Professional Profile

• I am an experienced front-end web developer and UI designer, with a strong graphic design career background. Practiced in-depth electronic pre-press and offset printing foundations. Experienced with a solid understanding Mac OS and MS Windows operating systems. Daily work functions utilizing various professional graphics applications, front-end web technologies within MS IIS, SQL webserver environments. Functional UI design roles defining and gathering user-interface scope requirements.
• Proficient in the majority of 'main-stream' graphic design applications, such as: Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Creative Suite applications, FileMaker Pro database, Adobe ColdFusion J2EE/JAVA, Microsoft IIS web-servers, MS SQL, CSS3, HTML 4 HTML 5.
• I enjoy creative marketing, concept direction, graphic design and production coordination of project-based sales marketing initiatives. I consider myself to be a creative team player as well as project-lead with experience in sales, marketing, and product development and project collaboration.
• Co-serving as a Creative Solutions Specialist when consulting for project-based teams as a liaison of website UI Design services to IT / server-related teams in advising technical pathways, possibilities and upgrades. Gathering scope information and providing deep technology reviews, comparisons and compatibility research to determine viable system improvements.
• Profile continued on the following pages.

Employment Current Professional Status

Project Lead, UI / UX Developer

• Web-Based UI Design, HTML, CSS Web SaaS
• IT Project Lead, and UI designer collaborating with Java / JSP programmers creating and maintaining enterprise-level, web-based customer service applications within a secure, closed-loop Intranet environment.
• UI Design and graphic creation using Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. -- assisting design integration with hand-coding of HTML CSS.
• Project coordination, review of existing and new project source code. Advising on efficiencies improvements and testing, documenting, maintaining project production-related team efforts.
• Project Lead UI Development Web-Based SaaS Development UI: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript. Front-End Developer tools.
• Project Lead managing team collaboration, UI design, implementation and UI architecture.
• Coordinate project tasks and review practical timeline considerations.
• Conduct and assist employee interviews for UI department personnel.
• Share informed practical insight relating to project development, lifecycle and support.
• Support and assist application deployment stages.
• UI Design presenting 'graphic layouts' and idea-stage visual support.
• Provide UI graphic design previews in HTML / CSS browser-able previews. Advise and assist design integrations throughout developmental to final production.
• Collaborate with managers to balance workload priority production tasks.
• Participate and coordinate on-shore off-shore team production projects.
• UI Design collaboration with Java Engineers working in IBM Web Sphere, RAD Eclipse environment, via 'CA plugin' version control.
• Assist and advise Java engineers with design-related elements and functional user-interaction.
• Monitor UI development code to forecast version-based releases for application improvements.
• Advise on new findings for value-added technical sales opportunities demonstrating beneficial customer interests.
• Familiarization in JavaScript development libraries with XML, Array, and JSON data exchanges. ie: jQuery, Knockout.js, Kendo.js, Dojo.js, etc. .

Confidential

Creative Director

• Agency Roles Creative Project Management Marketing Project Coordination
• Creative Director, Website Development, UI Designer web-based , Graphic Designer
• My role as Creative Director has involved the majority of production stages within marketing initiatives. Beginning with creating designing to coordinating presenting marketing-related business proposals. Designing artwork for trade show materials, company literature, brand identification, product logos, newsletters, financial charts, statistical graphics and brochures to website production projects and Internet related marketing directives.
• I'm am active participant within the creative scope of team-collaboration and project coordination. Providing project management efficiencies set-on achieving project expectations. Create project scope details, document and maintain production-related efforts through project flow-charts, project timelines, project research and project-related cost estimations.
• Integrally involved in client-facing account communications, engaging with responsibility for client satisfaction. Conducting client meetings, discussing layouts, designs, storyboard-style ideas, website flow-charts, wireframes and user interface appearance designs. Maintaining client accounts by staying in-touch and assuring client satisfaction throughout all production stages from design to completion.

Agency Responsibilities

• Creative Director and Graphic Design team lead.
• Client-oriented technical solutions representative.
• UI designer and web-development team leader.
• Creative IT Solution Specialist, research consulting.
• Front-end web development and wireframe project design.
• Adobe J2EE/JAVA ColdFusion, HTML 5, CSS 3, SQL, javascript, and jQuery, Kendo UI javascript library.
• NetBeans 7.0, JAVA / J2EE environment familiar.
• Microsoft Web Server IIS configuration, setup, monitoring and statistical reporting.
• SEO reporting and research, code implementation.
• Google Analytics SEO experience / research.
• Web development and marketing design project management.
• Reporting and maintenance of client direct-marketing databases.
• Marketing concept design consulting.
• Print production project coordination.
• Lead designer for various mediums of corporate literature collateral for international national trade campaigns, magazines, trade periodicals, news ads, logos, brochures, mailers, trade show displays, billboards and novelty posters.
• E-commerce and Internet marketing experience.
• Microsoft Office Suite, MTA level, program proficiency.
• Agency Achievements
• Solution Specialist technology foresight and engagement with business-sense of advancing technologies capable of introducing new revenue sources to the agency portfolio.
• Creative solutions and team building approach to managing multiple projects and tighter timelines while balancing an increasing workload.
• Client-oriented technical representative.
• Presenting, understanding and conveying IT-related business improvements for clientele solutions.
• Developed multiple front-end web-portals for manufacturing business B2B business models.
• Creative IT Solutions Consulting research saved local non-profit 130K ROI by researching existing compatibilities, system mappings, to employ API/ XML data feeds to provide real-time ordering via POS and MS Dynamics.
• Monthly SEO maintenance, studies and reporting gaining clients sufficient organic search recognition upgrades from 20 to 90 search engine visibility.
• Maintain clientele direct marketing databases resulting in efficient marketing efforts and updated prospect data.
• Created web-portal literature order fulfillment protocols between website order and print supplier to create personalized literature.

Confidential

Production Artist, Graphic Design Contract Services

• Provided design print production services for a fast-paced, retail-oriented advertising agency collaborating with art directors, creative writers, production teams to provide high visibility design campaigns.
• Marketing campaigns encompassed largely retail-based products / services from national recognized clients.
• Agency client / NDA projects included:
• Professional Sports: Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Cavs, Cleveland Lumberjacks hockey business communications, team literature, display ads, signage and collateral.
• Food Industry: Packaging and local advertising and sponsorships for McDonald's, KFC
• Retail Manufacturing: Kelly Tire, Good Year Tire, photo-retouching product tires, illustrations, catalogs, marketing and advertising.
• Travel / Service stations: TA Truck Stops Of America business communications, sales boosting programs, signage, etc.
• Trade Show / Museum: Cleveland Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame. Interior display mock-ups production assistant for original interior display case unit layouts, presentation ideas rough-layouts.
• Finance: National City Bank business and marketing collateral.
• Healthcare: University Health community newsletter and display advertising.

Confidential

Production Artist, Graphic Design Contract Services

• Provided design print production services for a fast-paced, detail oriented, retail advertising agency.
• Marketing campaigns encompassed largely retail-based products / services from national recognized clients.
• Agency client / NDA projects included:
• Retail: 'Home Goods' weekly promotion literature, display ads, signage and collateral.
• Retail Manufacturing: LazyBoy furniture display ads.
• Jewelry: Sterling Jewelers Jared's, JB Robinson, Kay's Jewelry weekly promotion literature, display ads, signage and collateral.
• Food Industry: McDonald's packaging production artwork cups bags and print sponsorship advertising.
• Trade Shows: Cleveland Convention Center Sportsman trade show designs.
• Publications, Annual Report: Cleveland Plain Dealer Annual Report.
• Healthcare: Summa Healthcare community health awareness campaign. Display ads and billboard design.

Confidential

Graphic Design, Production Artist

• Graphic design, advertising, literature and project coordination for agency clients and projects.
• Provide print/production services for a fast paced environment.
• Provide computer consulting on-call production advice and assistance.
• Digital presentation designs, website design, web-hosting research and account maintenance.
• Agency client / NDA projects included:
• Medical Manufacturing: 'Gendron Inc.' Medical manufacturers of wheel chairs, medical beds tables and accessories. Created literature designs and collateral.
• Food Manufacturing: Athens Foods . Designed and creative packaging, product literature and B2B collateral.
• Food Manufacturing: Sandridge Foods Incorporated . Creative packaging, literature and marketing collateral.