
User Experience Designer Extraordinaire, and Dashing Young Man!
Toronto, Canada Area

User Experience Designer Extraordinaire, and Dashing Young Man!
Toronto, Canada Area
User Experience Designer, specializing in Blend Production for all .Net based platforms - Silverlight, WPF, Surface and Win 7. Put simply, I am a Blend expert. I am currently leading the charge for a new type of Designer - Interaction Designer - where the designer dives into code more and more. Understanding triggers, states, templataing properly is what being a proper Interaction Designer is, and thats what makes the difference from a good app to an amazing app.
I'm also a digital artist with expertise in Photoshop, 3ds Max, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, and InDesign. As well as having a keen sense of layout and design I have a strong knowledge in creating Validated XHTML 1.0/HTML 4.0 and CSS 2 web pages and templates; such as those for Wordpress, PhpBB and MediaWiki. I also have a working knowledge of PHP, MySQL and Javascript integration. Thats not to say I lost touch with my roots, being traditional art and 3d modeling, I am still heavily involved in concepting characters and modeling them in either high poly/low poly.
Expression Blend, Surface, WPF, Silverlight, Photoshop, NUI UI Design, Web Development, 3d Low Poly Modeling, Texturing, 3ds max.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
User Experience Designer, specializing in Blend Production for all WPF based platforms - Silverlight, WPF, Surface and Win 7. Put simply, I am a Blend expert. I am currently leading the charge for a new type of Designer - Interaction Designer - where the designer dives into code more and more. Understanding triggers, states, templataing properly is what being a proper Interaction Designer is, and thats what makes the difference from a good app to an amazing app.
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)
November 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
Created the original concept of a Wii-Centric Flash Game portal that allowed users to upload games, discuss them and of course play them. Designed/Coded entier front end with the small resolution of the Wii (800X600) in mind.
(Design industry)
November 2007 — July 2008 (9 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)
Design websites from the ground up, with Validated XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Ajax some Flash and Javascript as well. Sometimes I'm required to take wireframes and converted them into workable web pages. I use Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver and for video editing Premier.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
June 2007 — July 2007 (2 months)
Took wireframes and converted them into valid XHTM with CSS.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 4 months)
Repaired broken computers, be it through hardware swaps or software upgrades. Diagnosed each problem individually.
Video Game 3D Modeling 2005 — 2007
Graphic Design 2004 — 2005
3d Animation 2003 — 2004
Blend, Surface, WPF, Silverlight, New Technology, Web Design, 3d Modeling for Gaming/High Poly, UI Deisgn, Flash Games
WiiCade.com