.:::Ric's Resume:::.

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RESUME: Richard S. Kolseth

Personal Information

Address: 477 Grant Houck Rd

Telephone: h(336) 877-1713, w(336) 877-3003

E-mail: webguy at lostprovince.net

Marital Status: Married

Date of Birth: October 26. 1955

Place of Birth: Troy, NY

Education

High School: East Syracuse/Minoa, East Syracuse,NY (1973 —Graduated)

Bible College: Southeastern Bible College, Birmingham, Al (1975 — 1 Yr. Certificate)

College: Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill (1974 Maj.: Art/Bible)

SUCB, Buffalo, NY (1977 Maj: Art)

Troy State University. Troy, Al (1978-1980 Maj: Art—Graduated) Batchelor Arts

Training & Apptitude

Jewelry repair, design, self taught & college courses. Attended several Swest seminars, Atlanta, GA

Discovered Macintosh Computers, 1984: constant voyage of discovery. Learned Pagemaker, Quark, Photoshop, FreeHand on the job. Now familiar with Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, GoLive (but prefer): Dreamweaver; can use BBedit and Interarchie to get down and dirty with the code

Personal Assets

Self starter, innovative, responsible, good communicator, honest, well read, broad base of interests.

Employment

1998 to Present: Owner/CEO Lost Province Productions, Todd, NC

1996-1998: Co-Owner, Lost Province Multimedia, West Jefferson, NC with Scott Knapp. Scott is still a good friend, and we collaborate on various projects.

1993 to 1996 various occupations in Ashe County: mainly writing for Ashe Edition of Mountain Times

1980 to 1993: Owner, RSKJ Unlimited, North Augusta, SC Jewelry repair & design.

References on request

Experience

Internet

Presently self-employed, running Lost Province Productions, a print and web services company providing design & hosting for over a dozen clients as well as graphic design and typesetting.

I am actually not a code-savvy alpha geek, although I have designed or modified web applications in Cold Fusion and php, including e-commerce forms, contact forms and database-driven weblog sites.

Current showcase sites (in alphabetical order):

annesmall.com (Artist promotion site)

beavercreekchristian.net (My local church- in progress)

brooksrandr.com (Real Estate & vacation rentals)

cliffkringle.net (Artist promotion site)

coldironinc.com (Commercial Site)

creepertrail.com (Promotional/Informational site for The Creeper Trail)

currentchiro.com (My doc!)

highcountrytours.net (Bus Tours - commercial)

nche.com (I'm not just the webmaster, I'm also a board member!) Since '98-'99)

riverrockgallery.com (I'm also a member of this Artist Co-op)

secondhandnewsonline.com (Local newspaper; about the only one I haven't typeset)

sharpeimagesart.com ("off the mountain" as we say up here: a Winston-Salem high-end printing outfit) I'm presently preparing to expand the site with e-commerce for their prints.

sherrysheavenlycreations.com (A local crafter)

willinghamart.com (a site refit and new hosting client: can't claim credit for original design, but I've streamlined it, added a few bells and whistles)

Web Design Only: (hosted elswhere)

depreestudio.com (referred Sharpe Images to me as a satisfied customer) Since '97

mcdhospital.org (McDowell County Hospital- came to me on the strength of a now-defunct site for the Ashe County Hospital)

Personal Websites:

lostprovince.net (My "corporate" presence)

a rtsaloft.com (For my family & creative side)

kolseth.net (Personal promotion...you're here! Hey, I got the domain cheap!)

Typesetting and Computer Graphics

Publications:

NCHE 2004 Conference Booklet (pdf, 2.8mb)

Auto Showroom (complete production pre-press since mid '90's) We put out a book every 3 weeks, usually a 64 or 72-page . (But not their website)

Designed and produced the Ashe Arts Companion (pdf, 1.6mb) for myself, and other similar newsletters for Drury Publishing . This issue I did the whole shooting match: photography, copywriting and design as well as typesetting. Click the thumbnail for a larger image.

Of course, various brochures & catalogues over the years...