Experience
Senior UI & IX Designer and Developer | Mimeo.com (New York, NY)
1/2008 – Present
- Promoted from Information Architect in March 2012.
- Designed high fidelity, pixel-perfect, and intuitive user-interfaces that helped to simplify and innovate the overall user-experience of the customer facing application, website, and supplementary explorations.
- Integrated all my high-fidelity mockups into full-functioning front-end user-interfaces using the latest HTML5, CSS3, and JQuery tools and best practices.
- Developed extensive and interactive wireframes, conceptual diagrams, and conceptual models across all aspects of the UX.
- Performing comparative market research, usability testing & data analysis as well as created extensive style guidelines, icons, and imagery to maintain consistency and professionalism.
- Managed both ongoing projects and team dynamics in an agile workflow environment to ensure all products met deadlines and were served with the highest professional quality.
Web Director | The JCC in Manhattan (New York, NY)
3/2004 – 1/2008
Web & Graphic Designer | The University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
7/2001 – 3/2004
Web & UI Designer and HTML/CSS Pro (Freelance) | ekiminteractive.com (New York, NY)
6/1997 – Present
My Toolkit
- Pixel-Perfect UI & Interaction Design & Strategy
- Organized & Valid HTML5 & CSS3 Code & Frameworks
- Information Architecture & User Experience Best Practices
- Rapid Prototypes & Wireframes
- Agile Workflow & Project Management
- Usability Testing & User-Centered Design
- Complete Cross-Browser/OS Functionality & Testing
- Accessibility & W3C Standards (and Sec 508 ADA Compliance)
- Adobe Create Suite Mastery
- JavaScript & JQuery Interactions
- Web Typography & Style Consistency/Guidelines
- Graphic Design & Typographical Layout
- Computer Illustration
- Art Direction
- Fine Arts Drawing & Painting
- Photography
- Brand & Identity Development
- Social Media Consumer & Tech Junkie
- Historical Art & Technical Researcher
Professional Community & Conferences
- Presenting Data and Information with Edward Tufte - New York, NY
- Adobe MAX - San Francisco, CA
- UX Week (User Experience) - San Francisco, CA
- CHI Conference (Computer-Human Interaction) - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Accolades for My Work
- Multiple Best in Show recipient (web2award) for UI/IX work at Mimeo.com.
- Active contributor on the professional design community website Dribbble.
- Featured contributor on the web design & development resource site Codrops.
- Featured designer on 365psd.com for work on various UI kits.
- Top spot on list of "50 Great UI Kits for Web Designers" on easyJQuery.com.
- Featured design work on resource sites such as 365psd.com, photoshopfiles.com, pixeldelirious.com, themecavern.com, easyjquery.com, and more.
Education
BFA in Illustration | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
9/1997 – 5/2001
Graduated with Honors in core curriculum that focused on art & design techniques, aesthetic composition & layout, and web design.