About

Personal Objective

As a user experience designer, my focus is to provide my customers (and employer) with highly-conceptual, functional and technologically adept web content and publications. My roles often include site planning, information architecture, client relationship building, project management, wireframing, design, skinning and administration.

Education

Colorado State University, 2001 B.F.A. in Art, Graphic Design

Employment

2010 – 2012 // Senior Interactive Designer, WCM
Denver, Colorado

Lead interactive designer at a premier marketing agency. Art director, architect, designer and junior developer on multiple client websites, micro-sites, email, social and mobile marketing campaigns. Managed partners providing web hosting, development and IT services. Executed campaigns through content management systems based in PHP, including CSS and (x)HTML development.

Achievements included branding and launching casino programs with tremendous initial user response and external media coverage. In depth user testing, site mapping, wireframing and best practices guidlines implemented for clients.

2002 – 2010 // Graphic / Web Designer, Poudre School District
Fort Collins, Colorado

Web design lead at the Poudre School District, a 50 school, 25,000+ student district in northern Colorado. Responsibilities included planning and designing school websites, micro-sites and email newsletters, as well as the design of printed marketing materials. Met regularly with principals, administrative staff and parents to deliver a successful product. Worked closely with IT development staff to ensure functional and accessible designs.

Achievements included a launch of several redesign and marketing campaigns, winning several awards. The largest of which was a rapid CMS website deployment of over 150 pages of content. Met with shareholders to determine structure, layout, design and continuing support needs.

1998 – 2001 // Web Designer, Clarus Corporation
Atlanta, Georgia (Worked remotely in Fort Collins, Colorado 

Web design intern turned full-time remote design position with a B2B company in Atlanta, GA. Designer for many internal and external large-budget marketing projects. Close integration with development and planning teams, as well as Marketing Director.

Achievements included design contributions which contributed to a Super Bowl commercial initiative and strong influence on company brand development.

Achievements

May 2003 — National School Public Relations Association Award of Excellence for New Student Recruiting Campaign

December 2004 — Poudre School District Classified Employee of the Month

April 2011 — Colorado School Public Relations Association Award of Excellence for District Website Redesign

Skills & Knowledge

Software & Systems

Drupal and other PHP-based CMS architectures: implementation, maintenance, theming UX/UI best practices, (X)HTML, CSS, JQuery

Adobe Creative Suite CS5: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Bridge, Acrobat

OmniGraffle

Adobe Freehand CS

QuarkXPress

Microsoft Office 2008 Mac / 2007 PC (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Entourage/
Outlook)

Extensive knowledge of the pre-press process including digital imaging, direct-to-plate, and traditional offset processes

Platforms

Macintosh OS 10.6
Windows 7, Vista and XP

Apache and PHP Server Administration