Seasoned, Creative, Passionate
SENIOR ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER
OBJECTIVE:
Contract or Full time
I would like to work with no-nonsense people who know what they want and how to achieve their objectives successfully. Be part of a team of Creatives that are fiercely determined to develop killer ideas and have the passionate drive to fulfill their visions. I am a seasoned Art Director/Designer seeking to expand my skills and make new alliances in the design community.
I would like to work with no-nonsense people who know what they want and how to achieve their objectives successfully. Be part of a team of Creatives that are fiercely determined to develop killer ideas and have the passionate drive to fulfill their visions. I am a seasoned Art Director/Designer seeking to expand my skills and make new alliances in the design community.
SKILLS:
- A solid PORTFOLIO
- At least 6 years hands-on industry experience
- Advanced Photoshop and extensive Illustrator design skills
- Strong Typography understanding
- Strong screen layout and visual design
- Solid grasp of color theory and palettes
- Acute attention to usability, content driving design mentallity
- Rapid design prototyping
- Ability to conceptualize multiple unique designs within a tight time frame
- Sound knowledge of platform limitations
- Firm understanding of web production and graphic optimization
- At least 6 years hands-on industry experience
- Advanced Photoshop and extensive Illustrator design skills
- Strong Typography understanding
- Strong screen layout and visual design
- Solid grasp of color theory and palettes
- Acute attention to usability, content driving design mentallity
- Rapid design prototyping
- Ability to conceptualize multiple unique designs within a tight time frame
- Sound knowledge of platform limitations
- Firm understanding of web production and graphic optimization
EXPERIENCE:
August 2008-Present
Yahoo! Inc.
Web Portal
www.yahoo.com
Sr. Staff Designer
At Yahoo!, I'm responsible for art directing and designing of new concepts, architecture and branding presence for Yahoo! Health. I work closely with all UED members, front/backend engineering, Product Management, Marketing, as well as stakeholders across all the business units to develop user centric designs and design guidelines.
- Provide the creative vision, strategy and leadership to develop a more user centric Y! Health. - Working with senior management to determine milestones and deliverables, assessing user experience needs and coordination of production resources - Provid Art Direction for co-branding partners - Develop project prototypes for user friendly designs
October 2006-August 2008
eBay Inc.- PayPal Division
Online Payments Solution
www.paypal.com
Lead Visual Designer
At PayPal/eBay, I worked closely with the UED: interaction designers, visual designers, user researchers, web developers, content writers and cross-functional teams: Product Management, Marketing, Engineering, etc. within the user experience department as well as stakeholders across all the business units in PayPal/eBay to develop global designs and design guidelines.
- Translate design problems with many stakeholders into scalable design solutions, and communicate design rationales to various audiences.
- Establish and cultivate internal relationships with key contacts across departments.
- Provide visual design guidance for developers and for other UED teams through implementing and designing for cross-network interfaces and Platform best practices.
- Working with project management to determine milestones and deliverables, assessing creative needs and coordination of production resources
- Work with technology team and designers to develop cross-network scalable presentation layer design solutions for network implementation, maintaining deep understanding of platform products and their inter-relationships.
- Researching, evaluating and implimentation of new design trends that may influence future projects.
May 2006-October 2006
AllBusiness.com
Online Business Resource Site
www.allbusiness.com
Senior Art Director
Providing Web site visual style, UI and online marketing design as well as print collateral and trade show graphics for successful online business resource web site. This includes web page UI and typographic layout, spot graphics and illustration.
- Supervisory role included managing team with art direction, critique and workflow management.
- Provided Visual Design (layout, look and feel) for entire site redesign.
- Researched and analyzed creative campaign goals, assuring that the company s image strongly reflects current industry standards and trends.
- Working with project management to determine milestones and deliverables, assessing creative needs and coordination of production resources
- Initialized and solidified company s visual image by providing strong creative solutions, concepts and design in both on and offline marketing devices.
August/2000-May 2006
EXTRACTABLE SOLUTIONS
Web Consulting Agency
www.extractable.com
Senior Art Director
Responsible for directing and designing of new concepts, architecture and branding presence for 98% of Extractable’s clients. These clients included Visa, Palm, Palmsource, 3Com, Scantron, SupportSoft, Amerisource Bergen, CTA and many more.
- Art Directing and Design of high caliber Fortune 500 company web sites
- Providing the creative vision, strategy and leadership for all Extractable creative project development.
- Defining the strategic goals and accompanying business challenges of proposed creative projects.
- Working with project management to determine milestones and deliverables, assessing creative needs and coordination of production resources
- Developing project prototypes including application and UI designs, style guides, art, animation, and multimedia production as necessary
- Researching, evaluating and implimentation of new design trends that may influence future projects
Yahoo! Inc.
Web Portal
www.yahoo.com
Sr. Staff Designer
At Yahoo!, I'm responsible for art directing and designing of new concepts, architecture and branding presence for Yahoo! Health. I work closely with all UED members, front/backend engineering, Product Management, Marketing, as well as stakeholders across all the business units to develop user centric designs and design guidelines.
- Provide the creative vision, strategy and leadership to develop a more user centric Y! Health. - Working with senior management to determine milestones and deliverables, assessing user experience needs and coordination of production resources - Provid Art Direction for co-branding partners - Develop project prototypes for user friendly designs
October 2006-August 2008
eBay Inc.- PayPal Division
Online Payments Solution
www.paypal.com
Lead Visual Designer
At PayPal/eBay, I worked closely with the UED: interaction designers, visual designers, user researchers, web developers, content writers and cross-functional teams: Product Management, Marketing, Engineering, etc. within the user experience department as well as stakeholders across all the business units in PayPal/eBay to develop global designs and design guidelines.
- Translate design problems with many stakeholders into scalable design solutions, and communicate design rationales to various audiences.
- Establish and cultivate internal relationships with key contacts across departments.
- Provide visual design guidance for developers and for other UED teams through implementing and designing for cross-network interfaces and Platform best practices.
- Working with project management to determine milestones and deliverables, assessing creative needs and coordination of production resources
- Work with technology team and designers to develop cross-network scalable presentation layer design solutions for network implementation, maintaining deep understanding of platform products and their inter-relationships.
- Researching, evaluating and implimentation of new design trends that may influence future projects.
May 2006-October 2006
AllBusiness.com
Online Business Resource Site
www.allbusiness.com
Senior Art Director
Providing Web site visual style, UI and online marketing design as well as print collateral and trade show graphics for successful online business resource web site. This includes web page UI and typographic layout, spot graphics and illustration.
- Supervisory role included managing team with art direction, critique and workflow management.
- Provided Visual Design (layout, look and feel) for entire site redesign.
- Researched and analyzed creative campaign goals, assuring that the company s image strongly reflects current industry standards and trends.
- Working with project management to determine milestones and deliverables, assessing creative needs and coordination of production resources
- Initialized and solidified company s visual image by providing strong creative solutions, concepts and design in both on and offline marketing devices.
August/2000-May 2006
EXTRACTABLE SOLUTIONS
Web Consulting Agency
www.extractable.com
Senior Art Director
Responsible for directing and designing of new concepts, architecture and branding presence for 98% of Extractable’s clients. These clients included Visa, Palm, Palmsource, 3Com, Scantron, SupportSoft, Amerisource Bergen, CTA and many more.
- Art Directing and Design of high caliber Fortune 500 company web sites
- Providing the creative vision, strategy and leadership for all Extractable creative project development.
- Defining the strategic goals and accompanying business challenges of proposed creative projects.
- Working with project management to determine milestones and deliverables, assessing creative needs and coordination of production resources
- Developing project prototypes including application and UI designs, style guides, art, animation, and multimedia production as necessary
- Researching, evaluating and implimentation of new design trends that may influence future projects
PROFICIENCIES:
Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark X-Press, In Design, Flash, Microsoft Office Suite. Familiar with functionality and implementation of most design and web technologies, including Flex, Fireworks, CSS, HTML, Javascript, generator capabilities, browser cross platform differences. PC and Mac savvy.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Fine Arts, June 2000
Academy of Art University
San Francisco
Academy of Art University
San Francisco
REFERENCE:
References and portfolio on disc available upon request