Web Designer
| | | | | | Industry Focus: | Information Technology, Arts, Entertainment & Gaming | | Job Title: | Web Designer | | Experience: | 5 – 10 Years | | Looking For: | Any Position Type | | Visa Status: | U.S. Citizen | | Salary: | $40000 - $50000 | | Education Level: | 4-Year College Degree | | Relocation: | No Relocation | | Travel Preference: | Light Travel | |
HIGHLIGHTS OF EXPERIENCE
Web and Graphic Design: Crisp professional graphics, creation of enterprise/corporate and small business web sites, web application design, conceive user interface design, server side includes, visual and functional quality assurance, specializing in web accessibility compliance, fluent in cross browser compatibility, project management, advanced color knowledge, printed labels, logo design, printed cd covers, datasheets, brochures, and some prepress.
Web Marketing: search engine optimization (SEO), web metrics, match web marketing with marketing efforts in events, print, and television ads, cross-market products and services on web for additional sales, copyediting, some copywriting, aptitude in both product and services marketing.
Project Management: Requirement gathering and prioritization for development teams, application product specialist, communicate between technical teams and non-technical teams, and pilot applications with external clients.
Computer Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InDesign, Visio, Flash, Quark Xpress, HTML, CSS, CSSP, XHTML, XSSI, JavaScript, Homesite, Dreamweaver, Eclipse, Interwoven Teamsite, Astra Site Manager, Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Macintosh - Quark Xpress, Freehand, Illustrator, Photoshop.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Triand, Inc., Austin, Texas August 2003 – January 2005
Product Designer/ Web Designer/ Subject Matter Expert
Design the user interface for web-based educational reporting software, edit HTML buried in Java and complex JavaScript driven by a database backend, implement web accessibility improvements, multiple designs of marketing portion of web site, search engine optimization (SEO), analyze web metrics, collaboration with companys clients to create new products, manual functional QA testing in multiple browsers, customer service for approximately 10,000 users, project management for numerous new and upgrade features involving up to 8 co-workers, liaison between the development team and sales and training teams, running pilots for company applications with external clients, requirements gathering for both new and existing applications, write and edit existing help documentation, some marketing copywriting, documentation of design specs and content updates, manage technical writers and edit copy.
Homesite, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Visio, Eclipse, Tortoise CVS, Dreamweaver
RealVue Simulation Technologies, Inc., Austin, Texas July 2002 – December 2002
Graphic Designer
Creation of a consistent visual image for all company collateral: web site, logo, software splash screens, business cards, letterhead, PowerPoint presentations, datasheets, CD label and liner notes, overall branding of a new company, PDF creation, some HTML coding, web accessibility compliance for web site, create custom cursors and icons, simulate machinery using Illustrator for use in training simulations, some quality assurance testing of simulations.
Illustrator, Quark Xpress, Acrobat, Homesite, Photoshop, beginning 3D Studio Max
Career Consultants - IBM/Tivoli, Austin, Texas April 2000 – February 2002
Contract Web Designer promoted from HTML coder in September 2000
Career Consultants Employee of the Year 2001
Creation of a consistent visual image for corporate web site, fully redesign and implement Tivoli.com when it was a large flat site (over 60,000+ HTML pages), project management of large scale changes to web site involving multiple content editors affected by redesign, create web standards and templates for Tivoli.com, coordinate with parent company on standards for morph into IBM.com, coordinate remote Tivoli and IBM employees for common projects, edit copy for the web, create PDF files, Flash - editing of multimillion dollar sitelet designed by MarchFIRST and creation of new animations, edit and create HTML using complex table structure, web accessibility compliance, manipulate prewritten JavaScript, quality assurance including proper legal trade marking, fully responsible for all CSS files, edit and create server side includes, update internal team web site and add functionality, inventory team software and suggest new software including some hardware.
Homesite, Interwoven Teamsite, Photoshop, Astra Site Manager, Lotus Notes, Flash, Illustrator, Acrobat, Sametime, AT&T MTS, occasionally Macintosh
Tivoli MVP Award Winner in April 2001, verbal rewards given for performance.
Career Consultants - IveBeenGood.com, Austin, Texas February 2000 – March 2000
Web Site QA Tester
Quality assurance of ecommerce web site, break shopping cart and whole site in general and detail process for developers, cross browser compatibility issue detailing, and usability suggestions.
SELF EMPLOYMENT PROJECTS
ColorSciences, Austin, Texas February 2005 – present
Web Editor
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code for marketing website, some Flash design, some search engine optimization (SEO).
Homesite, Photoshop, Illustrator, Eclipse, Flash
GENaustin, Austin, Texas April 2003 – present
Web Designer and Backup Web Administrator
Expand current design for more content types and create templates for easier updating, lots of html coding and CSS coding, and web metrics. Created intranet in CSSP
Homesite, Photoshop, Illustrator
AIR Interactive Rally, Austin, Texas February 2003 – March 2003, September 2003, and February 2005 – March 2005
Web Designer for Austin Girls Choir, Down Home Ranch, and Tapestry Dance Company
Design look and feel for new web site, assist on HTML and CSS coding, some XHTML, coordinate with remote team members to create new accessible web site, QA for cross browser compatibility, and create solutions for any problems.
Illustrator, Homesite, Photoshop
MAIN.org, Austin, Texas March 2003 – December 2003
Web Designer
Redesign existing non-profit web site, logo redesign, and web accessibility compliance.
Photoshop, Illustrator
EDUCATION
Introduction to JavaScript: International Webmasters Association
Bachelor of Fine Arts University of Texas at Austin
Study abroad: Italy Summer 1997
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Sherri Wyche Fleming1509 Catalina Drive
Leander, TX 78641 US
5125288537 (Day)
sherri@sherriwyche.com
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