Obtain a full-time permanent position as a User Experience/User Interface Designer.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DIANEPONTESAIA, Web Design & Front-End Development (2007 – present), Wrentham, MA
- UX Experience/UI Design, conceptual development, implementation from ideation to completion, project strategy, site functionality, information architecture, and navigation systems.
- Visual design and protyping using HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, theme customizations for Content Management Systems (Drupal, joomla!, Sitefinity, WordPress).
- Working directly with stakeholders, sales, marketing, writers and developers to create personas, stories, wireframes, mock-ups, storyboards and prototypes.
- Expert in Adobe CS Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, InDesign. Design solutions using typography, color, imagery, graphic illustrations and interactivity.
- Focus group unit testing, software integration testing, web application interface design, and multimedia presentations.
- Strong project management and scheduling experience and implementation of Outbound Marketing via Social Media tools, Marketo and iContact.
RECENT PROJECTS
GENERAL DYNAMICS:
Member of Agile Scrum Team on Javascript Migration and Software Upgrade for an enterprise level U.S. Army product. Current Secret Clearance.
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO:
Migration of online html pledge forms to customized Drupal CMS online donation forms for national Member Accounts.
RHODE ISLAND NOVELTY:
Web User Interface Design, graphics creation & Front-End Development for e-commerce site.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
PONTESAIA GROUP, Inc., Founder/Creative Director, (7 years), Wrentham, MA
Founded this full service marketing communications agency providing direct response and general creative services to a non-profit and for-profit client base including: MSPCA, ASPCA, Boston Children’s Hospital, WNA Comet Manufacturing, Rehrig Pacific Company, Inc., Polymer Solutions, Inc., Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries.
LW ROBBINS & ASSOCIATES, Inc., Art Director (4 years), Franklin, MA
Established new in-house art department for this fundraising consulting company specializing in creating direct mail fundraising packages for a non-profit client base with clients including: New England Home for Little Wanderers, Perkins School for the Blind, American Liver Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Association, the Jimmy Fund at Dana Farber, The American Heart Association.
CREATIVE EVENT MARKETING, Inc., Art Director (2 years), Irvine, CA
Founded the art department for this marketing and promotions firm specializing in new product, sales, and trade promotions for consumer food product companies such as: General Foods, Inc., Beatrice Foods, Inc., Starkist Foods, Inc., Kalkan Foods, Inc.