Profile

My Name is Simon Dabkowski, I’m 29-years old and I’m a design creative.

I’m currently employed at Tisha Creative, a creative solutions agency based in Hoboken, NJ. I’ve watched my industry blossom over the past 10 years of my professional experience in building and developing websites. I’m keen on staying up-to-date, absorbing and contributing to the ever-changing technology, constantly exploring new design and development methods and I’m extremely compulsive in developing content with Web Standards.

I’m also a photography addict. I shoot with a Canon Digital Rebel XSI DSLR camera and utilize a Sigma 10-20mm and a Tamron 55-200mm lenses. My post production workflow is done in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

My backend programming experience is composed of using PHP and MySQL in developing dynamic content including Content Management Systems. I prefer hand coding over using WYSIWYG editors, although I’m very fluent in Dreamweaver – having used it since it was formerly known as Cyber Studio.

I’ve been fortunate to be a part of the Adobe Beta team in the past which led me in having the opportunity in beta testing Adobe Livemotion which in turn landed me a book deal in writing a 544 page How-to book for McGraw Hill entitled Livemotion 2: A beginner’s Guide.

I’ve recently started heavily exploring working with JQuery in creating Ajax interactions. I’m also keen in developing SEO friendly content. I’m currently exploring creating applications for Facebook.