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position sought

relevant history

Ogilvy PR Worldwide
August 2008 - Present
User-Interface Designer, Information Architect, Business Analyst & Technical Consultant for Microsoft SharePoint Custom Application and Intranet Project

Praxair Inc
August 2008– November 2007 - Present
User-Interface Designer, Information Architect, Business Analyst, and Technical Consultant for Microsoft SharePoint Intranet Project

Covanta Energy
July 2008 - August 2008
User-Interface Design Consultant for Microsoft SharePoint Intranet Project

Parsons Brinkerhoff
June 2008 – July 2008
User-Interface Designer & Technical Consultant for Microsoft SharePoint Intranet Project

Buchanan Street Partners
May 2008 – August 2008
User-Interface Designer & Technical Consultant for Microsoft SharePoint Intranet Project

De Lage Landen
January 2008 – March 2008
User-Interface Designer & Technical Consultant for Microsoft SharePoint Extranet Project

Sard Verbinnen Public Relations
November 2007 – May 2008
Project Manager, User-Interface Designer, Information Architect, Business Analyst for Microsoft SharePoint Custom ERP Application Project

J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency – JWTwo
May 2007 – November 2007
User-Interface Designer & Technical Consultant for Microsoft SharePoint Extranet Project

NRG Systems
May 2007 – July 2007
User-Interface Designer & Technical Consultant for Microsoft SharePoint Intranet Project

Shearman & Sterling
February 2007 – November 2007
User-Interface Designer, Information Architect, Business Analyst, and Microsoft SharePoint Administrator for Global Intranet Portal Project

Computer Generated Solutions
February 2007 – Present
User-Interface Designer, Information Architect, Business Analyst for Microsoft Technology Solutions & Training Division

Impact Management
September 2006 - the present
Freelance SharePoint Portal Designer, Corporate Branding

summary

Web-based application and user experience designer specializing in the visualization of multi-dimensional abstract concepts and simplifying complex technical systems for real-world users resulting in seamless integration of elegant visual design into interactive solutions.

skills

Ten years experience in user-interface design and information architecture.

Design Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Intranets/Extranets using best practices.

Design and customize WSS and MOSS master pages, page layouts, and themes.

Web Content Management (WCM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Consulting

Complete working knowledge of WSS and MOSS CSS, UI, and Content Type structure.

Built and managed multidisciplinary teams including developers, application architects, system administrators, designers, and copywriters in the implementation of feature-rich, enterprise applications.

Engage throughout all phases of project implementation including concept development, deciding scope-of-work requirements, functionality, prototyping, testing, and evaluation.

Organize and design shared information environments such as web sites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability.

Apply principles of design and information architecture to web-based applications that maintain standards compliance and best practices.

Carefully consider the context of usage to create user interfaces that meet user needs and expectations.

Develop taxonomies with deliverables like site maps, flow diagrams and screen-level design prototypes to represent the structure of a Web site or interactive application.

Analyze and foresee how users are likely to use an interface design and test user behavior in practical application.

Optimize the user interface around how people can, want, and need to work.

Apply user-centered design principles to information architecture around the needs and capabilities of the intended user audience while maintaining internal consistencies and logic.

Core contributor focused on branding, corporate presence, and other thematic design work.

Comprehensive knowledge of UI technologies including XHTML, DHTML, JavaScript, .NET, and CSS.

Proficient in the design of enterprise applications, proprietary software and CRM tools.

accomplishments

Continuously collaborate with Microsoft’s best MVPs and Certified Consultants on SharePoint projects

Designed and developed dozens of corporate intranets and extranets

Designed Web Content Management Systems for dynamic database-driven websites.

Designed B2C and B2B portals for financial services clients.

Integrated multidimensional CRM and Sales Force Automation Applications into an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.

Designed UI of Web-Enabled, real-time Stock Market Trading application for Ascend Trading.

Responsible for launching a web-based, on-demand, variable-data print delivery system.

Successfully converted a labor intensive print processes to a web-based, variable-data print workflow.

awards

Graphics.com Editors Choice for Logo Designs (September 2006)
Graphics.com Editors Choice for Graphic Design (September 2006)
CoolHomePages.com Design Award Winner (April 2006)
Graphic-Design.com. Site of the Month (April 2006)
Creative Public's Top 10, Designer of the Month (March 2006)

applications

Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft SharePoint Designer
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Office SharePoint Sever
Adobe PhotoShop                     
Adobe InDesign          
Adobe Flash                             
Quark Xpress 
Adobe Dreamweaver

education

Hendriks Institute
660 North Welwood Ave.
Lindenhurst, NY 11757
Graduated 1999

contact

Christopher Arella
Coram, NY 11727
(631) 716-3453
Click here to email me.

portfolio

SharePoint Sites | Websites | Logos | Brochures | Photography | Advertising | Flash