Richard is focused on responsive web design, search engine optimization (SEO), digital media, and photography. Based in the greater Kalamazoo, MI area, he serves all of Michigan and adjoining states and is open to freelance assignments as well as partnership arrangements.
Recent work includes a redesign of the Gobles Pine Grove Fire Department website and continuous updates to Signalquiz.com, a railroad signal testing website he developed based on the SMF platform.
His background includes significant time as the Microsoft certified technical lead responsible for managing over twenty servers and three hundred workstations in the Amtrak Midwestern Reservation Sales Office. He also holds a Google Analytics certification and has extensive experience with Google Ads, where, as a Zappos.com affiliate, he generated over four million dollars in sales.
Richard relocated to Michigan and also worked Amtrak's Michigan train service as a conductor. He is currently enrolled in the Web Design and Development program at Kalamazoo Valley Community College.
He previously attended both Loyola University Chicago and College of DuPage.
Additionally, while on military leave from Amtrak, Richard graduated first in his class from the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence, Fort Huachuca, AZ. He was then assigned to the 138th Military Intelligence Battalion, a Combat Electronic Warfare Intelligence (CEWI) unit.
Along with photography, Richard enjoys hiking, biking, traveling, and gardening. He is currently planning a trek on the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain with his wife Patti.
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