Job Searching for Designers
Board, design, graphic, Hiring, Jobs, web
If you’re looking for a design job on Monster and Career Building you’re definitely in the wrong place. The design community isn’t looking for a cookie cutter of their perfect candidate. They’re looking for someone off the wall, so they look in off the wall places specific to design. More after the jump.
US States Resource
abbreviation, array, development, html, list, name, option, php, resource, select, states, web
I’ve been working with forms and states a LOT lately. A bunch of resources offer different formats of lists of states, but they’re all in different places around the web. Here’s a single resource with a number of formats, including PHP array, select (option) html, select (option) html with abbreviations, abbreviation + full name separated by “|” for Drupal and single list of all states. All available in a single zipped file of text documents.
Protected: Mplayit
Android, apps, BlackBerry, design, discovery, facebook, graphic, guru, iPhone, mobile, mplayit, social, startup, UI, web
Objective
I am a designer looking for a firm interested in lifetime learners, question seekers and innovative problem solvers.
Experience
Lead Graphic & Web Designer, Mplayit, Ashburn, Virginia
Provided and all-around mortar for the bricks. Responsible for web & UI design, print design, front-end development, promoting Mplayit though social media, app statistics, app developer relations with Mplayit, corporate site and blog upkeep and delivery driving.
2009–2010
Web Consultant, VCU Dean of the Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Responsible for maintaining and building the Art History Department Web presence. Researched and built Web applications for the promotion of VCU Arts.
2008–2009
Apple Campus Rep, Volt Services Group, Richmond, Virginia
Promoted Apple products to VCU. Acted as a resource for support to students and faculty.
2006–2008
Music Director and Manager, WVCW, Richmond, Virginia
Managed operations on a day-to-day basis. Accomplished more in two years than what was completed in the last ten.
2006–2009
Additional Experience
Objects+Methods
Lecture series at VCU with guests including Massimo Vignelli, Ivan Chermayeff and Chaz Maviyane-Davies.
2006–2009
Tasmeem Design Conference
International design conference, Tasmeem, in Doha, Qatar where I participated and presented a charette-style project on the problems with transportation in a growing city.
2008
Education
Norfolk Academy, High School
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Studied Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA in Graphic Design
2004
2005
2009
Range of Design Skills
Adobe CS4, Web design concepts and coding, identity design, typography, Web standards, usability, accessibility, team building, the grid and commercial printing.
Technical Expertise
XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01, CSS 2 & 3, HTML 5/XHTML 5, Processing, Actionscript 2, Blueprint and similar CSS frameworks, jQuery
References available upon request