To find a company that truly encourages innovation and risk-taking, allowing me to utilize my cumulative expertise and allowing growth for the team, the company, and for me.

profile

• Pan-Media Design Specialist whose strengths reside in creating, communicating, and executing a coherent visual language across all media. I am always looking for the better, faster, cheaper solution to any problem, design, process, or administrative.
• Expertise in process re-engineering/auditing and cost/redundancy cutting
• Collaborate seamlessly with diverse teams
• Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and out-of-the-box thinking
• Extensive 20 years experience from television to print to new media
• I have the design, teaming and human factors usability expertise to drive the user experience
• I have the usability and re-engineering expertise to look at all stages in the development process from planning to end-of-life to make business-case, user-centric development and delivery recommendations
• I have the logic and prototyping/wireframe expertise to develop all stages of user experience and the analytical skills to develop and test design assumptions based on collected user data and report out successes and failures in design mock-ups
• I have expertise in conducting user testing and developing precise user surveys in the appropriate venues to collect targeted, useful user data integrity for current and future product deliverables, and researching user trends as the user palette develops with technology
• I have extensive experience in garnering user feedback and evaluating the data to produce solid business cases
• I was nominated for and accepted into Leadership Excellence, a year-long class that was designed to develop an elite group of IBM employees to become the movers and shakers of IBMs future, regardless of band level. This series of classes dealt with the psychology of teams, how to define and understand diverse personality types. I learned how to develop cohesive teams while understanding individual motivators and demotivators and addressing individual issues while fostering clear and concise communication and project focus

• IBM Leadership Excellence
• IBM Bravo Award [achievement/above and beyond for packaging redesign]
• 2 patents pending [GUI functionality]
• 2 patents pending [dB design]

• Visual / GUI Design
• Team Leadership
• Process Reengineering
• User Testing
• Project Management
• Budgeting / Forecasting
• Prototyping / Storyboarding
• Teaching / Mentoring

quantitative data

• $5+ million savings: Co-led the initial push to standardize and redesign the software packaging deliverables across all IBM products resulting in a 5+ million dollar savings over the next 3 years while satisfying user requirements and delivery & fulfillment requirements.
• 700% reduction: Co-Led the installation initiative to decrease Out-of-Box-Experience starting time (OOBE) by 700%.
• $30,000 savings: Saved $30,000 in vendor costs, shipping, and initial print/cd burning, and future print revisions by convincing client to implement a web-based, worldwide information delivery vehicle.
• 50% savings: Created and distributed a notebook of optimal pre-press procedures and checklists, reducing troubleshooting time by 50%.
• 50% savings: Saved a client 50% in vendor costs by creatively adapting their marketing info into an equally aggressive visual identity using 2 PMS colors instead of 4+ color printing.
• 90-100% savings: Reduced ZEXmedia turnaround time (by 90%), courier costs (by 100%), and physical supplies (by 90%) by training clients to use online editing and delivery methods.
• 50-75% savings: Provide clients 3 initial comps (conservative, intermediate, cutting edge) to determine design direction right from the start, ensuring benchmark dates are met on or before schedule cutting initial design time by 50-75%.
• Ease of Use: Created a calculating device that was later patented as an industry tool that aggregated a series of test data into easily understandable risk categories using visual queues.
• Click Reduction: Created web site designs that reduced the number of clicks to get to relevant user data.
• Ease of Use: Created technical diagrams and illustrations that allowed the reader more immediate data absorption upon quick viewing.
• Click Reduction: Created web site designs that reduced the number of clicks to get to relevant user data.
• Ease of Use: Created technical diagrams and illustrations that allowed the reader more immediate data absorption upon quick viewing.
• $90,000 savings: Saved $90,000 (300 illustrations, avg of $300 ea market price) by proposing, organizing, and managing in-house talent for illustration creation.
• 75% cost savings: Saved a client 75% printing costs by designing his corporate ID in one spot color instead of 4c process-also significantly reduced printing cost and time.
• 95% time savings: By standardizing procedures, documenting data, and re-imaging the production machines, reduced the down-time by 95%.
• 25% cost savings: Saved a number of clients 1/4 in printing costs by suggesting modification of cmyk to approximate a varnish look for their printed deliverables.
• 75% cost savings: Saves a number of clients 3/4 printing costs by delivering designs just as compelling in one color as in 4c process.

staff positions

IBM | 4/97 - present
Software Engineer: GUI / Visual Design Team Lead [DB2 4/03-Present]
Senior GUI / Visual Designer [Lotus 4/97-8/02]

Prentice Hall Publishing | 1/96 - 4/97
Design Consultant: Sr. Illustrator / Electronic Technical Art Consultant

PageWorks Corp. | 3/924 - 2/94
Creative Director

WordTech Corp. | 6/91 - 10/92
Creative Director

American Kennel Club | 3/89 - 11/90
Visual Designer / System Admin

Conference Board | 8/88 - 3/89
Sr. Chartist

contract positions

ZEX Media | 1982 - Present
Principal

Genzyme Diagnostics | 1993 - Present
Design Consultant: Web / Print Designer

TwisterMedia | 4/01 - 4/03
Design Consultant: GUI Designer

Jones & Bartlett Publishing | 2/01 - 1/03
Design Consultant: Production / Pre-Press Consultant

Creative Office Interiors | 3/97 - 6/97
Design Consultant: Gui / Website Designer

Houghton-Mifflin Publishing | 11/94 - 1/96
Sr. Visual Designer / Technical Art/Illustration Manager

Blackstone National Golf | 11/93 - 1/96
Design Consultant: Visual Designer

Fidelity Investments | 8/94 - 10/94
Design Consultant: Print / Production Specialist

Putnam Investments | 3/94 - 6/94
Design Consultant: Print / Production Specialist

WearGuard | 1/93 - 6/93
Design Consultant: Print/Production / Systems Administrator

Rowntree Advertising | 7/87 - 11/87
Jr. Designer / Paste-up Artist

(WRNN) WTZA Channel 62 (NBC affiliate) | 12/86 - 7/87
Intern: Jr. Designer