What You See Is What You Get...
To tell you the truth I LOVE working with what people can see and manipulate within a digital environment. I have worked extensively on engineering robust, user friendly, easy to maintain web applications. I am very well versed and experienced with the agile methodology and working within a Scrum framework. I leverage user testing and interviewing in order to make decisions between style, usability, and maintainability.
Whether it be paper prototyping, hand coding a page in XHTML & CSS, writing requirements documentation, analyzing trends and flows, designing UI in Fireworks, animating in flash & 3D, or making it easier for a person to buy a product on a website, my abilities are up for the match.
In addition to designing and engineering major web applications; I have filmed, cut, published, and animated both tutorials and presentations. I have done major print work , including posters, brochures, magazine ads, and logos. I have 9 years of work experience dealing with real life situations, real life clients and meeting real life deadlines and I love what I do.
You can also see all of this on my Linkedin page as well.
(A phrase my little girl use to utilize whenever she wanted to inquire as to "waah" I was "do"ing)
I try to make your life easier by providing you with a means to better communicate with your end-user through the intuitive application of shapes, color, flow and action. I convey this to the end-user through web, print, & speech.
UX skills I bring to the table: Interaction design, information architecture, visual design, usability engineering, web analytics, user interviewing, user testing, prototyping, wire-framing and flows!
Technologies I leverage: XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash, ActionScript, Flex (Flash Builder), PHP, XML and sometimes a dash of XSLT.
Tools in my pocket: Dreamweaver (hand code ONLY!!!), Photoshop, Flash... WAIT! Ok, I'll keep it simple... the Adobe Creative Sweet Suite.
Sweet X-tras: Film, Video Editing, DVD authoring, Print, Logo Design, a little 3D animation, and I hablo the espanol.
Things that I do NOT do: Database Administration and most forms of intense back-end development. I understand most of those "languages", I just don't speak them fluently :)
I love a good game of golf that begins before the sun rises and I love a great game of Halo after the sun sets. In between that, you will be hard pressed to get me away from my greatest love... my wife and 4 crazy kids.