Terry Talty - 648 S. Sherman St. Denver, Colorado 80209 - (970) 485-9914 - e-mail: terry@unsafeArt.com

Professional Experience

Website Design and Marketing Limitless Idea Project Denver, CO 2005-present

• Sleek HTML, expressive design, logical information architecture, and all the content a client required. I established this company to provide services to an existing client and other small businesses that wanted a one-stop shop for Internet marketing and communication.
• In addition to writing HTML/css and original copy, I’ve shot or edited photos and designed graphics for clients, set up customized HTML email newsletters, made timely updates to existing websites and managed mailing lists. As a web editor, I’ve worked with contributors’ text and existing marketing documents, created blogs and made regular entries for clients with their voice; wrote marketing copy and press releases. Designed collateral materials for print and online marketing campaigns. Created and continue to contribute to original-content blogs.
• Development skills include a high-level of proficiency in HTML/css, Adobe Photoshop, In-Design/Quark, word processing, spreadsheets, Dreamweaver, text editors and MovableType-style CMS. Facility with Flash & ActionScript, Adobe Illustrator, PHP, XML and relational databases. Have a working familiarity with Javascript, mySQL.
• Infomation Architecture, Database Logic, and User Interface are terms that can be applied to work I've done for several clients. Specifically, beginning in 2005, I coordinated the development of a site to deliver all the available real estate sales data from the county database to my client's new site. In 2010, I redesigned the site to increase the visual impact and compliment the extensive fact base.

Reporter The Summit Times / Copper Cable Frisco, CO 2002-2004

• Worked with general manager to develop an editorial strategy and specific content to compete with two daily newspapers circulating in a county of 25,000 residents with 1 million annual visitors.
• Met deadlines for two publications, researched and wrote news briefs, investigative news features, analysis, lifestyle features and a weekly political column -- approximately 5,000 words per week. Capitol Correspondent Mountain Media Co-op Denver, CO 2000-2001
• Established a capitol bureau for a group of rural Colorado dailies in the third-floor pressroom.
• Developed stories tailored to local interest on subjects such as resort and ski business, the environment, recreation, transportation, technology and, of course, politics.
• Acquired additional skill in computer aided research.

Reporter, Entertainment Section Editor Summit Daily News Frisco, CO 1999-2000

• My evolving beat began with courts, town government, health and dog stories and turned into state and local government reporting, education and environment.
• Produced ten stories per week from idea through research and writing. Contributed a magazine-length feature periodically to the Sunday issue and wrote copy for supplements and guides.
• Promoted to entertainment section editor, I wrote A&E copy, edited contributing writers, collaborated with production designers for covers, made photo assignments, acquired AP copy, and sent copy to web edition.   Duties required extensive use of Photoshop and Quark to layout the 24-32 page weekly section.
• Created a weekly food section including original recipes transcribed from oral, contemporary and historical sources.

Communications Director Breckenridge Goldsmith Gallery Breckenridge, CO 1986-99

• Managing partner responsible for sales. Wrote ad copy, press releases and financial statements.
• Website Design: developed content and created site using tables, frames and other html styles common at that time.

Education

University of Denver, BFA, cum laude Denver, CO

• News staff reporter for college newspaper and contributor to DU magazine.
• Alumni Scholarship: four-year academic scholarship. Honor Program

Published Work

•   multiple features, Colorado Summit Magazine, Summer 2006 -Winter 2008
•   multiple interviews and commentary, UnsafeArt.com, 2005-6
•   multiple interviews, The Signal, Summit Public Radio, 2002-3
•   “Working with Galleries,” presentation/text, Colorado Metalsmiths Association, Arapahoe Community College,
•   “Beyond the View, Public Art in the Mountain,” Breckenridge Magazine, Avarta Publishing, Summer 2001
•   “A View of the Continental Divide: Artists from East and West,” Metalsmith Magazine, 1994
•   travel features, Mes Amis, French Travel Site, Winter 1992
•   features, Top of the Rockies, Ten Mile Publishing,1988-90
•   sport features, Crested Butte Magazine, CB Publishing,, 1984-5
•   column, Crested Butte Chronicle, 1984
•   news and features, Crested Butte Pilot,1983-6
•   Architectural Crafts, Western States Arts Foundation Publications, 1980