SUMMARY:

Highly - creative, technically talented, and motivated self-starter offering a wide-ranging experience in the fields of Confidential, visual design, and corporate identity development. Dynamic, success-driven, and goal-oriented creative thinker with analytic abilities to devise optimal design solutions for Managers, PMs, and developers alike. Proven track record of high-volume, high-quality results under strict budget and time constraints. Armed with enthusiasm to manage very large projects, conceptualize simple solutions to complex problems, take ownership of work and bring tasks to full fruition. Known for writing and publishing books.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Adobe CS6
• Photoshop
• Acrobat Illustrator
• Wordpress
• Dreamweaver
• GameSalad
• JavaScript
• Confidential Developer Studio
• Visual Interdev
• QuarkXPress and many others.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Architect, Product Designer

Confidential, Los Gatos, California

Responsibilities:

• Pioneered an internet network for designers with new ways to share their image.
• Invented nine products, architected and developed and site with sophisticated category and tag index for various art genres and techniques.
• This is an online hub both for high end art buyers and place where makers can create virtual products while uploading their own originals.
• Also designed couture items with help of a seamstress, then translated into unique online designer blanks in which artists can flow their own artwork in a natural looking environment.
• Visualized workflows, monitored programmer progress of all use cases while utilizing keen attention on developing new user scenarios and controlling the entire scope of work for eight user-generated sections and online stores.

Confidential

UX Design and Branding

Responsibilities:

• Produced mobile UI interfaces for iOS and Android taxi app and corresponding android watch; thin client and passenger in transit module screens.
• Curated look and supervised production of branded, San Francisco Flywheel taxi cabs.
• Rebranded website of acquired DeSotoTaxi.
• Created 3-D prototypes of taxi attachment paraphernalia, including lit, hand-sewn logo wings with magnets of proven strength for in-transit cars.

Principal Member of Staff

Confidential, Santa Clara, California

Responsibilities:

• Served as principal Confidential design lead with emphasis on corporate branding and visual design.
• Proactively lead re-branding effort for recently acquired Hyperion Solutions.
• Expertly managed a team of nine Confidential and graphic designers in India and one in-house senior graphic designer.
• Displayed leadership capabilities in overseeing and training design staff.
• Oversaw appropriate branding and element usage guidelines for mobile platforms.
• Functioned and implemented innovative information systems plans to optimize visual design productivity.
• Rendered significant effort in overseeing icons design and splash screens for mobile devices.
• Narrowed down numerous install-, logon-, about-, and splash screens for two hundred products to only six sizes and championed a simplified re-branding process resulting into streamlined execution of artwork in all releases, saving many months of future production time.
• Created or supervised production of hundreds of icons.

Founder / Writer / Illustrator / Graphic & Software Designer / Publisher

Confidential, San Mateo, California

Responsibilities:

• Created twenty-eight innovative smartphone game apps now available on all popular online app outlets.
• Illustrated and published a total of sixteen differently-themed books under the Klassic Koalas books imprint.
• As part of an overall branding effort, designed and created a merchandise articles, such as logo-themed KJ Gamez toys, soaps, logo jewelry, mascot magnets, and many other items.

Graphic Design Manager

Confidential, Sunnyvale, California

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated over $200k in annual savings in production costs by rolling both functions and productivity of several designers into one.
• Crafted measurement and design guidelines, implemented thin client front and CSS code.
• Meticulously created or supervised production of hundreds of icons and other UI elements.
• Designed proposal and PowerPoint templates, business- and collateral systems for for Marketing, Engineering, Sales Operations, Human Resources, and Training departments.
• Skillfully facilitated all marketing design work including corporate identity development; advertising and collateral design; presentations; product packaging; corporate giveaways; screen savers; posters; online ads; trade show materials; and Web designs.
• Designed or oversaw production of newspaper ads; posters; digital illustrations; executive photo retouching; architectural diagrams; promotional flyers; greeting cards; recruiting ads; customer logo walls; web banners; animations; corporate fact sheets; flyers; press kits.

Senior Graphic Designer

Confidential, San Jose, California

Responsibilities:

• Often recognized as a key employee by core management team, played a pivotal role in achievement of Confidential brand awareness in the field of Rule Management software.
• Shepherded efforts of outside design firms. Helped establish market visibility and form sophisticated corporate identity through use of innovative, branded user interfaces, illustrations-, collateral systems spanning across multiple departments, Intranet design, Web seminar- and PowerPoint slide presentations.
• Generated consistently favorable responses from venture capitalists, trade press, industry analysts, alliance partners, and sales prospects.
• Improved corporate branding documents and logo formats.
• Coded product demo user interfaces.
• Designed or oversaw production of corporate brochures; presentation folders; customer success stories; vertical solutions slicks; product briefs; service briefs; event posters; training briefs; analyst write-ups; datasheets; white papers; Web seminar invites; party invitations; company relocation postcards; movie theatre pre-show ads; mail campaigns; full-page magazine ads; billboards.

Senior Visual Designer

Confidential, Cupertino, California

Responsibilities:

• Designed, produced user interfaces including hundreds of screens, icons, and elements for more than thirty systems, including ActiveX, C++, and Java programmed Internet-based software applications and design tools.
• Successfully secured design projects that maximized company visibility, resulting in additional hiring of additional staff designer.
• From use cases, broke system functions into scenarios, designed screens for each sequence, including layout and reusable components and customized with different looks and feels. Customized application interfaces to in corporate corporate identities and images for specific clients including Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, others. Created numerous of 3-D illustrations: splash screens, architecture diagrams, Web elements, marketing graphics, taxonomy representations, process flow diagrams, system functionality schematics, charts, graphs. Implemented elegant corporate ID.
• Designed, produced brochure, data sheet, logos, 1000+ Power Point slides and sales presentations, and other marketing collateral.
• Designed, produced corporate formats and templates for venture capital proposals, RFI's, venture capital presentations, other corporate materials.
• Managed relationships with printers and outside vendors.