Flash Designer/Developer Resume

Title
Flash Designer/Developer

Primary Skills
Graphic Design, Animation, Web Development

Location
US-CA-San Francisco Bay Area

Posted
Jan-30-09

Professional Experience


New Media Designer/Developer

Independent | 2006 - Present | SF Bay Area, CA

>Agencies/Studios include: Avenue A Razorfish, Duarte Design, Gunshop, i5labs, Mixit Productions

>Clients include: Aladdin Systems, Amgen, AOL, Cisco, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Microsoft, New York Harbor Conservancy, Smith & Hawken, Symantec, Technorati, Trend Micro, Yahoo!


Senior Graphic Designer/Lead Flash Developer

Pearson Educational Measurement | Iowa City, IA (now remote from CA) | 2005 - Present

>Took lead technical role on large-scale Flash projects for the state of Texas, responsible for custom interactivity, animation, and functionality
>Designed and developed XML-driven Flash templates for project-specific customization that could be edited by designers without using ActionScript
>Created scalable interactive templates using Object-Oriented Design architecture
>Designed proposals that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in new contracts
>Spearheaded a nascent InDesign/InCopy workflow; created layouts that grew and evolved with copy edits, making 300-page layouts possible within a single day.
>Created hybrid vector/raster graphic system that reduced production time to 1/200th of the original duration while maintaining the same print quality
>External clients include: Target, AT&T, Rockwell Collins, Blue Shield of California


Instructor

Kirkwood Community College | Iowa City, IA | 2005 - 2006

>Taught InDesign and Photoshop courses to design professional and hobbyists

Graphic Designer

CompleWare Corporation | Iowa City, IA | 2004 - 2005

>Initiated new projects, including extending brand recognition by creating the
company's first screensaver to be shipped out with all new laptops
>Created animations and custom interface components for proprietary software packages
>Responsible for content and administration of multiple websites
>Led training sessions for new employees to familiarize them will company software



Certifications & Affiliation

Adobe Certified Expert (A.C.E.), Photoshop CS
Macromedia Certified Flash MX 2004 Designer
Member, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Member, American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)


Recognition

Adobe Flash Camp 2008 Hackathon Awards
Winner, "Most Useful" category, for Combine Textfields extension

American Design Awards
First Place, Flash Animation, 2007 Winter Semi-Annual
for Trend Micro: Enterprise Protection Strategy, with Duarte Design

American Design Awards
Second Place, Flash Animation, 2007 Winter Semi-Annual
for Trend Micro: Gateway Products, with Duarte Design

Publications Competition for American Educational Research Association
First Place, Division H, for TAKS-Alt Training, with PEM

Education

University of Iowa | 2000 ñ 2004

B.A., high distinction, 3.9 GPA.

Applications

-Adobe-
Flash
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Dreamweaver
Acrobat
Premiere
AfterEffects
Audition
Soundbooth
Encore
FreeHand
Fireworks

-Microsoft-
Office
Publisher
FrontPage

-Other-
QuarkXPress
ToonBoomStudio
SEPY AS Editor
Swift3d
OmniPagePro

-Languages-
ActionScript
JavaScript
HTML
XML
CSS
PHP

Certifications
Adobe Certified Expert (A.C.E.), Photoshop CS
Macromedia Certified Flash MX 2004 Designer


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