Resume and Experience
Summary
I am a highly motivated, creative, and accomplished information architect, web director, and designer with 12+ years of experience. I am proficiently skilled in pixel-perfect front-end UI aesthetics and interactions; accessibility, style consistency, and quality assurance; usability and user-experience design; and social marketing, communication, strategy.
My strengths in process include mastery of cross-browser/OS, valid xHTML/CSS code; thorough user-testing and data mining; excellent leadership, relationship-building, documentation, and communication skills; timely, detailed, and agile project management; technical research; and brand identity.
Experience
Information Architect | Mimeo.com (New York, NY)
1/2008 – Present
- Design intuitive and innovative interfaces that enhance and simplify the overall user experience
- Develop whiteboard conceptual diagrams, site maps, interaction models, and wireframes
- Blueprint design frameworks, detailed UI style guides and specifications, and templates to modularize and automate repetitive design tasks (via CSS, xHTML, JS, Photoshop, etc.)
- Engage in agile prototyping sessions to assist development & product teams in visualizing new UI elements and functionality
- Articulate art direction & design decisions to project teams and stakeholders
Web Director | The JCC in Manhattan (New York, NY)
3/2004 – 1/2008
- Planned, prioritized, and led all design, development, and marketing processes of the JCC website and supplementary web projects using DHTML, CSS, and accessibility/usability best practices
- Coordinated entire redesign process from wireframes through beta/final public implementation
- Executed web/email marketing and communication strategies, stat analysis, and SEO
- Promoted from webmaster in 7/2005
Web & Graphic Designer | The University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
7/2001 – 3/2004
- Led the visual design activities and web management for the River Campus Libraries' website and grant funded fund-raising projects, and third-party technology integration
Freelance Web & Graphic Designer | ekiminteractive.com (Brooklyn, New York, Rochester, NY)
6/1997 – Present
Skills
Web & Technical
- Information Architecture, Wireframe & Prototype Conceptualization & Brainstorming
- Project & Art Direction, Leadership
- Valid xHTML & CSS Codebase
- JavaScript & JQuery Interactions
- Web Design Aesthetics & Imagery
- Web Typography & Style Consistency
- Usability, Accessibility, Troubleshooting & W3C Standards, Sec 508 ADA Compliance
- Cross-Browser/OS Testing
- Marketing, Communication, & Strategy
- SEO Optimization & Social Media Consumer
- Agile Workflow Processes
Art & Design
- Corporate Identity Development
- Graphic Design & Layout
- Typographical Layout
- Computer Illustration
- Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Pen & Ink, Charcoal, and Pastels
- Photography
- Historical Art & Technical Research
- Creative & Technical Writing
- Social Media Consumer
- Expertise in Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator
- Knowledge of Flash, Catalyst
Education
BFA in Illustration | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
9/1997 – 5/2001
- Graduated with Honors in core curriculum that focused on artistic techniques, aesthetic composition & layout, design, art & graphic design history/theory
- Electives in web design and programming, photography, animation, and psychology
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