendar.
  • Maintain roaringforkclub.com and continually refine the design.
  • Design, produce, and manage marketing collateral for a specific high-end market; including magazine and newspaper ads, brochures, flyers, and marketing pieces.
  • Deliver marketing plans for 4 new clubs based on the Roaring Fork Club. Design and manage the creation of an intranet to be used internally between RFC and the 4 new properties. Contrive, design and execute multi-format advertising and PR campaigns. Design, administrate and improve prospect database.

/* EDUCATION */

  • Westwood College - Visual Communications Bachelors 2006