SUMMARY:

• Thorough understanding of web visual design
• Solid grasp of typography on the web, and in print
• Advanced understanding of color theory, and color systems for web and print
• Template - based, modularized design layouts
• Grid based design structure based on the Golden Ratio or the Rule of Thirds
• Work within the umbrella of corporate branding, but produce creative and unique design solutions
• Redlining and style guides
• Design from a background in graphic design/art, not engineering
• Foundation in traditional print design and production techniques
• Iconography and Illustration: Icon systems, pictograms and finished illustration created as vector or svg
• Storyboards and comps for presentation: traditional media - graphite, marker and colored pencil
• Finished editorial illustration: graphite, watercolor, pastel and ballpoint pen
• Spot illustration: variety of media
• Portraits: graphite
• Responsive Web Design
• Intuitive, consistent and simple interfaces
• Discovery: Qualitative research, User stories, personas, whiteboard wireframing, flowcharts and flashcards
• Design: Low and high fidelity wireframes, sitemap, design cycle reviews, merging of UI and Visual design in preparation for UAT
• Interactive prototyping

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Advanced proficiency: Adobe CC - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat Professional

Working proficiency: Flash, Fireworks and DreamWeaver

Exposure: Adobe CC - Muse and Edge Reflow

Working proficiency: Omnigraffe Pro, Microsoft Word, Outlook, Viseo, Excel and Powerpoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Visual Designer / UI Designer

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• As a part of the UI team, in the role of UI/Visual Designer, made recommendations and discussed strategy, created wireframes and prototypes, guided relevant aspects of frontend development, and proposed enhancements to improve usability, visual integrity and corporate branding.
• Visual Design: The Visual redesign needed to adapt equally well to mobile and desktop. Acted as the Visual Design lead assuring compliance with Confidential 's new Graphic Design Standards and Iconography.
• User Interface Designer: Designed a responsive UI for "Simple Configurator", Confidential 's software and hardware configuration tool.
• Two challenges were to design a new UI using Graceful Degradation, and to modify user interface elements to work well on all platforms. Keeping the Visual layout displaying with unbroken integrity across targeted devices - the nine-inch Elitepad, laptop and desktop - was also important.
• Confidential Simple configurator Final Mockup

Senior Visual Designer / Illustrator

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Created the visual look-and-feel of many projects based on low-fidelity wireframes or descriptions while at Cisco. Provided mockups, color studies, suggested typography, and layout solutions. Recommendations were based on Cisco's Graphic and Typography Style Guidelines, and were often communicated by means of redlined specifications for design modules.
• Designed a template layout system for use with WebEx Social community web pages, portlets and posts. Designed the feature banner templates used in conjunction with Cisco stock photos, a heading and caption for WebEx Social.
• UI Design: Created several user interface features that utilize CSS3 animations and transitions. This was a successful means of achieving rich interactivity, since most javascript was blacklisted by Cisco's internal security regulations.
• Icon Design and Illustration: Designed and illustrated several photorealistic, full color icons not previously existing in the Cisco icon library.
• Designed illustrative logos for CCIT and Parfait Search. Designed and illustrated full color, photorealistic icons for CCIT. Designed three systems of pictograms for use in three different settings: a marquee adjacent to the WebEx Social Topics pages, the CCIT User Interface Guidelines, and the specialized search system: Parfait.

Principal Visual Designer / Lead UI Designer

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Visual Design: Created the visual look-and-feel of the new site. Provided mockups, color studies, suggested typography, and layout solutions based on WCIRB's Graphic and Typography Style Guidelines. Prepared interactive prototypes for presentation and review.
• UI Design: Designed the WCIRB Coverage Website. Worked in close conjunction with business stakeholders, the WCIRB Legal department, the project manager and developers dedicated to the completion of this site. Guided the UI design process using several tools including whiteboard wire-framing, site mapping, flash cards, User stories, personas, discussions and presentations.

Principal Visual Designer / Lead UI Designer

Confidential, Cupertino CA

Responsibilities:

• Visual Design: Created the look-and-feel for Confidential 's largest web-based, intranet application, Account Manager. Responsible for the creation of all layouts, mockups - including color studies, interactive graphics and full color icons. Confidential 's established Style Guidelines were loosely followed for graphics, typography and handling of interactive elements. For this project, there needed to be a clear visual difference between this internally facing app and Confidential 's externally facing web presence. The approved design struck a balance between the official style recommendations and the need for distinction.
• UI Design: A large portion of new UI features and enhancements were proposed, designed and presented by myself. Discussion of new UI features and enhancements took place in team meetings. Whiteboard wireframing was the typical means of communicating and establishing direction for further development.

Principal Visual Designer

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Responsibilities:

• Under the auspices of the Office of the President, UCLA, and the California Bar Association
• Visual Design: Designed the look-and-feel for the Confidential eCommerce /informational website. Responsible for the creation of all layouts, mockups, graphics, interactive components and typography. This project was originally conceived while the university association was with UCB. UC Berkeley's Style Guidelines were used as . Worked in close conjunction with the UX Designer who provided wireframes and direction.

Visual / UI Designer

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Visual Design: Intranet site redesign and conversion from a table-based layout to a CSS tableless layout. Responsible for the creation of all layouts, mockups, graphics, interactive components and typography. The look-and-feel was based on the external site.
• Intranet: not available for public viewing.
• External Confidential Site

Print Graphic Designer / Web Visual Designer

Confidential, Emeryville, CA

Responsibilities:

• Graphic Design: Creation of Flash vector graphics for AllPosters.com Framing Studio. Designed the prototype for photos-into-art. Designed photos-into-art logo. Created Banner ads, Landing pages, and Emailers. Confidential

Visual Designer / UI Designer

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Visual / UI Design: Confidential 's San Francisco Metreon website. Worked with Marketing and the Creative Director to create this informational/marketing site. Objectives were to maintain established branding, be fun, showcase retail and eating establishments, theatre venues and Metreon's exclusive, "Walk-of-Game". Design fit with the environmental theme of the METREON and was based on seasonal color themes.
• Westfield Development purchased the Metreon in May, 2006.