OBJECTIVE:


SKILLSETS:

Senior Interactive Designer, Senior Web Designer, Web Graphics Designer, Web Developer, Mobile Web Designer, Mobile Interface Designer

Senior Interactive & Web Design / Front-end Web Development: 10 yrs experience

Over 2 years ad agency experience. Fortune 500 clients.

Creative Web/Interaction Design. I live in Photoshop. Design web site creative comps, email campaigns, newsletter blasts, microsites, landing pages, logos and icons, pdf brochures, online forms and charts, product pages, and other screen-based creative... and yes, full-scale web site design and all its components.

Advanced Web/Interactive art production. Lead. Create. Chop. Optimize.

Online retail catalog, financial services and b2b e-commerce experience

Small team management - both creative and web development production staff

Email campaign concepting, design and integration - Email campaign creative design, including supporting online advertising and landing pages

Web/e-commerce UI design & styling

Regular interaction with clients or business stakeholders

Full-scale front-end web dev capability. Advanced HTML/xHTML and CSS 1 & 2 -no WYSIWYG editors. Complex, interactive components using CSS, JavaScript & DHTML. Extensive knowledge of cross-compatibility issues. Basic XML knowledge. Working knowledge of .net.

Mobile web content design & development. Small screen interface design experience. Some Flash for Windows-driven handheld content dev. Knowledge of mobile browser, platform peculiarities and structural nuances of small space interface design. View my scalable desktop to pda-friendly website here.

Web Production Lead. Direct production according to style and licensing guides. Oversee production workflow and content integration. Manage small production staff and temporary contractors. Mentor junior staff.

Front-end User Interface Design Design user-centric interfaces, navigation systems & other interactive components. Structure site content development life-cycle. Develop task and information flow dynamics and content delivery systems.

Streaming media content production - SMIL, RealText, RealPix and other timing markup languages.

Effective writing skills. Copywriting. Excellent web researching skills.

PC, Mac and Windows Mobile platforms. I also know just enough Unix/Linux to be dangerous.

Web marketing, SEO and metrics analysis.

Relevant software: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, CorelDraw, Flash MX 2004, Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat. FrontPage and Paintshop Pro. Also Fireworks, Painter, Word, PowerPoint, InDesign, Homesite, HTML Kit, NoteTab Pro  and Real Producer. Working knowledge of Director, DVD Studio Pro, and MS Excel.

EDUCATION:

BFA Degree, Fine Art – Studio Art/Design
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

I am consistently engaged in ongoing training in design, multimedia, and web development technologies.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

February, 2008 -
to present
SENIOR CREATIVE WEB DESIGNER
Celebrate Express,
Kirkland, WA

http://www.celebrateexpress.com/ Design creative and direct production of all interactive projects through all phases of execution for the CelebrateExpress.com e-commerce site, provide support for all brands within. Provide creative, intuitive design for page layouts, online promotions, landing pages, microsites, integrated seasonal campaigns, affiliate online advertising, product display/slideshow systems, logos, seasonal branding, internal promotional materials. Collaborate and design interface components from wireframes for an imminent e-com website redesign. But, wait! There's more...

Work with the Marketing Team to proactively assess needs and recommend solutions for effective marketing strategies. Assist with dev production as needed. Design and code form and chart templates using CSS 2. Responsible for the UI design for the next generation of the CelebrateExpress ecommerce site and its 3 supporting brands. Drive template production for more than 40 different page views. All that and much, much more! Pure FUN!

View an early Celebrate Express redesign concept here.

Celebrate Express
Birthday Express Partyware Landing Page
1st Wishes - First Birthday Partyware
Costume Express Home and all sub-category landing pages

See also:
Celebrate Express Online Marketing Samples (More coming soon!)

Party on!

March, 2003 -
to February, 2008
FREELANCE WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
PixelDynamix,
Seattle, WA

Full on and off-site interactive creative design and front-end user-centric web development services. From concept to deliverables. On time. Every time. Information architecture. User interface design. Usability testing. Other components include email direct mail design, banner and email advertising development, site traffic analysis. Web marketing and site promotion. Art direction. Creative and site development consulting.

LISTING OF CLIENT PROJECTS:

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August 2006 -
October 2006
CONTRACT WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
Cascade Bank,
Everett, WA

http://www.cascadebank.com/ Produce web advertising creative for e-ads, banner ads, and internal web-driven ad campaigns. Maintain the corporate/public site and prepare daily updates and edits to the intranet. Web test UI for new ecommerce site.

March 2006 -
March 2006
CONTRACT FRONT-END WEB DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
Filter Talent,
Seattle, WA Client: DDB Worldwide forMicrosoft

eNewsletter Projects - Developed eNewsletters for Microsoft using legacy HTML 3.2 for universal email client compatibility.

January 2006 -
February 2006
CONTRACT FRONT-END WEB DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
Comsys,
Bellevue, WA for Kinetix Living, Seattle, WA

http://www.kinetixliving.com/ V2.0 - Kinetix Living web site full-scale redesign build-out. Joined a team of contractors to build a large-scale fitness/nutrition management site. Coded Coded page templates and built over 400 pages of content using HTML and CSS which were integrated into a .NET driven interface shell. Resolved cross-browser issues and implemented edits throughout during the QA phase. Tested site on a variety of platforms and browsers.

August 2004 -
November 2004
CONTRACT FRONT-END WEB DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
Blue Utopia,
Seattle, WA Client: Congressman Jay Inslee Re-election Campaign

Congressman Jay Inslee Campaign Web Site - Public site update and conversion to a css-driven, tableless format. Creative design, web image production and front-end template design/production in xhtml/css for first interation of the Volunteer/Donor Management Web Application and Portal , for fundraising tracking and data collection.

Nov 2001 -
February, 2003
ART DIRECTOR and INTERACTIVE DESIGNER/DEVELOPER
Hero Network LLC,
Seattle, WA

Directed all creative web design, creative direction and front-end web development for ecommerce driven sites. Conceptualized and prototyped all web site and related media creative. Evangelist for user-centric interface development. Full-scale front-end web development capability when needed. Directed and mentored webdev production staff. Monitored content integrity and brand specifics.

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June 2001 -
October 2001
FREELANCE WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
PixelDynamix,
Seattle, WA

Full off-site interactive creative design and front-end user-centric web development services. On and off-site contract web development services.

LISTING OF CLIENT PROJECTS:

March 1999 -
June 2001
SENIOR WEB DESIGNER & WEB PRODUCTION LEAD
Hodgson/Meyers Advertising,
Kirkland, WA

Strategized and developed web sites, e-mail direct mail campaigns and other new media components in a fast-paced, timeline driven ad agency environment. Created design concept prototypes for web site and other new media delivery. Developed site architecture, user interface design and navigation systems deploying storyboarding & flowcharting according to specification.

Directed web production staff work flow and user testing. Developed, tested and deployed new media technologies. Conducted web and new media technology education seminars for agency senior management, copywriters and account management staff. Conducted and documented exploratory web research for senior management and copywriters. Maintained client extranet site and offsite unix mail server.

PARTIAL LISTING OF WEB SITES:

NOTABLE SITES NO LONGER ON THE WEB:

  • SAP Human Resources Executive Kit Site
  • SAP Campbell Trade Show Invite & Registration
  • Arcus Data Security/Iron Mountain Software
  • KD1 Software, now Net Perceptions
  • Index Sensors & Controls V1.0
  • IntraUSA Group V1.0
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Feb 1999 -
Feb 1999
SITE BUILDER/DEVELOPER
Web Makers,
Redmond, WA

HTML production to upgrade interactivity or design modifications to modest client sites.

Dec 1998 -
Jan 1999
WEB DESIGN & SITE DEVELOPMENT
Concur Technologies,
Redmond, WA

HTML production and web optimization of travel expense application components intended for XMS/Web Personal Trainer, an intranet user training. Duties included interface redesign, image production, page layout, javascript editing and site testing.

June 1998 -
Nov 1998
WEB SITE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Boeing Commercial/ MSS Documentation,
Renton, WA

Collaborated to redesign high-traffic 300+ page Manufacturing Engineering Documentation site, archiving 5000+ documents. Conceptualized & prototyped interface design to improve user experience and facilitate content accessibility. Created all page layouts and templates. Designed/optimized all web graphic imaging for entire site.

INDEPENDENT PROJECTS: Designed and authored content for FAQ/Online Help Site for users of MSS Documentation site. Designed & built sites for outside departments based on needs. Upgraded existing document sites.

Partial listing of Boeing Intranet Web sites. (No public access)

  • MSS Documentation - Data-driven engineering documentation site.
  • PeopleWeb - Employee Services link site.
  • EDS - Employee Educational Development Services.
  • Documentation Help/FAQ - Online help for documentation processing procedures.
1997 -
1999
ART DIRECTOR/GRAPHIC & WEB DESIGNER
Continuum Design Group,
Bothell, WA

Graphic design and pre-press services for business clients, with recent addition of web page design for small businesses or other organizations. Commercial web client: NW Marine Productions/ Raceweek Online.

1992 -
1999
PRINCIPAL/ART DIRECTOR-DESIGNER
The First Impression,
Bothell, WA

Graphic design & web development services for small businesses and other organizations. Promotional products design and printing business. Managed all aspects of contract bidding, order trafficking & fulfillment, print production and outsourcing of non-garment promotional products.

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