Having worked in the online gaming industry for over four years, I have an in-depth understanding on how to design websites geared towards the gaming community. I realize the importance of maintaining brand ID’s when designing for specific products and I am capable of creating identities for products that lack a brand. I have extensive web development knowledge which enables me to take on and overcome challenges related to the translation between design and code. I have consistently been commended for my progressive designs, proactive work ethic, and rapid turn around time.
Activision/Blizzard
April 2011 - Present
UI/Visual Designer
Accomplishments:- Web UI Design
- User Experience Design
Sony Online Entertainment
August 2010 - April 2011
Senior Web Designer
Accomplishments:- Creates web designs and other consumer-facing deliverables based on existing style guides, brand ID’s, and in-game assets
- Improved the online presence of Sony Online Entertainment’s myriad array of online games by staying abreast of new web design trends and making use of the latest web technologies
- Experienced in handling multiple projects at once. This includes attending to more than one aspect of a project at a time (i.e. design, development, debugging)
- Ensures all web designs were ‘web friendly’ by staying informed about browser and coding limitations
- Provides junior artists with art direction that is inline with Sony’s aesthetic expectations and brand requirements
- Improved communication between the designers and project stakeholders to ensure a website experience that is on par with the stakeholders expectations
- Keeps clean, manageable PSD’s for ease of use by other designers or developers and maintains organized file structures
- Was commended for providing website designs and concepts in a more than punctual fashion that generally exceeded the expectations of the art director and project stakeholders
- Created textures, assets, icons, special effects, and UI elements from scratch
- Executes websites from design to code using clean HTML and CSS coding with enhancements from jQuery
- Using Actionscript 3.0, wrote FLV player and slideshow components that could be reused and easily customized for any of the company’s websites
Sony Online Entertainment
2008-2010
Web Designer II
Accomplishments:- Designed HTML and Flash websites both independently and collaboratively
- Revamped the visual presentation of our email campaign initiative
- Ensured the web presence department of Sony Online Entertainment was up-to-date regarding web limitations and possibilities
- Discovered new software and design techniques with the goal of giving our websites a cutting edge appearance
- Became the trusted go-to designer for taking on challenging and uncommon projects tasked to my department.
Sony Online Entertainment
2006-2008
Interactive Web Designer
Accomplishments:- Created rapid prototypes to illustrate new concepts conceived by the Creative Director
- Designed Flash website pages and animations that are user friendly and easily scalable in terms of code.
- Constructed user interface designs for Sony Online Entertainment’s game launching software
- Provided design support for Sony Online Entertainment’s web presence department during major website launches
- Extremely fluent and comfortable with Adobe Photoshop, and web design.
- Strong understanding of typography in web and print design
- 4+ years experience in Adobe Illustrator, Flash, and Dreamweaver.
- Familiarity with audio/video editing and 3D Modeling.
- 5+ years using HTML, XHTML, and CSS including table-less CSS layouts.
- SEO Understanding.
- Web 2.0 and social media understanding and experience.
- Solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility.
- Basic knowledge of Javascript and jQuery.
- 4 years experience with PHP, MySQL integration, database design, and multi-relational databases
- Experience with Actionscript 3.0 and XML integration.
- 2 years experience with Object-Oriented-Programming in PHP and Actionscript 3.0.
- Very Familiar with phpMyAdmin and MAMP
- Basic knowledge of the Apache mod_rewrite module.
- Graphic design knowledge including t-shirt design, print design, and typography.
- Able to work fluently within a Mac OS X or Windows environment.
- A multi-tasker and self-starter.
Pittsburgh Technical Institute
2004-2006
Associates Degree in Multimedia Technology
Graduate with Honors
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
