Experience
September 2006 - Present
Freelance User Experience Designer
Working in roles including Information Architect, Visual Designer and front end developer.
May 2005 - September 2006
Avenue A | Razorfish, Senior Information Architect
Working with multidisciplinary teams to create compelling online user interactions.
Duties included using competitive data, user research and business requirements to
create concepts for innovative online experiences. Deliverables included process
flows, site maps, wire frames, and heuristic analyses.
January
2001 - May 2005
Freelance online media designer
Operating under the company name of Coded
Notions Design, designing print work, online design and programming
for web sites and advising on the creation of online business and
marketing strategies.
Projects include the following:
Bones in Motion
Web based application for walkers, runners and cyclists.
URL: http://www.codednotions.com/bim.php
The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers
The web site dedicated to the Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein archive at The University of Texas.
URL: http://www.codednotions.com/woodstein.php
Dell Community Forum
Dell Computer's online discussion forum.
URL: http://www.codednotions.com/dell.php
July 2000 - December 2000
SmartPrice.com, Lead Designer
SmartPrice.com's goals include helping consumers and small businesses make
smart choices about choosing long distance plans. Responsibilities include
working with the head of marketing, the brand manager, and the web site manager
to establish, architect and implement creative strategies for the company.
This included creating print pieces such as newspaper ads and phone cards as
well as serving as information architect and designer for the SmartPrice.com
web site.
June 1999 - July 2000
Powered Inc., Lead Designer
Duties included working with a small team of developers and designers
to, concept, design and implement the system by which the Powered
Inc. provides online educational environments for it's clients.
Acted as lead and manager for an eleven member design team which created
everything
from trade show booths to the look and feel of Powered's client
sites. Other duties included working with the various departments
within the company to create the company's brand (which included
designing the notHarvard.com logo, business cards and corporate
site).
August 1998 - June 1999
frog design, Designer, Level II
frog design is a thirty year old multidisciplinary
design firm with offices in the United States and Germany. Duties
at frog included being involved at various stages of designing
and building web sites for
their clients. Sites worked on include Hoovers Online, a site
which hosts information on both public and private companies,
and MicronPC, a direct
sales computer manufacturer. Involvement in the Hoovers project
was mainly supportive, including conceptualizing of the features
of the site, as well
as working with the design lead to create comps for the look
and feel. The MicronPC redesign project lasted for 8 months and
involved rethinking much
of their site, implementing a new look and feel, and assisting
MicronPC in the maintenance of the site.
URL: http://www.codednotions.com/micronpc.php
November 1997 - August 1998
Freelance Web Designer
Worked freelance doing web site design and production for companies such as Dell,
frog design and Cornerstone Securities.
May 1997 - November 1997
Power Computing, Web Designer
Power Computing was the first and best known Macintosh computer clone
manufacturer and seller. Employed by Power Computing as the in-house
designer for the Power Computing web site. Duties included working with
developers and marketing executives to design, maintain and further
develop the site. During my employment at Power Computing the web site
routinely generated more than $1,000,000 a week in sales.
URL: http://www.codednotions.com/powerweb/
January 1997 - May 1997
frog design, Intern
Intern duties at frog design included design and production work for
their web site and other web related projects.
August 1996 - January 1997
ShokT Internet Productions, Web Designer
Worked as a contractor for ShokT Internet Productions. ShokT was a web
site development company that also held seminars for educators on how
to use the web effectively.
URL: http://www.codednotions.com/shokt/
May 1996 - August 1996
Nexa Digital Industries, Web Designer
Nexa owned WebEdge, the Macintosh web developers conference, and VersaCom, a company devoted to marketing on-line presences to associations. Work done for Nexa included both production and design for many of their clients' sites, which included The Grow Zone, a horticulture resource site, and the Apple Computer, Latin American site.