Travis MelvinWebsites | Wordpress | Business | Process
Personal Info
Born and raised in California. 15 years in New York City. One year in Central America.
I enjoy traveling between NY & CA, craft beer, current events, technology and gardening.
Professional Experience
I started using Wordpress over 15 years ago and haven't stopped. For seven years I worked for a digital agency (vwm.com) focused on custom WP design/build projects, and related marketing campaigns. I'm currently a website manager and business consultant for an event producer in the North East, and a few small businesses on the West Coast.
B.S. & M.S Degrees. Contact form and PDF printable resume link in footer. Looking for new opportunites surrounding WordPress, Happiness Engineer, Communications or related roles. Interested in climate, travel, economic & global research, politics and progressive corporate cultures. Work examples below.
Design/Build/Host/Maintain WordPress Website. Elementor Pro | ElementsKit | Brevo + Google Sheets integration | Google Ads
Work Provided:
Website redesign, optimization, hosting, content creation, email marketing, google ads
Sun For Rent provides solar electric generator rentals and energy systems nationwide. The company needed a new look and feel to help bring the web site more inline with the brand and establish an online presence. This site was built using the Elementor Page builder framework and WordPress. https://sunforrent.com
Work Provided:
Create, configure and publish new WordPress site for annual Pozole Festival. Server setup, hosting, optimization, content publication and architecture.
Bowl of 'Zole hosted it's first event in Brooklyn, NY & has grown to include more locations. Local chefs prepare unique pozole dishes that can be tasted along side mezcal based spirits and other beverages. https://bowlofzole.com
I Like Pig is a website promoting a recipe book covering five years of popular recipes from a New York City event called Pig Island. Local Chefs are provided hogs from local farmers to prepare a variety of food showcased at an annual event.
This is one of many projects I worked on with this event producer. Project scope was to quickly setup a modern and attractive site to help promote a book. I created, published and host the site and customized a free html framework that the client liked.
Work Provided:
Wordpress redesign, build, hosting and content optimization. Email marketing & GMB Profile optimization.
Northwind provides charter fishing trips in Northen California. Worked to help owner make updates on the old site before deciding on full re-design. New site uses a licensed pro theme and includes some custom code and optimizations. Having a new site that was responsive was huge as most traffic came from mobile. Some plugins used to pull Instagram and Facebook feeds into the site.
Work Provided:
Wordpress build, hosting and launch.
New event website for a Cannabis event in Boston for industry insiders. Working with client and his team, a new site was setup and quickly launched to help market and promote this educational event. Short turnaround.
Work Provided:
Joomla Migration, Responsive Website Redesign, Server Migration, Search & Site Optimization, Content recommendation, general troubleshooting and maintenance
Mobile Solar designs and manufactures high quality mobile solar generators for clients all over the world. I've worked with this company for 10+ years on a number of initiatives.
Many years ago I worked to migrate their joomla site to a new host. Since then we have gone through 2 full redesign and launches. One was a custom built WP theme and the other a heavily customized pro theme. A lot of SEO related work, email campaigns, paid ads, some social and analytics initiaives over the years.
