3629 Bryant St.
Palo Alto , CA 94306
Cell: 650-804-6965
OBJECTIVE
Full-time salaried User Experience/User Interface Design position within a design department at an established company
PROFILE
Multi-talented UE/UI design professional with 10+ years experience, in both production and user centered design. Dedicated and creative team player with great eye and the technical knowledge to realize a creative vision. Visionary with the ability to quickly transform ideas into renderings.
SKILLS
Design for Web, Desktop, and Mobile; Graphic asset creation and management; Organized specifications document authoring
User Experience
Visual Storyboard Design, Wireframes, Interaction Design, Usability testing, user centered design best practices, accessible 508 compliant, globally aware I18n, strong user advocate, excellent relationships with both engineering and product management teams
Desktop Application Design
Screen designs for navigation, layout, installation and configuration, wizards, launch pages, dashboards, and splash screens; icons, 3D Graphics, animations, interactive UI prototypes.
Web Development
HTML, CSS and XML with hand-coding, Flash with actionscript, adding Java applets to HTML pages, HTML email, Web 2.0 design, Audio editing for web (wav, mp3), FTP, site usability testing, web forum testing/moderating, skinning, gif animations, buttons, icons, banners, and cross browser/platform optimization.
TOOLS
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, DreamWeaver, Fireworks, Techsmith Morae, Captivate, Visio, Cinema 4D, MS Office apps
EXPERIENCE
UI Designer
: 2007 - 2009, EFI Electronics For Imaging, Foster City, CA
UI Designer for Fiery print server applications. Interaction Design layout for award winning Command Workstation software, screen mockups, extensive workflows, iterative design specs, icons, flash prototypes. Worked directly with planning, engineering, and marketing. Lead designer on 18 projects.
UI Designer
: 2004 - 2007, EMC Corporation Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Designer for Enterprise Java/web-based applications. Redesigned the visual look of four major applications, coordinated usability testing, interaction design, developed flash prototypes and demos, wrote corporate and product design specification documents, and created user profiles.
Designer/Consultant : 1994 - 2004, MyCreativeGenius.com, Palo Alto, CA
Notable clients: Saba Software, Intel, National Science Foundation/MSU New Media, Harvard Entrepreneurship Club, MIT Professor Thomas Malone, Tropian Inc., OmniShift Technologies, Total Network Telecommunications, Cedar Valley Corp, UsageOnline, ImpactStudiosOnline, Cornerstone Auto Group (AAA Oregon/Idaho Car buying service)
UI Designer : 1997-1998, Wonderland Labs, Redwood City, CA
Designed UI for web-based WYSIWYG HTML editing system. Interface design for WhiteRabbit scheduling application.
Lead Graphic Artist : 1992-1994, Professional Copy Services, Palo Alto, CA
Notable Clients: Stanford University Alumni Association, Frys Electronics, Peninsula Creamery
EDUCATION
2007: HCI course- Designing for the Scent of Information: Advanced Concepts taught by Jarod Spool, User Interface Engineering
2007: HCI course- Introduction to the Designing for the Scent of Information taught by Jarod Spool, User Interface Engineering
2007: HCI course- Design of Spatial Applications taught by Matthew Hockenberry, The Media Laboratory MIT
2007: HCI course- Rapid Contextual Design taught by Karen Holtzblatt, InContext
2001-2003: Marketing Major Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1994: Architectural Drafting, Canada College, Redwood City, CA
and AutoCAD training Palo Alto Adult School, Palo Alto, CA
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI) –Member 2007
BayCHI Member 2007
REFERENCES
Available on request.