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Gordon Barlow — UX Designer

I am a user advocate. I design, develop, and own the user experience to serve the user best. I enjoy creating solutions and simplifying processes. My creative thinking, honest disposition, and persistent drive to unite all in a common vision shows in the teams I work with and in the results I produce. I take joy in converting complex, difficult experiences into clear, simple flows that users don’t even have to think about—they just use.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts – Brigham Young University – 1/1996 to 4/2000

Design track: industrial design, manufacturing engineering, visual arts, and web design.

SKILLS

  • Development: architecture: ASP, HTML 5, PHP, XHTML, XML, and XSLT; best practices: clean coding practices, code organization, and W3C compliance; browsers: Internet Explorer 6-11, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari; mobile design: Android, iOS, RIM, and Windows Phone OS; optimization tools: Firebug, image optimization, virtual machines, and Yslow; scripts: ActionScript, EXT JS, JavaScript, jQuery, MooTools, sript.aculo.us, and swfobject; software: Apache Server, Bugzilla, ASP.NET, Bootstrap, CMS, DevExpress, Dropthings Ajax web portal, Magento, MAMP, MantisBT, NetSteps, PostgreSQL, Stoneware, SmartSVN, Subversion, Tortoise SVN, Visual Studio, and WordPress; styling: CSS 3, GIF animation, and bitmap transparency mapping.
  • Design: digital: Adobe: Acrobat Pro, Bridge, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, ImageReady, InDesign, Photoshop, and Streamline; SWiSH best practices: icon/image/graphic organization, sprites management, and styling in CSS over images; modeling and animation: 2-D: Adobe: Flash and Illustrator, and GIF animation; 3D: Cinema 4D XL, Maya, and PRO-E; print: Adobe: Acrobat Pro, Bridge, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop; sound: Audition, and GoldWave; video: After Effects, Flash Video Encoder, Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, and QuickTime Pro; wire framing: Balsamiq, Fireworks, Illustrator, Lucidchart, and Photoshop.
  • Research: Novell Filr: Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, and SkyDrive; Novell GroupWise: Google Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Macintosh Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Novell GroupWise, and Yahoo! Mail; Novell Messenger: Adium, AIM, BBM, eBuddy, Facebook Messenger, FaceTime, GO SMS Pro, Google Chat, Google Hangouts, Hyve, iChat, ICQ, IM+, KakaoTalk, Kik, Line, Macintosh Mail, MSN/Windows Live, Nimbuzz, Novell Messenger, Skype, Trillian, Twitter, Viber, WeChat, What’sApp, and Yahoo! Messenger.
  • Management Tools: documentation: DocuWiki, intranets, Novell Vibe, and websites; Novell: Conferencing, GroupWise, Filr, iPrint, Messenger, Vibe, and ZENworks; eCommerce: Magento and NetSteps; email marketing: NOW Communications; office products: Google Apps: Conceptboard, Document, Drawing, Form, Lucidchart Diagram, Presentation, and Spreadsheet; Macintosh: iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, Mail, Pages, Keynotes, and Numbers; Microsoft Office: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word; Corel WordPerfect Office: Presentations, Quattro Pro, and WordPerfect; Apache Open Office: Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, and Writer; Star Office: Database, Drawing, Formula, Presentation, Spreadsheet, and Text Document; project management: Agile processes, Basecamp, Microsoft Excel, Novell Vibe, and Skype.
  • Operating Systems: DOS, IRIX, Linux: SUSE, RedHat, and Ubuntu; Macintosh: 9 and X; virtual machines: Parallels, Virtual Box, and VMware; Windows: 95, 98, 2000 Professional, XP Professional, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, 7, and 8.

15 YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IxD Interactive Designer – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (via TekSystems) – 5/2014 to Present (1 year 2 months)

Interactive Experience Design for Seminaries and Institutes of Religion, Missionary, HR, & Perpetual Education Funds

  • Products and work performed:
    • Online Tithing Application: interactive responsive web application prototyping.
    • Institute Class Locator: process review, paper mockups, Balsamiq wire framing, and interactive responsive web application prototyping.
    • Perpetual Education Fund Application: process and flow analysis, and interactive web application prototyping.
    • Placement and Decision Support System Application: process analysis and interactive responsive web application prototyping.
    • Leadership Review Process Portal Application: process and flow analysis, and mockups.
    • Job Descriptions Application: process and flow analysis, and mockups.
    • Missionary Portal Application: process, flow, and bug tracking management analysis.
    • Missionary Office Management Application: process and flow analysis, interactive mobile and desktop web application prototyping; CSS delivery and management; designed the conversion of the application from JSF (Java Server Faces) to AngularJS.
  • Technologies used at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
    • Development: architecture: HTML 5;  optimization tools: Chrome Developer Tools, and image optimization; software: Bootstrap, and Dreamweaver; styling: CSS 3.
    • Design: digital: Adobe: Dreamweaver, ImageReady, and Photoshop; best practices: icon/image/graphic organization, styling in CSS over images, SVGs over PNGs.
    • Management Tools: office products: Macintosh: Mail; Jira; Office 365;
    • Operating Systems: Macintosh: X;

UX, UI, Graphic, Multimedia Designer and Developer – GordonBarlow.com – 7/1999 to Present (15 years 4 months)

Provide on a contract basis, UX, UI, design and development, multimedia design and development, graphic design, print design, identity design and development, game development, training/marketing application design and development, and web design and development.

  • Work performed:
    • Big Fish Automation: Flash Animation using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and XHTML. Designed, detailed, and developed home maps for interactive lighting and sound mobile management application.
    • Drew Danburry: Designed, developed, maintained, and managed website using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and JavaScript, CSS, XHTML, and XML.
    • Dr. Mark Donaldson: Consultant using Adobe: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Flash; CSS, and XHTML.
    • Firefly Film & Video: Developed website, based on a Flash template, using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and ActionScript, JavaScript, CSS, XHTML, and XML.  Collaborated with art director, to define, refine the look, feel, and coloring of the website.
    • Five Star Franchises: Five Star Painting (Pinturas) Five Star Holiday Decor Implemented the Portuguese translation of Five Star Painting (Pinturas) for the Brazilian market. Designed, developed, and maintained dozens of websites using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and JavaScript, CSS, PHP, XHTML, and XML. Architected the sites to minimize continual work load, by using PHP, and templating standards, to maximize ease of maintenance, and maintain SEO compliance.
    • Fred DiDomenico: Flash Advertisement using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and ActionScript, JavaScript, CSS, XHTML, and XML.
    • Frogley Chiropractic: Detailed front-end design and development using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and JavaScript, CSS, ASP, XHTML, and XML.
    • Haley Ann Warner Photography: Designed and developed website using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and ActionScript, JavaScript, CSS, XHTML, and XML. Worked directly with Haley, to develop the look and feel for the website. The functionality of the website consists of a Flash music player, randomly generated image loads, and allows Haley to upload her latest photographic genius anytime.
    • Ideation.Ink: Developed Flash intro using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and ActionScript.
    • Integrated Wellness and The Well Group: Developed web pages from Photoshop mockups using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and JavaScript, CSS, ASP, XHTML, and XML.  Video compression using Adobe Media Encoder. Engineered lightbox to work with videos.
    • Isis Dei Product Browser: Developed the Flash product browser using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and ActionScript, JavaScript, and XHTML.
    • Jenny Jordan Frogley: Developed Jenny’s website using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and ActionScript, JavaScript, ASP, and XHTML.  Collaborated with art director to implement proposed look and feel.
    • PPC CoPilot: Consultant using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, and Dreamweaver; CSS, XHTML, and XML.
    • Raging Waters Utah: Consultant using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Dreamweaver, and Flash; CSS, XHTML, and XML.
    • Reliving The 90’s: Designed, developed, maintained, and managed website using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash; and ActionScript, JavaScript, and XHTML.  Filmed: “Nothing Compares To You”, “On a Plain”, “Linger”, “Lump”, “Elvis”, and “Boom Boom Boom Boom”.  Sang in “Stay” and “Boom Boom Boom Boom”.
    • Show Me Soroban: Designed and developed random generated Flash animations using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Flash, and Streamline; and ActionScript.
    • WhiteCanyon Software: Designed and developed Flash demonstration using Adobe: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, and Flash; and ActionScript.
  • Technologies used:
    • Development: architecture: ASP, HTML 5, PHP, XHTML, and XML; best practices: clean coding practices, code organization, and W3C compliance; browsers: Internet Explorer 6-11, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari; optimization tools: Firebug, image optimization, virtual machines, and Yslow; scripts: ActionScript, JavaScript, jQuery, MooTools, sript.aculo.us, and swfobject; styling: CSS 3, and GIF animation.
    • Design: digital: Adobe: Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, ImageReady, InDesign, Photoshop, and Streamline; best practices: icon/image/graphic organization, sprites management, and styling in CSS over images; modeling/animation: 2-D: Adobe: Flash and Illustrator, and GIF animation; 3D: Cinema 4D XL, Maya, and PRO-E; Print: Adobe: Acrobat Pro, Illustrator, and Photoshop; Sound: Audition, and GoldWave; Video: After Effects, Flash Video Encoder, Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, and QuickTime Pro; Wire Framing: Illustrator, Lucidchart, and Photoshop.
    • Management Tools: documentation: Websites; office products: Google Apps: Concep4tboard, Document, Drawing, Form, Lucidchart Diagram, Presentation, and Spreadsheet; Macintosh: iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, Mail, Pages, Keynotes, and Numbers; Microsoft Office: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word; Corel WordPerfect Office: Presentations, Quattro Pro, and WordPerfect; Apache Open Office: Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, and Writer; Star Office: Database, Drawing, Formula, Presentation, Spreadsheet, and Text Document; project management: Agile processes, Basecamp, Microsoft Excel, Novell Vibe, and Skype.
    • Operating Systems: DOS, Linux: RedHat and Ubuntu; Macintosh: 9 and X; virtual machines: Parallels, Virtual Box, and VMware; Windows: 95, 98, 2000 Professional, XP Professional.

UI Designer and Developer – ZAGG (via ConsultNet) – 4/2014 to 4/2014 (2 weeks)

Prototyped responsive Bootstrap developed front-end work for ZAGG's eCommerce application.

  • Technologies used at ZAGG:
    • Development: architecture: HTML 5; best practices: clean coding practices, code organization, and W3C compliance; browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari; optimization tools: Firebug and image optimization; software: Bootstrap; styling: CSS 3.
    • Design: digital: Adobe: Dreamweaver, ImageReady, and Photoshop; best practices: icon/image/graphic organization, and styling in CSS over images.
    • Management Tools: office products: Macintosh: Mail;
    • Operating Systems: Macintosh: X;

Web Designer and Developer – Miche (via ConsultNet) – 1/2014 to 3/2014 (2 months)

Created, maintained, managed, designed, developed, documented, branded email marketing campaigns, ecommerce, and reporting applications.

  • Work performed at Miche:
    • Designed, clarified, and simplified reporting application.
    • Created, maintained, managed, designed, developed, and documented corporate email marketing, informational, Thank You cards, and news campaigns, including documenting best practices, highlighting efficiency, high quality, cost-effective, and timely standards for 15,512 representatives.
    • Created, maintained, managed, designed, developed, documented, and branded web design for the corporate website, personal representative websites, and ecommerce product marketing
  • Technologies used at Miche:
    • Development: architecture: HTML 5; best practices: clean coding practices, code organization, and W3C compliance; browsers: Internet Explorer 8-11, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari; optimization tools: Firebug, image optimization, and Yslow; software: Bootstrap, CMS, Magento, and NetSteps; styling: CSS 3, and GIF animation.
    • Design: digital: Adobe: Acrobat Pro, Bridge, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Illustrator, ImageReady, InDesign, and Photoshop; best practices: icon/image/graphic organization, sprites management, and styling in CSS over images.
    • Management Tools: documentation: Basecamp; eCommerce: Magento and NetSteps; email marketing: NOW Communications; office products: Macintosh: Mail; Microsoft Office: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word; project management: Basecamp.
    • Operating Systems: Macintosh: X;
  • Selected projects and accomplishments at Miche:
    • Proposed a seasonal management concept that aligned marketing, art direction, design, development, business goals, and expectations in one visual, to streamline process, and make preparation and planning more efficient.
    • Designed, clarified, simplified, managed, and styled reporting software for 15,512 representatives.
    • Initiated a user centric reporting concept, focusing on the core data representatives needed, and automating a text/email to the reps with the data and/or a configurable automatic responding system to their downline.

Human Factors Specialist (UX Designer and Developer) – Novell – 10/2010 to 1/2014 (3 years 3 months)

Novell is an enterprise software company, specializing in secure on premise products and solutions.

  • Work performed at Novell:
    • Designed and developed for Conferencing, GroupWise, Filr, Vibe, iPrint, Messenger, and ZENworks, affecting over 10 million users and $100,000,000 of product.
    • Discussed, debated, determined, designed, developed, documented, and managed user experiences, user interfaces, prototypes, feature priorities, correct implementation on web, desktop, and mobile, and mentoring in front-end guidelines, and product deliverables.
    • Listened and asked questions to be sure I understood problems, so I could provide solutions in the simplest, clearest, and most efficient manner.
  • Technologies used at Novell:
    • Development: architecture: HTML 5; best practices: clean coding practices, code organization, and W3C compliance; browsers: Internet Explorer 6-11, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari; mobile design: Android, iOS, RIM, and Windows Phone OS; optimization tools: Firebug, image optimization, virtual machines, and Yslow; scripts: JavaScript, and jQuery; software: Bugzilla; styling: CSS 3 and bitmap transparency mapping.
    • Design: digital: Adobe: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Illustrator, ImageReady, and Photoshop; best practices: icon/image/graphic organization, sprites management, and styling in CSS over images; Wire Framing: Illustrator and Photoshop.
    • Research: Novell Filr: Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, and SkyDrive; Novell GroupWise: Google Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Macintosh Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Novell GroupWise, and Yahoo! Mail; Novell Messenger: Adium, AIM, BBM, eBuddy, Facebook Messenger, FaceTime, GO SMS Pro, Google Chat, Google Hangouts, Hyve, iChat, ICQ, IM+, KakaoTalk, Kik, Line, Macintosh Mail, MSN/Windows Live, Nimbuzz, Novell Messenger, Skype, Trillian, Twitter, Viber, WeChat, What’sApp, and Yahoo! Messenger.
    • Management Tools: documentation: Novell Vibe and websites; Novell: Conferencing, GroupWise, Filr, iPrint, Messenger, Vibe, and ZENworks; office products: Google Apps: Document and Spreadsheet; Apache Open Office: Math and Writer; project management: Microsoft Excel and Novell Vibe.
    • Operating Systems: Linux: SUSE; Macintosh: X; Virtual Machines: VMware; Windows: Vista, 7, and 8.
  • Products I worked on at Novell:
    • GroupWise integrates emails, calendars, contacts, tasks, and documents, making it instrumental to how businesses and people manage their work and life.  Responsible for the user experience of 8,003,605 GroupWise users including the interactions, look and feel for the desktop, web, and mobile of GroupWise, GroupWise Mobility Service, GroupWise Administration, GroupWise Post Office Agent (POA), Message Transfer Agent (MTA), GroupWise Check (GWCheck), Notify, and GroupWise Address Book products and installations. GroupWise is one of Novell's longest standing and most complex products, and the user’s experience is extremely personal, great attention and care was shown to minimize disruptions in user’s workflow and maximize their efficiency and ease of use. Prototyped a revolutionary change in how users get through email more efficiently, clarifying readability, and resolving a recurring problem since the inception of email. Clarified, simplified, and cleaned up the user interfaces by focusing on the content and functions, making it more enjoyable to work with. Designed and developed over 1500 icons for the GroupWise product and sub products.
    • Filr, a secure “Dropbox” like solution is changing how businesses share their files. Filr can manage and share files securely, by on premise cloud hosting solutions. Filr offers a highly collaborative interface across operating systems from desktop, to web, to mobile. Filr enables IT professionals to manage access rights of their company's files and avoid redundancies on the company's hard drives. Designed, detailed, developed, tested, and documented desktop plans, installations, and multiple graphics for the application, server, mobile solutions, mobile assets, and mobile stores. Designed and developed over 100 icons for Filr.
    • Vibe, an interactive web collaboration and file management product that brings teams together by task and project collaboration. Designed, developed, and documented over 100 graphics for Vibe.
    • iPrint, though simple in concept, seems a vital part of work in every corporation, the ability to print from mobile to anywhere — brilliant! Designed, developed, and documented over 100 graphics for iPrint.
    • Messenger, often overlooked, but foundational in corporations. Researched, identified, and documented best messaging practices. Designed, developed, and documented over 100 graphics for Messenger.
    • ZENworks tracks, manages, and protects an organization’s client devices and applications.  It is a complete solution that allows administrators to rest easy at night.
  • Selected projects and accomplishments at Novell:
    • Saved $498,867.60 annually, reduced maintenance, kept costs down, and grew Novell’s mobile platform options.
    • Designed and developed GroupWise mobile, web, and desktop applications for 8,003,605 users.
    • Researched, designed, developed, improved, streamlined, and managed the conversion from ConsoleOne to a new GroupWise administration web application for 10,117 administrators.
    • Increased icon and image delivery efficiency by 657% while maintaining, creating, branding, designing, delivering, cleaning, organizing, identifying unused icons, and improving consistency over 1900 icons, and images for Conferencing, GroupWise, Filr, Vibe, iPrint, Messenger, and ZENworks.
    • Designed, developed, researched, documented, and managed best practices, branding, prototypes, icons, images, and graphics for Conferencing, GroupWise, Filr, Vibe, iPrint, Messenger, and ZENworks.
    • Researched, designed, and developed a responsive-designed ZENworks mobile management prototype that locates, wipes, and removes a user’s device from any web enabled device.

User Interface Engineer and Designer – SolutionStream – 3/2010 to 7/2010 (4 months)

Website and web application design, development, and maintenance for large corporations to budding start-ups, for Solution Stream’s clients: D1SN, Easton, Eleutian, Glacier Bay Training, Hotcakes, IHC, InterestSmart, JUB, LineaGen, Names In Stone, Rio Tinto, Sorenson, Spatial Generations, The Langdon Group, and Yellowstone Language Institute.

  • Work performed at SolutionStream:
    • Assessed estimates on projects, developed statements of work, developed flow, wireframes, mockups, HTML/CSS templates, CMS implementation, and collaborated with clients, owners, Presidents, CEOs, product managers, programmers, and designers to finalize fully-functioning web applications.
  • Technologies used at SolutionStream:
    • Development: architecture: HTML 5, PHP, XHTML, and XML; best practices: clean coding practices, code organization, and W3C compliance; browsers: Internet Explorer 6-8, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari; optimization tools: Firebug, image optimization, virtual machines, and Yslow; scripts: ActionScript, JavaScript and jQuery; software: ASP.NET and CMS; styling: CSS 3.
    • Design: digital: Adobe: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, ImageReady, and Photoshop; best practices: icon/image/graphic organization, sprites management, and styling in CSS over images; Wire Framing: Balsamiq, Fireworks, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
    • Management Tools: office products: Macintosh: Pages and Numbers; Microsoft Office: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word; project management: Microsoft Excel.
    • Operating Systems: Macintosh: X; virtual machines: VMware.
  • Selected projects and accomplishments at SolutionStream:
    • Designed and developed an image-free, beautiful, HTML 5 and CSS 3 leveraged IHC kiosk.
    • Consistently improved multiple web applications via CSS 3, Firebug, XHTML, and JQuery.
    • Consistently writing, well kept, maintainable, flexible, clean, and consolidated CSS and XHTML.
    • Initiated a campaign towards D1SNs market audience (division one driven high school athletes) by developing a 3’x5’ advertisement to be displayed at a local High School football stadium, and initiated the shakable D1SN branded sports bottles as an integral part of the ‘Base, Build, Battle’ campaign.
    • Designed and developed multiple web applications, working directly with clients, integrating their iterations, using CMS, XHTML, CSS3, and the Adobe Creative Suite.

User Interface Engineer / HTML, JavaScript, CSS Expert – SRS, MPi, Identifix (DirectHit) iATN, and AutoPoint – 6/2009 to 3/2010 (9 months)

SRS, MPi, and Identifix are SAAS auto dealership applications, and auto mechanic applications. I was hired to prototype the static Illustrator files, into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript prototypes, my proficiency led to me being the resident expert in JavaScript, CSS, and XHTML and training seasoned programmers in web application development.

  • Work performed at SRS:
    • Collaborated with product managers, designers, and vice presidents to finalize fully-functioning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript prototypes to W3C Standards for Internet Explorer 6-8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera web browsers.
    • Engineered Interfaces for Dropthings Ajax web portal, DevExpress, and Asp.Net in Visual Studio.
    • Engineered multiple demos for interactive approval, cross-browser, and cross-OS support.
  • Technologies used at SRS:
    • Development: architecture: ASP, HTML, XHTML, and XML; best practices: clean coding practices, code organization, and W3C compliance; browsers: Internet Explorer 6-8, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari; optimization tools: Firebug, image optimization, virtual machines, and Yslow; scripts: ActionScript, JavaScript, jQuery, sript.aculo.us, and swfobject; software: ASP.NET, DevExpress, Dropthings Ajax web portal, and Visual Studio; styling: CSS, and GIF animation.
    • Design: digital: Adobe: Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, ImageReady, and Photoshop; best practices: icon/image/graphic organization, sprites management, and styling in CSS over images; modeling/animation: 2-D: Adobe: Flash and Illustrator, and GIF animation; 3D: Cinema 4D XL; Video: After Effects, Flash Video Encoder, Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, and QuickTime Pro; Wire Framing: Illustrator and Photoshop.
    • Management Tools: documentation: DocuWiki, intranets, and websites; office products: Macintosh: Pages, Mail, Numbers, and Keynotes; Microsoft Office: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word;
    • project management: Microsoft Excel, and Skype
    • Operating Systems: Macintosh: X; virtual machines: Parallels, Virtual Box, and VMware; Windows: 98, 2000 Professional, XP Professional, 2003 Server, Vista, and 7.
  • Selected projects and accomplishments at SRS:
    • Transitioned, trained, and mentored international desktop development teams into web application development, by educating them in the correct usage of CSS, JavaScript, and XHTML by documenting, one-on-one training, and coaching of W3C standards, and browser compliance across IE 6-8, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera browsers.
    • Proposed an $84,340 savings by creating and animating 3D cars in a web application for dealerships to point out problem areas of a vehicle.

User Interface Engineer – AxisPointe and AxisFM – 2/2008 to 6/2009 (1 year 4 months)

AxisPointe is a SAAS home maintenance web application, and AxisFM is a SAAS facility management web application. I worked with programmers in XSLT, PHP, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, Stoneware, maintained/created all graphics, flash sales and presentation applications, web application graphics, layout, branding, front-end coding, including the 6-7 public sites, and print work for the physical binders distributed to customers.

  • Work performed at AxisPointe/AxisFM:
    • Maintained branding across 6-7 public websites, by maintaining a consistent, visually related product branding online across products, franchise websites, and public facing websites.
    • Maintained and updated company Wiki documenting intranet.
    • Developed multiple versions of sales applications, including demo software for nation–wide sales staff.
    • Designed and developed the interface, interactivity, and user experience of the AxisFM Enterprise Level Facility Management software version 2.0.
    • Designed print material for client binders sent to home owners.
  • Technologies used at AxisPointe/AxisFM:
    • Development: architecture: HTML, PHP, XHTML, XML, and XSLT; best practices: clean coding practices, code organization, and W3C compliance; browsers: Internet Explorer 6-8, Firefox, Opera, and Safari; optimization tools: Firebug, image optimization, virtual machines, and Yslow; scripts: ActionScript, EXT JS, JavaScript, jQuery, MooTools, sript.aculo.us, and swfobject; software: MantisBT, Stoneware, SmartSVN, and Tortoise SVN; styling: CSS, and GIF animation.
    • Design: digital: Adobe: Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, ImageReady, Photoshop, and Streamline; best practices: icon/image/graphic organization, sprites management, and styling in CSS over images; modeling/animation: 2-D: Adobe: Flash and Illustrator, and GIF animation; Print: Adobe: Acrobat Pro, Illustrator, and Photoshop; Wire Framing: Illustrator and Photoshop.
    • Management Tools: documentation: DocuWiki, intranets, and websites; office products: Macintosh: Mail, Pages, Keynotes, and Numbers; Microsoft Office: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word; project management: Microsoft Excel.
    • Operating Systems: Linux: Ubuntu; Macintosh: X; virtual machines: Parallels, Virtual Box, and VMware; Windows: XP Professional, and Vista.
  • Selected projects and accomplishments at AxisPointe/AxisFM:
    • Successfully interfaced 5 different applications into a cohesive, attractive, intuitive application for a presentation to a nation-wide, multi-billion dollar homebuilder. Worked directly with the CEO, the vice-president of technology, and the director of software development.
      • Worked closely with the president of the company, the vice-president of sales, and the vice-president of technology, to gain and analyze the necessary requirements.
      • Developed interfaces in Photoshop, Flash, HTML and CSS.
      • Had regular client interaction throughout the life cycle of process to finalize the product. Our client (a multi-billion dollar company and one of the top 5 in the housing sales) received it very well, were impressed with the clean look, the integration of all their products, and the ease of use for them, their sales staff, and for their clients.
      • The final mockup was a cohesive interface that allowed users that were using multiple interfaces, use one, users who were working with multiple companies to get their information, to work in one interface, it allowed for future rebranding, and was a well-synced product that impressed the president of the company, as well as the client. 
    • Developed a second software package by splitting a software application in to two to be used by the sales force to allow for a smaller priced, more flexible package for month-to-month terms to deal better with the changing economic times in two weeks.
      • Pulled inline styling out of the code and rebranded the pages using externally loaded CSS.
      • Technologies used: MAMP, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Firebug
    • Simplified, created, lightened mobile interfaces for clients to work on any HTML enabled cell phone to manage Facility Management; it included a rebrand-able interface, allowing multiple customers to use the same code.

Senior Multimedia Designer and Developer – DHI Computing Service, Inc. – 11/2001 to 2/2008 (6 years 3 months)

DHI Computing Service, Inc. includes the following Business Units: FPS GOLD (Banking Software and Services) GOLDPoint Systems (Financial Software and Services) DHI Provo (Dairy Herd Information Processing) and PCIS GOLD (Healthcare Practice Management Software) and DHI Corporate, the company containing the business units.

  • Work performed at DHI:
    • Designed, developed, and maintained consistent product branding online, PowerPoint presentations and interactive Flash presentations, sales and marketing presentations for nation-wide sales staff, public websites and internal intranets, graphics for training applications and interactive training menus, theme based conference materials, including PowerPoint presentations, maps, games, and logos.
    • Designed and developed for print, summer party t-shirts, security posters, gift certificates, and internal newsletter design and maintenance.
  • Technologies used at DHI:
    • Development: architecture: ASP, HTML, PHP, XHTML, XML; best practices: clean coding practices, code organization, and W3C compliance; browsers: Internet Explorer 5-7, and Firefox; optimization tools: Image optimization; scripts: ActionScript, JavaScript, MooTools, and swfobject; styling: CSS, GIF animation, and bitmap transparency mapping.
    • Design: digital: Adobe: Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, ImageReady, Photoshop, and Streamline; best practices: icon/image/graphic organization, sprites management, and styling in CSS over images; modeling/animation: 2-D: Adobe: Flash and Illustrator, and GIF animation; 3D: Cinema 4D XL; Print: Adobe: Acrobat Pro, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop; Sound: GoldWave; Video: Flash Video Encoder, Media Encoder, and QuickTime Pro; Wire Framing: Illustrator and Photoshop.
    • Management Tools: documentation: Intranets and websites; office products: Microsoft Office: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word; Corel WordPerfect Office: Presentations, Quattro Pro, and WordPerfect; project management: Microsoft Excel.
    • Operating Systems: Windows: 98, 2000 Professional, XP Professional.
  • Selected projects and accomplishments at DHI:
    • Developed digital packaging for FPS GOLD’s products to maintain a consistent look across all products, and develop a more cohesively branded experience for the user.
    • Rebranded Pocket DHI-Plus with a new logo and interface for their mobile application, the rebranding was very well received, and DHI-Provo was excited about how progressive the interface looked.
    • Architected a plan for a content generated bank statement design, freeing 3 programmers from servicing the bank statement generation, by automating the process, which provided design options, rapid statement requests, using customer service representatives rather than programmers, and increasing the profits made in bank statement revenue. Incorporated future phases for client based design options, and provided client’s bank statements with highly presentable products. Presented this idea to the heads of loans, deposits, customer service, and the vice president of product development.
    • Designed and developed a sales application for a nation–wide sales staff, allowing the sales representatives to choose different views based on needs. Included 3D generated commercial with different background music according to client taste, a history of the company, a digitized copy of the sales brochure, and a product demo. Collaborated with designers, technical writers, instructional designers, and vice president of communications, multimedia manager, and the president of sales.
    • Developed a ‘Deal or No Deal’ game application for the vice president of communications for a conference for FPS GOLD (a banking/financial software application). The game randomly generated different offers based on changing percentages. All the game controls were hidden allowing game play behind the curtain as if there was a ‘banker’ making offers behind the scenes. The game was very well received and players had fun while learning the software.
    • Designed and developed 5 annual directions conferences including graphics, logos, t–shirt designs, lanyard designs and an intranet information center. Included a motivational theme–based interactive environment incorporating information on the conference, registration page, theme–based PowerPoint presentations, and training in speaking and presenting at the conference.
    • Designed and developed the registration process for clients, as well as a directions conference mini–site, for conference dates, activities, presentations and games. Participated in live presentations and skits, as well as professional high definition video production, explaining the need for products and services. Worked directly with the director, camera operator, gaffer, video editor, sound engineer, technical writers, the multimedia manager, head of sales, and the vice president of communications.
    • Designed and developed CIS icons, allowing banker’s to identify client needs and profitability.
    • Worked directly with programmers, managers, and the president of PCIS GOLD to develop 5 annual interactive Flash and Acrobat conference registration attachments for emails submitted to clients.
    • Worked with the director of training, technical writers, and the multimedia manager to design and develop multiple interactive menus, tray cards, and CD labels for DOCS on CD for GOLDPoint Systems and FPS GOLD.
    • Created various informational packets, with graphic explanations of the content, collaborating with the president of FPS GOLD, vice president of product development, and the vice president of quality assurance.
    • Worked with product managers, writers, heads of: marketing, training, multimedia, and communications to design and develop the FPS GOLD website, the CIS blog to help FPS GOLD clients better relate with CIS (Customer Information System) the relationship banking product of FPS GOLD, and the corporate intranet for DHI Computing Service, Inc. (consisting of four data processing divisions).

Senior Web Designer and Developer – SENAPPS – 6/2001 to 9/2001 (3 months)

SENAPPS LLC was formed on December 18, 2000 in Salt Lake City, Utah by Steven Nelson Long who became its President and CEO. Early activities in the company were centered in building a suitable research facility and computer laboratory and in codifying SENAPPS’ unique neural network technologies. SENAPPS' research in the early years centered on exploiting performance advantages garnered from its proprietary neural networks with applications in speech recognition/synthesis and in Linux cluster based financial market modeling and equity forecasting. Advances in its research efforts led to the development of several patent pending handwriting recognition products and technologies. The company is presently monetizing its technologies in a variety of markets and development partners to bring its technologies to the marketplace.

  • Work performed at SENAPPS:
    • Designed and developed the SENAPPS website, collaborated with the President and CEO of SENAPPS, to finalize the copy for the website. The functionality of the website consists of secure forms, flash advertisements and randomly generated animations.
  • Technologies used at SENAPPS:
    • Development: architecture: HTML, PHP, and XML; best practices: clean coding practices, code organization, and W3C compliance; Browser: Internet Explorer 5-6;scripts: ActionScript, JavaScript;
    • Design: digital: Adobe: Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, ImageReady, Photoshop, and Streamline; best practices: icon/image/graphic organization; modeling/animation: 2-D: Adobe: Flash and Illustrator, and GIF animation;
    • Management Tools: office products: Microsoft Office: Excel, Outlook, and Word.
    • Operating Systems: Windows: 2000 Professional.
  • Selected projects and accomplishments at SENAPPS:
    • Designed and engineered animated random firing synapses, the CEO loved it.

Graphic Designer and Flash Animator – MyComputer.com (now Omniture, a BU of Adobe) – 4/2000 to 12/2000 (8 months)

MyComputer.com has a long history of providing search engine marketing and submission tools, web site performance monitoring services, and advertising-free web polls, message boards and guest book tools to a community of innovative individuals, small business owners, and webmasters around the globe that all share a need for accurate and real-time web site services.

  • Work performed at MyComputer.com:
  • Technologies used at MyComputer.com:
    • Development: Browser: Internet Explorer 5-6; optimization tools: Image optimization; styling: GIF animation.
    • Design: digital: Adobe: Flash, Illustrator, and Photoshop; best practices: icon/image/graphic organization; modeling/animation: 2-D: Adobe: Flash and Illustrator, and GIF animation;
    • Management Tools: office products: Microsoft Office: Excel, Outlook, and Word.
    • Operating Systems: Windows: 2000 Professional.
  • Selected projects and accomplishments at MyComputer.com:
    • Designed eye-catching, animated Flash advertisements - faster, more beautiful, and up to 77% lighter than animated GIFs.

VOLUNTEER WORK

City Soccer coach, for 10 seasons, for boy teams and girl teams, Assistant Cub Scout leader, Cub Scout leader, Cub Master, Assistant Scout Leader, Venture Group Leader, Varsity Team Leader, Assistant director in youth group, teaching 12-18 year olds in service to the community, teacher in children’s groups, teaching 1-3 year olds, 6-8 year olds, and 10-11 year olds, assisted various neighbors with computer interfaces, web design, and computer installation, math tutor, reading tutor, and computer tutor.

  • Assistant Director over Logistics, and Secretary in men’s group — Taught men individual development and improvement, family relationship improvement, focusing on women and children’s needs in their families and community.
  • Assistant Director in youth group — Taught 12–18 year olds individual development and improvement, and service to their community
  • Soccer Coach:
    • 2 seasons of boy's teams in Huntington Beach, California with A.Y.S.O.
    • 2 seasons of boy's teams in Pleasant Grove, Utah, with Pleasant Grove City.
    • 2 seasons of boy's teams in Provo, Utah with Provo City.
    • 4 seasons of girl's teams in Provo, Utah with Provo City.
  • Basketball Coach — 1 season of a girl’s team in Provo, Utah with Provo City.
  • Cub Scout leader — Helped boys ages 8–9, and 9–10 learn character, community awareness, and responsibility, through the Cub Scout Program.
  • Cub Master — Supported, and managed Cub Scout leaders and their needs. Led and managed meetings, arranged, and was the Master of Ceremonies for the Pine Wood Derby, acquired and presented Badges, Patches, Pins, and Medals.
  • Assistant Scout Leader, Venture Group Leader, and Varsity Team Leader — Assisted scout leaders, led, managed, and assisted scouts (ages 11–17) in developing new skills, training, appreciation, and experience in their community, the work place, and the outdoors.
  • Teacher in children’s groups, — Held weekly classes, teaching responsibility, singing, reading, social skills, individual development and improvement, and service in their community to 1–3 year olds, 6–8 year olds, and 10–11 year olds.
  • Math Tutor — Tutored children age 3–18 in math.
  • Reading Tutor — Tutored children age 3–18 in reading.
  • Computer and Design Tutor — Taught neighbors individually, how to work with computers, web design, and computer hardware installation.