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Resume |
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position sought |
User Experience and Information Architecture Consultant |
relevant history |
Ogilvy PR Worldwide Praxair Inc Covanta Energy Parsons Brinkerhoff Buchanan Street Partners De Lage Landen Sard Verbinnen Public Relations J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency – JWTwo NRG Systems Shearman & Sterling Computer Generated Solutions Impact Management |
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) |
applications |
Microsoft Visual Studio |
education |
Hendriks Institute |
contact |
Christopher Arella |
portfolioSharePoint Sites | Websites | Logos | Brochures | Photography | Advertising | Flash |
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