Overview

• I am a high-energy, self-disciplined individual with very strong interpersonal skills. My professional design career has spanned 15 years in web design, development and instruction. In addition to my employment history, becoming an Adobe Certified Designer, Developer and Instructor, I've also operated my own design business for roughly 15 years. I've managed an enormous amount of projects from virtually every major industry, on virtually every major platform, from project quote through project launch and everything in between. I have worked in nearly every aspect of graphic, web, instructional, mobile and new media design my forte is designing a highly intuitive user interface with a seamless user experience. A majority of my work has been designed for instructional, corporate, and government deployment.
• Professional History Confidential UI/UX design and development for enterprise Managed Print Services MPS web applications. My primary role could probably be best described as engineering/reengineering the UX/UI of new/existing web and mobile applications to make them more intuitive, task driven and streamlined. I typically would then code the UI layer which would then be handed over to SCRUM Development teams consisting of C and/or ASP.Net application developers. My deliverables are primarily in the form of PDF Comps/Storyboards, Wireframes, UI Spec Documents, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, JQuery and any/all supporting graphics in the UI layer. Files are created in many applications, but almost everything is managed bug tracking, version control etc. using Microsoft TFS. Xerox follows the agile development model using SCRUM teams. Confidential
• Designed the look and feel of countless instructional design web utilities, web sites, micro-sites, instructional data reporting tools, and any supporting technical support print pieces. My primary job function for WFL-BOCES was creating a multitude of interactive Flash E-Learning modules for both students and K-12 educator professional development. Because of my expertise in the other conventional mediums of graphic design, I've also delivered numerous print and brand collateral for the organization in the form of course catalogs, trade show booth designs, print advertisements, signage, logos, brochures, booklets and more.

Confidential

Troy Web Consulting is an Adobe Solutions Provider and Adobe Training Center . In addition to providing classroom and on-site Adobe training, my role for them has almost exclusively been designing and building the UI and respective web page templates for their clients' web sites and applications. This work typically consists of interfacing with a client from the very beginning to interpret the look and feel of their project within the scope of a predetermined budget then deliver all UI elements to the respective developer s who'll handle the content. All Adobe Certified Training was contracted through Troy Web Consulting.

Confidential

Traveled to remote training facilities or on-site locations throughout the east coast to deliver Adobe certified curriculum and tailored software solutions using Adobe products. Responsibilities often included developing a tailored course curriculum, creating course material, providing applicable source files, project examples and follow-up online training resources.

Confidential

At the time Global Crossing was the 3rd largest telecommunications company globally, I creating and managed the look and feel of their corporate intranet site. In addition to the design, my responsibilities would also include creating and supporting a set of templates distributed to the content contributors for use in over 300 sub-nets globally.

Confidential

• For roughly 15 years now I've been working fervently as a freelance graphic and web designer. As a matter of fact virtually everything presented in my portfolio is commissioned work. Having never advertised, I'm also very proud to say that my freelance business has been completely acquired through my reputation alone. Becoming an Adobe Certified Designer, Developer Instructor was also of my own directive. An attempt to list all of the types of projects I've worked on, budgets and time lines I've worked within, and the various team dynamics would be quite exhaustive. In addition to dozens of HTML, Flash, and hybrid websites, some of the more noteworthy projects of complexity would include: several flash-based, dynamically generated streaming media players dynamically generated video cataloging interfaces and a 2007 Rochester Business Journal Best of the Web Nomination. Due to privacy issues, most of the government and educational projects I've worked on cannot be made publicly available. I would enthusiastically discuss any number of these projects in detail with anyone interested.
• Software Technical Proficiency

Software:

Like most designers I use many applications, I'm most proficient in the following Adobe products: Dreamweaver 14yrs , Photoshop 14yrs , Illustrator 10yrs , Flash 9yrs , InDesign 5yrs and Contribute 8yrs . Microsoft Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 3yrs .

Technical

• As its support has allowed, in recent years I've been almost exclusively working with HTML5 and CSS3 when possible for example when doing responsive designs for cross-platform environments - but I've been writing HTML and CSS for 15yrs and 12yrs respectively. Actionscipt 8yrs Javascript JQueryUI 7yrs and XML 7yrs . I have experience designing the UI for ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.Net, MVC.Net, iOS, and Android applications. To name a few, I've also worked in the following CMS environments: Moodle, Blackboard, WordPress, and DotNetNuke.
• Design Development Approach
• I'm a utilitarian by nature when it comes to interface design, creating an intuitive user interface is my primary goal. I believe an effective user interface should draw emphasis toward the content, not distract from it. I believe concise effective copy writing, powerful imagery, media and graphics should be the focus. Ideally the user interface experience should be as lightweight as possible and effortless to negotiate.