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Summary of Qualfiications

Sr. Web Designer/Marketing Consultant /UI Specialist with 13 years creative experience leveraging existing and new technologies and design concepts in user interface, web design, marketing, digital image production, css layout, xhtml compliance and project management. As well as demonstrable visual design of HTML Email, RIA, ASP, .NET, PHP, Javascript, CSS, XHTML, XML, and XSL based sites and applications. My experience includes working with multiple networking topologies, software applications, combined with strong client-focused team and cross-organizational leadership skills, a proven track record of client management/relationship building at all levels, and quality improvement experience.

My creative design experience combined with technical acumen allows me to serve as a liaison between marketing and technical teams, interpreting business and technical objectives and delivering tangible ROI. I work well under pressure, in team environments, learn new concepts and technologies rapidly, and can deliver results while communicating ideas clearly and effectively to internal and external customers.

Technical Skills

Adobe Creative Suite
Photoshop
Illustrator
Dreamweaver
Flash
Fireworks
InDesign
Acrobat

MS Office Suite
Word
Excel
Outlook
PowerPoint

Silverpop Marketer
Visual SourceSafe
Visual Studio
Visio
Wordpress
OSCommerce
ZenCart
PhPNuke

HTML, CSS, PHP JAVASCRIPT

Limited: asp, aspx, xml, xsl, php, oracle

Detailed Qualifications and Professional Synopsis

SKINSTORE.COM
Web Graphics Designer
2007-Present
Ongoing web graphic design, email design and development. As a member of the Techology Department, I have primarily been responsible for HTML email design, development, and optimization while supporting merchandizing and marketing campaigns.

PIXEL MECHANIC STUDIOS
Principle/Consultant
1996-Present
As a consultant I have helped a wide variety of clients with commercial web site design, development, marketing, and maintenance. This often includes the design, development and deployment of client sites, email, online and direct marketing, as well as ongoing maintenance, upgrades and platform migrations. See Portfolio Examples to the Right >>
see example client process and staging here >


GAMEMARKETMETRICS, LLC.
Principle/Manager Design and Marketing, New Product Development
2006-2008
Designed, developed and deployed an online gaming portal and social networking site to collect video game consumer data via survey and passive end user interactions. Using MS SQL, ASP, XHTML and a CSS driven interface that allowed the end user to customize the UI. My responsibilities in this role also included managing the design development schedule, and milestones, identifying product opportunities, as well as end user acquisition and utilization analysis.

TRUSTED THERAPISTS INC.
Principle/Founder
2005-2006
Designed, developed and deployed an online verification and matching service between Certified Massage Therapists and consumers throughout the US. Duties included project management, creative direction, and serving as a CMT industry subject matter expert. In this role I identified product opportunities, conducted utilization analysis, and drove the design process.

AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Internet Infrastructure/Senior UI Designer
2001-2002
In this role I redesigned a web-based, full scale, interactive, web-casting application while supporting the engineering, product management, and marketing teams in all aspects of the products interface, graphic, and usability design. In addition, our team worked with product managers and specifications to rapidly prototype new product features, while assisting engineering during the product development lifecycle.
see case study in portfolio >

HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY
UI Designer / Graphic Artist
2000-2001
As a lead graphics UI designer I was responsible for conceptualizing and designing the graphical interface for a a thin client OpenView NT network-management software solution. In this role I participated in the software development and design lifecycle to optimize end-user customization and usability workflow. In addition I was responsible for extensive cross–team collaboration with engineering and marketing to achieve organizational milestones. See examples in portfolio >

WIRESTONE LLC
Web Development/Web Producer & Design Lead
1999- 2000
As a design lead for the creative services department I managed the design and development team while collaborating with the engineering department for a number of education, government, entertainment, and technology clients. This role included customer relationship management, maintaining a schedule of deliverables as well as client end user training and education. In addition to developing an online marketing strategy and achieving client driven design objectives my team in collaboration with the director of sales realized over $ 800k in revenue in 2000.

TOWERRECORDS.COM
Retail Music/Associate Web Producer
1997-1998
In this position I created and implemented site designs, ad banners, and special promotion designs for high-volume e-commerce sites. In addition I performed daily site maintenance, updates and created content using HTML and Javascript. While at Tower Records I designed developed and deployed a batch-processing system using AppleScript and Adobe Photoshop to automate optimization of cover art. Other duties included deployment of specialized mini-sites and web-based sales promotions using client content and art assets as well as managing the migration from Microsoft Merchant Server 1.0 to ASP/MS SQL.
See examples of banner ads >