My Objectives
9 years ago, when my rock band needed a web page page, I taught my self HTML. I'm a self starter who is eager to step up and “make it happen”. My whole life has been spent working on progressively larger and more complex projects, including my recent startup. I focus on visual design and understanding user experience. Ultimately, I want to broaden my skill set, in a collaborative and creative environment. My ideal situation would be to combine my passion for music and web design with a contract or permanent position.
Health Hero Network
Web Developer / Jr. Designer
March 2006 – Present
My main responsibilities included maintenance of the corporate web site, and assistance to the marketing department. I worked closely with the senior designer to develop clean and concise collateral.
Highlights include:
- Designed product overview documentation with Adobe InDesign including text provided by Marketing department and corporate promotional photography
- Re-engineered portions of the corporate web site to accommodated more flexible content and address cross browser compatibility
- Wrote a recommendation proposal to improve functionality and flexibility of corporate web site structure
- Provided a support role for marketing team providing image creation and manipulation in a fast paced environment.
- Created solid documentation from multiple files for use in corporate fund raising pitch
- Developing presentations in Power Point, developing and editing templates to support flexible designs, migrating content between various templates
- Participated in creative development process for various projects.
BlueO2 Inc.
Director of Design and Marketing
2005 - present day
As one of two founders at BlueO2, my main focus was designing and building the user interface for the website and product. Spent extensive time researching competitors and creating design mockups in Illustrator and Photoshop. Dreamweaver was used to write site code. During product development, conducted market research, facilitated focus groups, wrote product specs, and assisted in the QA process. Led marcomm efforts and developed all promotional materials from concept to finish. As one of two original founders, was intimately involved in the development and delivery of BlueO2's seed funding pitch given to various VCs and angel investors. Worked closely with a team to write a business plan and develop the BlueO2 financial projections.
Highlights include:
- User interface design and development for core BlueO2 flash applications: the Artist Music Player (AMP) and the Radio-And-Chat (RAC)
- Creation and facilitation of focus groups for market research and end user experience feedback
- Conceptual design and construction of user interface for community & ecommerce web site: www.blueo2.com
- Team leader developing marketing collateral (photos, posters, fliers, banner ads, print ads, and email campaign)
- Created unique VC pitch deck that with a combination of voice-over story-telling and visual cues
- Design and layout of corporate identity, including logo, business cards and other printed materials, (letterhead, fax cover sheet, etc.)
Atomic Mint
Web Designer, Promotions Manager, Musician
1999 - present day
Atomic Mint formed in 1999 with a great passion for music. Being a go-getter, created the initial website from scratch with no previous web design experience and since then have reinvented the site several times, keeping up with competitive design and technology trends. Generated promotional imagery in Photoshop and Illustrator for print ads, web banners, publicity photos, posters, handbills, and trade show banners. Intimately involved with the production of three commercial CD releases. Each release required project time lines, album design research, conceptual art mock ups, and art layout in production specified templates. Worked extensively with Nuendo, N-Track, Cubase, Sonar, and Sound Forge to record, and mix audio for commercial release. The nature of my role in Atomic Mint required establishing and maintaining working relationships with many professionals to 'get the job done'. This frequently included coordinating with photographers, radio promoters, audio engineers, producers, booking agents, club owners, song writers, and fans. Working with a small budget was challenging at times, but ultimately taught the importance of leveraging teamwork, do-it-yourself work, and careful planning as a replacement for spending money.
Highlights include
- Commercial release of 3 CDs
- Conceptual design and construction of user interface for web site: www.atomicmint.com
- Production of 3 music videos
- Project management of radio promotional campaign including 50+ radio stations.
- Project magamenr for 2 west coast tours
Freelance Web Designer
1999 - present
Freelance web design and development highlights since 1997.
Skills
Strong: CSS, HTML, Windows, Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Dreamweaver, Flash, Nuendo 2.0, Sound Forge, Word/Open Office
Familiar with: JAVA-SCRIPT, PHP, MYSQL, Action Script, UNIX, Mac OSX, Smarty (template mark up)
Excel
Education
De Anza College 1997 - 1999
AA degree – general education with focus on Art and Art History
References