San Francisco Bay Area Interactive Designer | Art Director
66media.com
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Experience
03.2008 - Present
UX 8020, User Experience Consultant
Princepal Consultant
San Francisco, CA
Specialize in user experience design for websites and web applications. The services include:
- Translate product requirements into user flows, user interfaces and wireframes
- Create paper sketches and active prototypes
- Conduct usability, A/B, and multivariate tests
- Provide art direction and visual design services that include websites and web applications, logos and iconographies
- Oversee the development implementation to ensure design specifications
02.2007 - 03.2008
Interactive Art Director | Design Manager
San Francisco, CA
- Managed iwin.com visual and user interface
- Provided art and UI direction for product marketing programs and initiatives
- Oversaw the design and development of iWin's weekly newsletter promoting the latest games releases
- Designed, developed, and maintain iWin's featured game mini-sites
- Redesigned the user interface, wireframe and helped maintain the iWin's Game manager, an iTune like application that helps manages downloaded games
- Worked closely with developers to ensure design specification by coding prototypes and performing graphic optimization, CSS and HTML
- Created merchandise and game art specifications that game studios and vendors follow
- Manage a team of designers, contractors and design agencies
02.2004 - 10.2006
, Application Development
Application Art Director
San Francisco, CA
- Designed the user interface and oversaw the implementation of Salesforce.com's web-based customer relationship management (CRM) application
- Worked with UI designers, usability analysts and UI engineers to ensure a consistent visual presentation throughout the application
- Established and maintained the application style guide oversaw its uses
- Provided art and design direction vendors and contractors on various salesforce.com on-demand application initiatives
09.2002 - 02.2004
, Corporate Marketing
Interactive Art Director
[
Webby Award 2003 ]
San Francisco, CA
- Oversaw the overall design and brand direction of salesforce.com's Web properties including , , , and others
- Provided art and design direction on layouts, templates and style guide
- Designed Web (including direct email and flash "billboards") and print advertising promoting live and online events such as , the Salesforce.com annual user and developer conference
- Worked closely with production engineers and project managers to ensure design specification
05.2000 - 10.2001
[ currently Kmart.com ]
Art Director
San Francisco, CA
- Established and maintained the "look and feel" of Bluelight.com, the online arm of Kmart Corporation serving millions of customers
- Provided art and design direction on layouts, site templates, and graphic user interface
- Helped design the online shopping cart and checkout process with UI designers
- Created Bluelight.com's specialty stores design, HTML standards and templates, and oversaw the implementation and maintenance of the overall site design
- Worked closely with merchants, product managers, and production engineers to ensure design specification by coding prototypes and performing graphic and HTML optimization
- Designed the Bluelight.com My Yahoo! co-branded personalize page
04.1998 - 05.2000
Senior Designer
Redwood City, CA
- Led the design efforts for the My Excite Start Page (MESP 98-99), one of the most popular personalized start pages on the Web
- Designed Excite portal pages and channels such as Auto, Entertainment, Sports, Travel, TV and others
- Designed Excite Extreme sponsored by Intel and Excite Swizzle—a teen site for Excite UK in partnership with Procter and Gamble
- Designed of the user interface and coded HTML for the Excite Planner, a web-based application that includes Calendar, Address Book, Note Pad, and To Do List
- Managed co-brand design efforts in Partner Services such as Prodigy Internet, Dell, Apple and others
06.1996 - 04.1998
Senior Designer
Redwood City, CA
- Designed page layout, user interface, logos, and other web graphics for Sega's first online store
- Designed graphical user interface for Sega NetLink, a TV Web browsing experience via Sega Saturn game console
- Designed Sega featured mini-sites to promote upcoming games, promotions, and events
- Led the re-design effort and created a new navigational system and graphical user interface
1995 - 1996
Production Control Engineer
Belmont, CA [
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- Created, reviewed, and maintained manufacturing processes
- Performed time studies to improve process procedures and delivery time
- Created and maintained production schedules
- Designed Wesgo, Inc. image collaterals such as posters and flyers
1992 - 1995
Tsuchiyama and Kaino (Mechanical Engineering Firm)
Design Engineer
Irvine, CA [
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- Designed heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) systems for commercial, and residential buildings with extensive use of computer aided design software (Auto-CAD)
- Coordinated design effort with architects, other designers, and other agencies
- Performed administrative tasks including creating, editing, and maintaining documentation using Microsoft Office and other software
Education & Skills
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering
[1993]
Long Beach, CA
Associate of Science, Engineering
[1990]
Cypress, CA
Multimedia Studies Program
[1997]
San Francisco, CA
Electronic Art Courses
Center of the Electronic Art [1997]
San Francisco, CA
Continuous Education
Anywhere and everywhere [on going]
I continue to be inspired by the creativity all around; challenged everyday by the ever advancing nature of technology, particularly on the Web. I would put that in the continuing education category.
SKILLS
Awards, Patents & AFFILIATIONS
2003
Winner of Business Webby Award in IT & Technology Service category
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2005-2007
Patent # 60/827, 870
Computer Telephony Interface (CTI) Integration
A telephone interface inside Salesforce.com application
Member of
The Bay Area chapter of Association for Computing Machine (ACM) Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGCHI)