John Lyons

Online Marketing Freelancer

Managing an international team creating a web based Social Shopping platform and Customer Loyalty Program.

Took some time off for a change. Wrote and produced an album of original music, released as an indie project: https://johnlyons69.bandcamp.com Tasks/Skills: Guitar Vocals Audio Engineer Music Producer Project Manager Songwriter Arranger Promoter Artist

Project manager, create offers, organize and lead usability tests, expert usability reviews, create wireframes & prototypes, organize and lead UX workshops with clients, new business acquisition

As a member of the eBusiness team I am responsible for the User experience (UX) as well as all graphic design on our websites, website redesigns, project manager, email marketing design and admin of Silverpop tool, CMS administrator and trainer as well as supporting web requests in general.

Concepted and created my own commercial niche in the open source Joomla CMS (formerly Mambo) community creating and selling templates, founder of the very first Template Club for Joomla and Mambo CMS. Was really successful for a couple years, making bank via PayPal subscriptions. A google search for 'design by mambosolutions.com' will display a result list of over 2.5 million websites that are still using my designs today.

I worked at a small Swiss Web agency who specialised in selling CMS eShops & hosting solutions to KMU's. My responsibilities included project management duties, customer acquisition, design, installation and setup of CMS and eShops, IA information architecture, web server administration, CMS and eShop administration, consulting with clients, content manager, usability testing and concepts. Worked with Mambo & Joomla open source CMS, iShop from Think Software in Bern, and osCommerce.

As Senior Web Designer at Upshot Ageny in downtown Chicago, I worked on the Digital Media team on several marketing & promotion projects. Flash, Photoshop, HTML, CSS, JavaScript were my specialties. I enjoyed the agency teamwork very much working hand in hand with project managers, programmers, graphic designers, copywriters and brand managers for fortune 100 clients including Absolut Vodka, VO Whiskey, Ford, P&G, Burger King, Disney Vacation Club, E-Trade,Discover, SBC, Yahoo DSL and TAP Pharmaceuticals.

Self employed musician. Singer/Guitarist/Entertainer - On Tour in USA

My family owned a fruit farm in Michigan. I was raised on the farm and did many different types of farm work from driving tractors, harvesting fruit, packing fruit, and selling fruit direct to customers at Farmer's Markets in the Chicago area.

Interpersonal Communications Group Communications Professional Selling Marketing & Advertising Business Administration Intercultural Communications Statistical Analysis Psychology Art & Design

6 week Intensive School for Multitrack Audio Recording Analog 2-inch Tape Compressors/Limiters Signal Flow Micing techniques Managing a recording session