- SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
- Profile: Graphic/web designer, and art director with 7+ years experience working in fast-paced, professional environments.
- Strengths:
- Experience working with all aspects of website development
- Quality digital graphic and user-interface design
- Brand, strategic and direct marketing experience
- Strong technical troubleshooting skills
- WORK EXPERIENCE
- Freelance Web Presence Consultant. Cleveland, OH (2002-present).
Worked as a freelance web designer/strategist on project-by-project basis. Clients include small local businesses, an alternative investment consultancy firm, and a non-profit advocacy group (www.ClevelandBikes.org). Various types of work provided, covering:- Extensible website design and development
- Digital logo design and asset development (typeface, palette, imagery)
- Web copy, messaging and marketing suggestions
- Web identity document
- Web Design Consultant, Zurich Capital Markets. New York, NY (2001-2002).
Designed websites for several proprietary financial products/services; provided graphics material for brand marketing/corporate identity initiatives; worked on design of intranet.- Created website templates
- Designed user-friendly interfaces for online tools
- Developed information and navigation structures
- Designed dynamic splash page and quick-tour movie
- Vice President, Digital Design, Juno Online Services. New York, NY (1999-2001).
Headed digital design offices in New York and Hyderabad, India; responsible for final approval of all digital-use design materials; key figure in launch of portal website.Website responsibilities included:
- Design and front-end maintenance of portal website
- Co-branded versions of portal site, customized for strategic partners
- Information architecture for account management and help sections of website
- Design and maintenance of corporate website
Other responsibilities included:- Collaboration with marketing department to develop direct marketing campaigns
- Design of annual reports (both online and print versions)
- Design of user-interface graphics for proprietary and third-party software
- Working with technical team to debug software and website problems
- Director, Ad Development, Juno Online Services. New York, NY (1998-1999).
Managed ad development cycle from copy/design stage to technical implementation in proprietary client software; managed department of 11 graphic designers in New York, and 6 production assistants in Hyderabad, India.- Gave final departmental approval on all digital design materials
- Ran weekly peer reviews/marketing critiques of design projects
- Implemented quality assurance testing cycles
- Optimized workflow of ad development cycle
- Initiated ad production documentation project
- Associate, Ad Production, Juno Online Services. New York, NY (1997-1998).
Designed and scripted ads sent via proprietary software to customer base. Worked with strategic marketing partners to develop ad campaigns.- Played pivotal design/technical role in launch of premium services
- Developed offline shopping cart using proprietary scripting technology
- Model Builder, Yale Urban Design Workshop. New Haven, CT (1996).
Helped design exhibitions; researched/compiled an analytical study of the Yale University campus; worked with model building team on large scale model of city of New Haven; designed graphic presentations of urban analyses. - Design Intern, Bridgeport Charette. Bridgeport, CT (1996).
Collaborated with others (students, critics, and professionals from various fields) on potential design solutions for a waterfront site in Bridgeport, CT.
- Freelance Web Presence Consultant. Cleveland, OH (2002-present).
- EDUCATION
- Columbia University, New York, NY (1998-1999). Completed two terms of C programming as part of Computer Technology Applications track.
- Yale University, New Haven, CT (1992-1996). B.A. in architecture; awarded distinction in major.
