SUMMARY

• A cross - media applications designer/developer (Web, mobile, video, audio, interactive, print) with broad expertise creating concepts, production design, management of user interface and user experience solutions, client-facing web and interactive media applications for corporate branding and marketing communications strategies and products.
• Expertise working with Adobe Color Prepress/Offset Technologies and Master Collection Suite's CS, MC thru Creative Cloud. Responsible for conceptualizing and designing engaging, clean, and functional user experiences on multiple concurrent projects.
• Close collaboration on projects with upper management and cross-functional teams to translate challenging business requirements into effective business marketing communications solutions. Experienced with troubleshooting and resolving customer and employee collateral and digital usability problems.
• Proficient in user-centered visual design, layout, typography, usability and interaction methodologies (prepress, print, web, interactive multimedia, video, film and photography).
• Experienced working with corporate news and marketing content including video, photos, and rich media within static and CMS driven environments.
• Worked as a Senior Application Designer/Multimedia designer and developer with expertise in producing dynamic media solutions for applications, products, print, video, audio, and Internet projects.
• Background includes color prepress, print production, audio recording, photography, video, and teh utilization of a broad range of hardware/software application technologies for static, motion and audio design projects.
• Experienced with corporate and product branding, applications development, search engine/social media marketing and optimization, interactive multimedia design and production, HD/HDV/AVC/DV videography and broadcast design/production, studio and location photography, set and location staging, audio recording, music scoring, mixing and mastering, and offset/digital offset print production.
• Experienced with designing and developing prototypes/finals for rich media CD-ROM’s/ DVD’s/Kiosks and interactive Web applications.
• Experience with eLearning applications design via Captivate 5/6/7.
• Expertise in teh integration of external Websites with Web based content management solutions (i.e. NetGravity AdServer 3.0, SharePoint Server 3.0, MOSS, SharePoint Designer, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint Services 3.0, InfoPath, Joomla, WordPress, CMS Made Simple, Drupal, EZ Publish and Megento).
• 14 years’ experience with online GIF/JPEG/Flash animated advertising campaign design and delivery.
• Formal training and certifications in search engine optimization, search engine marketing, social media marketing and cross-media optimization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Wireframe and Prototyping: Illustrator, FreeHand, Corel Draw, Omnigraffle, Axure RP, iRISE, CSS Edit, BB Edit, PHP Coder, DreamWeaver, GoLive, Expression Web, SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio, PhotoShop, FireWorks, Painter, Live Picture, Live Motion, Flash, and Director.

Web Design/Development: Utilize HTML, XHTML, CSS 2/3, PHP, ActionScript, ColdFusion, MySQL, Ajax, JavaScript, JQuery mobile

CMS Website Design: Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Movable Type, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

Procurement Portal Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and develop Confidential & Confidential ’s intranet portal and collaboration spaces utilizing teh SharePoint platform.
• General administration in SharePoint, specifically creating and editing lists, discussion boards, permissions management, modifying webparts, building sites, and managing files and metadata within SharePoint teamsites.
• Responsible for designing and building interactive SharePoint sites for individual teams within Confidential & Confidential ’s Procurement Division, closely partnering with colleagues to design and build sub-sites dat meet partner expectations and translate division partner requirements into simple, effective designs dat allow sharing and collaboration across teh organization.
• Working on a small project building backgrounds and textures for a four thousand image 4K/HD video/Web graphics and motion graphics library to be distributed via online/Ebay/Paypal environment.

Confidential, Kansas, MO

Joomla 2.5.9 & WordPress 3.5.1 Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed UI/UX theme directions for use within both Joomla and WordPress CMS environments to halp transition Confidential -Global’s client Global Virus Network, from a generic HTML Website to a fully accessible member driven online solution.
• Developed functional requirements and set-up Confidential /UI/UX staging site for testing. Audited existing content, wire framed and prepared builds for section 503, 504 and 508 compliance.
• Developed HTML/Mobile responsive demonstration sites, prepared creative concepts, presented functional prototypes and provided MySQL, PHPMyAdmin, HTML 5, CSS3, JQuery support.

Confidential

User Experience Designer

Responsibilities:

• Developed highly usable user experience designs dat elegantly and intuitively met user, business and functional requirements.
• Developed functional requirements and set-up Confidential /UI/UX staging for protosite testing.
• Determined overall goals, addressed content, audited existing content, site mapped and addressed existing client site hierarchy/schema.
• Set-up naming conventions, wire framed and prepared builds for section 503, 504 and 508 compliance.
• Defined key user paths, developed HTML demonstration sites, prepared creative concepts, presented designs and gatheird stakeholder feedback.
• Confirmed flow and functionality, created final templates and generated design style guide/specification scope documents.
• Generated user flows, site maps, page flows, storyboards and user interface specifications.
• Established prototype guidelines, setup file structures, sliced/optimized and mastered final template HTML reference models.
• Implemented code scripting, created populated doppelganger pages and prioritized revisions/changes, and bug fixes as requested.
• Conducted final checks, finalized scope-to-date and prepared projects for final client handoff.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Senior User Experience Designer

Responsibilities:

• Developed dynamic prototype Flash and HTML 5/CSS 3/JQuery Parallax presentations for Confidential 's client Steris.
• Developed an Android Mobile App buy-in for Confidential 's client Google. Developed a Flash based knowledge guide for Confidential 's client Volkswagen.
• Developed an iPad focused HTML 5/CSS 3 Fluid/Responsive Photo Gallery and Parallax Website for Confidential 's Internal Participant Education requirements.
• Analyzed user needs and business goals to create experiences dat will enable users to complete tasks easily, quickly and accurately.
• Presented at design reviews. Including presenting storyboards of user navigation, content, graphic design, and UI design elements. Recommended new solutions for web functionality, navigation, and UI design elements dat will enable users and internal business clients to achieve their goals.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively designing and prototyping wireframes and functional application design approaches for teh Confidential /Social Security Administration’s Disability Case Processing System (DCPS).
• Teh project scope entailed developing user interface solutions for an integrated solution dat will replace SSA’s five disability determination case processing systems into a single Intranet system dat is expected to integrate seamlessly with existing software applications in use by State DDS's and other agency historical data systems where and when necessary.
• Served as a user advocate for DCPS Confidential /UI/UX project tasks.
• Leveraged rapid prototyping and frequent customer interactions to inform design decisions.
• Developed a deep and detailed knowledge of SSA's products and their users.
• Collaborated with strategists to conceptualize DCPS UI features and App enhancements based on business needs, product goals and user behavior.
• Define user interface requirements, including use cases, user stories, page flows, task analysis, information architecture, wireframes and prototypes dat achieve business and user goals.
• Worked with visual designers and web designers to ensure graphic design and interaction is consistent with SSA standards and usability best practices.
• Helped plan, support and sometimes lead user research and analysis, including heuristic evaluations, usability testing, A/B testing, surveys and focus groups.
• Exposed site usability problems and provided creative UI/UX solutions. Analyzed user-behavior metrics.

Confidential

Web Designer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating concepts/development/production and management of user interface solutions for client-facing web and interactive media applications for corporate branding and marketing communications strategies.
• Complete CMS development and support of HESAA’s online presence, designed and developed content for online and traditional offset printing projects, redesigned HESAA’s logo brand identity.
• Managed daily Google Analytics 2.0/SEO/SEM/ SMM/SMO, increased HESAA’s search engine ranking from 389,000 to 78,000, tripled HESAA’s Website traffic performance during normal and peak performance periods, and increased end-user Apply Now and Register performance for HESAA’s revenue generating stream.
• Provided off-site design and production services for HESAA’s multimedia/visual/audio/Website development projects, designed and developed 318 rebranded HESAA Websites for Marketing Communication’s two year Web redesign/ rebranding projects and general efforts.
• Conceptualized and designed engaging, clean, and functional user experiences.
• Gatheird business requirements and translated them into functional business marketing communications solutions. Troubleshot and resolved everyday usability issues.
• Collaborated with cross functional groups to create and manage user-centered visual design, layout, typography, usability and interaction methodologies (prepress, print, web, interactive multimedia, video, film and photography).
• Responsible for wireframe and prototyping using Omnigraffle, Axure RP, iRISE, CSS Edit, Coda, DreamWeaver, Golive, Expression and SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio, PhotoShop, FireWorks, Painter, Live Picture, Live Motion, Flash, and Director. Also worked with HTML, CSS 2/3, XHTML, XML, PHP, and ActionScript.
• Successfully branded and customized user interfaces for HESAA’s HTTPS SharePoint portals and Windows SharePoint Services secure sites (NJSTARS I and II, NJCLASS, FAFSA, HESAA customer NAV). Extensive work with site definitions, templates and themes.
• Oversaw HESAA projects from all stages of site and application creation including requirements definition, design, user interface flow and implementation, taxonomy, development, testing, user acceptance and support.
• Provided support for HESAA end users and third tier support for escalated issues.
• Developed content for user training and documentation.
• Designed and hosted HESAA’s first off-site marketing communications Website (hesaafinancialaid.com) for staff review and approval of HESAA’s interactive media, streaming media, stationary and print collateral designs and multiple Website/sub-Website creative directions.
• Received Dale Carnegie certification for effective communication, and received a State of New Jersey Award for Achievement in Web Redesign from Governor Corzine.