Objective

Provide sensitive visual communication solutions to everyday problems by practicing resourcefulness and harnessing the use of creativity, forward thinking, and vision.

Education

Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
2006 - May 2010
BSD in Visual Communication Design

Mesa Community College
Mesa/Tempe, Arizona
2004 - 2006
General studies

Proficiency

Office - 8 years
Photoshop - 6 years
Illustrator - 5 years
Fireworks - 5 years
Flash - 4 years
After Effects - 1 year
Dreamweaver/HTML/XHTML/CSS - 6 years
Cross Platform Compatibility Issues - 5 years
Axure Wireframe prototypes - 2 years
Web database integration using PHP and MySQL
Javascript/Java integration
Doubleclick - 2 years

Experience

US Airways/America West Airlines
June 2003 - Present
Tempe, Arizona
User Experience Designer - Content and Usability team
Currently working with a team of 3 to design and develop functional prototypes for applications on usairways.com and usairwaysvacations.com. Applications that I have designed include Web Check-in, user profiles, flight status and more. Other work includes designing various online marketing items like emails, promotion pages, banners, and flash movies. I work in a dot net environment; write code for aspx and ascx files, XML, CSS and JavaScript. I also use a Interwoven Team Site content management system to update site content and doubleclick zones. Coached, mentored, and taught new team members as our group grew. Received two Chairman’s awards from CEO Doug Parker for my ability to go above and beyond.

postmachina
Summer 2009
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Graphic deisgn internship in Amsterdam. Made logos and website mockups for various clients of the studio.

evol creative
1998 - Present
Phoenix, Arizona
Owner
Self owned and operated web design studio and freelance work. Responsible for all aspects of the business including marketing, and finance.

Subia Creative/Interactive
August 2001 – May 2002
Phoenix, Arizona
Graphic Designer and Web Developer.
Designed company print materials and web site templates with a team of 4 designers. Helped create a search engine optimization document. Developed a user interface for an internal time tracking application.

Awards

Two Chairman’s awards from US Airways.
Deans List at Arizona State University 2006-2010
Nationally recognized by MSNBC for my personal website at the age of 14 years old.
Received recognition in an article published by the Arizona Republic.