OBJECTIVE

Use my Visual Design/User Experience skills to continue to explore the emerging areas of mobile and social platforms.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quinly Santa Clara, CA 2008 - present

Co-founder, Visual/User Interface Designer

• Co-founder of Quinly.com, a San Francisco Bay Area company developing Apps for social networking and mobile devices.
• Designed site architecture, HTML and CSS for Quinly.com and NoodleSquares.com.
• Created graphics, HTML, CSS and page flows for Facebook apps Truth or Dare, About Friends, and Mafia Blood Bath; and for Android mobile app Bubbles Deluxe.
• Created IA, HTML, CSS, and graphics for Facebook app: Truth or Dare.
• Designed graphics, icons and sound files for Android app: Bubbles Deluxe.

   

Visual Designer

• Created network diagrams and custom visual graphics simplifying complex technical concepts and configurations.

Technology Employed
Visio, Adobe Creative Suite

   OBOPAY Redwood Shores, CA

Senior Interaction Designer

• Translated visual designs into HTML and CSS.
• Completed wireframes and prototypes of site re-design using established styles, to improve usability, expand functionality, using a modular approach to allow Obopay site integration into hosted bank sites.

Technology Employed:
Visio, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Word, VMWare Fusion, Axure, Omnigraffle, Excel, Powerpoint

   INSIGHT GLOBAL AT CISCO.COM San Jose, CA

User Interface Designer

• Represented user experience team and worked closely with IT Analysts and Business Stakeholders on a portal project for improved communication and collaboration between Cisco support engineers, partners and clients.
• Rapidly prototyped concepts and ideas into low- and high-fidelity mockups.

Technology Employed:
Visio, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, PowerPoint, Word, Snagit, WebEx Connect

ORACLE CORPORATION Santa Clara, CA 2007 - 2008

Senior User Interface Designer

• Actively worked to re-brand Hyperion products with the Oracle look-and-feel, and to integrate the Hyperion products with Oracle products and initiatives.
• Created mockups for development teams looking to add functionality or make other changes to improve usability.

Technology Employed:
HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver/Notepad, Photoshop, Illustrator, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Flash, Firebug for Firefox

DORMAN PRODUCTS Colmar, PA 2004-2006

Web site/Visual Designer

IDEA INTEGRATION Plymouth Meeting, PA2000-2001

GUI Designer

VPNET/ AVAYA San Jose, CA 1998-1999

Graphical User Interface Designer

AVEO INC. Santa Clara, CA 1996-1998

Interaction Designer

EDUCATION

TYLER SCHOOL OF ART, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, PA

• BFA, 1987

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Won Product of the Year for Aveo's telephony application, a personally developed design.
• Named as a recipient of the Corporate Communicator Computer Telephony Magazine Year Awards for A PBX telephony application called the Microcom 705.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Adobe InDesign CS3      Score: 4.25       Top 10%
  10/2009
• Adobe Photoshop CS4      Score: 4.00      Top 10%
  09/15/2009
• Adobe Illustrator CS4      Score: 3.60      Top 20%
  09/14/2009

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• USABILITY PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION, DELAWARE VALLEY
  Founding Member and Officer
• BAYCHI
  Member
• IXDA
  Member
• SilVaFUG
  Member

CLIENT LIST

3Com, Apple, AT&T, BTI , BugNet, CerfNet, CertaPro Painters, Chromatic Research, Cisco, Clarent, Compaq, Concentric Network, Corel, Dell, EMC, eShare Technologies, Gamespot, Gateway, GRIC Communications, Hitachi, Hyperion, IBM, InfoWorld, Intel, iPass, Lippencott, Williams, and Wilkins, Marimba, Micron, Microsoft, NEC, Norwegian Postal System, NTT PC (subsidiary of Nippon Telephone & Telegraph), Oracle Corporation, Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, SEI, Stryker Corporation, Sylantro, the State of Kansas, Toshiba, VPNet, WiredVines, Northeast PA Business Journal, Boscov’s, Underwater USA and WVIA TV, DormanProducts.com, Platinumparts.com, Art.com, Sistino.com, ArtistRising.com, County of Santa Clara Finance Department VMWare.

COMPUTER SKILLS