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I didn't know anything, so learned way more than I expected!
— Dreamweaver Student
6/2/08
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About Our Background
Fenixworks has been in business designing and coding websites for other people since 1999. Clients have included Fortune 500 companies and small startups. We have created shopping carts, securities trading sites, tourist videos, banking pages, content delivery systems and database solutions.
In plain language, that means we have done a lot of different types of work in a lot of different environments and now we're ready to start showing you our bag of tricks.
When we first founded the company, our goal was always to have a production side and a training side, and now, seven years later, we're finally taking enough of a breather from production to get the workshops going.
About Our People
Paul Adams
- Paul Adams has a strong background in teaching computer related skills. He taught adult continuing education courses for the College Station Independent School District in Texas. He developed workshops on Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Mac OS and Windows, and used them to teach rocket scientists at NASA's MSFC and game developers in California. He has also traveled the world teaching people at various companies to make digital videos using proprietary equipment.
Susan Bein
- Susan Bein has taught Photoshop and Illustrator for over a dozen years, and InDesign since version 1.0. She has worked as a graphic designer, webmaster and photographer, and has taught design full-time since 1998. Susan's experience includes thousands of classroom hours with a hugely diverse student population, from middle schoolers to a couple in their nineties. In one of her classes there were even twelve different native languages. She has facilitated over 5,000 corporate training workshops. Her teaching style is characterized by clarity, warmth and humor.
Rob Patton
- Rob Patton is co-owner of the Portland web design and internet marketing firm Transmutation Sciences. He specializes in search engine optimization and has taught courses for the Clackamas Community College Small Business Development Center and Transnation Title. Rob's background includes seven years in public education and four years as an independent scuba diving instructor. For the past two years, Rob has presented a popular seminar on internet marketing at the Oregon Small Business Fair.