Highly skilled and motivated senior user experience designer with ten years experience of graphic design founded upon a traditional design education, now specialising in experience design and front-end development as none managerial team leader. Having worked in print creating corporate literature, stationary and branding. Long term experience of implementing web standards design practices.
Core strengths and expertise in the design and build of commercially driven, high traffic award winning content sites focused upon simplicity and maintainability built with web standards, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript. Combined, these create an environment whereby websites can be accessible to those with disabilities and highly optimised for search engine indexing (SEO) whilst maintaining high levels of design integrity.
Looking to move into a senior team lead experience design based position within a team that has strong representation and voice within the business that itself has customer experience at its heart.
XHTML, HTML, CSS 1/2/3, JavaScript, DOM, AJAX, JavaScript framework libraries (jQuery, YUI, Prototype, Moo), WPF, JSP, JSTL, Actionscript, Lingo, XML, XSLT, PHP, mySQL.
Expert understanding of cross browser build consideration and best practices.
Adobe Photoshop, Image Ready, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Freehand, Director, Contribute, InDesign
Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio
Miscellaneous Eclipse, HomeSite, BBedit, QuarkXpress, Selenium, CubicTest, codeignitor, Wordpress, Mind Manager
Source control VSS, CVS, SVN
Macintosh, Windows
AND AOP Online Publisher of the year 2006
This is London Press gazettes - Best regional website 2004
This is Money AOP - Consumer website of the year 2003
Represent AND at aop conferences relating to front-end design and coding practices.
Senior User Experience Designer, including the following disciplines - Interaction design, Information architecture, User journey definition, Functional prototyping, Content inventory reporting, Client presentations, User testing.
At RI3K my role as Senior User Experience Designer is twofold. Primarily I lead the User Experience team of five at a none managerial level developing RI3K’s web applications which results in the creation of functional prototypes, wire frames, and information architecture documentation. For this I work closely with business analysis, designers and front end developers 6-12 months ahead of the current agile development cycle enabling thorough investigation into user requirements that are defined through ongoing consultation with the global client list. Through consultation with user’s full requirements, user interface definitions and functional prototypes are available prior to the technical planning stages of the development process. Secondly I have client facing responsibilities, presenting proposed solutions, facilitating user group sessions and initiating the resulting design changes to allow integration of new industry practices, processes, and standards.
Key Responsibilities and Deliverables
Senior Designer / front end developer including the following disciplines – Web design, Interface Design and Development, Interaction design, Front end coding (XHTML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM scripting), Accessibility, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Documentation, Training, Information architecture.
As part of my role within the technical delivery team I maintained a high level of collaboration between AND and 3rd parties. These ranged from software suppliers and agencies to the management and recruitment of contract staff engaged in key projects where simplicity, quality and maintainability were paramount.
In early 2006 I joined Associated New Ventures (ANV) the product development group within AND. As a senior designer and front-end developer within ANV I was tasked with user interface development for commercial and classified opportunities within the group.
Preceding this I progressed to the position of senior designer at ANM. ANM being part of the Associated Newspapers group my role included the graphic design, visual look and feel and functionality of ANM’s network of sites through to the implementation and development of XHTML/CSS templates. Key successes and regular deliverables in this role include and have included:
In this period I undertook a number of short term contracts in both print and web design for a number of companies on a freelance basis. Work included corporate identity, promotional material and web design.
Designer including the following disciplines - Web Design, Broad Band Content Development, Interface Design and Development, Application Design, CD-rom Build and Production, Communication Presentations, Streaming Media.
Employed as a designer developing the Protégé Groups branding strategy and visual style both on-line and in traditional media. Before the change in company name and direction my main role was that of web design and production combined with Flash development.
Designer - Printed B2B Marketing, Printed Literature, Corporate Identity/Branding, Web design/On-line Marketing, Retail/Exhibition Design.
At Contacts Communications I was given the opportunity to be involved in the traditional design practices of corporate literature and brochure design, this gave me experience of typesetting in a number of European languages and an understanding of the design considerations when doing so.
I developed a number of corporate identities, which were well received by the clients and the design press. Corporate communications both B2B and B2C were also undertaken.
Exposure to PR events and exhibitions was also gained whilst producing exhibition panels and information graphics for use at a number of automotive events. In time I had responsibility for all online design and production projects undertaken by the company.
Later I was responsible for the full creative process, taking an initial creative brief, developing design concepts and solutions through to commissioning photographers and creating artwork for print.
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