Senior Visual Designer, Senior Web Designer, Web Graphics Designer, Front-end Web Developer, Interactive Media Designer, Online Media Designer

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

Over 2 years ad agency experience. Fortune 500 clients.

Creative Web/Interactive 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 conceptualizing, 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.

Web 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.

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 CS4, Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat. FrontPage and Paintshop Pro. Also Fireworks, Painter, Word, PowerPoint, InDesign, Homesite, HTML Kit, BB Edit, NoteTab Pro  and Real Producer. Working knowledge of Director, DVD Studio Pro, and MS Excel.

Currently enrolled at Lake Washington Tech Multimedia Program for skills updates in Flash CS4/Actionscript 3.0, Adv.Illustrator and Acrobat. Enrolled in Adobe After Effects for Fall, 2010.

Recent Illustration Projects

Fun With Flash - Project Listing

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

Seasonal and Theme Landing Page Content

Affiliate and Seasonal Animated Banner Ads

Party on!

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:

• Every Child-Every Village Complete design and front-end development for non-profit, soon to be donation ecommerce web site. All creative design, art and dev production. (Still in production.)
• Rountree and Associates/ KGI Wireless - Ongoing. Corporate, Intranet/Extranet maintenance, online marketing collateral, logo design, postage stamp design, presentation graphics, tradeshow graphics design, print advertising, direct mail, promotional/ad specialties design, web and electronic forms design, e-ads, banner ads and XP icon design. (Mobile/PDA-friendly)
• KGIWireless.com/About KGI Portal index page for media projects
• KGIWireless.com/PCIA Orlando 2007 Tradeshow Informational Micro-site (Removed from Service)
• KGI Postcard direct mail Postcard Direct Mail Campaign Examples
• KGI Tradeshow Giveaways
• KGI 10 Year Anniversary Product Design 
• The Rock Wood-Fired Pizza - archived old version
  Flash site maintenance & ongoing incremental redesign.
• The Rock Proposed Site Redesign Comps.
• The Rock Archived microsite - New store announcement.
• Mobile TestNet, Phase II ( PDA-Friendly )
• Cellophanes Baby Gift Baskets E-commerce site (closed). See archived templates.
• Streaming Media Experimental Project Streaming Media slideshow using RealProducer and SMIL. (Requires RealPlayer)
• Weyerhaeuser Intranet Group (Marketing Division) - Site build, image optimization & integration. (No public access) View working template.
• NextRx Web site redesign prototype
• Fatigue Technologies - interface design and html page templates for in-house development.
• D.A.D.S. - Identity, Logo Design.
• PixelDynamix Acrobat brochure - 2004 (2.25M pdf download)

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.

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

http://www.kinetixliving.com/ V2.0 - Kinetix Living web site full-scale redesign build-out. Has since been redesigned. The recipe and fitness sections are all that remain from our version. 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.

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.

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.

PARTIAL LISTING OF WEB SITES:

• Amazon Land-Bank Project E-commerce Site. (working archived model)
• Hero Network Corporate Site, V1.0. - CLOSED (View archived model)
• International Children's Foundation E-commerce Site. (View archived model)
• Northwest Woodcrafters Client Payment E-commerce Site.
• Greenwood Masonic Lodge - Prototype template.
• 24x7DNS.com, V2.0 – View working model.
• Hosting Services Banner Ads - View banner.

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:

• Camp Creative - Personal portfolio of copywriter, Dave Camp.
• Specmix V1.0 HTML Site - [ See archived screen capture page ]
• David Pavelka Design - Web development consultation and site testing.

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:

• Evergreen Hardwoods, Inc.
• Douglass Interior Products
• Vopak/Chemcare
• Lucent/Avaya CRM Leader Newsletter Site - [ View archived issue ]
• CapitalStream Corporate/E-commerce Site
• Seattle's Best Coffee, Wholesale Div., OSC - [ View archived pages ]
• Lucent Connect2000! User Conference Site - [ View archived site ]
• Lake Washington Tech (Pro bono)
• Hodgson-Meyers Advertising

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.