 Educational
Background
Computer
& Language Skills
Work
Experience
Portfolio
MBB Design is a Web Design and Development
company run by Ayse Melike Bitlis-Bush
and associates in Santa Barbara, California.
Melike is a Web Designer with WebMaster and
E-Commerce Certificates and a background in
Business Administration/Marketing. After completing
her Bachelor's degree at Bosphorus
University, Istanbul-Turkey, she came to
the U.S. to meet with her soulmate - her husband!
Melike has been in web design business for
7 years and she has been teaching and assisting
Web Development and E-Commerce classes at UCSB
- Extension (University of California Santa
Barbara) since
year 2000. |
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Melike taught "Internet
Technology & Web Design" class
and has been assisting Web Design & Development classes at University of Califonia Santa Barbara - UCSB - Extension
since 2000.
 MBB Design was featured at Frank Nelson's SANTA BARBARA NEWS PRESS article at the Business section. The article - "Web Sights" - covered the need of web presence for every business type and its pros and cons.
>>read the article
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
| University
of California, Santa Barbara-USA |
| Jan-Dec
00 |
Webmaster:
Designer & Web Site Manager Certificate Program |
| Jan-June 00 |
E-Commerce Development
Certificate Program |
| Jan-March 98 |
Design Your Own (DYO)
Certificate Program (Marketing and International
Trade) |
| July-Dec 97 |
Business & Management
Certificate Program |
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| Bosphorus University,
Istanbul-TURKEY |
| June 97 |
Bachelor of Arts degree
in Business Administration-Marketing |
COMPUTER & LANGUAGE SKILLS:
| Graphics/Web: |
PhotoShop,
Image Ready, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Flash, Illustrator,
HTML, DHTML, Fireworks, InDesign, QuarkXPress,
Fireworks, cgi, css |
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| General: |
Windows, Excel, Word,
Access, PowerPoint, QNex, ACT, Goldmine, Filemaker |
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| Language: |
Turkish(native language),
English(advanced), French(conversant) |
WORK EXPERIENCE:
| May 00-... |
MBB Design
|
Freelance Web Developer
• Designing and building web sites for a
vast array of clients |
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| Aug 03-... |
Site Design Works
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Web Designer
• Designing/Developing Web Sites and E-Commerce
stores for their customers. |
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June-
July 03 |
UCSB Extension
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Web Design Teacher
• Teaching "Internet Technology &
Web Design" class with hands on training. |
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Oct-
Dec 03 |
Laguna Blanca School
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Substitute Web Design Teacher
• Taught Web Development using Photoshop
and Dreamweaver |
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May-
June 02 |
Commerce Syndication
Network
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Sub-Contractor
•
Designed templates for their new “Click&Build”
e-commerce store |
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| April 02-… |
First Crescent
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Partnership
• Assisting
this graphic/web design company with its web
projects |
|
| April 02-… |
Graphics by Dona
|
Partnership
• Assisting
this graphic/web design company with its web
projects |
|
July 01-
April 02 |
CabrilloEAST Media
|
Web Production Assistant
• Assisted Program Manager with production
tasks, such as web site development and design
using Photoshop, Dreamweaver UltraDev + FrontPage,
and assisting in the analysis of customer web
sites for possible integration of new features
• Maintained E-Commerce storefronts both
in Yahoo and IBM WebSphere
• Maintained
AT&T Business Ready Dedicated Server, created
virtual sites
• NT Server Check on a
daily basis
• Monitored web site logs
to prevent hacking and viruses |
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| Oct 00-… |
UCSB Extension
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Teaching Assistant
•
Assisting “Creating Web Graphics”,
“Designing and Creating Web Pages”
, “Developing an E-Commerce Storefront”,
“Interface Design”, “Web Page
Design and Production” classes which mainly
covered web production using Photoshop 6.0, Dreamweaver
4.0., HTML, Javascript and CSS |
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Oct 99-
July 01 |
UCSB Extension
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Financial Coordinator
•
Processing agent/student files, invoices, commissions,
managing Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable |
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| June 01 |
Commission Junction
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Sub-Contractor
•
Built CJ’s United Kingdom web site |
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Sept 97-
April 99 |
QAD, Inc.
|
Pre-Sales Team Assistant, Marketing
Assistant
• Managed magazine
and web-page advertisements, organized trade shows
and sales conferences, participated in “APICS
Expo” trade show in Washington, DC. |
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PROFILE